B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

Happy New Year!

For those that have been a frequent attendee of Sterling Commerce Customer Connection, the conference will be a little different this year given the IBM acquisition. Impact2011, April 10-15, Las Vegas, NV, will now contain what was Customer Connection, be larger in scope, and provide more access to product, industry, and analyst representatives.  The conference will not only benefit those seeking Sterling product/service information and updates, but allow attendees to find out more about IBM companion products, planned integration of products, and synergies of using the two companies products together (e.g. Using WebSphere Transformation Extender inside Sterling Integrator). Read More

As we head into 2011, one of the most popular offering our customers took advantage of in 2010 was our Managed Services offering.  It seems that as companies looked for ways to streamline their operations and  regulate their costs more effectively, that REMEDI's Managed Services offering helped them deliver a significant return on their investment.  Here at REMEDI we utilized outsourcing to offload some day-to-day operations and marketing responsibilities that just were not part of our core competencies and we saw some amazing results.

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After attending a webcast last week hosted by Sterling Commerce that featured Forrester Research’s Principal Analyst, Ken Vollmer, I thought it would be of great value to our customer base to present a brief recap of the webcast. The webcast focused on the business strategy that IBM and Sterling Commerce have developed surrounding their business-to-business (B2B / B2Bi) integration solutions now that IBM has completed the acquisition of Sterling Commerce. In short, Sterling Integrator (SI) will become the core foundation of key IBM B2B / B2Bi solutions and IBM will integrate several of its key integration tools with SI to become a more robust B2B solution. Read More

Here is a link to a press release from The Drummond Group and also the complete list of the 21 AS2 products that have recently completed the AS2-3Q10 Drummond Certified Interoperability testing.  AS2 is a protocol for the transport of data.

A sample of the companies includes Sterling Commerce, IBM, GXS, Seeburger, Cleo, EXTOL, TIBCO, and others.  This is interesting news in the EDI world as AS2 continues to become more and more popular as a messaging standard for B2B eCommerce. 

After reading the press release and the report regarding the certified products, please let me know if you have any thoughts or comments.

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I read an interesting article the other day from CIO Magazine. The article lends to a slow but growing confidence in the economy and should make those in the IT industry a bit more encouraged.  Hopefully this will give all of us a little needed pep in our step as we head into 2011.  Below are the highlights of the article, which polled over 250 IT leaders.

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