Fully Integrated EDI:
Fully integrated EDI systems encompass electronic data sharing throughout all aspects of the purchasing and payments cycle. The fully integrated EDI system allows the purchasers computer system to electronically check inventory levels and production schedules to determine whether the requested item in stock or when it scheduled to be produced.
Financial EDI:
The banker EDI council defines financial EDI as the electronic exchange of payments related information or financially related documents in standard formats between partners. Financially EDI is the key distinguishing feature between partially and fully integrated EDI systems. Some farms may transfer funds electronically and produce the remittance advice in hard copy format that is sent through the postal service.
In a client/ server application there are two major classes of Software:
Client Software:
Client Software usually residing on an end users desktop and providing navigation and display.
Server Software:
Server Software usually residing on a workstation or server class machine and providing backend data access services( where the data can be something simple like file or complex like a relational database). As an example: E-mail- the protocol is simple mail transport protocol and its purpose is allows the transmission of text message and binary attachments across the internet technology. Another one is Chat and its protocol name is internet relay chat protocol, it provides away by one user to talk to one another in real time over the internet. The real time chat groups are called channels.
