Feb 28, 2008
Are you missing an opportunity with EDI?
Categories: EDI News, Other Blogs
Written By: John Burmeister
Just came across the blog post over on the Inovis blog.
EDI has been around for quite a long time and has historically been viewed as an afterthought in most organizations. It’s like your phone service; you just expect it to be there and always on. I mean, a phone is good for one thing…letting you communicate with others, right? Well, not exactly. These days your phone is so much more. I mean, you can email, access the internet, watch TV, pay for things…I can go on and on, but you get the idea. The phone is a common device that has been leveraged to provide so much more value than we might have ever imagined.
Check out the full post here: http://blogs.inovis.com/2008/02/20/are-you-missing-an-opportunity-with-edi/
February 28th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
The irony of the article - and I was going to say the same thing over at the Inovis Blog, is that sometimes - some of us just want our phone to be … a phone..! I’m not really wanting to surf the web, watch TV, listen to MP3s or whatever with My phone…. I’ve got a laptop, a plasma HDTV and an iPod to fulfill those needs.
While I understand that there are times a “smart phone” could be more useful - it’s just not something that works right for Me. I don’t need to be in constant contact with the outside world 24 hours a day, 7 days a week… there are times I just want to disconnect, turn off the phone, laptop, and tv and just veg out with a good book and some tunes….
But in the case of EDI - yes, we can do much more with the basic concepts and improve business funtionalities… but we must remember that not all of the rest of the world is in that same mindset and is quite happy with bysinc, dial-up level EDI of just a single document or two….
February 28th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I love my blackberry