B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

Since its recent acquisitions of companies with B2B solutions, I have been curious to see how IBM will package all of these new solutions and offerings and align it with its own WebSphere line of products.  Some of this became more apparent yesterday.  At the National Retail Federation conference in New York City, IBM announced how it is bringing all of these solutions to market in a newly named Consumer Products Industry Framework.  By offering and adding this new framework solution to its existing Retail Industry Framework solution, IBM accounts for all of its software portfolio and offers their clients the ability to build an integrated platform for all of their operations based on industry standards.  Let me know if you have any other revelations or interesting information from the National Retail Federation conference by writing me at shulme@remedi.com.  I have included a link to the press release below.  Read More

As we head into 2011, one of the most popular offering our customers took advantage of in 2010 was our Managed Services offering.  It seems that as companies looked for ways to streamline their operations and  regulate their costs more effectively, that REMEDI's Managed Services offering helped them deliver a significant return on their investment.  Here at REMEDI we utilized outsourcing to offload some day-to-day operations and marketing responsibilities that just were not part of our core competencies and we saw some amazing results.

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After attending a webcast last week hosted by Sterling Commerce that featured Forrester Research’s Principal Analyst, Ken Vollmer, I thought it would be of great value to our customer base to present a brief recap of the webcast. The webcast focused on the business strategy that IBM and Sterling Commerce have developed surrounding their business-to-business (B2B / B2Bi) integration solutions now that IBM has completed the acquisition of Sterling Commerce. In short, Sterling Integrator (SI) will become the core foundation of key IBM B2B / B2Bi solutions and IBM will integrate several of its key integration tools with SI to become a more robust B2B solution. Read More

Here is a link to a press release from The Drummond Group and also the complete list of the 21 AS2 products that have recently completed the AS2-3Q10 Drummond Certified Interoperability testing.  AS2 is a protocol for the transport of data.

A sample of the companies includes Sterling Commerce, IBM, GXS, Seeburger, Cleo, EXTOL, TIBCO, and others.  This is interesting news in the EDI world as AS2 continues to become more and more popular as a messaging standard for B2B eCommerce. 

After reading the press release and the report regarding the certified products, please let me know if you have any thoughts or comments.

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I read an interesting article the other day from CIO Magazine. The article lends to a slow but growing confidence in the economy and should make those in the IT industry a bit more encouraged.  Hopefully this will give all of us a little needed pep in our step as we head into 2011.  Below are the highlights of the article, which polled over 250 IT leaders.

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