Re: Ariba

try looking at the IBM Connect product. Very reasonable.
(am not a user but have studied it some)
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/btob/connect/
hth
jim

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From: "Leland, David" <dleland@Harter.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 9:19 AM
Subject: Ariba


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> Anyone doing anything with Ariba?  We have some large customers that have
> asked us to upload our catalog in CIF file format to Ariba so that they
can
> order our product thru Ariba.  This was pretty easy but now we'd like to
> receive those orders in some sort of automated method and the choices are
> cXML, ANSI X12 EDI 850, or EDIFACT (there's also e-mail and faxing but I
> don't think either of those would allow for anything automated).  And,
> because we're not "doing" EDI, that pretty much leaves us with cXML, which
I
> know nothing about.  Any hints, tips or gotchas that anyone want to share
on
> this?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
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