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Re: <TECH> Secure, reliable exchange of EDI or XML data?
Karen,
I think you're probably going to have trouble finding hard numbers. In
addition, the raw numbers will only give you history, and they may not show
you trends. The trends are probably what you need to watch, and they are
probably going to vary by industry.
For example, the biggest news in retail last year was that Wal-Mart
announced they were going to drop their point-to-point connections and
adopt EDIINT/AS2 over the public Internet for their EDI traffic. This,
combined with the recent certification tests of several EDIINT packages
sponsored by UCC/EAN, is leading a lot of other major retailers and grocers
to move in the same direction. My hunch is that within three years a big
chunk of the EDI traffic in grocery/retail will be using EDIINT/AS2. I
would also expect that as this trend plays out, the price points will drop
and it will expand into other industries. You won't be able to deduce that
from history.
If you're in higher education, colleges and universities for years have
been sending college transcripts and related data by X12 EDI through the
EDI server at UT Austin. They use a variety of protocols, but PGP for
security and SMTP or FTP for transport are common combinations.
On the other hand, other vertical industries are still trying to make
models like marketplaces or VPNs work. The security and transport
protocols will vary by indivual cases, but I don't expect anything as broad
as EDIINT/AS2.
I hear that the ebXML messaging service (which uses an early version of
SOAP) has growing interest in Asia and Europe, but haven't seen anything
concrete that documents actual large volumes of usage. The U.S. Auto
industry (through AIAG) still sounds interested, and RosettaNet has adopted it.
There's certainly a lot of talk about using SOAP for Web Services
architectures, but the whole Web Services vision is still more specware and
vaporware than real for interenterprise integration. In addition, I think
I'm like a lot of people in believing that exposing application interfaces
as Web services is a fundamentally different thing than the very loose
coupling we get by moving groups of documents around in batch mode (like EDI).
Hope this helps.
Mike
At 12:13 PM 7/16/03 +0000, ebizteamlead wrote:
>Does anyone have any data or links on trends and volumes of data
>being sent between TPs via Internet vs. VANs? We are investigating
>the technologies and are interested in how folks are sending their
>data and what protocols/methods are being used (i.e. VAN or Internet
>using FTP, AS1, AS2, SOAP, etc.) Any help would be appreciated!
>Regards,
>Karen Mason
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Michael C. Rawlins, Rawlins EC Consulting
www.rawlinsecconsulting.com
Using XML with Legacy Business Applications (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
www.awprofessional.com/titles/0321154940
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