Thoughts.

It runs!

No, seriously, it isn't easy to work with as you mentioned. It isn't the
greatest documentation either. But, I have nothing to really compare it with in
the same market.

Yes, lots of different steps. But that gives you lots of flexibility, right? It
gives you the ability to replace pieces of the product for specific needs
pretty easily with the approach they use, once you figure out what all the
pieces do that is!

The pc based mapper program is definitely not the greatest. We find the dos
version works better than the "windows" version.

Probably your best bet is to take training from them. This will save you more
time than you will spend figuring it all out the hard way.

James English wrote:

> Our company just bought EDI translation software from St. Paul Software,
> called EDItran version 6. We also use Telamon network engine and Network/S
> product for the RJE linkage.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else is using this software, and what their
> thoughts are on it. Any help on the use of this package would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> We bought the package for their Y2k compliancy, and because they have other
> packages that run on relational databases. We're migrating from Trinary's
> EDI Windows package, and I never knew how good their package was until I
> starting using St. Paul's software.
>
> EDI Windows is a totally integrated package, which includes everything from
> communications to scheduling to mapping in one user interface. However, St.
> Paul's package is broken out into separate stream jobs for each step of the
> process. It's been hard to understand how all of the pieces fit together.
>
> They do have a good package, it's just been hard for me move away from an
> integrated environment.
>
> If you want to, you can send email to me at my address shown below, instead
> of sending to the entire list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim.
>
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> Jim English
> Financial Systems Analyst
>
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