CLOUD-EDI

Modern cloud-native EDI — elasticity, pay-per-use, public APIs.

Definition

Mature since 2018 with players like TrueCommerce Cloud EDI, SPS Commerce, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, AWS B2B Data Interchange. Pay-per-transaction model, cloud elasticity, native integration with SaaS ERPs (NetSuite, Dynamics 365, SAP S/4HANA Cloud).

Origin

Emergence around 2015 with the first cloud-native iPaaS. AWS B2B Data Interchange launched November 2023.

Example in context

AWS B2B Data Interchange ingesting an EDIFACT file from S3 and delivering it as JSON-mapped to Kinesis.

Related terms

• Hosted EDI — legacy parent model.
• EDI-as-a-Service — consumption-model variant.