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| Author: | Mount, I. |
| Title: | Why EDI Won't Die |
| Journal: | Business 2.0
2003 : AUG, VOL. 4:7, p. 68-69 |
| Index terms: | ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE INTRANET INTERNET SOFTWARE |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Born out of a system devised by the Air Force to organize the 1948 Berlin airlift, called EDI (electronic data interchange) was designed to let companies transmit purchase orders and invoices over private data networks. EDI-based software worked behind the scenes, formatting the data and piping it to its destinations. EDI became the standard. When the Web arrived, EDI seemed to have met its match. In the mid-'90s, the World Wide Web Consortium created XML (extensible markup language), a format for document exchange that, in theory, was infinitely more flexible and far easier than EDI. Last year EDI accounted for 59 percent of all business-to-business transactions, compared with just 15% for XML. |
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