B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

Financial EDI is a linchpin of today’s economy. It allows the fast, seamless transfer of money from one organization to another thanks to the transmission of information in standardized, machine-readable format (known as financial EDI standards).

When someone says “the check is in the mail,” do you believe them? Or, have you been burned too many times before to trust that person? You are not alone; many business owners have become jaded by the lack of sincerity behind that phrase.

In our blog Use Cases for Your Integration Suite - Maximize Your Investment we outlined the many use cases for integration suites. Different than past, out of the box, purpose built applications for specific integration duties, integration suites are more like integration development tool kits. With the tool kit base functionality, integration framework, and organization specific transformation and business process coding, these tools are capable of providing a much wider array of integration solutions than purpose built predecessors.

Here are some of the non-traditional use cases mentioned in the last piece with a deeper dive into each.

Staff retention is one area by which the effectiveness of a manager is judged. One key retention element important to your data integration team members is keeping their skills sharp. Sure things like compensation, increased responsibilities, and honest performance evaluations are important, but so is the ongoing education of the professionals you manage.

If it is not broke don't fix it, right? Well, it depends on what one defines as broke, and when it is broke, how one fixes it.

Two examples serve as excellent illustrations with the first being from a builder friend of mine with a client trying to cut a budget corner against his advice, and the second being one of my own costly lessons.