EDI profile standards and options
Integration provides EDI profile types for a number of common EDI standards, each with pre-loaded business document definitions that serve as a starting point to facilitate building profiles and customize your EDI document definitions.
EDI documents have a hierarchical, looping, segment/element structure. An EDI document consists of segments, data elements, and values that are either delimited with a specific value or data-positioned. Different EDI standards handle data differently but automatically handle basic EDI functions, such as enveloping and segment counts.
The following standard EDI profile types are available:
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X12, the standard primarily used for EDI, defines specific standards for many EDI document types and subsets, which serve particular vertical markets.
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EDIFACT is an international standard that was developed by the United Nations to provide syntax rules, an interactive exchange protocol, and a set of standard messages so that countries and industries can exchange electronic business documents.
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HL7 is a standard for facilitating interoperability of health information technology. HL7 supports clinical practice and the management, delivery, and evaluation of health services.
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ODETTE, a standard based on EDIFACT, is primarily used in the European automotive sector.
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Tradacoms is a standard primarily used in the UK retail sector.
Integration also supports the RosettaNet standard. RosettaNet is an XML-based document standard that defines message guidelines, business processes interfaces, and frameworks for interactions between major computer, consumer electronics, semi-conductor manufacturers, telecommunications, and logistics companies.
User-defined profiles
To accommodate integrations handling EDI document types that do not conform to any of the supported standards, you can build profiles for these document types using the User-Defined profile type. This profile type provides flexibility in handling proprietary file formats.
