A Review on Factors Affecting the EDI System Migration in Logistics Umussaa’dah Adam, Mohammad Ishak Desa , Mohd Iskandar Illyas Tan 1 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia 2 Department of Industrial Computing and Modeling, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia 3 Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia Abstract The purpose of this paper is to review and analyze the state of the art of research in system migration. It is reviewed by elements of migration which are business, technology and people. The review of literature on system migration research is based on 70 referred journals, proceedings, thesis and books published from 1997 to 2010 in ISI, SCOPUS, Science Direct and IEEE explore, Emerald and JSTOR. The major findings show that there is high number of research that focused on element of technology particularly software. It is also identified that there are only a few research focused on element of people that provide migration frameworks to support organizations preparing to migrate from legacy system. Important issues highlighted in EDI migration are system integration, security and cost. None of literature found that propose migration framework from EDI to XML. Keywords: System Migration, EDI, Logistics, literature review model. 1. Introduction The new and emerging technologies in computer and information technology (IT) play significant reasons that drive for migration, making faster access is possible, lower cost, and enhanced services. The rapid changes of IT is giving reflective changes in many areas such as banking, education, politic and administrative, library sciences, engineering and logistics and supply chain management. Legacy systems are successful and therefore mature, and likely have been in existence for a long period of time. A consequence is that legacy software is built using technologies available at the time it was constructed, as opposed to the most modern software technologies. Older technologies are more difficult to maintain, and this is the major issue for many legacy system owners. A logistic technology is changing the nature of business operation; it reduced the cost of transaction and redefining organizations and their interconnections [1]. IT in logistics plays a pivotal role in firm success. Specifically, research indicates that firm success is strongly dependent on effective information sharing [2]. In recent years, a lot of technology was used to enhance the capability of logistics business process especially in data interchange. Among the technologies are Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Internet-based EDI, eXtensible Markup Language (XML), RosettaNet and others. Initially this study wants to focus on migrating from EDI to XML in logistics and supply chain management. However, because computer science and Information System (IS) is an interdisciplinary field straddling other discipline so must look not only within discipline but also outside the field [3]; in a way to have a wide view and understanding on the migration situation in more general and to learn how different field experienced their migration successfully or coupe with the failure. Besides, this paper also wants to review which elements of migration that significant and highlighted from the previous research. In the first part, this paper will discuss briefly on system migration and motivation for migration. Then, in the second part, this paper explains the methodology of reviewing systematically. Based on the analysis of 70 articles in selected journal and proceeding, this paper will highlight more on the previous research that had been done by researcher regarding elements of migration which IJCSI International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol. 9, Issue 2, No 1, March 2012 ISSN (Online): 1694-0814 www.IJCSI.org 92 Copyright (c) 2012 International Journal of Computer Science Issues. All Rights Reserved.