EDI that works the way your business does
You don’t need another translation engine. You need one platform where every standard, every protocol, and every back-end system connect—so your team spends less time maintaining maps and more time moving the business forward.
X12 · EDIFACT · HL7/FHIR · AS2/AS4 · OFTP · Any ERP
EDI complexity that multiplies with every partner
EDI standards were built to reduce friction between trading partners. But the tools built around them introduced a different kind of friction—one your team absorbs every day.
Weeks lost onboarding each new partner
Every new trading relationship means a new implementation guide, custom segments, and a fresh round of testing. With a fragmented stack, a single onboarding routinely runs 30–60 days—and that’s when nothing goes wrong.
Map maintenance that never ends
X12 850s from Walmart look nothing like X12 850s from Target. Your team maintains hundreds of partner-specific maps, and every retailer spec update triggers a new cycle of edits, testing, and deployment.
VAN fees that grow with your volume
Per-character and per-kilosegment pricing turns your transaction growth into a cost center. Companies processing high volumes routinely pay $100K–$200K annually just to route documents through a network.
EDI data stranded at the edge
Getting an 850 into your ERP shouldn’t require a separate middleware layer, a custom JDBC adapter, and a specialist who knows both systems. But that’s the reality when your EDI platform can’t reach your back-end systems natively.
Five essentials for reliable EDI infrastructure
Strip away the legacy assumptions. Here are the capabilities that must work together—in one place—for EDI to stop being a daily operational burden.
1. Full standard coverage
Native support for every major standard—X12, EDIFACT, HL7, FHIR, RosettaNet—without bolt-on modules or per-standard licensing.
2. Certified protocol transport
Send and receive over AS2, AS4, SFTP, FTPS, OFTP, and more—all from the same platform, with non-repudiation built in.
3. Visual data mapping
Build and modify translation maps without hand-coding. Test against real partner data before you go live.
4. Native back-end connectivity
Route translated EDI directly into SAP, NetSuite, Oracle, Salesforce, or any database—without a separate integration layer.
5. End-to-end audit and compliance
Track every transaction from receipt to delivery. Functional acknowledgments, error alerts, and immutable audit logs for HIPAA, SOX, and GDPR.
Three design principles that cut EDI complexity
Mechanisms that guarantee better outcomes for EDI teams—not just a longer feature list.
1. Translate, route, and deliver in one flow
Receive an 850 over AS2, validate the ISA/GS envelope, translate to your ERP’s format, post to your order management API, and send back a 997—all in one visual workflow. No middleware handoff. No separate acknowledgment job.
2. Pre-built templates for every vertical
Start from sample flows for retail (850/856/810/820), healthcare (HL7 ADT, 837/835, FHIR), logistics (204/214/210), and manufacturing. Customize to your partner’s spec, not from a blank canvas. First partner live in days, not weeks.
3. Visibility at every step
Every interchange, functional group, and transaction set is logged, timestamped, and searchable. See exactly where a document is in the pipeline. Prove delivery to your trading partners. Resolve disputes in minutes, not days.
Outcomes that change how your EDI team works
We measure what matters to EDI professionals—not marketing benchmarks.
Time to first live transaction with a new partner
2–5 days
vs. 30–60 days on a legacy stack
Annual EDI infrastructure costs
Up to 70% less
Flat subscription vs. per-kilosegment VAN pricing
Time spent on map maintenance
<10%
vs. the majority of EDI team hours today
Time to resolve a failed transaction
Under 15 min
vs. hours hunting across disconnected logs
Improvement that compounds across your partner network
Every workflow you build becomes a template. Every partner you onboard makes the next one faster. Consolidating your EDI infrastructure doesn’t just reduce cost—it changes what your team is capable of.
- Onboard new trading partners in days, not quarters—and say yes to more business relationships.
- Eliminate VAN transaction fees. Bring EDI in-house on a flat-rate subscription and redeploy the savings.
- Connect translated EDI directly to your ERP, WMS, or database without a separate middleware layer.
- Handle functional acknowledgments (997/999), interchange ACKs, and error alerts automatically—no manual follow-up.
- Build once, reuse everywhere. A retail 850 flow for one partner becomes the starting point for the next twenty.
- Deploy where your data governance requires—on-premises, private cloud, AWS, Azure, or fully managed SaaS.
One logistics team moved 140 active trading partners to Arc in under 90 days and eliminated their VAN entirely. Their EDI team now spends the majority of their time on new integrations instead of maintaining existing ones.
EDI infrastructure you can trust
Proven at scale across retail, healthcare, logistics, and manufacturing—not just on a feature checklist.
Every major EDI standard, built in
X12 (all transaction sets), EDIFACT, HL7 2.x, FHIR, RosettaNet, TRADACOMS. No add-on modules. No per-standard licensing. Pre-built sample flows for retail, healthcare, logistics, and manufacturing so you’re never starting from scratch.
Drummond-certified AS2, plus every other protocol
15+ years of Drummond certification for AS2. Full support for AS4, SFTP, FTPS, OFTP, HTTP/S, and RNIF. MDN-based non-repudiation for every interchange. Your partners already trust these certifications—so onboarding starts on solid ground.
85+ connectors to your back-end systems
SAP IDoc, NetSuite, Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Workday, and 80+ more. Translated EDI flows directly into your ERP or WMS without a separate integration layer. CData’s connectivity catalog is the broadest in the industry.
Compliance-ready by default
HIPAA, SOX, GDPR, PCI, and FISMA. Immutable audit logs, FIPS 140-2 compliant AES-256 encryption, OpenPGP, role-based access control, and DMZ-ready architecture. Compliance isn’t a separate workstream—it’s built into every transaction.