Which platform is best suited for an EDI solution???

[shailen]

Please suggest which platform is best suited to develop an EDI solution.

[charles]

I like harbinger EDI (formerly supply tech)
has a nice Windows Interface and is 4010 enabled.

[Tomaz Stih]

What do you mean by "developing EDI solution"? Which finished tools to use or which platform to develop tools for EDI on?

I don't know about finished tools so I will only comment of second.

EDI was designed to be platform independent and as a result no platform is superior. You can do EDI on Windows, unix or VAX...

In essence EDI is just a bunch of standardized tags with which you mark data in text files which you can transfer any way you desire (via e-mail, via http requests,...). Most EDI solutions I've seen are very simple.

There are two approaches I know of . One is to take tagged files from some input (for example MS Exchange special e-mail account), break it into atoms and write it down to the desired format.

The other is used for EDIs where you are interested in data more then in data structure (such as electronic trade opportunity). There you leave EDI messages in original format and you apply "soft searching" techniques using altavista like searchers...

p.s.
When developing solution you should take a peek at XML and develop so you can switch easily since in my very humble opinion this will be "EDI - the next generation".

Hope it helps. :-)

Sincerely,
Tomaz