For users interested in an Electronic Data Interchange product, i-effect, V1R2 from menten EDV-Beratung GmbH stands out among other offerings.

Using i-effect you can easily include your iSeries data in all types of business communications to other user, applications and platforms, using all interchange formats. i-effect covers all data conversion: export of DB2 files into report formats, spooled files into many formats, EDIFACT and flat-file conversion, and data compression and encryption for archiving and secure communication.

You can implement i-effect as an all-in-one solution or select individual modules, such as *AS2 for secure data transfer, *CRYPT for digital signatures and *SERVER to initiate and monitor functions. Pricing for the modules, which is in euros, ranges from 950 to 5,000.

"It's a full-featured data extraction, data transfer tool that is priced appropriately," one judge said. "It saves work compared with the available open-source tools."

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