EDI and ALE

[Former Member]

Hi,

Tell me the Diff b/w EDI and ALE?

[Former Member]

hi satya,

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download the trial version of specbuilder and see different edi formats.

if it helps you , please help me some points..

[Former Member]

Down the spec builder from below location:

http://www.edifecs.com/hc-downloads.jsf

It will show you all the available EDI formats.

[Former Member]

EDI stands Electronic Data Interchange. It is standard for business communication .. generally we use EDI communication when we implementing

B2B Scenario in any Integration project..

Basically if you use required to implement EDI in our project , scenario would be ... you will need to map all your souce xml data into a EDI format just like

mapping xml data into idoc format (in file to idoc scenario)...

EDI formats defined for all the business areas..

you can customize edi format according to your company requirement using s tool

Spec builder ..

Spec Builder will create edi format that u have to import in your XI..

[Former Member]

For ALE Concept go through these:

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCMIDALEIO/BCMIDALEIO.pdf

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/CABFAALEQS/CABFAALEQS.pdf

[Former Member]

Sathay...

ALE is used with in a company boundaries...

it can be used between sap to sap or sap to non sap...

EDI used with in the company boundaries and outside the company boundaries as well....

here EDI is a technology...

here we use sussystems as GENTRAN,Tibco,etc...

and EDI goes with particular standards....EDIFACT for europe and ANSCI12 for US

[Former Member]

satya,

1) ALE = Application Link Enable: Initially developed for SAP as an abstract layer to extract master and transactional data to be sent ellectronically to other SAP systems. These days is also being used to send data no non-SAP systems. ALE is not a protocol or anything like that, it's just abstract layer composed by a set of applications which are capable of extracting aplication data on a 1-time basis or periodically, by selection criteria or incrementally by deltas.

2) In contrast, EDI = Electronic data interface, this is a comunication protocol not designed by SAP but it´s an industry standard. Of course most SAP software supports EDI, but EDI it's no software but the specification of the protocol in itself.

[Former Member]

Hi Satya,

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is a standard to exchange data within and between businesses, organizations, government entities and other groups.

For more about EDI check it out:

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Data_Interchange">Electronic Data Interchage</a>

However, ALE (Application Link Enabling) is a mechanism for the exchange of business data between loosely-coupled R/3 applications built by customers of SAP, the enterprise resource management program. ALE provides SAP customers with a program distribution model and technology that enables them to interconnect programs across various platforms and systems.

For more on ALE see this:

<a href="http://searchsap.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid21_gci822148,00.html">http://searchsap.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid21_gci822148,00.html</a>

<a href="http://www.thespot4sap.com/Articles/SAP_ALE_Introduction.asp">http://www.thespot4sap.com/Articles/SAP_ALE_Introduction.asp</a>

Regards,

Subhasha Ranjan