Whether you’re an IT Executive, B2B Integration professional, or EDI Analyst; having the crucial conversations with your peers or management regarding your B2B Integration environment can be challenging. I recently attended a training class on personality types and crucial conversations. I must admit, I learned a lot about myself and areas I could improve on in both my professional and personal life.
Two recent events prompted some reflection on Electronic Payments, you know. Financial EDI.
We were recently asked by a client how they might take greater advantage of their B2B Integration investment. In addition to reducing integration tool overlap, utilization of AS2 and mail boxing communications, and utilizing your integration suite as an Enterprise Service Bus, I tend to gravitate also towards lower hanging fruit like FEDI. This is of course due to my past life as a Product Manager in Corporate Treasury Management. Managing the Bank's Financial EDI offering was among the products for which I was responsible. In those days, and until somewhat recently, only a very small fraction of the EDI capable made payments electronically...EDI or ACH.
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Regardless of your role in an IT organization (we presume it has something to do with data integration, EDI, B2B integration, MFT, file/data exchange, etc.), it is important to have a plan for supporting growth and innovation for your firm. As the adage goes, you can have a plan or be part of someone else's. Being proactive in terms of your plans and desires for your integration group means different things depending your firm's perspective of Information Technology.
Newsletter "A.D.D." If you are one of those that anxiously await our monthly Thinkronization Newsletter, we must sincerely apologize for our newsletter "A.D.D." For those that deal with the disorder, whether you struggle yourself or have kids that struggle with it, you know how distracting it can be. 2013 and the pace that has come with it, has us off our intended publication schedule. As part of this publication, B2B Gateway Frameworks are among those things that have kept us busy. In addition, there are so many other things to report since our last edition. Below are just a few...
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