B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

While many of you may have already started your holiday shopping, Black Friday is right around the corner and the "true" shopping season begins.  This year there is a lot of debate about stores opening earlier and earlier.  Instead of the holiday shopping season starting on the Friday after Thanksgiving, it seems starting ON Thanksgiving is the new trend.  I, for one, will not be shopping on Thanksgiving; the thought of having to fight the masses after cooking, eating, and cleaning up is not appealing to me.  With the expected growth in online shopping and the "extended" shopping season how will retailers be affected by supply chain visibility or the lack there of?

IDC, a leading technology research company, recently published the “Worldwide Business-to-Business Integration Gateway Software 2014 Vendor Assessment”.  In the vendor assessment they included Axway, EXTOL, IBM, Informatica, OpenText GSX, Oracle, SEEBURGER, Software AG, and TIBCO.  They focused on these nine vendors that have products or suites that support comprehensive trading partner collaboration.  While they outline specifics for each software vendor, they also had some general findings with regard to ROI and what to consider when you’re exploring your options.

Last month you probably received an invitation to attend our presentation and live demo of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator.  We had a great turn out, but I know some of you have emailed me about a replay since you couldn't make it.  Well, we have it posted!  

REMEDI offers demos to provide our customers and new clients a chance to get a closer look at integration software solutions and deployment strategies. 

It’s December 31, 2014…well not quite yet!  Let’s say hypothetically speaking, it’s December 31, 2014.  Are you looking forward to ringing in the New Year or are you dreading it, and thinking it’s just going to be another year?

Have you posed this question to your Data Integration Team?  How can we make 2015 our best year yet and even more importantly, how can each one of us elevate and equip others on our Data Integration Team for their optimal success in 2015?

I've been noticing a trend as of late.  You see a lot of new businesses having Grand Opening celebrations, but what's up with companies having Grand Re-Opening celebrations? 

Grand Re-Openings are a somewhat new marketing technique...attention getting and usually revolving around a new facility, new business format, new products, and/or new services.  So what does this have to do with Data Integration, Data Transformation, and Data Exchange? 

This will take some imagination so stick with me...