Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) provides a method for organisations to send and receive standardised business communications quickly, flexibly, cheaply and in a secure manner. It is EDI's document translation standards which distinguish it from other, similar technologies such as e-mail or tape-based file transfer and which enable EDI to offer a standardised internal integration option for ut...

The work reported in this chapter is part of a research stream to study the interaction between a nation's societal factors and the introduction of information technology. It examines the influence of four societal factors culture, economy, infrastructures and government policyon the diffusion of electronic data interchange in the Netherlands. This single-case study involved conducting semi-str...

This article presents an economic model that enables the study of incentives for business-to-business (B2B) e-procurement systems investments which permit inventory coordination and improved operational control. We focus on the information technology (IT) adoption behavior of firms in the presence of transaction costs, agency costs and information uncertainty. But we conclude that it is appropr...

Standards in general promise more efficiency and effectiveness in doing (electronic) business. Lowering the costs of collaboration, achieving these gains depends of the development and adoption of the standard in its business environment. Several studies report on research on electronic data interchange (EDI) and its added value to interorganisational collaboration. EDI messages have the purpos...

Electronic Data Interchange is a popular platform for sensitive business transactional data transmission over the local to public network. It requires Value Added Network communicate from one endpoint another. In this paper, we proposed value-added network design and deployment using Virtual Local Area Network. The virtual eases burden of managing its functional devices. This provides solution ...

An important application of XML is the interchange of electronic data (EDI) between multiple data sources on the Web. As XML data proliferates on the Web, applications will need to integrate and aggregate data from multiple source and clean and transform data to facilitate exchange. Data extraction, conversion, transformation, and integration are all well-understood database problems, and their...

There is no doubt that XML is rapidly becoming one of the most important data formats. An example of such data are the electronic business documents round via Internet between the partners of B2B business model. In this article the author will describe his experience from the initiation of electronic data interchange with the XML technology, in one of Polish companies. 1. Aspects of electronic ...

The digitalization of business processes is a crucial method for cutting down administrative costs, improve productivity in business processes, and achieving process transparency. Since invoices are some of the most important documents exchanged between business partners, it makes sense that invoices be sent and received electronically. There are no formal rules that determine the format of ele...

The internet is a huge source of documents, containing a massive number of texts in multilingual languages on a wide range of topics. These texts are demonstrating in an electronic documents format hosted on the web. The documents exchanged using special forms in an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. Using web text mining approaches to mine documents in EDI environment could be new ...