Adoption of EDI
Migration of EDI transactions to Internet-based communications options will be an ongoing trend, although we expect many organizations will prefer to retain their VAN relationships for some time.
In the future, this issue will become increasingly muddled as VAN providers focus more on providing Internet-based options to their customers. Still, we do expect the number of transactions moving over
traditional VANs to continue to shrink going forward. The primary beneficiaries of this trend will be providers of direct point-to-point communications software such as Cyclone Commerce and IPNet
Solutions as well as ETN providers like Slam Dunk Networks, bTrade, Viquity and others. Also, application integration vendors like webMethods, SeeBeyond, Vitria, TIBCO, Mercator and others also have the
capability of supporting direct point-to-point EDI transaction exchanges and many of their existing implementations are supporting this activity. There will also be increased adoption of Web forms systems
provided by specialized vendors like SPS Commerce and ADX as well as increased usage of emarkets (private, public and industry consortium e-markets like Covisint, Exostar, E2Open and Transora) for the
movement of EDI transactions. Figure 4 shows our e-channel transaction percentage projections through 2006.
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