RE: EDI Recommendations

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've heard good things about Extol, but haven't tried it personally.

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Mike Haston ** Data wrote:
>
> Yes, we have "drilled down" to Inovis and it's still as horrible as all of
> it's predecessors in my opinion.  Support seems to be optional.  Extol
> always got back to me within 2 hours at worst and has a pretty nice online
> knowledge base.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@klements.com]
>
> Harbinger no longer exists.  They're successor, Peregrine, no longer does
> EDI (at least on the iSeries) and has been in serious financial trouble.
> The iSeries EDI has been sold to Inovis.
>
> So far, Inovis seems like an improvement over Peregine to me.. but time
> will tell.   Just trying to keep up with who owns the product...
> Premenos/Harbinger/Peregine/Inovis...   it's a full time job just to
> change my address book :)
>
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Mike Haston ** Data wrote:
>
> > We use the Harbinger package here only because we are knee deep into it.
> At
> > my last place we switched from Harbinger (when they dropped their support
> > for our version) over to a newer EDI package called Extol (www.extol.com).
> > We were very pleased with the package.  Not sure of the price, but I don't
> > think any of them are cheap.  A fellow co-worker also used Extol in a
> > previous shop and thought it was superior to other packages as well.
> >
> > IMHO of course.
> >
> >