Original publication date: December, 2009
Although we won’t officially retire Softshare Vista until 2011, it has already been sunsetted. This means that Softshare is no longer updating the product and, at the end of 2009, will discontinue the development of Vista trading partner kits (TPKs).
If you’re a Vista user, don’t worry, your EDI operations will remain in good hands. Softshare has two great upgrade options for you to choose from:
If you’re running Vista as a communications module for Softshare Delta, you’ll want to upgrade to ECS Lite. ECS Lite is well suited for interacting with Delta. In fact, ECS Lite provides much better visibility and control over data flow and exception handling than Vista does. To learn more, visit our ECS Web pages.
If you’re using Vista’s forms-based templates to view and create EDI documents, you’ll want to convert to Athena, our Web EDI solution, for FREE! Athena offers the same attractive templates that you see in Vista as well as other identical features such as management reports, duplicate tracking, and automated acknowledgment generation. The conversion from Vista to Athena is currently offered free of charge and our network subscription rates are the same under both solutions. However, if you’re using Vista’s bar coding, FTP, or AS2 features, it’s important to note that your Softshare account structure will change slightly and you should ask a sales representative for more details. To learn more, visit our Athena Web pages.