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by Dick Raman
With the explosion in the Internet, we are getting a vague idea of what the world will look like when the Information Superhighway is a reality. The role of EDI in this world is crucial. Electronic Commerce will only be significant for business-to-business when EDI is an integral part of it. EDI is really the backbone of Electronic Commerce, though this appears to be not yet clear to the Internet world. EDI organizations have the mission to make this clear at all levels in our society. For companies, it means they must grab the opportunity now to become familiar with EDI, in order to be ready for the arrival of the Information Superhighway. The investments that have already been made in setting up EDI relationships will pay off in the future. The introduction of ideas such as CAB-EDI will enrich efforts already made in EDI with an untold number of attractive applications which will lead sooner to an enormous increase in the importance of EDI than to its demise. This article is divided into 8 parts:
This article is reprinted with kind permission from the book:
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