B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

If you are a gadget geek like me, this article will be right up your alley. 

This weekend I picked up a gadget called the “Nest”.   Little did I know at the time that it would find its way into my article this week. 

Nest is a learning thermostat for your home HVAC that identifies your heating and cooling patterns and habits and “learns” to program itself.   I thought this would be a neat gadget to have since it would save me money on my heating and cooling bills.  But then I discovered all of the OTHER gadgets that Nest interfaces with.  

While it is not likely your IT group has sales people, it is likely that IT resources and business sponsors are required to sell the cost/benefits of project initiatives (capital projects or otherwise) to the CFO, CEO, COO, or project committee.

The benefits associated with the use of EDI, such as cost reductions and reduced time of transactions, have improved the healthcare market.  In a recent report on Healthcare Informatics, the EDI healthcare market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 13.7 percent from 2013 to 2018.  And the total value of the EDI market, inclusive of healthcare, is expected to be $1.68 billion by 2018.  

So why are there still companies "holding" out on investing in their EDI and integration technology?

Earlier in the week one of our consultant Blog authors addressed the issue of Integration and EDI Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs) and testing those plans in a simulated outage...Necessary Evils: EDI Disaster Recovery. 

The article struck a cord with many and prompted some discussion among our followers and here internally.  The discussion topics resulting from the Blog included... 

It’s that time of the year once again where people start thinking about their taxes. Not a pleasant activity but a necessary one. This brings to mind an annual event that my client undertakes but in my opinion is like doing your taxes, not a whole lot of fun. I’m talking about the annual disaster recovery test (DRT).

For those of you that have ever been part of a DRT you know what I mean! It’s a process that may seem like a waste of time if it never gets used but well worth the time if you do need to execute it.