The Heritages of MFT Part 2 June 30, 2009
Posted by johntinovis in Inovis Solutions, MFT.Tags: e-mail, e-mail attachment management, file transfer solution, life-cycle, Managed File Transfer, MFT, mini workflow
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In my first blog post, I discussed the different heritages of Managed File Transfer and what each perspective teaches us about file transfer requirements. But I skipped over the new kid on the block: managed file transfer through email. A couple of years ago, I read a survey asking corporate IT people what they used for file transfer. The most common answer was that they e-mailed files. From personal observation, you could see this same behavior at home as well as in the office.
But now files, both business and personal, have grown much larger and much faster than my e‑mail inbox (at work, my inbox is actually smaller and more strictly managed than it was two years ago). There was already a security concern for e-mailing files around since e-mails are more like postcards than letters in envelopes and anybody on the Internet who sees the letter fly by can read it. But we continued to use e-mail anyway so long as it continued to work, mainly because it was just so darned easy. So now we have gotten to the point where e-mail doesn’t work so well for file transfer, and while this makes the security guys happy, what are the rest of us supposed to do?
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Question of the Week June 26, 2009
Posted by Meg Sewell in question of the week.Tags: B2B, b2b in context
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Today’s question is in regards to the common issues most B2B businesses face. Our blog B2B in Context was created to address the issues we hear the most often from our customers. We’re always looking to improve and expand our posts. To help us develop future articles, we’d like to ask you:
What are some of the B2B issues that are driving your company crazy?
Reader Feedback – Blurring the Lines Between SaaS and Outsourcing June 25, 2009
Posted by edmagdich in Business Community Management, Inovis Solutions.Tags: B2B, BPO, business process outsourcing, managed services, outsourcing services
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As the Director of Product Management for Inovis’s outsourcing services line, I cover the full range of outsourcing services including the base level SaaS offering all the way up to the top tier true B2B outsourcing offering.
Although there are overlaps in these unique delivery models, there are definitely differences in the complexity of the products and how they are delivered to the client. At the lowest end, you are outsourcing your applications and infrastructure through a Software as a Service offering. This implies that your SaaS provider is going to have less involvement in the day-to-day operations of managing your business community and add very little, if any, insight into your business processes.
Sam is the Man! June 24, 2009
Posted by Meg Sewell in News.Tags: Directors of Data Interchange Standards Association, DISA, e-commerce, inovis, Sam Presutti, Sean Feeney
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Today we are pleased to announced that Sam Presutti, Senior Solutions Architect here at Inovis, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA). DISA helps organizations simplify transactions, lower costs and expand markets by developing and maintaining business-to-business (B2B) standards for electronic trade and commerce. Sam’s experience includes 33 years of B2B technology management, with a focus on building E-Commerce Gateway solutions for EDI, XML and EDIFACT messaging and for E-Commerce Gateway security integrated into client-oriented business functions. Sam will be joining President and CEO of Inovis Seam Feeney, who is a current member of the DISA board.
