EDI Translation Software

A converter is in the EDI field software that brings or vice versa data from an in-house application program in a standardized data format.

Because there are several standardized data formats in the EDI and the partners must coordinate their data contents exactly, each application program can output the data in a him own data structure (export). The converter then writes this data to the segments and elements required in each case, so that it understands the system of the trading partners and in turn can import it back into the other company system.

The data interfaces can be pure ASCII interfaces, ie over file output there, but also SQL interfaces, in which the data is exported directly from a database or imported into this. Technically, there is a so-called message mapping.

It is also essential that the converter run automatically and do not need to be triggered manually. Only an automated EDI operation is possible. In general, a system is needed to that offers more than the ordinary task of converting and Secure Communication with market participants, Marktpartnerststammdatenverwaltung, a process monitoring and fault handling. Such software called EDI systems go beyond the Convert function.