EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
Slowly, Lena moved her cursor.
She didn't clean it up.
The first one was innocent: Suddenly, her avatar felt the drag of a wet hoodie. The shiver animation wasn't just visual—her character would actually seek out radiators. It was charming.
Lena sat in the dark for a long time. Outside, rain slid down the window like old save files being deleted. She thought about the girl on the right side of the screen—the one who spilled wine, who kissed the boy, who never studied for that exam. That girl had probably failed her midterms. But she had also danced in the rain at 2 a.m.
"Okay," Lena whispered. "I'll go out next time."
She clicked
On the right: a ghost version of herself, laughing, spilling wine on a white dress, kissing a boy with a crooked smile. The ghost looked happier.
EDI can often be a complex and confusing concept for first-timers. It doesn't help when the commercial EDI vendors leave you dazed and confused by flooding the market place with convoluted and unnecessary sales jargon that in fact you don't actually need. So, if you're in the trucking, manufacturing, or healthcare business and you're looking for a sensible bare-bones EDI solution then by all means reach out to us at the email contact below. We will get you on the right track. The advise and conversation is free to all.
BlueSeer provides EDI software solutions for all of these by providing a free open source EDI package that can be downloaded and installed...completely free. Whether you're in the Manufacturing, Transportation, Insurance, or Health Care services, you can create your own maps for your EDI transactions and exchange EDI documents with your Trading Partners via the built-in SFTP, AS2 communication methods simply from the application you download and install with BlueSeer. The application provides you with all the tools necessary to implement an on-premise solution on your own server. There are plenty of sample maps and tutorials to get you moving in the right direction. Or, you can use our EDI mapping, consulting, and implementation services to get you started. We also offer a managed hosting solution where we host the EDI translation, configuration and communication (AS2, SFTP) within a cloud hosted enviroment. Reach out to the contact email below for more information and/or to set up a quick conversation regarding your requirements.
BlueSeer supports several high profile communication methods used in today's EDI solutions. The more predominant method is AS2. AS2 is a complex transport protocol that provides EDI trading partners the ability to exchange EDI document types in a secure and reliable manner and provide a level of transmission gaurantee per the mechanics of the exchange. AS2 is the lowest cost approach to EDI communication as it does not require middleware VAN mailboxing services. BlueSeer is one of only a few free open source AS2 packages available. BlueSeer's AS2 option provides a completely free EDI AS2 on-premise solution to engage the AS2 protocol with your EDI trading partners and bypass the costly VAN mailbox and web services. It only requires the installation of BlueSeer and an internet connection. Other EDI communication protocols include FTP as well as sFTP using the SSH File Transfer Protocol. All of these support communication methods are bundled as a free EDI communication package. For more information on the technical details of AS2 visit the specs page here.
Slowly, Lena moved her cursor.
She didn't clean it up.
The first one was innocent: Suddenly, her avatar felt the drag of a wet hoodie. The shiver animation wasn't just visual—her character would actually seek out radiators. It was charming.
Lena sat in the dark for a long time. Outside, rain slid down the window like old save files being deleted. She thought about the girl on the right side of the screen—the one who spilled wine, who kissed the boy, who never studied for that exam. That girl had probably failed her midterms. But she had also danced in the rain at 2 a.m.
"Okay," Lena whispered. "I'll go out next time."
She clicked
On the right: a ghost version of herself, laughing, spilling wine on a white dress, kissing a boy with a crooked smile. The ghost looked happier.
BlueSeer provides convenient methods for creating Trading Partner, defining unique Flat File formats, and establishing unique input / output destination directories. Novel document types can be created and customized as well with the Document Recognition rules engine.
BlueSeer provides a variety of reporting options to track individual EDI documents as they are processed by the embedded EDI engine. Transactions can be monitored for success/failures with optional retry capability. Documents can also be tracked by key field searching options.