B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

1994: The High Tech Office

Posted by Scott Story on Jul 8, 2014 5:00 PM


This month, Remedi Electronic Commerce Group is celebrating 20 years!  As in any anniversary, it is fun to look back to see what movies and TV shows were popular, and how much gas prices were ($1.09/gallon by the way).  I took a look back to 1994 to find "new emerging technologies" from 20 years ago and a funny YouTube infomercial video called “High-Tech Office”.

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It's Time To Celebrate!

Posted by Brooke Lester on Jul 3, 2014 11:56 AM


The REMEDI team would like to wish everyone a fun and safe 4th!  We hope you will get to enjoy time with your friends and family.  While we are all preparing to celebrate our Nation's independence, our team is also preparing for our 20th Anniversary.  So this week, I thought I'd take a brief look back at our journey and 1994...the year our organization was founded:

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Two Quick Thoughts: Success Checkpoints!

Posted by Charley Hughes on Jul 1, 2014 12:15 PM


The weather looks great for this weekend, so my wife Amy and I will ‘slip the surly bonds of earth’ in a small private airplane for a summer holiday visit with family a few hundred miles to our south.   And though we will arrive at the same destination, at the same time, in the same aircraft, if you ask each of us about our trip you will find we’ve taken two very different journeys to get there.

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Lean As Applied To Data Integration - Drawing The Correlation...

Posted by Brad Loetz on Jun 27, 2014 4:10 PM


A final blog in a series of Lean articles includes specific integration improvement concepts that can be applied to the 8 traditional wastes.

You may or may not recall that the series started with Good...the Enemy of Best! How Can Lean Be Applied To Data Integration?, which introduced the premise of applying Lean to integration.  This was followed by Observations of Lean, Where Do You Get Your Ideas?, which was a light piece about brainstorming for process improvement ideas.

Now for some specific examples for integration wastes and opportunities for improvement.

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Managed File Transfer: What Does It Mean To You?

Posted by Scott Hulme on Jun 25, 2014 2:02 PM


The world of information technology (IT) is full of acronyms:  EDI, EAI, ETL, B2B, B2C, and MFT, just to name a few.  MFT, or managed file transfer, is increasingly becoming more important to companies and gaining the spotlight as companies understand the value of reliable data and how it correlates to increasing revenue and profit.  Providing a secure and reliable means to move data internally within your company and externally to your customers, suppliers, vendors, and business partners should be an extremely important part of your company's overall IT plan.

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