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EDI Transmission Types Every Trading Partner Should Know

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Overview

In order to conduct Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transactions with a trading partner, businesses need a way of transmitting their EDI messages. Today, we take a look at the most widely used EDI transmission types, their main characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages.

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Topics: SFTP, FTPS, AS2, FTP

What EDI Is And Why It's Easier To Implement Than Ever Before

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Overview: What EDI Is

Although already in existence for about 40 years, EDI is not yet as widespread as it ought to be. But recent technological advancements and favorable business conditions are changing that.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, AS2

Schedule File Synchronization Between Servers | JSCAPE

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This post talks about the benefits of setting up automated file synchronization between two servers and how to do it using JSCAPE MFT Server.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Triggers

What is EDI X12?

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Overview

Most industries in the US use the EDI X12 standard for electronic data interchange. So if you're looking to perform automated business transactions in the US, you have to be familiar with it.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, AS2

Adding Email Notification To A File Transfer Server Antivirus Upload Scan

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Overview

When your server antivirus detects malware infection on a recent file upload, what would you like it to do? In our case, we prefer it to email us an alert notification. That way, we wouldn't have to check the logs periodically to see if a virus was found. This post details how we'd achieve that.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer

Automating An Upload Virus Scan Using A Windows File Transfer Server And Kaspersky

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Overview

A couple of years ago, we wrote a 3-part tutorial showing how you could automate FTP virus scans with Kaspersky Antivirus. That article, which was written based on a Linux environment, is in need of an update. But before we make changes there, here's a similar article that Windows users should find suited for them.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer

How To Get Your MFT Server Email You A List Of Old Files

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Overview>

We already taught you how to set up your MFT server to automatically delete old files and zip old files. Would you like to learn how to generate a list and then receive an email of that list as well? If so, read on.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Triggers

How To Use A Windows FTP Client For Secure Downloads

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Despite FTP's vulnerabilities, many Windows users still use FTP clients for transferring files over the Internet. If you really have to keep using that archaic file transfer protocol, at least do it securely. Here's what we suggest when using a Windows FTP Client for secure downloads.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS, FTP

SSL vs. TLS | Knowing the Difference Between SSL and TLS

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SSL vs. TLS Overview

SSL and TLS have many similarities. That's why, in most software applications, they're configured together as "SSL/TLS". However, there are several differences between SSL and TLS well, which is what we're going to talk about now.

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Topics: Secure File Transfer

Uploading a 2nd File Only If The 1st Succeeds - Using 1 Trigger

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Overview

In our previous post, we showed you how to use two triggers to upload a second file only if the first upload succeeded. Here's a shorter way to do it.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, SFTP, FTPS

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