In my article archive, I found a blog post by Steve Keifer of OpenText | GXS from a few years back entitled The End Of Mapping (In B2B Integration). Mr. Keifer states that maps are the most costly and most important part of a B2B Integration project. He goes on to say that with all the artificial intelligence technology that already exists, we should be able to eliminate traditional maps and automatically map data based on intelligence and historical data.
When Remedi started as a business twenty years ago, our focus was solely on EDI - integrating data from/to a trading partner from/to a company's business software. EDI software basically did what data integration software does today, but on a limited basis and it was strictly business-to-business. As companies began choosing software packages instead of developing applications in-house, the need for internal data integration grew and software developers answered the need with, what was then called, middleware. These days integration software satisfies the needs of business-to-business and application-to-application data exchange.
** Update: Cleo acquired EXTOL in April 2016. EXTOL Business Integrator is now called Cleo Clarify and EXTOL EDI Integrator is now called Cleo EEI.
Continuing in my effort to give our readers up-to-date information regarding their integration and EDI software, below is product information for EXTOL®.
The current version of EXTOL® EDI Integrator for System i (EEI) is 6.4 with no stated sunset date for the product. EXTOL provides software maintenance (PTFs) for EEI 6.3 and 6.4, but will provide customer support for any version of EEI with a valid maintenance contract.
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Getting end of support dates for EDI/B2B software is proving to be a tougher task than I thought! As I mentioned in my last blog, I wanted to complile a list of products that may be coming up on end of support dates to provide you with information related to your product and the potential next steps.
Below are the links to the IBM pages that list the end of life/end of support dates for Gentran, Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling File Gateway. I was unable to get the specific pages for DataStage, Transformation Extender, Sterling Connect:Direct, Sterling Control Center, and Sterling Secure Proxy, but there is a software lifecycle search portal that allows you to enter the product name and it will list all the versions with their end of support date, which I have linked to below.
