B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

It is no doubt that these are turbulent times. Layoffs. Downsizing. Cut-backs. Everyone trying to do more with less.

Sadly, many companies have a resource that remains untapped in their very own company....data. Each year millions of dollars, time and potential opportunities will be lost worldwide because companies have not realized the potential of the data they and their trading partners have.

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We've been tracking the increase in EDI activity over the first months of 2009. From my own intuition and from your comments, this increase is counter to what any of us expected. At this point however, there seems to be an identifiable trend in the traffic, and it certainly wasn't from a source I expected.

What's been reported to me only goes to strengthen the idea that this world is increasingly a global trading community. If we didn't already have evidence of the interconnectedness of the international trading community, the coordinated decline in our mutual economies brings the phenomenon into focus. What's interesting is the way trading relationships have changed over the last few months. Read More

As a long time service provider in the EDI and EAI (business and data integration) arena, we have experienced the integration toolset and terminology evolution. Those that have been in the business and data integration world for the last 10 to 15 years know today’s world is similar to that of the past, yet in many other ways today is very different.

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So you have an opening in your EDI group to fill, and the resumes are beginning to arrive. What now? Here are a few tips to help make the initial phase of resume reviewing an easier process.

Initially you should really spend only enough time looking at each candidate to determine if enough evidence exists on the resume to warrant going forward. The easiest way to do this is to put that collection of resume’s thru a sorting process similar to the triage system used behind battle lines to treat the wounded.

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Is your organization being impacted by the challenges of the current economy? Are you being asked to make difficult decisions within your EDI department regarding budgets, projects, consultants, and employees? Are you expected to do more with less?

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