B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

While many of you may have already started your holiday shopping, Black Friday is right around the corner and the "true" shopping season begins.  This year there is a lot of debate about stores opening earlier and earlier.  Instead of the holiday shopping season starting on the Friday after Thanksgiving, it seems starting ON Thanksgiving is the new trend.  I, for one, will not be shopping on Thanksgiving; the thought of having to fight the masses after cooking, eating, and cleaning up is not appealing to me.  With the expected growth in online shopping and the "extended" shopping season how will retailers be affected by supply chain visibility or the lack there of?

IDC, a leading technology research company, recently published the “Worldwide Business-to-Business Integration Gateway Software 2014 Vendor Assessment”.  In the vendor assessment they included Axway, EXTOL, IBM, Informatica, OpenText GSX, Oracle, SEEBURGER, Software AG, and TIBCO.  They focused on these nine vendors that have products or suites that support comprehensive trading partner collaboration.  While they outline specifics for each software vendor, they also had some general findings with regard to ROI and what to consider when you’re exploring your options.

During the 4^th quarter of 2014, most companies are working on budgets for 2015.  I recently came across a new report by Forrester of the US Tech Market for 2014 and 2015.  The new projections for the final months of 2014 and for 2015 seem to be in line with what we have seen in our industry.  REMEDI works with companies in various industries and sizes, in our niche of B2B, EDI, and MFT our client and prospects have big plans for 2015.

Leaders come in all shapes and sizes and not everyone considers themselves a leader, however I believe we all have qualities that make us leaders.  In past blogs we’ve discussed the value of training, leadership, and giving back to our peers and community.  All of these things contribute to your values and the success of your team.  We are continually influencing others around us, our co-workers, children, family, etc. 

If you're reading this, chances are we've connected with you at a conference in the past.  REMEDI has been a sponsor of IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit since it's inception...prior to Smarter Commerce, we may have met you at Sterlings Customer Connection.  Well this year.....things are changing.....