Utility Industry

With the help of the UIG (Utility Industry Group), EDI is widely used throughout the utility industry. The UIG has defined a more selective subset of the ANSI X12 standard for many of the EDI transactions exchanged by utilities and their trading partners.

Some of the common EDI transactions customized by the UIG and exchanged by Softshare's clients within the utility industry are listed next.

Softshare is very familiar with these EDI transactions, and our various EDI solutions support all of them.

Our enterprise integration solution, which consists of Softshare Delta, our data translator, and Softshare ECS, our e-commerce communications server, provides for seamless integration of EDI into your overall business processes. Softshare's professional services group can assist with implementation or provide training if you want to develop your own data translation maps.

If your company is not ready for full-scale EDI integration, you can connect to your utility partners using Softshare Athena, our Web EDI solution, or Softshare Vista, our Windows-based desktop EDI solution. Both of these solutions are forms-based, making the exchange of EDI documents similar to that of e-mail.

Several of the more well-known utility companies that Softshare software users exchange EDI documents with are listed next. The highlighted companies are those that we have created forms (i.e. trading partner kits) for, and you can click on them to learn more about their EDI programs.