Computer Generated Solutions Develops New EDI Services.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 1999-- At Bobbin bobbin, implement on which thread is wound, used in sewing, spinning, weaving, and lace making. Sometimes the wooden spools of sewing thread are called bobbins. Americas, the Sewn Products Expo for the Western Hemisphere, Computer Generated Solutions, Inc. (CGS CGS centimeter-gram-second system. CGS or cgs abbr. centimeter-gram-second system. CGS, c.g.s. ), today announced it has developed a proprietary Electronic Data Interchange See EDI. (application, communications) electronic data interchange - (EDI) The exchange of standardised document forms between computer systems for business use. EDI is part of electronic commerce. (EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. ) solution for its ACS (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. Optima(TM), enterprisewide software solution for the apparel industry. The new technology, called CGSeDI(TM), represents a solution to EDI that is tightly integrated with the ACS Optima(TM) system. "EDI solutions tend to be high maintenance and costly for everyone involved," says Paul Magel, Senior Vice President, Products Division at CGS. "In CGSeDI(TM), we've incorporated 19 years of research and development with this technology to develop a more tightly integrated product that offers a single support organization and a product that is of higher quality and easier to maintain than we had in the past." The CGS EDI Research & Development team will unveil CGSeDI(TM) today at Bobbin Americas, which is running at the Georgia World Congress Center The Georgia World Congress Center or GWCC is the major convention center in Atlanta. It is the fourth-largest convention center in the United States at 1.4 million ft2 (130,000 m2) and hosts more than a million visitors each year. in Atlanta. The new solution has completed beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the and will be backed by CGS' state-of-the-art support centers and experienced implementation teams. CGSeDI(TM) utilizes templates that have been built into the solution to accommodate the majority of requirements that retailers and manufacturers in the industry have in their EDI transactions. These templates conform to the latest ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. standards. "Suppliers and retailers can and do develop unique buying and selling arrangements. This can build a lot of cost into each solution," says Vicky Zaura, Director, EDI Research and Development at CGS. "To cut down on that cost, our templates can process between 90 and 100 percent of a vendor's requirements. For those requirements that fall outside those standards, we have our team ready for custom configurations. We develop the product to increase the performance and accuracy of managing EDI documents, while minimizing user intervention in the process." CGS also announced plans to further develop CGSeDI(TM) to enable it to accommodate Internet-based EDI. To achieve this, CGS plans to incorporate the XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. (Extended Markup Language) specifications, which have the potential to dramatically cut transaction costs, according to Zaura. Used by more than 500 companies, ACS Optima(TM) is the leading enterprisewide software solution in the sewn products industry. ACS Optima(TM) is used by both domestic manufacturers and importers of apparel products, and delivers total enterprise value by integrating all of the areas of the business--including order fulfillment, production, materials management, costing, retail compliance, warehouse management, sales force automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. , business intelligence, financial applications, shop floor control and Year 2000 readiness. For more information visit the CGS booth (No. 2500) or call 800-CGS-0684. About CGS Founded in 1984 as a systems integration and management consulting firm to the apparel and fashion industries, Computer Generated Solutions, Inc., provides comprehensive systems integration and information technology services to companies worldwide. CGS offers The Composite Solution(TM), which encompasses new systems development, applications maintenance, document management, enterprise solutions, networking, hardware, software, technical training, IT staffing, help desk and Year 2000 services. Additional information is available at www.cgsinc.com. |
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