RV and Camping Supercenter Retailer to Streamline Operations with Suppliers

SPS Commerce, the leader in hosted EDI software, announced today that Camping World, the world`s largest retailer of RV accessories, supplies and services, will modernize its supply chain using SPS Commerces Community Enablement and hosted EDI services. To automate the order management process by Camping Worlds' spring ordering season, SPS' Community Enablement campaign will target to enable Camping World's 150 vendors by April. The enablement program includes the opportunity for Camping World suppliers to utilize SPS Commerce's EDI Testing Service or one of its hosted transaction services to meet Camping World's electronic order management requirements, including purchase orders, invoices, Advance Ship Notices ( ASNs ) and bar code labels.

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4A's Unveil Comprehensive EDI Effort

THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ADVERTISING Agencies pulled the curtain up on its electronic data transfer hub--eBiz for Media--Wednesday, which will help conclude a two-decade crusade to find a service that allows the media industry's buy side and sell side to conduct "eBusiness transactions."

The registry, at www.eBizformedia.com, is comprised of two parts: the Advertising Industry Registry and the XML Schema Repository. XML is the software transaction standard developed by the 4A's and MediaPort, a defunct venture sponsored by Interpublic, Omnicom, and WPP, and headed by media veteran Mike Lotito, who now runs his own media audit service, IQMedia.

The registry will allow media buyers and sellers to locate other compatible trading partners, and then use the information in the registry to initiate pure "E2E" or "Machine-to-Machine" communication via Web services, said Greg Smith, the chief information officer of McCann WorldGroup. Smith is the head of the 4A's standards committee on electronic data interchange (EDI).

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HIPAA TCS standards provide business intelligence opportunities

Generally, when administrative simplification is mandated by a government agency, the result is enhanced organizational complexity. However, in the case of an exception proving the rule, the enactment of the HIPAA Transaction Code Set (TCS) requirement for electronic data interchange (EDI) has created an opportunity for savvy administrators to tap into a standard flow of data.

"Transaction-based business intelligence is the use of standard healthcare transactions to provide actionable information about the data that is entering and leaving an organization, independent of the sending or receiving systems," said Dr. Joseph Nichols in a presentation yesterday at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference.

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Grand Theft Auto sparks another lawsuit

Rockstar parent Take-Two Interactive, Sony, Wal-Mart, and GameStop are blamed for the murder of three policemen by a teenage car thief.

Just when the furor over Grand Theft Auto: Vice City's "Kill all the Haitians!" level had finally died down, the game sparked another lawsuit. Along with its predecessor Grand Theft Auto III, the crime-action game is being blamed for inspiring the triple murder of three Fayette, Alabama, police officers.

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County files answer to voting rights lawsuit

Charles Mix County has filed its answer to a federal lawsuit that claims the county unfairly dilutes the American Indian vote.

The American Civil Liberties Union is helping four people sue the county. The lawsuit says the way voting districts are drawn dilutes Indian voters in the southern portion of the county and hurts their chances of affecting elections proportional to their numbers.

The county said it had "no intent, purpose or deliberate indifference" to deny the plaintiffs their rights.

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Gallup apologizes to Florida firm, withdraws trademark lawsuit

Polling and management consulting firm The Gallup Organization apologized Wednesday to a Florida company it had sued for alleged trademark infringement and unfair competition.

In a news release, Gallup officials said it was withdrawing the lawsuit because Proudfoot Consulting had purchased survey results from a European company that used the Gallup name, and Proudfoot was not aware of the restrictions on use of that name in the United States.

Gallup also said it was granting Proudfoot a royalty free license to use the Gallup name for the survey.

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Lymeware Eases CLEC Integration with New IAgent3 IA Offerings for IBM eServer Systems

Lymeware Corporation, an innovative provider of Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) and Telecom software solutions, announced today the availability of its IAgent3 Interactive Agent product for Linux on all IBMR eServer(TM) platforms. This new version of the popular IAgent3 Secure Messaging Interactive Agent (IA) product now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM eServer xSeries, iSeries, pSeries, zSeries, OpenPower and BladeCenter servers.

The Lymeware IAgent3 product is a conformal implementation of the Telecommunications Industry Forum (TCIF/ECIC) Electronic Communications Interactive Agent (TCIF 98-006 issue 2 and issue 3 IA), which allows secure EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) transactions over insecure networks, dedicated connections or the Internet via strong encryption, using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) open standards.

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Maher Terminals Chooses Internet Commerce Corporation (ICC)'s ICC.NET(TM) to Improve Transaction Processing

Internet Commerce Corporation (ICC) (NASDAQ: ICCA), a pioneer in the use of the Internet for business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions, announced that Maher Terminals, one of the world's largest independent multi-user container terminal operators, has chosen ICC.NET as its platform for transacting business-to-business eCommerce.

After a thorough analysis of several different vendors, Maher Terminal chose Internet Commerce Corporation's value added network (VAN), ICC.NET, to enable full control over their EDI program. With ICC.NET's document management capabilities, custom reports, special data handling methods and proactive support personnel, Maher Terminals is positioned to increase productivity and reduce costs associated with transaction processing as well as provide improved support for their innovative cargo documentation and management system.

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Karachi International Container Terminal Selects Xenos GoXML software for Improved Shipping Logistics

Xenos Group Inc. (TSX: XNS - News), the data to e-content company(TM), today announced that Karachi International Container Terminal (KICT), Pakistan's leading container handling facility, has selected GoXML software to integrate electronic transaction processing for improved logistics in the country's ports. GoXML will increase communications efficiencies with a single, open-standards based platform across multiple organizations for faster import and export processes. iBridge Capital Group, Xenos' distributor partner in Asia, specializing in enterprise information management, led the project discussion and worked closely with the KICT team to meet their requirements.

KICT is the first pilot site for the Customs Administration Reform (CARE) Project, an in-house initiative of Pakistan Customs and Central Board of Revenue. With the support of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, it will improve efficiencies and reduce clearance times for commercial goods coming into and leaving Pakistani ports. Currently, KICT uses a mix of non-standard EDI messaging and various international standard EDIFACT data formats. These incompatible data formats make communication between KICT and multiple shipping lines, business partners and government agencies a time- consuming procedure.

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Statware Releases EDI Guide

Statware Inc. announced the release Friday of its dmEDI Client Implementation Guide for list brokers, managers and service bureaus involved with its electronic data interchange, or EDI, initiative.

EDI is a Web-based technology that lets list brokers, managers and service bureaus communicate and transfer orders, invoices and documents directly in and out of a reciprocating "trading partner" system.

Statware has worked on its dmEDI system since last year but some list professionals tried unsuccessfully to get an electronic data interchange effort off the ground in the early 1990s.

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Software companies pass AS3 interoperability tests for EDI

Eleven software companies have passed the first interoperability tests for the AS3 (Applicability Statement 3) specifications for electronic trading partner communication.

First-round companies included: Boomi Inc., Classified Information Inc., Cleo Communications, Click Commerce Inc., Cyclone Commerce, Global eXchange Services Inc., Inovis Inc., iSoft Corp., iWay Software, Trailblazer Systems Inc., and webMethods Inc.

AS3 is a new specification standard that allows applications to communicate electronic data interchange (EDI) or XML data via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) over the Internet.
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Statware Inc. announced the release Friday of its dmEDI Client Implementation Guide for list brokers, managers and service bureaus involved with its electronic data interchange, or EDI, initiative.

EDI is a Web-based technology that lets list brokers, managers and service bureaus communicate and transfer orders, invoices and documents directly in and out of a reciprocating "trading partner" system.

Statware has worked on its dmEDI system since last year but some list professionals tried unsuccessfully to get an electronic data interchange effort off the ground in the early 1990s.
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VantageMed Announces New Chief Information Officer

VantageMed Corporation (BULLETIN BOARD: VMDC.OB) announced today the appointment of Mark Cameron as VantageMed's new Chief Information Officer. Mr. Cameron succeeds Rajiv Donde, who resigned from VantageMed to pursue other opportunities. Mr. Donde contributed significantly to the Company's consolidation of numerous older technology platforms into a limited set of core products. VantageMed is a leading provider of clinical, practice management, and electronic transaction services for small to medium sized physician and behavioral health practices.

"I have known and worked with Mark for over 20 years and have the utmost confidence in him. Our common history includes WebMD, Cigna and American Airlines," stated Steve Curd, VantageMed's new CEO. "The EDI transactions managed by VantageMed increased over 80% in 2004. As we continue to increase the volume and breadth of our EDI transactions as well as our clinical and practice management products, Mark will provide the necessary leadership to deliver solutions that significantly improve a practice's clinical efficiency while also increasing its income."

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eBusinessReady(R) Program Certifies TrailBlazer Systems ZMOD Exchange EDI-INTInteroperability Certified Software Facilitates Implementation and Saves

eBusinessReady, an industry-neutral software compliance and
interoperability testing program under joint partnership of the
Uniform Code Council, Inc.(R) (UCC(R)) and Drummond Group Inc. (DGI),
recently announced that the program certified ZMOD Exchange EDI-INT
from TrailBlazer Systems, now the eBusiness Solutions group of
nuBridges, LLC.

An eBusinessReady certified product enables vertical and horizontal
interoperability across the supply chain and distribution channels.
Without interoperability, a solution can strongly inhibit supply chain
implementations and add significant costs associated with supporting
numerous solutions and proprietary protocols.

"We are pleased to offer our customers a value added product that will
ease implementation efforts across their supply chain," said Rich
Brown, General Manager, eBusiness Solutions, nuBridges. "ZMOD Exchange
EDI-INT for AS3 enables companies to take advantage of cost-saving
efficiencies enabled by supporting industry standards. We deployed the
first AS3 implementation at one of the nation's largest and fastest
growing specialty retailers of home textiles, housewares and
decorative home accessories over 4 years ago. This specialty retailer
was able to get over 200 suppliers in production using AS3 in less
than 6 months with a very small staff," added Brown.

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Is ebXML already a valid alternative for EDI?

Steve Capell's take:

However, the reason I'm saying that ebXML, as a complete architecture,
can help is because, unlike EDI:

1 - the ebXML architecture provides a means to define in a precise &
machine readable way, ALL the layers of the "interoperability domain"
from transport, messaging, security, information semantics and
choreography (lets call that the "public process"). This gives an
implementer the opportunity (IF the UMM and consequent XSD, BPSS, and
template CPA are precise enough) to build re-usable integrations (lets
call them "private processes") for the most common back-office
applications in the community.

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EDIdEv Corporation Releases Framework EDI v.5.0

EDIdEv LLC, a software technology company based in Burbank, California, has announced the latest release of its flagship software Framework EDI (FREDI) version 5.0.

FREDI 5.0 is an EDI development software tool that has a component with built-in functions for translating, constructing, validating and transmitting EDI files, which programmers can call from within their program. This allows programmers to control how-and-when EDI processes should occur in their EDI solution; thus enabling them to rapidly create a robust, tailored system that best fits their business. FREDI 5.0 also debuts AS2 support for secure EDI file transfer over the Internet.

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