An intensive tender process followed, with six well-known companies from across Europe submitting their bids. As the shortlisted providers were technically very similar, it was ultimately ecosio’s passion for this complex topic – evident both in the pitch and in the cooperation so far – that tipped the scales in its favour.

When the cooperation began in 2022, reliability and scalability were particularly important for Migros: the company wanted an EDI service provider for whom mapping is the core business, while retaining the option to adjust volumes upwards at any time, as these may well increase in the coming years. Schönmann was pleasantly surprised by how smoothly the process ran – although decades of EDI experience had introduced many peculiarities that made certain conversions challenging, ecosio’s solution worked brilliantly right from the start, and it was important to his team that they had to make as few adjustments as possible on their side.

Although Schönmann initially had concerns about handing such a business-critical area as EDI to an external, cloud-based provider, these quickly disappeared once ecosio’s capabilities became clear. For a company that had developed everything in-house for decades, a make-or-buy decision is never easy – but cloud solutions have since proven themselves even for business-critical systems.