http://www.perceptant.com/blog/?p=193 Perceptant - Supply Chain Management | B2B Integration | EDI Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:38:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.perceptant.com/blog/?p=193&cpage=1#comment-504 Robin H. Smith Mon, 31 May 2010 18:24:11 +0000 http://www.perceptant.com/blog/?p=193#comment-504 Although we all hope that there is a resurgence in EDI, which makes perfect sense from an integration perspective we see more and more XML based systems being put in place. The VAN is dying a slow death in North America being replaced by point to point over the internet type communications. In certain verticals the VAN is not even used. We have been in the industry for 20 years and EDI still makes more sense for business to business communications. Lets hope you are right. Although we all hope that there is a resurgence in EDI, which makes perfect sense from an integration perspective we see more and more XML based systems being put in place. The VAN is dying a slow death in North America being replaced by point to point over the internet type communications. In certain verticals the VAN is not even used. We have been in the industry for 20 years and EDI still makes more sense for business to business communications. Lets hope you are right.

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