B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

Articles by Brad Loetz

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.

Find me on:

Thought Leadership - What's It All About?

Posted by Brad Loetz on Sep 5, 2014 3:33 PM


REMEDI has been in the newsletter, blog, and social game for quite some time now.  You may or may not know that there is a tremendous amount of effort that goes into these initiatives.  From a blog perspective, we publish two times a week and one post is a lighter piece with authoring duties passed from REMEDI team member to team member and is usually oriented to how the individual serves the customer or their observations in doing so. 

Read More

Integration Solution Purchases - Vendor Or The Channel?

Posted by Brad Loetz on Jul 31, 2014 11:20 AM

 

Over the past 20 years Remedi has been an "All Things Integration" solution provider for our clients.  One of many roles that we play for clients is assisting with integration software acquisition.  We are a channel reseller for just a very few of the best in class software vendors that align well with the integration goals of our clients, and with Remedi.  Each of these firms bring a unique solution(s) to Remedi and our clients, with one of our parter software providers covering most all integration software and SaaS needs. 

As clients consider software or SaaS solutions proposed by Remedi, some are unfamiliar with purchasing from channel partners and we are often asked...    

Read More

Lean As Applied To Data Integration - Drawing The Correlation...

Posted by Brad Loetz on Jun 27, 2014 4:10 PM


A final blog in a series of Lean articles includes specific integration improvement concepts that can be applied to the 8 traditional wastes.

You may or may not recall that the series started with Good...the Enemy of Best! How Can Lean Be Applied To Data Integration?, which introduced the premise of applying Lean to integration.  This was followed by Observations of Lean, Where Do You Get Your Ideas?, which was a light piece about brainstorming for process improvement ideas.

Now for some specific examples for integration wastes and opportunities for improvement.

Read More

Observations Of Lean, Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

Posted by Brad Loetz on Jun 20, 2014 12:54 PM


Several blogs ago I wrote about Lean and eliminating waste in
Good...the Enemy of Best! How Can Lean Be Applied To Data Integration?  This article outlined the lean concept, 8 forms of waste, and how the concept might apply to business and data integration for our organizations. 

In eliminating waste we improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our organizations, but how do we identify waste or process improvement opportunities? A recent trip to Europe with my wife and kids provided some interesting insights on ways to identify Lean Integration opportunities.

Read More

Recent Conference Observations...EDI, Business, And Data Integration

Posted by Brad Loetz on May 23, 2014 4:40 PM

 

We attend and sponsor a variety of industry and solutions provider events throughout the year that deal with business and data integration.  REMEDI has participated in two such events in the last several weeks.  I am amazed by the differences in some of these events, and drivers of those that organize them, and here are some of my observations.  

Read More