Archive for June, 2009

Who Develops Standards for Electronic Data Interchange?

Friday, June 19th, 2009

EDI plays a critical role in operating a business in today’s globalized economy. To facilitate the electronic exchange of business information, standards have to be developed.

In the U.S., these standards are referred to as ASC-X12 and are developed by a group of the same name chartered in 1979 by the American National Standards Association. X12 facilitates electronic business transactions by establishing a common, uniform language.

These EDI standards make it possible to conduct nearly all B2B transactions over a computer – in fact, there are over 275 unique transaction sets for a wide variety of industries.

The ASC-X12 committee is broken down into five different subcommittees: Communications and Control, Finance, Government, Insurance and Transportation.

Learn more about the organization and how they develop the EDI standards that are so important for your business to operate efficiently a new article entitled Uniform Standards Assures EDI Solutions Effectively Exchange Information between Computer Systems at the IT knowledge center ITstaffing-e.org.

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Defining Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Service oriented architecture, or SOA, is a term that’s been increasingly used in the information technology world – but what is it?

An article in the information technology knowledge center ITStaffing-e.org sheds some light on this technology that has become increasingly useful and more affordable in recent years. Small businesses now more than ever find it possible, and necessary, to invest in SOA solutions.

To better understand what SOA is, we must first learn what term “service” means. Services are like building blocks that allow a user to organize information in ways that are familiar. In other words, a service is the mechanism by which a customer’s want or need is satisfied.

An SOA system, or server, links different programs together which allows for the exchange of information and automation of business processes.

You interact with SOA if you buy things online – several steps in the buying process have to work together for the customer to have a seamless transaction.

Read Defining Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies at ITstaffing-e.org to learn more about this important IT system.

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Easily Interconnect Software Apps with BizTalk Integration

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Most any business today depends on software applications to operate and grow…interconnecting these systems can be quite a challenge since they were all developed at different times using different technologies.

Microsoft BizTalk server is an application that addresses this challenge. Making the different software systems work together goes a long way toward process automation and seamless information sharing.

In order to make this happen, BizTalk Microsoft first utilizes a range of approaches like web, file sharing and message queing to connect different software apps among other things.

BizTalk Microsoft is pretty simple for the end-user once it’s setup, which also makes organizations operate more efficiently.

Read about the challenge of automating business processes and providing seamless information sharing and how the BizTalk server helps meet that challenge in this ITstaffing-e.org article.

Find out more about how the BizTalk server works in the BizTalk section at the information technology knowledge center. New articles are added weekly.

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Introducing New & Improved Information Technology Directory & Knowledge Center

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Looking for IT information and services located all in one convenient place?

Or one-stop resources for information on different IT technologies like Microsoft BizTalk, SharePoint, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)?

ITstaffing-e.org is that place…technicians and administrators will both find value in this new resource - whether it’s locating BizTalk consulting and SharePoint services, or simply researching how these technologies improve business processes and maximize organizational efficiency.

Bookmark the information technology knowledge center ITstaffing-e.org along with this Tech News blog for current issues in IT along with updates on new articles and features at ITstaffing-e.org.

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What is Electronic Data Interchange?

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

You’ve probably heard this term swirling around when discussing IT solutions for your organization…Electronic Data Interchange, or EDI, is simply an exchange of information between different computer systems within an organization or between different organizations.

Examples abound to the practical uses of EDI and it is most likely a part of everyone’s life in some form or another.

One use that touches most people is in banking - Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) is a form of EDI commonly used to electronically deposit paychecks, debit consumer bank accounts for ATM withdrawals and purchases and debit bank accounts for mortgage and utility payments.

EDI brings many benefits to an organization, including labor cost savings, time savings and reduction in errors.

Read the article Electronic Data Interchange – The Fundamentals of Business Data Exchange in the information technology knowledge center ITstaffing-e.org for a more in-depth, but simple explanation of what this technology is and how it touches everyone.

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