You have most certainly already felt it: organizations of all sizes and in all sectors are under massive pressure today to digitize their business processes. Partners, customers, and suppliers may only want to work with you if you are able to exchange data electronically, i.e., via EDI, in specific formats. For good reason, as well, because transferring business documents and order information on paper is time-consuming and requires a lot of repetitive work on both sides. Manual, repetitive steps often lead to errors, misunderstandings, and high communication costs. This makes delays in the ordering and delivery process inevitable.

Things would be different if you could automatically receive, process, and send all your documents, including purchase orders, order confirmations, delivery notes, and invoices. Time-consuming routine tasks and staffing bottlenecks would evaporate, as would media breaks and error-prone data entry.

The same applies to connecting systems within a company, of course. The absence of interfaces between applications often leads to high costs because activities have to be performed multiple times and/or manually—or perhaps because the employee responsible is the only one who has all the relevant processing information in their possession. (We call this avoidable undocumented knowledge and at this point want to wish you a wonderful time covering for your colleague while they’re away on vacation.)

Perhaps you can already think of one or two instances where you have already asked yourself, “Couldn’t this be easier?”, “Why isn’t there an interface?” or “Couldn’t this be automated?”.

Are you concerned that automation could prove complex and costly? Well, the opposite is the case: Seamless data integration and reliable interface programming simplify your processes, resulting in significant time and cost savings.