Tag Archives: EDI

after purchasing, please read the documentation

My first job out of college was working for a company that made what they called the “bag.” The “bag” was a cellular/GPS device designed to track parolees and warn when they might be doing something they should not. It was 1995 and I could not have asked for a better first job. The system [...]

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the cost of data integration

I have been working in the data integration space for about 15 years now and let me tell you this stuff is expensive. I have always found it odd that the current leading integration software vendors are not bigger financially. Think about it… There are many software vendors that are much younger and have a [...]

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Oh, you want to drive it? That’s extra. Data integration and complex data types.

Funny how people seem to have forgotten that the purpose of data integration tools is to integrate data. A wide range of data. The sad truth is that the baseline versions of most data integration tools are incapable of integrating EDI, HL7, SAS or even Excel data. For them, DI is a simple flat-file to [...]

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