application-centric EDI
An update to traditional electronic data interchange (EDI) that uses secure transmission methods to facilitate the exchange of information between secure applications, typically residing at different companies (e.g. vendor and customer). Deployment of such secured applications over their intranets and Internets is faster, less costly, and more effective than traditional EDI. See electronic data interchange, information security, transmission, application, intranet, and Internet in the hard copy dictionary.