Softshare Makes EDI Notepad Available as a Free Download; EDI Notepad, Softshare's Proprietary EDI Editor, is Now Available for Download at softshare.com.SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif. & AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Softshare, a provider of e-commerce products and services since 1982, announced today the availability of 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. Notepad The text editor that comes with Windows. It is a very elementary utility, but gets the job done most of the time. See text editor and WordPad. (text, tool) Notepad - The very basic text editor supplied with Microsoft Windows. , its proprietary EDI editor, as a free download from Softshare's Web site. Previously only available as a utility that shipped with Softshare's EDI applications, EDI Notepad provides an intuitive interface for viewing, editing, and building EDI documents. "Initially, Softshare developed EDI Notepad as an in-house tool for its programmers and customer service representatives," said Robert Fox, Softshare's Director of Product Development. "But we quickly realized what a powerful EDI editing tool it was and, in 1999, began bundling it with our EDI software applications. Today, we're making it accessible to the general public so that anyone working with EDI can do so from the convenience of an EDI-aware application." Supporting 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. X12, EDIFACT (Electronic Data Interchange For Administration Commerce and Transport) An ISO standard for electronic data interchange (EDI) that was proposed to supersede both X12 and TRADACOMS as the worldwide standard. See EDI. , and TRADACOMS standards, EDI Notepad features several EDI viewing modes including HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , structured EDI, text, and hex. It also provides syntax validation, edit tools, document delivery capabilities, and automated functional acknowledgment generation. EDI Notepad was designed foremost to be an EDI viewing and editing tool, but it can also be used to build EDI documents from scratch. To Download EDI Notepad Visit Softshare's Web site at http://www.softshare.com/software/edinotepad to download the free application. No relationship with Softshare is required to install and run EDI Notepad. About Softshare Softshare Inc. (www.softshare.com) and Softshare B.V. (www.softshare.nl) offer a multi-tiered approach to electronic commerce with EDI/XML software solutions that range from desktop applications to integrated server applications. Fully compatible with Softshare's value-added network A communications network that provides services beyond normal transmission, such as automatic error detection and correction, protocol conversion and message storing and forwarding. Telenet and Tymnet are examples of value-added networks. , our software solutions are reliable and affordable and our customer support is always accessible. With headquarters in Santa Barbara and Amsterdam, Softshare has more than 20,000 clients using its various network, software, and EC services. For more information, call 800-346-6703 (U.S.) / 020-6388077 (Netherlands) or e-mail sales@softshare.com. |
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