B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

Key takeaways:

• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) automation allows organizations to exchange business documents easily. 
• Successful EDI implementation requires selecting the right EDI partner.
• Every successful EDI implementation starts with careful planning and a structured approach.

Quick summary:

1. Collaboration with EDI Partners is Key: Robust collaboration helps cut costs by improving communication and reducing manual errors.
2. Use these Strategies to Save Money: The blog lists five strategies, including automating partner onboarding and using monitoring tools.
3. Optimize your ROI: Enhancing collaboration and automation leads to higher ROI from EDI investments.

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.