Virtual Logistics' Ecommerce Data Integration Blog

The explosion of Internet retailing in the past two years has meant that many, many manufacturers and distributors are looking at connecting their internal ERP systems to either a commercial web store or the ERP provided web store. I won't get into the pitfalls of choosing a web store platform, as there are many, but like the world of EDI when it first started integration to internal software seems to be an after thought and often poorly thought out. The result is that most web stores are integrated to a piece of paper. Now that's efficient!

The majority of companies that have purchased Liaison's ECS Server software do traditional EDI, a few also use the software for moving data within their organizations, and a few also use the software for web services.