B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

Some readers may recall rotary phones from the 1960s. You could count on them to place calls. But they became slow and hard to use. Tools that provide instant communication and many connections have all but replaced them. Likewise, legacy EDI systems were not built for all the digital demands of today.

Migrating to a new ERP, CRM, or WMS is a major future-proofing step. It can take years to complete these initiatives. During the discovery and planning phases, organizations hold many meetings with stakeholders from production, sales, finance, and logistics. Everybody, it seems, but EDI.

Stop us if you’ve heard this one. A CEO, a CFO, and a CIO walk into a bar to ease their suffering. And what are they suffering from? Failure to Deliver Syndrome or FTDS. It’s a lousy joke, but a real problem.

With uncertainty still lingering in pockets of the economy, purse string-holders at some organizations remain cautious about approving funds to expand EDI and integration staff or to replace departures.

Here at Remedi, the biggest question of Halloween 2025 isn’t “Are ghosts real” but this one: How did EDI help a childhood tradition people outgrew by the time they hit puberty evolve into a party occasion that adults will spend a record 13.1 billion this year to celebrate?