SERVICES /EDI / EDI SUPPORT AND MIGRATION
EDI Migration Services
Apprisia EDI team provides EDI migration services to assist in migrating your existing EDI production environment to a newer version or a different EDI software, such as IBM Gertran migration to IBM Sterling B2Bi, or migration to SAP PO B2B.
EDI Migration - We Support Your EDI Software
- Gentran GIS, GXS
- Sterling B2B Integrator
- Sterling File Gateway, Managed File Transfer
- Sterling Secure Proxy
- SAP PI PO B2B
- SeeBurger BIS, MFT, EDI
- Axway
- Extol
- Tie Kinetix
- Microsoft BizTalk
EDI Migration - To New EDI Software:
Our EDI team supports you for migrating or upgrading your EDI software such as:
- Gentran version upgrade
- Gentran migration to Sterling B2Bi
- Gentran migration to SAP PO B2B
- SeeBurger migration to SAP PO B2B
- Axway migration to Sterling B2Bi
- Extol version upgrade or migration
- Tie Kinetix upgrade or migration
- Microsoft BizTalk migration to Sterling B2Bi or SAP PO B2B
and your specific migration requirements
EDI Migration - Phased Approach :
Your current EDI production environment needs to be migrated to a new EDI production environment.
This is a significant change and it needs to managed in a phased manner.
Apprisia will conduct the EDI migration in a controlled phased manner:
- Installation of new EDI environment (Dev, Test, Prod)
- Analyze the current EDI environment: trading partners, mappings, special processings, backend ERP integration
- Create project plan for phased migration of trading partners to new EDI production
- Start the migration with the low risk trading partner which have low EDI volumes (such as weekly transactions or less)
- Create generic mapping templates such as 810/850/856 generic template. The TP specific mapping would be derived from their baseline templates
- Migrate the Trading Partners to new EDI environment in phases such as 4 week phases
- Support the EDI production on the new EDI environment to resolve all issues
- Support the EDI production on the current existing EDI environment to support your inhouse EDI team
- Maintain the objective of reducing/simplifying the maps and trading partners
In our experience, this is a 6-12 month project for a complete migration to the new EDI environment.
EDI Migration - Installations Setup Of New EDI Software:
Our team would conduct the following:
- Hardware sizing of the infrastructure for the new EDI software
- Installation and creation of the EDI environment: Dev, Test, Production
- Development access to the required EDI development team
- Work with your IT networking team for firewall / VPN / FTP accesses
- Ensure a change management process for the developments from Dev / QA / Production environments
EDI Migration - Trading Partners Setup:
- Migration of Trading Partners from current EDI software to the new EDI software environment
- On boarding of new trading partners
- Trading partner configuration and transport protocol setups: VAN, SFTP, AS2, Proprietary
- Create mappings such as 810, 850, 856...
- Coordinate with the trading partner's EDI team for EDI message testing, UAT, interoperability and production golive
- Break-fix and ongoing maintenance such as map update, TP configuration changes
EDI Migration - Mapping and Translations:
Apprisia EDI team’s objective is to simplify your EDI environment during the EDI migration. It is an opportunity for us to reduce the number of trading partners and simplify mappings (like a spring cleaning).
- Expertise in the mappers of the various EDI products: AI mapper, Visual mapper, ITX, ITXA, SeeBurger Mapping designer, Altova
- Document the mappings for each trading partner
- Implement complex mappings for various business scenarios
- Analyze the various mappings for each EDI transaction
- Create the generic mapping templates for your EDI transactions based on the commonality of the mappings
- Provide mapping guidelines to be followed by the EDI Developers
- Create a testing and quality process for map development, testing and production deployment
EDI Migration - Business Process Services:
- Implement the Business Processes in Sterling B2Bi, SAP PO and other EDI softwares
- Enhancements through adapter modules, look-ups and custom development
- Custom development in Java and scriptings for mappings, merging of messages and specific processing
Managed EDI Services - Business Process Services:
- Implement the Business Processes in Sterling B2Bi, SAP PO and other EDI softwares
- Enhancements through adapter modules, look-ups and custom development
- Custom development in Java and scriptings for mappings, merging of messages and specific processing
EDI Migration - Regression Testing:
- For each Trading Partner, we are creating new maps on the new EDI environment
- Our Apprisia EDI team will create these new maps, and conduct the full end-to-end testings for each trading partner
- We will conduct end-to-end Regression Testing for each Trading Partner to ensure correctness
EDI Migration - Regression Testing:
During the migration project (often 6-12 months), your existing EDI production has to continue running, along with the new EDI production environment
- The 2 EDI production environments and the migration project would keep your inhouse EDI team busy for several months
- The Apprisia EDI team will support you for the existing EDI production environment as well
- Monitor EDI production for errors and coordinate with the users on their resolutions
- Take complete ownership of all EDI issues and management of the EDI software
- We would ensure that nothing falls through the cracks...
What You Can Expect From Apprisia EDI Migration:
- Predictable and on-budget EDI migration to your selected EDI software
- Flexibility to accommodate any unexpected business requirement
- Assured support to your business users, even on public holidays and your team’s vacations
Pricing:
We would be happy to provide an affordable pricing for your EDI migration / upgrade project.
Please contact our Senior consultant at:Â edi_support@apprisia.com
