Basics EDI (*EDIFACT)

Electronic data interchange, shortly EDI, is the transmission of structured data by a defined message type standard. The need of manual interference is minimized. UN/EDIFACT is the worldwide cross-industry standard for exchanging structured trading documents. EDIFACT subsets care for abstaining all optional components from EDIFACT messages for fulfilling special requests.

EDI System on IBM System i5

EDI on IBM System i (iSeries, AS/400) guarantees high availability and restart protection. Many companies have started to implement specific communication server separated from their host system to communicate directly over the internet. Therefore, i-effect^® is available as complete EDI solution in bundle with IBM System i5 server.