Yes, extensively. ~$6T rides on EDI, and its use was not predicated on security alone. It is painful to get wrong, and often not worth mastering when there's sop much else to focus on.
Naturally, I'm a bit biased as a founder at Surpass.biz, we built an API for EDI transactions so supply chain software SaaS can embed it for native capabilities.
EDI is a PITA, but we're trying to solve it Surpass. The underlying architecture is key, there's variability in every element, segment and the overarching golden rule: the issuer gets to define their own interpretation of the standard.
For decades, Electronic Data Interchange has been the backbone of B2B commerce—and its biggest bottleneck. While businesses have digitally transformed every other aspect of their operations, EDI has remained stubbornly stuck in the past, trapped by rigid architectures that turn every integration into a months-long engineering project.
Today, we're revealing the breakthrough technology that's changing everything: Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) architecture—and why it's not just an incremental improvement, but a fundamental reimagining of how EDI should work.
Fuel: Biomass, pellet, wood,
Cooking: Rocket stoves
Insulate yourself: Hats, robes, slippers, socks. When in doubt - layer up.
Tape seams, cracks, flues, poorly insulated windows, doors. Someone once told me that if you add up all of small cracks and air leaks in a home, it would be the equivalent of an open window. We lived in a 105 year old home at the time. Most of the wooden window frames had expanded/contracted throughout the years, and a rubber mallet did wonders for resetting the frame and moldings to airtight status. Taping plastic over the worst windows helped until we could repair & replace the worst offenders, heavy curtains helps as well. Castles used heavy woolen tapestries to help.
Check your local tenant laws, landlords may be required to heat your home to a certain degree if heat is included in the rental charge.
1. Figure out what you can do better than anyone else
2. Figure out which types of potential clients would benefit the most from this
3. Ensure this isn't performed by someone internally
4. The marketplace is the web. Self publish, tell the world
There are 6000 hospitals, 20% for profit businesses, 17 of which are publicly traded. They write off procedure costs to some degree. The amount written off is so widely variable and lopsided, the IRS or the SEC would have a nearly impossible task of determining what is true. I'm curious, do hospital CFOs sweat the risk of IRS discovery that write offs are artificially inflated if/when the data becomes easily known and calculable? How many years and how many procedures were written off to which extent? To what end did asymmetric data play in avoiding taxes or violating SEC regs?