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Articles by Brooke Lester

Brooke Lester

Brooke is the Marketing and Sales Support Manager at Remedi Electronic Commerce Group. Brooke joined Remedi in 2012 bringing with her experience and knowledge of EDI and B2B Integration from having spent the early years of her career as an EDI consultant. She is responsible for coordinating Remedi’s marketing efforts related to blogs, newsletters, customer networking events, conferences, educational material, and the IBM Premier Business Partner relationship.

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Supporting Systems And Staying Current

Posted by Brooke Lester on Jan 9, 2015 3:50 PM


As integration continues to evolve, it is imperative to keep the department working at peak efficiency.

If you are trying to save money by prolonging the life of an outdated system, you’re not only investing in false economies, but you’re missing out on technological advances.  Technology advancement can pay a sizable ROI derived from savings on downtime, improved system efficiencies, remote system capabilities, energy savings, increased safety or a combination of those benefits.

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2014 A Year In Review

Posted by Brooke Lester on Dec 23, 2014 4:21 PM


As we trudge through the final two weeks of the year, busy with holidays, family, and friends; I thought I would take a look at what the most interesting topics of 2014 have been for our readers.  Just in case you've missed one of our "popular" topics, take a look at what everyone else is following!

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EDI Invoicing Progress Versus Paper Invoicing

Posted by Brooke Lester on Dec 19, 2014 2:36 PM


Yes we are really still talking about this...

While this topic has been the subject and focus of many Blog articles, a recent survey shows there is still so much progress that can be made.  For those that have made the investment in EDI / integration infrastructure and who have trading partners that have done the same, what are the obstacles that prevent paperless invoicing and payments???

Let's take a look at the situation...

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IBM InterConnect 2015 Silver Sponsor

Posted by Brooke Lester on Dec 5, 2014 12:25 PM


As a follow up to my blog in October, I wanted to share some updates with you regarding the IBM InterConnect 2015 conference.   I have received some emails and some of our team has fielded some questions regarding the changes in the conferences, so I thought I'd give you a brief update.

For 2015, IBM has announced that the "the B2B Integration and File Transfer solutions, formerly featured at Smarter Commerce Summit, will now be part of InterConnect 2015". If you have attended conferences in the past and you're looking for B2B Integration and/or MFT updates, solutions, and information you will want to look at sessions in the Application Infrastructure & Integration Track.  As a Silver Plus sponsor, we look forward to welcoming you to this new event. InterConnect will host 20,000 participants, 100's of vendors, software solution providers, and business partners.  

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An Increasingly Competitive Marketplace For Data Integration

Posted by Brooke Lester on Dec 3, 2014 1:53 PM


We have posted in past blogs the different challenges that exist when seeking full-time or contract talent in a competitive, or less than competitive, environment.  In our experience, the market for data integration professionals has become decidedly more competitive. From our position, client demand has risen sometimes delaying data and business integration projects that could simply be delayed no longer. Also, the financial positions of many organizations have gotten better and many are seeking resources for 2015 projects. 

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