SEEBURGER adapter - How much does it help?

[Former Member]

We have a PI box just installed and we'll be implementing a few EDI transactions with some business partners.

I was told that SEEBURGER is the preferred EDI adapter for EDI transmissions from PI (XI).

1 - How much does SEEBURGER help the development of PI EDI interfaces? Is there a way to estimate on how much work is saved using it instead of relying on standard? (lets say 10, 20 or 30%)?

2 - I am considering here 2 options (Use SEEBURGER or not). Is there a better alternative?

Thanks

Leonardo

[Former Member]

Hi,

For EDI implementation there are ways by which u can implement with XI

1) Using third party seeburger adapter.

2) Conversion agent

3) Writing module.

Preferred one is seeburger.

1) It has std XSD available which we just need to import into External definition

2) It has std mappings for all the message type which converts EDI to XML and XML to EDI format.

3) Provides different adaters

4) BIC tool

5) Many adapter modules.

Seeburger adapters like OFTPS,AS2,X400 are used for B2B scenario where the file is coming through WAn network or mailbox. As XI dont have capability to convert the EDIFACT format file to XML the same work will be done by seeburger adapters.

The SEEBURGER Business Integration Converter (BIC) is an any-to-any format converter, used to translate EDI data and legacy data formats into XML and vice versa. It can also be used for complex, high performance XML-to-XML mappings or to interface to existing JDBC data sources.

Supported EDI formats include:

• ANSI

• EDIFACT

• INHOUSE

• IDOC

• XML Schema

• XML DTD

• CSV

• Delimited Data

• positional data

• SWIFT

• EANCOM

and many more.

See for converting the EDI XML to EDI and XML-EDI you need to have a seeburger mapping program at the adapter module which does the conversion. For this module you need a BIC tool of seeburger which provides the different module program for EDI to XML and XML-EDI. This program needs to be deployed on XI and through adapter it has to be called for conversion.

It provides std mapping program which does the conversion of EDI to XML and XML to EDI which need to used in XI comm channel module tab.

Thnx

Chirag

[Former Member]

Chirag:

I like your elaboration in your own language. As I never worked EDI scenario, I learned from you.

Keep up with good work.

Liang