A recent confession by Dropbox that their system was hacked should make every CIO’s blood run cold, not to mention validate IBM’s recent ban on the file hosting service. In the absence of an enterprise data access strategy that extends to tablets and smartphones, BYOD users are turning to free consumer services like Dropbox to [...]

Banks are under fire these days.  This means that bank IT people are under fire – more than usual, even. Particularly with growing  transaction volumes, consolidating and modernizing B2B communications is an obvious place to save money, reduce risk and speed time-to-market.   But few of us have the time, money or reputation capital to risk [...]

Al has a problem. He just got a phone call from one of his company’s biggest clients about a missed delivery. He wants to know where the EDI order is but can’t locate it in SAP. The only thing his coworker Carole can see is that the order can’t be processed, and the EDI specialist [...]

The Web. Email. FTP. SFTP. With so many ways to share files these days, it might seem a little redundant to throw another method into the mix. SEEBURGER Managed File Transfer (SEE MFT) for SAP is anything but redundant though. It’s the first comprehensive solution for managing file transfers in and out of SAP to [...]

SAP is a wonderful supply chain management application. But what good are insight and problem solving capabilities if only your IT department and EDI specialists can access them? A gap in the supply chain management process leads to higher costs, long wait times and customer service problems — the ultimate triad of business problems. You [...]

Sometimes cutting costs just isn’t enough anymore. Case in point, IT has been dealing with the same problem in the same way ever since the economic downturn. You’ve been told to cut costs however you can. As with many challenges that spring out of economic turbulence though, the solution was a little short-sighted. Years later [...]

When it comes to making IT changes, there are bound to be plenty of questions. So I’ve compiled a list of the questions we hear most often when it comes to making the switch to Managed File Transfer (MFT). Q. What is MFT and why would I want it? A. MFT is a way of [...]

We caught up with Brian to discuss the significance of this appointment:   What is the AIAG committee that you’ve been invited to join? I have been placed on the Global Engineering and IT Steering Committee of AIAG and will initially be serving as a member of the Supplier Connectivity Workgroup. The GE&IT Steering Committee [...]

The good news is Managed File Transfer (MFT) is here to stay. The bad news is you’re wondering what the heck MFT is. Welcome to MFT 101, your intro to all that is Managed File Transfer. Simply put, MFT is a solution for sending files of any size automatically and securely. Using software and secure [...]

While Managed File Transfer (MFT) has many things to offer, its greatest value can be distilled from the three most significant problems it helps eliminate. Gargantuan size files: File sizes today are out of control. A single graphic can be 100 MB and many a PowerPoint presentation has been known to creep towards the 20 [...]