Information technology professionals often view things as an absolute choice between right and wrong, black and white and so on. IT standards are like about anything else…there are no absolutes. Gray areas do exist where exceptions to standards inevitably rise. An engineer may want to purchase a software program IT hasn’t approved of or a […]
Who Develops Standards for Electronic Data Interchange?
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. […]