July 13th marked the 22nd anniversary of REMEDI Electronic Commerce Group (aka REMEDI Consulting Company in the early days). The REMEDI team would like to thank clients present and past for trusting us with their EDI, B2Bi, MFT, and application integration initiatives. I would also like to thank our integration team members, thought leaders, and partners for delivering their best to our clients every day. For without their efforts we have no "product" at all.
In looking back to the early days, it's interesting to see the many ways EDI / integration professionals and tool sets have transformed during our time in business.
In many ways EDI today is what it always was...translators, VANs, X12 and similar standards. Yet modern day EDI, or Business and Application Integration, involves more than what traditional EDI ever did. Business and Application Integration teams and tools now days are a comprehensive collection of the human resources and purpose specific integration and communications solutions that used to exist throughout IT and line of business groups.
For organizations that have traveled the modernization journey, their integration professionals are not only responsible for integrating partner business transactions with ERP systems, but in many cases are responsible for message integration related to:
- XML, CSV, Any-to-Any, and Many-to-Many transformation
- Cloud-to-Cloud and Cloud-to-OnPrem applications
- Enterprise Application messaging
- APIs, SDK, Web Services
- IOT messaging
- OMS, WMS, Omni-Channel applications
- ASx, sFTP, FTP communications
- 3rd Party Providers...Marketplaces, Shopping Carts, Logistics
- File sharing...community-centric, system-centric, person-centric
Many clients and integration professionals we know now include the items above as part of their regular integration routine. All of this is now possible with new technologies and consolidation, integration, and modernization of EDI, EAI, ETL, middleware, and communication solutions.
Who would have thought as EDI programmers back in the early 90s that today our duties might include integrating transactions from a web store front, or from an internet connected device like a printer triggering orders for toner or paper.
These are interesting times!! The opportunity for integration pros to impact their organizations and the customer has never been greater than the present.
Even after 22 years, we look forward to changing with the times and the exciting years to come.
