Guidelines for designing interfaces

Hi,
We are in the process of implementing SAP. Are there any guidelines while designing interfaces, when one should one design an interface where data transfer in an interface is done
1) using ALE-Idocs,
2) when should data be transffered using flat file and
3) when should we have an EDI interface?
Thanks,
Peter

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