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Implications of Workforce
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When & how did this technology come into being:
Electronic transmission began in the 1960s within the transport industries. This change also required a parallel standardization of documentation. A committee was formed to coordinate the development of translation rules among four existing sets of industry-specific standards. The United Kingdom was also developing its own standards for documents called Tradacoms. These were later extended by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and were eventually accepted by about 2000 export organizations. Problems arose when these two differing organizations of information attempted to exchange information during trade. These information sets were largely incompatible, and required a working party to begin to create a range of documents that were able to be internationally understood and transmittable. Currently, EDI is used by thousands of companies throughout the world, including companies in USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. It is because of the advantages of reduced human interference and increased speed of processing that the EDI system is favored by many corporations.
In the late 1960s, EDI was established within the transport industry, and they created their own standards. Soon other industries followed suit and various standards were created. Thus each of these standards is not necessarily compatible, which causes confusion and an inability to communicate. EDI was designed to function outside of communication and software technologies, and can be transmitted between sender and receiver via any means the two share. These may include modem, FT, AS1, AS2, Email or HTTP.
How does it work:
Data processing
Data processing allows the EDI operation to take information that is resident in a user application and transform that data into a format that is recognizable to all other user applications that have an interest in using the data.
4. Product: Etasoft Form Extraction - FormXT.
Flat file processor - stand-alone or build-in component that prepares scanned paper forms (fixed length flat files) for EDI translator processing. Paper scanned forms tend to have imperfections that need to be preprocessed
via extra tools in order to be fed into EDI translators.
5. Product: Etasoft Mini Translator.
EDI reporting tool – extracts and shows EDI data in human readable form. This is little brother to a typical EDI translator. While translators are designed to translate EDI data for other computer systems to understand, EDI reporting tools are like advanced EDI viewers with basic translation capabilities designed to produce simple human readable formats out of EDI files.
6. Basic database loader.
Many EDI translators are able to load data directly into the relational databases. However companies choose not to use this feature and build they own database loaders in-house. This is mostly due to the higher security
requirements and general non trust towards external processes feeding data into the backend production databases.
Other technologies involved:
Since EDI was established, and despite new technologies emerging, there are still an increasing number of businesses and corporations taking on EDI as a method of data transmission. The four major sets of standards are:
• UN/EDIFACT: the only international standard, which is mainly used outside of North America
• ANSI ASC X12 (X12), which is mainly in North America
• TRADACOMS standard used mainly in UK retail industry
• ODETTE standard used within the European automotive industry
Since 2002 new standards have emerged, as more trading partners are using EDI through the Internet. These standards enable EDI to be securely transferred through e-mail, HTTP and FTP. While the use of the Internet as a protocol for EDI transmission has increased, VANs remain a valuable part of the EDI process for many users.