We attend and sponsor a variety of industry and solutions provider events throughout the year that deal with business and data integration. REMEDI has participated in two such events in the last several weeks. I am amazed by the differences in some of these events, and drivers of those that organize them, and here are some of my observations.
At the beginning of the year my family decided to sponsor our first child from Honduras. The country is bordered by Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Honduras is home to several important cultures and their population exceeds eight million. They are most notable for their production of minerals, coffee, tropical fruit, etc…
Congratulations to Remedi on winning the Breaking Ground in New Markets award at Smarter Commerce 2014!
In business integration and data integration there is much talk about the "business network". And if you have been around EDI and EAI for 20 years or so like Remedi, I'm sure you've noticed some changes. While there are certainly advancements in IT disciplines and tools, some things stay the same or seem to be re-named to modernize the terms. For example, business network is the new trading partner base, B2Bi is the new EDI, and data integration is the new EAI and ETL.
Given some of the things that have been a constant or re-named in the IT discipline of business and data integration, what exactly has changed?
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Normally in this space I try to keep my blog brief when providing my insight on a given subject. The self-limiting format of “Two Quick Thoughts” serves to help reign in my own verbose nature.
This month I intended to write a quick article containing advice for EDI professionals considering a career change from permanent work to consulting. Of course this would also offer insight to our client hiring managers about what makes EDI consultants tick.
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