My entire career has been in the IT world. For the most part very structured and orderly. From my beginning as an application programmer to my current role as an EDI Analyst I've had to follow disciplined rules in order to reach the desired results. These rules have helped me establish a good work - life balance.
If you're reading this, chances are we've connected with you at a conference in the past. REMEDI has been a sponsor of IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit since it's inception...prior to Smarter Commerce, we may have met you at Sterlings Customer Connection. Well this year.....things are changing.....
Technology follows us everywhere. As a Gen Xer I look back on how technology has changed our lives, our jobs, and even our children. Do you remember applying for your first job, faxing or mailing your resume with a typed cover letter? My first job out of college was with a government contractor and it required me to obtain a moderate level of security clearance. That was before Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
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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.
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.
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