Dave, As you are probably aware EDISIM is a pretty robust product with all kinds of tools which from your description sounds like you are only using the basics. Do you use the SEF feature to feed into your translator? If you are only creating Word docs there are certainly a number of less expensive products which I am sure you will get some suggestions from the list. If you do convert from EDISIM I would suggest you use SEF to port your current IG's from EDISIM to your new tool which hopefully supports SEF. Since SEF was developed by Foresight before TIBCO I would verify the imports work correctly since SEF is not a true open standard. You wouldn't be the first company to use Excel to create IG's if you want to really keep your costs down. Good luck.
David Frenkel ________________________________ From: "Peterson, Dave A." <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 5:39 PM Subject: [EDI-L] IG Creation Software How do the EDI-L community members create Implementation Guides (we call them EDI specs)? We currently use Foresight's EDISIM software; EDISIM allows us to run through a large volume of transactions and returns the segments, elements, qualifiers, etc. in the end-product WORD document. It's a little over $3,000 per year. We'd like to know if there is a similar, cheaper software option available. We're hoping to hear what software some of the members use. Factors we're looking at are ease of use, Word/Excel compatibility, price range, advantages/disadvantages. Does it create the document by grinding through existing data and providing a final product that only needs a little tweaking before it's ready to be delivered to your trading partners? I couldn't find very many specifics in the archives; if there's something I missed I'd be glad to check it out if somebody knows where it is. Thanks and have a great weekend! Dave Peterson SUPERVALU IT Supply Chain Partner Collaboration Applications (EDI) [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
