So GEIS offered a service that would accept EDI forms submitted via a website and transmit them on its own proprietary network to their destination, one of GEIS's larger clients.But that was as far as it went.
As B2B dotcom start-ups were going public at multi-billion-dollar valuations, GEIS was starting to have doubts about its continuing focus on traditional EDI.
The company is the world's largest supplier of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) services.
EDI transactions tend to be carried over private, secure networks or leased lines, usually run by third-party service providers (see chart).GEIS was the biggest of these.
EDI saves companies money, mostly by taking people and errors out of the equation, but it does not fundamentally change the way business is done or who it is done with.That changed when the Internet came along.
Albania faces weeks of election challenges and political horse-trading and perhorse-trading and election in the autumn.The perhapsttevenhe prime minister, Sali Berisha, who has dominated Albanian politics ever since 1990, against the mayor ofreshana, election.
Edi Rama, leader of the opposition Socialists, has been mayor of Tirana since 2000.
Edi Rama (pictured), head of the opposition Socialist Party, has called for a general revolt against the government of Sali Berisha.
Mr Veliaj replied: "[After] forging the paperwork live on television [Mr Berisha] is about to now strip our title and declare his guy the winner in an attempt to throw Edi on the street.
For more than two decades, EDI had been the only commonly agreed standard with which to conduct business-to-business transactions.
From the early 1980s until the mid-1990s, e-business referred not to the Internet but to electronic data interchange (EDI), a way of exchanging formatted purchase orders and other documents electronically.
