B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

Some organizations with on-premises EDI/B2B integration believe that cloud modernization means switching to an iPaaS platform. But what if you're satisfied with your current platform? This article explores another path for moving your B2B integration infrastructure to the cloud.

Trading partner onboarding is the process of establishing reliable, secure connections for exchanging documents with customers, suppliers, and distributors. This involves configuring EDI partner setup, aligning document standards, and ensuring data can flow smoothly between systems. Despite its straightforward appearance, this process has a high rate of failure.

It’s the oldest story in the world of EDI and B2B integration. Whether it’s migrating your on-premises EDI solution to the cloud, implementing a new ERP system (with impacts on existing integrations), or taking a new iPaaS or hybrid approach to your integrations, the risk is always there. Great expectations that become missed deadlines and lost stakeholder confidence.

The final article in our series about maximizing ROI for the EDI/B2B platforms we support concludes with a look at non-platform solutions. We chose this topic because not every integration challenge begins inside a traditional EDI environment.

This is the ninth article in our series profiling the benefits, use cases, and sometimes challenges of the platforms we support. In this installment, we explain why many OpenText users don’t see their EDI solutions as outdated. Or even as software.