B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

When it comes to electronic payments, there is a virtual alphabet soup: EDI, EFT, FEDI, and ACH. What do they stand for? Are they interchangeable?

EDI, FEDI, EFT, and ACH are not the same. This post clarifies the similarities and differences between them. Here are the details.

In today’s highly globalized world, businesses and even governments need a fast and simple way to transmit payments to one another. What is the solution? The answer is financial EDI.

In our blog Use Cases for Your Integration Suite - Maximize Your Investment we outlined the many use cases for integration suites. Different than past, out of the box, purpose built applications for specific integration duties, integration suites are more like integration development tool kits. With the tool kit base functionality, integration framework, and organization specific transformation and business process coding, these tools are capable of providing a much wider array of integration solutions than purpose built predecessors.

Here are some of the non-traditional use cases mentioned in the last piece with a deeper dive into each.

Staff retention is one area by which the effectiveness of a manager is judged. One key retention element important to your data integration team members is keeping their skills sharp. Sure things like compensation, increased responsibilities, and honest performance evaluations are important, but so is the ongoing education of the professionals you manage.

If it is not broke don't fix it, right? Well, it depends on what one defines as broke, and when it is broke, how one fixes it.

Two examples serve as excellent illustrations with the first being from a builder friend of mine with a client trying to cut a budget corner against his advice, and the second being one of my own costly lessons.