Hi,
I am looking to buy an EDI software and for that I'm trying to find and evaluate some EDI solutions. The company I work for, has already a EDI solution (EDI Asset v5.4) but they want to improve the services they offer to their customers by providing EDI over VANs and also over the Internet. We would like also an EDI software with a drag and drop mapper to make the mapping easier.
Our budget is tight, and as I'm new in the EDI domain, I don't know if there are any entry level solutions that can offer this features. Can anybody recomend me some of the products that comply to this demands?
I apologize if this is confusing, but any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

florinls,
with a tight budget you may need to choose between options.
take a look at:
mercator, was by tsi - just google for mercator+edi
gentran, by sterling commerce
regards,
longhair

Mercator was purchased by Ascential, which was purchased by IBM. Current product is IBM WebSphere DataStage TX 7.5.1. You will also need an EDI pack to get all the ANSI trees (or EDIFACT or TRADACOMS). You might also consider the Commerce Manager package that allow you to automate everything. The 8.0 version is due soon, no official release date. This is not cheap, but you get IBM's support and you know the company won't be bought or go out of business, leaving you hanging.

JuJutsu - Jeff S.
Support Analyst

I'm not sure how tight your budget is, but if you're looking at Mercator, Gentran, etc., you can also look at Sybase's EDI Toolkit (ECMap - drag & drop mapping tool, and ECGateway).  

Greetings,

For many years I used Trading Partner PC and Mercator.  When that company eventually broke up, Trading Partner PC was sold to Emanio (www.emanio.com)  It is a good translator, with plenty of flexibility to do X.12, Edifact, and....XML.

Mercator was priced out of site.  I switched to PERL.  This is a terrific data manipulation language, and works well in system integration situations.  Perl also works in nearly every environment (Windows, Unix, even the Mac).

Trading Partner PC is priced very aggressively, and Perl is free!  A great solution for not too much money, compared to most other options.

Regards,

Richard Hug

   Start with a google search for EDI, then review those sites that allow you to download and sample their software, then start pricing those that will fulfill your application needs....and don't forget that the communications issues (FTP, AS2, VANS...etc.) are separate.

Good hunting.