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Articles by Brad Loetz

Brad is the President and Managing Director for Remedi Electronic Commerce Group, and a co-founder of the company which was formed in 1994. He joined the company full-time in 1996 as Managing Director and shortly thereafter took on additional duties as President. His responsibilities include leading the creation and realization of company vision, as well as the functional areas of the business, devoting particular attention to operations, administration, sales, and marketing.

Topics: Integration Strategy, Hiring Trends, Scenes From A Server

Posted by Brad Loetz on Aug 18, 2009 11:45 AM

Thinkronization Newsletter - August 2009

We are pleased to announce the first edition of "Thinkronization". The thinking person's E-newsletter for business and data integration professionals who are focused on the synchronization of systems and business. This newsletter is an enhanced piece from REMEDI once published years ago as the "REMEDI rEsource". Now published semi-monthly, the content will contain thought leadership content focused on news, research, trends, blog posts, services, and placement, within the IT disciplines of Business-to-Business Integration (B2Bi) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).

Scenes From A Server - Part 2

Posted by Brad Loetz on Jul 28, 2009 9:40 AM

For those that enjoyed (or were disturbed by) the last one, here is "PART 2" of the multi-part video series "SCENES FROM A SERVER". We released the first of the series back in June. The video puts a funny spin on the data integration challenges that face businesses today. As you will see bad “Data”, and the integration of it, continues to be a problem for the “System” integrator.

Another Year in the Books...

Posted by Brad Loetz on Jul 16, 2009 1:56 PM

We have completed our 15th year in business! In many respects it seems as though it was just yesterday. In other respects the integration business has been through a lot of changes. REMEDI and our clients have endured those changes, not to mention three economic downturns of major significance. Fortunately, we are in a niche that assists clients in enhancing productivity and efficiency, along with reducing cost. Read More

EDI Training - Still Highly Sought After?

Posted by Brad Loetz on Jul 13, 2009 1:30 PM

Surprisingly, EDI training requests continue to lead our inbound service requests. This has been the case for as many years as I can remember. The circumstances that lead to training requests and engagements vary from training turnover/termination backfills and expansion of staff, to product training on newly acquired EDI and business integration tools, to rogue outsourcing firms that land contracts then need to figure out how to get staff trained on all things EDI. Read More

Decade of Change

Posted by Brad Loetz on Jul 10, 2009 2:01 PM

What happened in the World of EDI in the last decade?

Well, at the end of the 1990's there was a lot of talk about “Is EDI Dead?” It was going to be replaced by XML. VANs were going to be replaced by AS2. Everybody can do EDI over the WEB! At the end of the decade, we were all tied up with Y2K (gee! I was even an AIAG-certified inspector!). In 2000, the “bubble burst” on a lot of the “go-go” Internet companies. Some lasted a year or two until their venture capital $$$ ran out. Some even survived. We thought it would be a transition to a perfect world where everyone communicated together in a paperless environment. But we thought that too when we went from the 1980's to the 1990's. Some things did get better then. Anybody remember when they had to recompile an entire EDI COBOL program everyime you added a partner or even changed the specs? Read More

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