EDI eCommerce is a table-driven, global EDI message conversion system that allows a common software solution to seamlessly support a wide range of trading partners, translator products (communication subsystems) and document types, across a variety of industries and geographies.

In fact, QAD believes that EDI eCommerce is functionally superior to any other ERP-based EDI solution available on the market today.

As an alternative to the traditional hard-coded EDI solutions, the EDI eCommerce architecture places the processing logic, EDI document specifications, and trading partner specifications into database tables that can be modified at the user interface level with a set of maintenance programs.

This table-driven design translates into a dramatically lower total cost of ownership. Although actual cost savings will depend on a variety of factors, many of which are unique to each installation, QAD expects that implementation and/or maintenance costs can be50% or greater when compared to other hard-coded, integration solutions.

EDI is the hands-off exchange of computer readable, standardized documents between business trading partners. There exists in the EDI world many varying protocols and standards which users must be able to accommodate.

The most commonly used EDI standards follow.

These are the current standards supported by EDI eCommerce. The product is flexible enough to support other global standards. Future development activity will likely involve enabling of these other standards.