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Insanity. EDI is the only place where people are regularly still paying for message by the kilobyte, where unsecured FTP over the open internet is still a norm
by calvinmorrison 3y ago
Insanity.
EDI is the only place where people are regularly still paying for message by the kilobyte, where unsecured FTP over the open internet is still a norm, and where entire cottage industries exist to support AVOIDING using EDI.
Source: I work in EDI. it's a pain in the rump.
Also, EDI is really only good for things like PO's, shipping notices, invoices, sales orders, etc.
- oldandboring 3y ago> Also, EDI is really only good for things like PO's, shipping notices, invoices, sales orders, etc. Don't forget health insurance claims, eligibility & benefits, and prior auth requests!
- ochrist 3y agoEDI is used in a lot of situations for machine-to-machine communications, but outside USA I believe EDIFACT is much more used (X12 is mostly used in USA). Today many EDIFACT documents have been converted to ebXML: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EbXML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EbXML Source: Worked in EDI for a few years
- ochrist 3y agoYou don't have to pay for message by the kilobyte. This is only true if you use an external vendor for the conversion or use a VAN for transmission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_network Source: Worked in EDI for a few years
- calvinmorrison 3y agoyou absoultely don't need to use a VAN, yet a LOT of people do. Even when they're not using a VAN for comms, they might pay a VAN to host their FTP. The whole thing is backasswards.