Edifecs Unveils Significant Enhancements with General Availability Release of SpecBuilder 6.1 and XEngine 6.1
Bellevue, WA. October 14, 2005 -- Edifecs, the leading provider of B2B solutions for transaction-based interoperability, today announced General Availability of its market-leading specification authoring, testing and production validation tools, SpecBuilder 6.1 and XEngine 6.1. Both SpecBuilder and XEngine support an extensive list of EDI standards for healthcare and other industries, including such standards as X12, HIPAA, HL7, NCPDP, NSF, UB , VICS, UN/EDIFACT, RosettaNet, flat file formats, and XML based formats such as XML Schema (XSD).
Edifecs SpecBuilder and XEngine ensure operational interoperability with trading partners by validating healthcare and general industry transactions for syntax, semantics and trading partner specific business rules. By having specification authoring and publishing tools, along with real-time checks and filters on the data entering an enterprise, organizations are assured that back-end applications and data warehouses contain accurate transaction data, and throughput for automation is optimized.
Enhancements to the product include such value-added features and functions as:
- Significant memory usage/ performance improvements for XEngine
- An easier-to-use API
- Support for Big Data Files (BDF)
- Integration of external java classes in SpecBuilder guidelines
- HIPAA 824 support
- Event reporting
- Support for National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) edits
- XEngine Server automated XML conversion
- Email notification of errors
- Standalone monitoring utility and more
“Our fully-integrated product suite will now be even more valuable to our clients,” said Vik Sachdev, Director of Product Management for Edifecs. “Our goal is to provide the most comprehensive set of standards along with the most robust features and functions in our tools to enable transaction interoperability within enterprises and with external trading partners. Our support for Windows, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Linux operating environment, along with our ability to integrate either via Java or COM API’s, as well as in standalone server mode really leapfrogs our competition.”
“We are pleased to announce General Availability for SpecBuilder and XEngine versions 6.1,” said Sunny Singh, CEO of Edifecs. “We take very seriously our commitment to our customers to continuously evolve and improve our products. 6.1 is outstanding evidence of that commitment.”
About Edifecs
Edifecs is the proven provider of B2B solutions for transaction-based interoperability. Edifecs solves the interoperability problem by enabling, managing and deriving business value from standard electronic transactions within trading partner communities. Our standards-independent B2B applications include Community Enablement, Transaction Management, and Transaction based Business Intelligence. Edifecs provides solutions for over 1600 customers including 200 in healthcare. Founded in 1996, Edifecs is headquartered in Bellevue , WA . Company website: http://www.edifecs.com. Edifecs press contract: Herb Larsen , SVP Sales and Marketing, 404-307-6001.
