Liaison Technologies, a global provider of secure cloud-based integration and data management services and solutions, today announced it is giving users the ability of auto-totaling through its new SmartTotal™ feature and enabling the instant conversion of EDI to an XML layout with its new XML view for its EDI Notepad offering. The new features are available on both the Express and Professional editions of EDI Notepad. This popular go-to tool has been downloaded over 100,000 times, and can be downloaded for free here: http://eservice.liaison.com/software/edinotepad/request/default.asp.

“As an EDI educator with EDI partners, and an implementer of EDI technology, I have used and recommended EDI Notepad to over 30,000 students over the last several years as a valuable tool for viewing and editing EDI files by both technical and non-technical staff,” said Gary Beatty, President of EC Integrity, Inc. “It is simple to use and delivers exponential value by easing day to day struggles with EDI.”

In today’s marketplace, e-commerce is playing an increasingly important role for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises alike, particularly when it comes to competing with giants like Amazon. Data integration, including Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), plays a critical part when it comes to developing a successful e-commerce strategy. Indeed, according to SMB Group, Inc's 2012 SMB Routes to Market Study, integration has jumped from number four to number one on the list of priorities for medium size businesses over the past year.

Liaison’s EDI Notepad Express enables organizations of all sizes and experience levels to take advantage of the same tools that enterprises are using without the associated high cost and complexity, offering unsurpassed simplicity, utility and efficiency. EDI Notepad helps users view, validate, and edit EDI transactions offering the ability to export interchanges and generate acknowledgements for any EDI envelope opened in its interface. EDI Notepad also ensures the creation of compliant EDI by prompting users for necessary data after each new insertion.

EDI Notepad’s new features and enhancements include:

• SmartTotal enables auto-total inside EDI Notepad using macros
• Instant conversion of EDI to XML layout, in addition to a host of additional available views
• Updated rendering and improved EDI validation
• Verbose Error reporting via command-line
• Support for command-line export of EDI as XML for EDI Notepad Professional Edition users

“In 2009, as Liaison was developing a tool for internal EDI validation, we began to recognize the struggles our customers faced when it came to the complex job of managing EDI implementations,” said Robert Fox, Liaison’s senior director of software development. “EDI Notepad was developed with those needs in mind, and SmartTotal and XML view are just two of many enhancements we’ve made to improve usability and support the growing number of users that rely on it every day.”

To learn more about EDI Notepad 8.0, please see visit: http://liaison.com/products/integrate/edi-notepad

More about EDI Notepad

EDI Notepad allows users to view their EDI transactions in multiple ways, including intuitive, HTML, edit and text views. Enjoyed by tens of thousands of EDI professionals around the world and supporting ANSI X12, EDIFACT, TRADACOMS and HL7 standards, EDI Notepad gives users the unsurpassed utility and efficiency that make EDI work for them. Now available in Express and Professional versions.

About Liaison

Liaison Technologies is a global integration, data management and data security company. It provides unique and high-value services to move, transform and manage business information in the cloud, and to protect data to help organizations master complex security challenges and meet compliance mandates. With a comprehensive array of business-to-business and application-to-application integration and data transformation services, as well as on-premise and cloud-based data security solutions, Liaison's practitioners implement data management infrastructures adapted to each client's specific business requirements. Headquartered in Atlanta, Liaison has offices in the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.liaison.com.

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