EDI may be forgotten by many, but it's still used by countless firms for B2B transactions; EIM aims to synchronize XML and EDI content and pave the way to a quicker, easier upgrade of the mature ...

Starting a new business and the subject of EDI transactions came about. I have some knowledge in xml so my first reaction was to create a document for the solution. After investigating a bit I found ...

Although no analyst would contest that XML has become a critical networked supply-chain standard, there is a widely mistaken perception that XML will replace EDI, the primary way companies exchange ...

As the article "Corporate Users Cool Toward XML for Supply Chain" points out, companies aren't going to give up years of EDI development for XML [Computerworld.com, Feb. 21]. But we've been supplying ...

A further constraint on the deployment of XML is that such industry groups are often already entrenched in an extensive investment in EDI. The larger organisations, particularly retailers, used their ...

The first round of efforts by e-commerce standards bodies to harmonize XML-based technology with electronic data interchange (EDI) protocols is making the promised world of seamless ...

In a move designed to strengthen Vitria Technology’s position in e-business integration, the company has announced plans to acquire XMLSolutions of McLean, Va., in a deal valued at approximately $15 ...

As technical standards bodies attempt to harmonize data-sharing specifications in the Balkanized world of XML, an aerospace industry group is adopting a new approach that converts existing electronic ...

Electronic Data Interchange, or EDI, long held promise as a worldwide business-to-business panacea. But for too many years, the technology was to complex and too pricey, among other things, to spread ...

XML organizes data and contains instructions for understanding that organization. XML can present data so it can be read by a person or by a computer. Let's admit right from the start that everything ...