Klaus' Korner

Lately when talking with colleagues over lunch, sooner or later we end up on the same topic – What ever happened to the promised simplification within eBusiness Standards? It is rather interesting that this question is not going away, it’s a constant repeating Déjà vu discussion. Therefore, I decided to use my blog to post a few articles that summarize what I have seen happened over the last 25 years…

Yesterday during lunch with some colleagues of mine, who are die-hard EDI programmers, made fun of an article by Benoit Lheureux a Research VP with the Garner Group titled “EDI is HOT. No, really!” My first thoughts were, Gartner – the same group that declared EDI dead in 1995/96? Was it not the same Benoit Lheureux who predicted a few years later that XML will replace EDI? What made him…

Every so often someone is asking via a public discussion group for copies of an EDI XML schemas. So was the case today on the LinkedIN EDI discussion group. The result is always the same, the answers are recommendations of at least a handful of XML schemas available from a number of well known providers. Don’t get me wrong they are trying to fill a void which originally existed when…

Can Information Exchange Standards Meet eBusiness Needs? Summary For years eBusiness information exchange standards and specifications, utilizing the latest thinking and technology, have been released with the promise that this latest solution can easily be implemented throughout the global business community. These solutions, however, generally have merit for only the larger corporations, and fundamentally fail to meet needs of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)[1]. Why? Generally, these solutions do not…

I had lunch this week with some colleagues and it did not take us long to talk about Cloud Computing within the eBuisness environment. I like to share with you my take on this topic which may surprise a few of you. For starters there was a general agreement that Cloud Computing is a marketing effort of rebranding IT Outsourcing that originated in 1970’s. Today most, if not all, of…