B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

Having contingency plans and redundancy in business is key to ensuring you have the inputs, production, and delivery mechanisms necessary to satify customer product or service demands.  This holds true for businesses of all sizes and reach, local or global.  The bigger the reach, or more complex the business, the more critical having these plans become. 

This also holds true for the business, data, and EDI integration responsibilities we have to our organizations.

Can you believe how quickly the summer has gone? Schools are finally back in session.  Before we know it, the leaves will be changing and falling to the ground - creating more work for us – and work we likely don’t have time for. 

** 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.

If you are a career consultant, a permanent employee looking for a new opportunity, or a hiring manager looking for new talent on your team you may struggle with a technical resume.  Making the right updates to your resume or finding the right resumes in the “stack” can be a challenge.  With everything you do on a project how do you record all of your accomplishments on paper without it being 20 pages long?  As a hiring manger, how do you find the project skills you are searching for? 

In personal and family relationships, neighbor and neighborhood matters, religious matters maybe at your place of worship, and certainly in politics, people's perspectives on issues differ and sometimes greatly!

They say "perception is reality" which is why you will find people vehemently defend their positions on a topic, and on occasion with the right argument be swayed to another point of view.

And why would it be any different in business...