Sage EDI Buyer's Guide Part 3 – eBridge ePortal

For this segment of EDI Buyer's Guide we’ll touch on the eBridge ePortal and what this means to customers looking for either a simple integration solution, a way to reformat data automatically for other uses such as EDI to XML.

ePortal provides one solution for the exchange of business data by managing connectivity, data transformation, storage, and EDI compliancy functions, relieving your organization of the need to purchase and maintain multiple components.

ePortal with eBridge Integration Solution for Sage Software

Without going into a high level article about how everything works, with an eBridge EDI Integration Solution working with your particular accounting package (such as Sage MAS 500) you are connected to your EDI document exchange process to streamline the e-Commerce flow. This is not limited to just standard EDI either your system will now have the capacity to handle X12,EDIFact,Tradacomms,XML and a lot more. A very robust solution for a growing company to take advantage of.

With the ePortal solution there is no need for installing and also paying support fees for translation software or On-Premise communication, all of this resides on ePortal for our Bridge to automatically look for data or send data through working with your Sage Software ERP solution. There are a great number of benefits with buying a solution such as this, for one thing is there is No Transaction charges, Network fees or Kilocharacter charges. The VAN based EDI solution is slowly going away and numerous supported formats are being implemented by various Trading partners looking at moving away from a VAN, you don’t want your company having to implement some sort of custom fix or install a basic VAN only solution only to replace it in 2 or 3 years wasting money.

Just something to consider looking at different EDI solutions, there is are a ton of them out there to look at and each has it’s benefits and disadvantages. Best thing to do is really consider the bigger picture in terms of what your looking for in a solution.

For the next segment of EDI Buyer's guide, we'll talk about some common EDI transactions and more complex ones and what are some of the terms.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me,

1-800-755-6921 Ext 247

Wayne Thompson
Account Manager- Sage Software Products
eBridge Software