Conversion Agent ?

Hi experts,
Our scenario is EDI-X12 data to XI to R/3 (both side)
For Converison Purpose,
We want to use Conversion Agent by Itemfield, but there are some other options also in the market like Seeburger and Iway adapters.
We have approx 50-60 EDI Scenarios.
Now, we want to justify that why we are using Conversion Agent not other adapters ?
Please help us ?
Regards,
Study SAP

hi,
SAP Conversion Agent together with SAP Net Weaver, enables to automate complex integration activities for a multitude of data and document formats. These include unstructured and partially structured documents such as Office files, data streams, printing applications, and other application-specific formats.
Easily integrate unstructured and semi-structured data into SAP Net Weaver Process Integration using the Conversion Agent.
Conversion Agent dynamically converts unstructured messages from   Microsoft Word,Excel,PDF plain text.
Semi-structured formats such as HL7,SWIFT,HIPA, ANSI X12 and COBOL to   PI understandable SOAP XML.
          So that it helps to easily integrate the information need into the back-end systems. Conversion can also be used as the reverse process to convert from XML to unstructured or semi-structured formats
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/xi/sap%2bconversion%2bagent%2b-%2bthe%2blong%2bjourney
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regards
sr

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Hi,
Why dont u got for seeburger for the EDI mapping into XML,seeburger have the standasrd mappings which are predefined and u have to define them in ur module tab in adapter.
Coverstion agant is a tool which will convert any type data that u imazine into XML but it done have the standard mappings predifined.
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/43/4c38c4cf105f85e10000000a1553f6/content.htm
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/people/paul.medaille/blog/2005/11/17/more-on-the-sap-conversion-agent-by-itemfield
http://www.stylusstudio.com/edi/XML_to_X12.html
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Hi Lawrence,
Thanks for your reply,
There is only one project and at CMD when we are trying to run it is running fine,
in the result is creating XML Message.
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