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March 3, 2024

Stedi's drop-in replacements for critical Change Healthcare APIs

The prolonged Change Healthcare outage due to a cyberattack has left thousands of healthcare providers unable to submit claims, eligibility checks, and other critical transactions to payers. The outage is expected to continue for weeks. Companies have been scrambling to implement solutions to get back online but are faced with large development efforts to switch to bespoke API formats offered by other clearinghouses.

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January 15, 2024

Introducing Stedi Essentials: no-code, flat rate EDI

Today, we’re excited to announce Stedi Essentials, a new plan that includes everything you need to build end-to-end EDI integrations with your trading partners, all for a flat price of $2000 per month.

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November 30, 2023

EDI for developers: turn EDI into JSON

So, you’ve been tasked with “figuring out EDI.” Maybe you’re in the supply chain or logistics world, or maybe you’re building a product in the healthcare or insurance space – chances are that you’re reading this because one of your large customers, vendors, or partners said that if you want to move the relationship forward, you have to do something called EDI: Electronic Data Interchange.

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November 14, 2023

How to process (extremely) large EDI files with Stedi

Large EDI files are common across many industries, including healthcare (such as 834 Benefit Enrollments), logistics (210 Motor Carrier Freight Details and Invoices), and retail (846 Inventory Advice). Unlike most other EDI solutions, Stedi has virtually no file size limitations and can process EDI files that are gigabytes in size.

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July 12, 2023

Trigger functions automatically with Stedi Core events and custom schedules

We recently launched Stedi Core, an event-driven EDI system that does most of the heavy lifting for EDI integrations. Core can validate, parse, and generate EDI for any trading partner and provides complete visibility into your real-time transaction data.

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June 20, 2023

Introducing large file support: Process EDI files up to 500MB (and growing)

EDI formats are designed to use as little space as possible, but most companies still eventually need to process files that are tens or hundreds of megabytes. Unfortunately, large EDI files are a notorious pain point for EDI systems, as most cannot handle payloads over a few dozen megabytes and sometimes take hours or days to work through larger payloads.

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June 6, 2023

Stedi: EDI integrations in minutes, no assembly required

Over the past 18 months, Stedi launched eight key building blocks for developing EDI systems.

We designed these developer-focused products to address the major flaws in existing EDI solutions: a lack of control, extensibility, or both. While our building blocks solved these problems, stitching them together into an end-to-end EDI integration still required substantial development effort—until today.

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February 23, 2023

Relative performance tradeoffs of AWS-native provisioning methods

There are many different ways to provision AWS services, and we use several of them to address different use cases at Stedi. We set out to benchmark the performance of each option – direct APIs, Cloud Control, CloudFormation, and Service Catalog.

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Zack Kanter
February 21, 2023

Introducing Stedi's X12 HIPAA guides

EDI is more prevalent in healthcare than in any other industry, yet EDI specifications for healthcare are some of the most challenging and opaque standards to understand.

The format, commonly known as X12 HIPAA, is captured in a series of PDFs that are up to 700 pages long. These PDFs aren't available to the general public and they don't provide machine-readable schemas for parsing, generating, or validating files. These challenges have made working directly with X12 HIPAA transactions out of reach for all but the largest companies - until now.

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January 26, 2023

How Stedi uses automated reasoning for access control policy verification

Stedi’s cloud EDI platform handles sensitive customer data, from business transactions like Purchase Orders and Invoices to healthcare data like Benefits Enrollments and Prior Authorizations. While we maintain a SOC 2 Type II compliance certification and our products have been certified as HIPAA-eligible by an external audit, we view these industry standards as minimum baselines and are constantly evaluating ways to elevate our security posture.

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January 25, 2023

Stedi achieves SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA eligibility certification: Ensuring the highest standards for securing customer data

At Stedi, we have always prioritized the security and privacy of our customers and their data. That is why we are thrilled to announce that Stedi has received SOC 2 Type II compliance certification and our products have been certified as HIPAA eligible by an external audit.

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Mohan Pichika
November 29, 2022

Functions: Extensibility to meet the demands of any EDI integration

This post mentions Stedi’s EDI Translate API. Converting EDI into JSON remains a key Stedi offering, however EDI Translate has been superseded by the Stedi EDI platform, an event-driven EDI system that allows you to configure integrations without being an EDI or development expert.

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November 3, 2022

Public Guides: next-generation EDI implementation guides for real-time partner onboarding

Every EDI relationship begins with an implementation guide. These EDI implementation guides have been shared in the same format for decades – they’re typically PDFs with dozens or hundreds of pages of details to sift through, and a successful EDI implementation requires getting the details just right.

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Mohan Pichika
October 26, 2022

Translate between JSON and EDI with modern, machine-readable EDI specifications

Developers building EDI integrations often find that receiving EDI documents is relatively straightforward compared to the difficulty of sending EDI documents. What makes these use cases so different?

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Mohan Pichika
October 20, 2022

Stedi Guides: Shareable EDI implementation guides for modern EDI integrations

This post mentions Stedi’s EDI Translate API. Converting EDI into JSON remains a key Stedi offering, however EDI Translate has been superseded by the Stedi EDI platform, an event-driven EDI system that allows you to configure integrations without being an EDI or development expert.

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Mohan Pichika
August 2, 2022

Hello, Buckets

Stedi Buckets is worth getting excited about, or at least so I’m told. We launched it together with Stedi SFTP and I can’t help but feel that SFTP stole the show that day. Receive documents from customers without hassle? That is solving a business problem. But storing those documents? Sure, it’s necessary, but there’s not a lot for me to do with documents that just sit there. Unless you give me programmatic access. Then I can do with them whatever I want and that gets my coder’s heart pumping.

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Joost Ronkes Agerbeek
July 12, 2022

Introducing serverless SFTP and infinitely-scalable data storage

Building an EDI system or B2B integration requires a secure, scalable way to exchange files with trading partners. With Stedi SFTP, developers can provision users and begin transferring files in seconds. Files received via Stedi SFTP are immediately available in Stedi Buckets - a simple, reliable data store – for further processing. With a usage-based pricing model and no servers to manage, builders can easily offer SFTP connectivity to their trading partners as part of a new or existing B2B workflow without incurring fixed costs or operational overhead.

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Kasia Fojucik
June 24, 2022

Transaction set variants in the Amazon 850 Purchase Order

A colleague told me about transaction set variants and now I want to get some more experience with them myself. In a nutshell, the problem is that one transaction set can represent different kinds of documents. For example, he showed me an implementation guide that specified that the 204 Motor Carrier Load Tender could be used to create, cancel, modify, or confirm a load tender. That feels like four different documents to me, but they are all represented by the same transaction set. So, how do you deal with that in practice?

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Joost Ronkes Agerbeek
June 22, 2022

Getting started with the X12 file format

This post mentions Stedi’s EDI Core API. Converting EDI into JSON remains a key Stedi offering, however EDI Core API has been superseded by the Stedi EDI platform, an event-driven EDI system that allows you to configure integrations without being an EDI or development expert.

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Alex DeBrie
June 13, 2022

Two messy kittens and a missing EDI 214

I don’t blame EDI for failures in logistics any more than I blame kittens for messing up my floor. I only got Sam and Toby a day ago, but they’re the cutest balls of fuzz ever to grow legs and they jumped straight into my heart. Still, as I’m staring at the puddle on my floor, I’m convinced that there's a design flaw in their digestive system. I don’t remember their breakfast being this chunky, or this sticky. Sputter gunk kittens are a new experience for me, so I call a friend and she recommends a steam cleaner.

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Joost Ronkes Agerbeek
June 7, 2022

Control numbers in X12 EDI

The concept behind control numbers is pretty straightforward, but to work with them in practice, there are a lot of details you need to understand. For example, an interchange control number is a unique identifier for an interchange and you can use it to acknowledge that you received an interchange. In practice, it’s only unique within a certain scope, trading partners may have their own expectations about them regardless of the standard, and it’s uncommon to use them in acknowledgments. And all of that is assuming that you know what an interchange is.

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Joost Ronkes Agerbeek
May 31, 2022

How to ensure cross-region data integrity with Amazon DynamoDB global tables

At Stedi, we are fans of everything related to AWS and serverless. By standing on the shoulders of giants, the engineering teams can quickly iterate on their ideas by not having to reinvent the wheel. Serverless-first development allows product backends to scale elastically with low maintenance effort and costs.

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Wojciech Matuszewski
May 24, 2022

Excerpts from the annual letter

Below is an edited version of our internal annual letter.
Our business is the business of business systems – specifically, we offer a catalog of tools that developers can use to build integration systems for themselves and their customers.

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Zack Kanter
May 11, 2022

Date and time in EDI

The trick to dealing with date and time in an X12 EDI document is to make things easy for yourself. EDI isn’t going to do that for you. EDI makes it possible to put a date on a business document in any way a human being has ever come up with and that flexibility comes at a cost: it’s downright confusing. You don’t have to deal with that confusion, though, because you don’t have to deal with that flexibility. It all starts with the implementation guide that you received from your trading partner.

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Joost Ronkes Agerbeek
April 14, 2022

JSONata Playground

When a question about JSONata turns up on StackOverflow, we do our best to answer it. Not because it's part of our strategy, or because we are building our corporate image, but because we like to help out. And we like to impress a little bit, too.

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Joost Ronkes Agerbeek
April 13, 2022

Parallel CDK stack deployments with GitHub Actions

One deployment per hour is far too slow. Our initial deployment style starts with a paths filter to limit what stacks deploy, based on files and folders changed in a commit. We start our project this way thinking it will give us quick deploys for infrequently changed stacks. As our project grows, though, this is taking too long to deploy. Based on our analysis, our fastest recorded deployment time is 13.5 minutes, but our slowest deployments take up to 40 minutes. We are confident we can get our p99 down to 20 minutes or less.

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Ken Winner
February 24, 2022

Introducing lookup tables in Mappings

This post mentions Stedi’s EDI Core API. Converting EDI into JSON remains a key Stedi offering, however EDI Core API has been superseded by the Stedi EDI platform, an event-driven EDI system that allows you to configure integrations without being an EDI or development expert.

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David Kanter
February 3, 2022

EDI Core: the foundation of any reliable EDI system

This post mentions Stedi’s EDI Core API. Converting EDI into JSON remains a key Stedi offering, however EDI Core API has been superseded by Stedi Core, an event-driven EDI system that allows you to configure integrations without being an EDI or development expert.

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Kasia Fojucik
January 26, 2022

Complex data transformations made simple with Mappings

Business integrations are anything but straightforward – they are typically composed of many steps that need to be executed sequentially to process a single business transaction.

At a high level, each step can be divided into one of two categories: transporting data and transforming data. In order to enable developers to implement all manner of data transformations with ease, we've built Mappings.

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Tomasz Łakomy
January 20, 2022

Announcing 85%+ price decreases and expanded free tiers for EDI Core, Mappings

This post mentions Stedi’s EDI Core API. Converting EDI into JSON remains a key Stedi offering, however EDI Core API has been superseded by Stedi Core, an event-driven EDI system that allows you to configure integrations without being an EDI or development expert.

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David Kanter
January 5, 2022

What makes EDI so hard?

EDI – Electronic Data Interchange – is an umbrella term for many different “standardized” frameworks for exchanging business-to-business transactions. It dates back to the 1960s and remains a pain point in every commercial industry from supply chain and logistics to healthcare and finance. What makes it so hard? Why is it still an unsolved problem despite many decades of immense usage?

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