Liaison Athena Web-Based EDI Application
Software updates. VAN fees. Additional servers. Training. Many of the solutions created to solve your EDI challenges only add cost and complexity to your business.
Say goodbye to costly software and installation fees. Forget about operating system conflicts. With Athena, Liaison's affordable web-based EDI solution, you’ll be exchanging EDI documents with your trading partners in a matter of hours, in an environment that’s as familiar as e-mail.
Web EDI at Its Easiest—and Most Sophisticated
With Athena, you get a customizable, maintenance-free, accessible-from-anywhere web EDI application with no limits on the number of trading partners or EDI documents you can manage from its intuitive interface. Athena’s robust set of features helps you:
- Reduce the learning curve: View, create and exchange EDI documents in an environment as familiar and effortless to navigate as e-mail. New documents arrive in your inbox and sent documents live in your sent folder. Need to create an invoice in response to a purchase order? Simply use the reply command.
- Simplify document management: Alerts ensure you are notified the second new documents arrive in your inbox. Broad keyword and advanced search capabilities enable you to swiftly locate documents based on a wide range of criteria. Dynamic reports provide a snapshot summary of a variety of EDI activities. With Athena, unparalleled organization is only a click away.
- Realize time-saving efficiencies: Forms-based document templates based on your trading partners’ EDI implementation conventions allow you to quickly create and trade an unlimited number of document types, reducing the amount of manual data entry required and improving efficiency.
- Guarantee compliance and cost-savings: Athena compares the data in your outgoing EDI documents to your trading partner’s specifications to ensure that you always send compliant EDI documents and avoid the fees that many trading partners assess for non-compliance.