Hummingbird Announces Extraction and Portal Strategy for ERP

by M. Reed ... MetaLink for SAP R/3 is CA-ALE certified by SAP and provides a driver for SAP's Intermediate Document Format (IDoc) to facilitate data exchange between SAP R/3 ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/1999/10/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_10_27_99_3.asp - 6k - 1999-10-27 Summary: Boston, October 25 /CNW-PRN/-Hummingbird Communications Limited (TSE:HUM,NASDAQ:HUMC), announced the immediate availability of Genio MetaLink for SAP R/3. MetaLink features drivers that enable organizations to extract and transform SAP data. This is the first product in their new ERP-related electronic b

The Pain and Gain Of Integrated EDI Part One: The Pain of ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... generic format. The product will also provide VAN-like functionality for direct XML-to-XML data exchange. However, Microsoft notes ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2005/03/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_03_21_05_1.asp - 16k - 2005-03-21 Summary: The real action is in merging the influx of electronically transmitted data with existing information already being processed within the ERP system, and the ensuing challenge is to make sense of this constant flood of information arriving daily in the form of EDI or XML messages.

GXS Acquires HAHT Commerce for More Synchronized Retail B2B Data ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... UCCnet 2.2 Certification—Supports the UCCnet GLOBALregistry service for data exchange with global partners and industry vertical markets; ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/2004/03/research_notes/EN_EC_PJ_03_10_04_1.asp - 14k - 2004-03-10 Summary: HAHT PIM is a strategic solution designed to meet current and evolving standards for collaborative trading. It empowers manufacturers to manage product information and optimize product data synchronization from product launch through to sunset via the automation of internal and external business processe

Inovis Delves into PIM by Snatching QRS Part Two: QRS Marketing

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... 1) Data exchange, which is an EDI solution using an electronic mailbox on a proprietary VAN, through which communications can be established across dissimilar ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/11/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_11_17_04_1.asp - 18k - 2004-11-17 Summary: QRS believes that it adds value to its customers because it offers the products and services that companies need to connect, transact, collaborate, and differentiate themselves, ultimately driving overall business performance improvement and improved brand equity as measured through customer awareness, i

EDI versus. XML--Working in Tandem Rather Than Competing?

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Since electronic data interchange (EDI ) has earned a reputation as a complex, rigid, and expensive means of business document and data exchange among trading ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/2004/03/research_notes/TU_EC_PJ_03_05_04_1.asp - 15k - 2004-03-05 Summary: Electronic data interchange (EDI), extensible markup language (XML) , and any other format are merely

Inovis Delves into PIM by Snatching QRS Part Four: Market Impact

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... of an irony here might be that, since EDI has earned a reputation of a complex, rigid, and expensive means of business document and data exchange among trading ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/11/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_11_19_04_1.asp - 20k - 2004-11-19 Summary: While owing to a number of similar products and to former competition between the merging parties this merger has a merit of growth by acquisition in a slow growing (or even declining) EDI-VAN market, the merger of Inovis and QRS may well emphasize some interesting dynamics within the retail market segme

SAP Industry Solutions for Mid-market Companies

by Olin Thompson and P.J. Jakovljevic ... The best examples include RosettaNet for the high tech and electronics industry, Chemical Industry Data Exchange (CIDX) for the chemical industry, Petroleum ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2006/05/research_notes/MN_ER_PJ_05_25_06_1.asp - 22k - 2006-05-25 Summary: For over a decade, SAP has offered industry-specific applications, starting with oil and gas and utilities solutions. Media, insurance, chemicals, banking, and public sector offerings have followed, highlighting SAP's lesser-known side as a market-oriented provider of industry-tailored solutions.

Microsoft Business Network (MBN)--Coming of Age? Part Two: Market ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Although EDI has earned a reputation of a complex, rigid, and expensive means of business document and data exchange among trading partners, transportation ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2004/09/research_notes/PN_SC_PJ_09_02_04_1.asp - 19k - 2004-09-02 Summary: Microsoft Business Network (MBN) has the potential to deliver the never really (or hardly ever) realized benefits of early dot-com era Internet trading exchanges or networks that could reasonably and effectively link customers to their trading partners.

Microsoft Business Network (MBN)--Coming of Age? Part One: Event ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... The concept did not fully take hold industry-wide until the 1980s though, when standards were introduced to define data exchange, and when it became apparent ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2004/09/research_notes/PN_SC_PJ_09_01_04_1.asp - 20k - 2004-09-01 Summary: While the Microsoft Business Network (MBN) product is worth considering for a number of compelling reasons, it will take some immense doing before it becomes a retailers' equivalent of what the Sabre reservation system means to airline agents.

SSA GT to EXE-cute (Yet) Another Acquisition Part Two: EXE

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... EXceed Data EXchange is the platform that enables EXE customers to integrate various systems with one another in addition to seamless integration with other ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2003/09/news_analysis/NA_SC_PJ_09_27_03_1.asp - 27k - 2003-09-27 Summary: Like the previous few SSA GT acquisitions, this merger too seems aimed at enlarging SSA GT's customer base, market share, and more importantly, its predictably recurring support revenue and consequently larger R&D pool. Both companies have notable customer bases with a wide geographic spread (particularl