EDI Benefits

EDI Benefits Within various industries, EDI has been used to great advantages, and many benefits have been expounded in its regard. EDI´s benefits relate to environmental impact, improved time efficiency, improved accuracy and increased flexibility, enhanced partnership, labor costs, shipping. EDI creates a system whereby documents and data can easily be transported from one source to another, and is able to overcome incompatibility issues. EDI is a set of standards which govern data formats and thereby allows disparate computer systems to be able to “read” the data which is sent.… Read More

How EDI work with XML

How EDI work with XML EDI and XML systems have been seen as the opportunity to create a holistic approach to data information exchange that can deliver and process simple, durable and effective business transactions by electronic means. To achieve this, methods must be employed that are not only of value within the market today, but have an extension into the future. To guarantee the technology will be widely accepted and used, it must be made freely available as an open standard. In this way, the systems can work in… Read More

EDI in Industries

EDI in Industries Health Care EDI There are various industries that EDI has a firm hold within, and the health care industry is one of those. Within the delivery of health services there is a great amount of paperwork which must be filed, delivered, ordered, compiled and documented. To alleviate the pressure of this paper pile, EDI has been incorporated into the system so as to provide a technological replacement for some of this domination. The standard for the health care industry is HL7, which is also the umbrella organization… Read More

E-Commerce and EDI

E-Commerce and EDI What is E-Commerce? E-Commerce can be viewed as being a virtual market place, whereby all transaction that is carried out in the physical world is also available via the Internet. It involves mainly distribution, buying, selling, marketing and servicing of products or services through the use of electronic means such as the Internet, and other computer networks. E-Commerce involves not just businesses, but individual consumers and corporations. It generally utilizes the World Wide Web at some point in the transaction’s progress, but then also simpler computer tools… Read More

EDI Mapping and Translation

EDI Mapping and Translation Mapping is a movement of information – basically of putting the format of one data document onto another. For instance, it takes the format of an otherwise incompatible data format and makes it into an EDI compatible data document, or conversely, takes an EDI document and makes it readable. There are various tools on the market for doing such tasks, which are readily available through the Internet or at an EDI support centre. These mapping tasks require software, as it is bringing in line a foreign… Read More

EDI and Software Applications

EDI and Software Applications EDI and JAVA Java is a programming language originally developed by Sun Microsystems and launched in 1995. While generally compiled to byte code, direct hardware execution of byte code by a Java processor is also possible. Currently, almost all of Java’s software is available under the GNU General Public License. Hence it has become free software. The Java programs most identifiable characteristic is that is platform independent, meaning that it should be able to be written and compiled once, and then be able to be run… Read More

Bug Reporting – Art and Advocacy

Bug Reporting – Art and Advocacy This article highlights the essence and traits of finding bugs. It leaps to redefine the art, a tester should inculcate while finding a bug. It enumerates various artifacts in reporting a bug. Whereas, also voices the advocacy on the bugs that has been reported. The basic amenity of a tester being to fight for the bug until it is fixed. Introduction: As testers, we all agree to the fact that the basic aim of the Tester is to decipher bugs. Whenever a build appears… Read More

EDI History

EDI History At its simplest, Electronic Data Exchange is the transmission of documents by electronic means. In other words, the paper-based documents are replaced by electronic data which is transmitted by a number of means. It is largely used in order to automate standard processes such as re-ordering, but its application is far broader than that, and it affects a range of industries and corporations. EDI relies on electronic transmission, but is not necessarily email or using the Internet. In the least, EDI requires some level of sophisticated information technology… Read More

Be Your Own Fairy Godmother

Be Your Own Fairy Godmother Do you believe in magic? In fairy godmothers? In Santa Claus? In Miracles? Probably not. Most adults do not. But there is an entity that contains more magic than all of these things, an entity that actually exists. That entity, believe it or not, is you! That is correct. You have the power and capabilities to make things happen that are far better than anything Santa Claus or a Fairy Godmother could bring you. After all, these characters have traditionally been called upon to bring… Read More