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Inovis actively supports regional user groups and 2008 represents a new opportunity to work with NEECOM, a long standing user group which many of our customers participate in and Inovis has supported for many years. NEECOM is the New England Electronic Commerce User’s Group for B2B and EDI professional and one of the largest in the nation. NEECOM is a great venue to meet others and see how they are tackling the challenges of operating complex supply chains which are compliant to their trading partner requirements and provide increased efficiency for their businesses.

Next week is NEECOM’s spring event and Inovis is looking forward to meeting our customers, their trading partners and the industry leaders who will be at the event to ensure we can bring back the lessons learned and share them our user community.

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As the Director of Field Operations at Inovis, I love the time that I get to spend working with customers and hearing about their challenges. I’m able to collaborate with them, tell them about what I see with other customers, and am able to recommend solutions.

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Today, Tuesday, March 25 at 11 am PT/1 pm CT/2 pm ET, Avatar Partners and Inovis will be pairing up to present the retail webinar, “Optimizing the Retail Supply Chain.”

Avatar Partners is the leader in operational and financial supply chain integration. The President for Avatar Partners, Marlo Brooke, will join Inovis’s Vice President of Industry Development and Standards, Jonathan Gatrell, as a Presenter for the webinar. Many topics will be covered including optimizing Supply Chain Visibility, Managed File Transfer and Integration, Business Community Management, and Secure Data Transformation and Validation.

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The Drummond Group has confirmed in a recent announcement that AS3 is the recommended data exchange method for large files.  Not only does AS3 support large files, but secures the payload and transmission of the data over a secure session for B2B content exchange.    Inovis provides secure file transport with certified support of As3 to ensure we can address our customers needs for payroll files, HIPAA data and managed file transfer requirements and are part of the certified solutions for AS3 large files.  The increasing file sizes and goals of businesses to improve the security at the edge of the enterprise is a growin trend in the marketplace, as evidenced in the Drummond announcement. 

Drummond is not the only organization supporting or recommending EDI-INT for secure transaction management, so is X12.  X12 released a recommended implementation guide for securing  and exchanging data between organizations via EDI-INT. 

What is AS3?  AS3 is a secure version of FTP which provides for certificate based encryption and end point management.    AS3 also provides for non-repudiation or confirmation of reciept of the file by a given end point or trading partner.  To get detailed information on the IETF standard you can get more information online @ http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4823.txt about how you can use standards based communication, instead of legacy FTP scripts and propriatary options.