Yes and No. Most organizations continue to make the same mistakes on EDI Implementations which accelerate their EDI Implementation spend and sometimes delay the EDI Integration for years. I just spoke this summer to one of the world’s leading bread companies who had stalled out on an EDI Integration effort for literally 5 years. Yes, [...]
The reason the top companies in the world utilize us is one thing: expertise in the EDI space. For 15+ years, we have focused on one technological industry: Electronic Data Interchange, Data Integrations, and Supply Chain Logistics. This is why even the best headhunting firms and staffing companies actually reach out to us to work [...]
I have decided to build a community of EDI Developers worldwide to aid in helping and improving EDI development throughout the Supply Chain. The community will be on The Spinks Technologies website and web portal and allow EDI developers and integrators to post questions and get answers to problems that they are faced with when [...]
Spinks Technologies, a true real world EDI Implementation leader, is starting a hands on EDI training course in San Francisco and in the Silicon Valley in 2011. This EDI class will be for anyone who wants to learn how to do EDI, make themselves marketable, and understand EDI development techniques of data integration. The EDI [...]
It’s easy to say that you’re simply going to outsource EDI, hire some Outsourcing Vendor that offers you a rate of $25 per hour to build a bunch of data maps and business processes, and commits to completing the project in 90 days. On the surface, it looks like you win and you can turn [...]
Spinks Technologies, a specialist in EDI development and training, has announced a new EDI training course to kickoff in November 2011 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The company will train developers on EDI Basics all the way through advanced EDI development and integration utilizing the IBM Sterling Integrator product architecture. Spinks Technologies has been [...]
Yes, EDI can work over the Internet and be just as secure as going over a Value Added Network providing reporting, statistics, and non repudiation and authenticity of the data. How? It’s really not rocket science. It’s done via the AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) secure EDI protocol. I recently had a long discussion with someone [...]
For years, I have seen people in corporations get the delivery of EDI software such as IBM’s Sterling Integrator or even the Trusted Link Enterprise software and simply sit and look at the box. They get the software, unzip it and don’t know what to do after that. Prior to implementing any Sterling Integrator or [...]
In 2004, Spinks Technologies won a contract with Able Laboratories in New Jersey to full automate it’s supply chain, install Oracle Applications, and install Sterling GIS software to replace an old Macola EDI software platform on the PC. Able Laboratories, Inc. was a developer and manufacturer of generic pharmaceutical products in tablet, capsule, liquid and [...]
Sometimes I can’t believe it but I was telling a new client about my road to EDI Integration. I happened to fall into EDI in 1989 when I got a job in Richardson Texas at Rubicon Corporation. At the time, Rubicon Corporation was a competitor to a Laboratory Information System software company called Antrim Corporation [...]