Transcription: One of the best analogies I've heard for EDI was that of the telephone. They say it's like a telephone because through a standard mechanism two people can talk to each other. The problem with EDI in general was that it was so specific it was like creating a very specific telephone line physically for each person that you wanted to talk to. So in a business environment if business A wanted to do business with business B and business C it literally had to hardwire the telephone line, in this case the EDI component for both companies instead of just using a generalized telephone line with a switc ...
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