B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

If you’ve been part of your organization’s digital transformation conversations and those discussions now include your EDI/B2B infrastructure, you’ve probably heard the term “lift and shift.”

The Challenge

A large acquisition challenged a leading eCommerce solution provider to discover a unique, efficient way to expedite the EDI map migration from their existing EDI solution; the goal being to maintain outstanding trading partner relationships. With their existing legacy IBM Gentran Server UNIX maps, there was no direct migration path to move their existing EDI maps to their new environment, IBM B2B Integrator.

While each of the major public cloud providers will support EDI/B2B integration infrastructure, anyone considering migrating to the cloud needs to compare them for costs, scalability, compliance, connectivity, and analytics tools.

In our previous blog in this series, we explored the strategic benefits of migrating your EDI infrastructure to the cloud, as well as the potential risks. This article takes a deep dive into your cloud provider options and the pros and cons each of them offers.

This article will explore three topics. First, the benefits of migrating your EDI infrastructure to the cloud. Second, identifying and preventing the potential risks of a move with so many strategic considerations and critical connections. And thirdly, why some organizations feel it makes sense to keep their EDI/B2B infrastructure on-premises.