B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

How long have you had your legacy integration system in place? Is it ten years, fifteen years, or even longer? Legacy integration systems are known for being workhorses, but even workhorses have a limited lifespan.

There are a number of reasons why a firm might want to keep a legacy integration system in place, though the rationale for maintaining those systems does not always stand up to the logic behind B2B modernization. There are three very strong reasons for data system integration: increased visibility into your operations, greater operational efficiencies, and the ability to make better business decisions that lead to prosperity and success. Read More

NOTE: First published on December 2, 2016, this blog has been updated to reflect a world that has changed drastically in the five years since we began to focus on the need for modernized integration environments.

Every business has its reasons to modernize their EDI environment or to wait. I first joined Remedi in 2005. Since then, as an account manager, I have supported and sold EDI/integration solutions to many clients. The majority of these clients are IBM Sterling customers using a version of Gentran or Sterling B2B Integrator. Some of these legacy Gentran accounts have been using Gentran for 25 years and counting. So why haven’t these legacy Gentran users upgraded or modernized?

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My team and I just finished working on a project converting 150 maps from GENTRAN visual to AI. This was first presented to our team months ago as a project that was not time sensitive. We worked on it when we had time, but it often got pushed back as more urgent issues and projects came up.

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In last week's Remedi blog, Time Change...Time for Change...EDI Modernization, Brad Loetz outlined why companies are hesitant in making the investment in change that is needed when a company upgrades its current, traditional EDI software to the next generation of e-Commerce solutions that are available in the marketplace today.  I would like to continue with that theme and expand on the points that Brad made while outlining why to make the change.  For this blog, I am going to focus on the four points that Brad outlined as reasons to make the change.

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This weekend it is time to spring ahead for many of us...time change.  It also usually means spring is just around the corner, but with 6 inches of snow outside the window we in the upper mid-west have our doubts.

This change of time not only means spring is on the way and the approach of another season, but it also means at least a weeks worth of resetting our internal clock...dragging out of bed and into work, and out of work to home, and then to bed.  Each season we change time it requires that we change our routine a bit to get rid of the fog associated with the process since the status quo is disrupted somewhat. 

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