Trading Partner - The entity with which EDI is carried on. The specific segment that, in simplest terms, tells the receiving computer where an individual EDI message ends. Transaction Set - A block of information in EDI, making up a business transaction, or part of a business transaction. Outside North America, this is normally called a message. Translator - A program used to convert information from flat file to EDI format, or from EDI format to flat file.
User groups are discussion organizations.
A financial institution that facilitates the transmission of electronic data among multiple trading partners as well as provides financial settlement of payment and remittance detail transactions. The U.S. Treasury's program which utilizes the ACH Network for making Federal government vendor and other commercial payments. A hypertext-based, distributed information system created by researchers at CERN in Switzerland. Users may create, edit or browse hypertext documents. The clients and servers are freely available.