General Cost Breakdown of EDI Products for SMEs

This is a general guideline to lower-priced (not "mainline"*) EDI software for SMEs
"Traditional" Components of EDI software
- Translation to / from EDI standard
- Mapping / Data Transformation
  - EDI to proprietary flat-file
- Communications
  - Fax
  - Modem
  - Value-Added Network (VAN)
- Trading Partner Management
"Newer" Components of EDI software (Impact of Internet, technological advances, etc.)
- Multiple (and secure) TCP/IP communications protocols
  - AS1, AS2, AS3, AS4, FTPS, HTTPS, S-HTTP, SMTPS, etc.
- Business Process Management (BPM)
  - non-programmatic / graphical
  - "any-to-any" routing
- More powerful mapping / data transformation
  - "any-to-any"
  - easy methods to define formats
- Scalability
  - priced for scale
- "Adapters" to / from
  - Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
  - all kinds of databases
    - "ODBC"
    - "SQL"
  - all kinds of "messaging" systems
    - "XMPP"
    - "SOAP"
    - "JMS"
    - "MQ" (the "communication" piece of IBM's MQSeries)
Dell Boomi, Generix Group EDI Managed Services, OpenText Liaison ADX (formerly Liaison Technologies {formerly Softshare})
- Full featured, including BPM functionality at lower cost than "mainline"
- Scalable

Dell Boomi
	AtomSphere	$20,000.00 - $25,000.00




Generix Group TradeXpress
	Compare with Boomi


OpenText Liaison ADX (Advanced Data Exchanges [formerly Liaison Technologies {formerly Softshare}])
		Athena
		(Web based)	10 docs / month	$300.00
			50 docs / month	$900.00
			100 docs / month	$1,200.00


	Delta
		Standard	$4,200.00
		Professional	$5,800.00

	ECS
		Standard	$5,200.00

Emanio / IBM Websphere TX
- Blended, low cost solution (when purchasing Emanio and using IBM Websphere TX)

* The following "mainline" products start at about $25,000

There are also SME "ERP" systems available which have EDI capability