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Are Your “Good” Customers Really All That Good?

This blog was written by Robert Ruppert, Regional Sales Manager at Enavate and reprinted with permission. You have a customer who has been loyal and dependable for years. And that customer spends more with you than any other. So, obviously, that’s your best customer, right? Not so fast. Not so long ago,…
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Why We Love Liaison’s Delta/ECS Data Integration Package

Photo appears courtesy of Tony Hisgett. Nowadays, there’s all kinds of products that have multiple uses.  My new favorite kitchen gadget is a flexible spatula/spoon sometimes known as a spoonula, that scraps, stirs, flips and is heat resistant.  Not any ordinary spoon from the dollar store, you need to pay…
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Integration Expertise a Must for Webstores

Photo appears courtesy of Joe Shlabotnik.  Do you have a separate solution for every business process?  There’s one company that handles your Webstore, one that that deals with your warehousing, another vendor for your ERP and the list goes on.  No one really knows what the others are doing and you…
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Common Misconceptions about On-Premise EDI Software

Photo appears courtesy of William Warby.  I have a customer using a web-based EDI solution and they are just too big for it.  They are currently weighing their options.  But it got me thinking, how many organizations are out there using a solution that is really not working for them?  Reasons why…
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Think You’re Ready for Data Integration? Take this Quiz

Photo appears courtesy of Rhonda Oglesby.  As I have said many times, in many blogs – if you’re processing more than 20 transactions per day then you should be integrated.  There are other considerations however when you’re thinking of pursuing an integration solution.  Take this short quiz to find out if you’re…
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GraceBlood’s Best Practices for Integration

Photo appears courtesy of Social Innovation Camp.  We have offered a lot of advice about integration over the two and a half years that we have been blogging.  Rather than make you look for those pearls of wisdom, we thought it would be nice to create a handy digest for data integration best…
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Part 2: The “How To” Use Cases for JSON

It’s Christmas in July!  For the second time this week, Nathan Camp of Liaison Technologies is guest blogging for the GraceBlood. Monday’s blog, I discussed the general basics of what JSON is and how it is being used to replace XML in a growing number of cases. JSON’s simplified, smaller scale structure is leading the…
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Part 1: The What, Why and How of JSON for EDI Integration Specialists

Guest blogging for GraceBlood is Nathan Camp of Liaison Technologies. With the latest release of Liaison Delta 6.1, this nifty data translator now supports JSON. And of course, that raises a whole slew of scary questions for our EDI mapping experts: What is JSON? Why should an EDI expert like me care about…
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Cloud or On-Premise EDI Integration? A Unique Approach to Selection

Guest blogging for GraceBlood today is Nathan Camp of Liaison Technologies.  Photo courtesy of Mikhail Koninin. Organizations of every size are evaluating every piece of technology to determine whether they retain or expand solutions with on-premise software and hardware, or move the functionality up to the “Cloud.” A major tile and masonry products supplier…
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