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Lobster Data Platform Overview
Your data is scattered across dozens of partners, formats, and systems. Lobster brings them together — so you can integrate anything, while staying in control of every step.
2,000+ clients in logistics, manufacturing, and retail use Lobster
Supply chain data moves across many parties, systems, and formats every day. And data fragmentation has a real operational cost. Lobster helps organisations remove bottlenecks and keep data flowing.
Automate time-consuming manual tasks, integrate data from trading partners,
and maintain full data transparency.
Without rip-and-replace or custom coding.
increase in daily data volume
faster order processing
daily emails automated
After 20+ years in the industry, we know there's no such thing as a standard data setup.
Our platform is designed to help you build connections you need, they way you want.
Bring internal systems, applications, and data together. Replace your fragmented environment with data flows that connect all core systems and apps.
Only with Lobster: securely bring legacy platforms online with Lobster Bridge
“It runs in the background; silently and seamlessly connecting our systems and transforming our data into useful pieces of information. And we haven’t even scratched the surface.”
Rashu Singla, Team Lead Digitalization, AI and IT Service, Schleich GmbH
Bring in new partners doesn’t have to take months. Build and customise bilateral data workflows across suppliers, customers and carriers. Onboard in days.
Only with Lobster: Speed up onboarding for low-tech partners through WebEDI portals
“On the input side, we’re connecting with more than 100 partners … stuff that used to take a day now takes 10 minutes in throughput time and we don’t even have to look at it. It’s magic.”
Bardo Schütz, CIO, Customs Support Group
Build complex workflows that allow your team to interact with data — and act on it. Visualise data flows, ingest data from partners, send updates to customers, and more.
Only with Lobster: Built-in lightweight portals and apps to get input and track data from trading partners
“We were able to create transparency and reliability throughout the entire cold chain. Real-time temperature data enables proactive action, improves product quality, and strengthens our customers’ trust.”
Oliver Blum, Head of Airmail, Courier & Perishables Handling, Lufthansa Cargo AG
Give your AI tools access to all data for accurate performance, while keeping data flows fully transparent and easy to review. Even for non-IT team members.
Only with Lobster: built-in AI-readiness — without having to plan for security or governance issues
“We’re absolutely thrilled with Lobster. Our flexibility has soared, and we’ve achieved significant savings in both cost and time.”
Dietmar Quatember, IT Division Manager, Salinen Austria
Your built-in AI companion that helps create, troubleshoot, and optimise integrations. No technical skills required.
Read some of our G2 reviews from supply chain customers:
Read more on G2Complex data flows can be visually modelled — with loops, conditions, transformations ... Once set up, EDI processes run smoothly. Errors are clearly displayed, with details on the source and processing — much better than typical logfile searching. Whether EDIFACT, CSV, XML, JSON, or proprietary formats — everything can be processed, sent, or received.
Read more on G2Lobster has become an integral part of our environment, seamlessly connecting both our internal and external systems. The application handles everything from our EDI and API integration to ETL, just to name a few. I have personally used Lobster for three years now, and I have never encountered an integration task I couldn't solve with it.
Read more on G2I really like the usability of the Lobster Data Platform, as well as the vast amount of functions and integration options it offers. The large scale of data flows the platform can handle is impressive, and many functions are crucial for us as a logistics company. The initial setup process was very easy.
Stay ahead of your regulatory environment with secure and compliant data integration.
Lobster is designed to solve supply chain industry data connectivity challenges.
See our answers to common questions about using the platform below.
Lobster is built based on 20+ years of experience working with supply chain organisations. This means that our platform has been designed to help solve data connectivity issues for companies in retail, manufacturing, and logistics. From working with low-tech trading partners to regulated industry compliance requirements.
Lobster is designed as a low-code solution to support IT and business users and automate most of the data management steps. IT users can build connections faster with function finder and RegEx, SQL, and Cron syntax generation. Business users can use Lobster’s visual mapping to configure and manage integrations, including complex logic, without coding.
Lobster supports multiple EDI standards and protocols with proven reliability.
Here are some of them: AS2, AS4, OFTP, SFTP, FTP, HTTP, AMQP, Kafka, JDBC, MQTT, TCP, OPC-UA, Mail, SMB, SCP, X.400. Reach out if you need to confirm support for a specific protocol.
Lobster supports legacy system integrations. For example, you can integrate legacy systems using OFTP and X.400 with modern cloud services utilizing HTTP and Kafka.
Yes, Lobster is used by supply chain enterprises like Lufthansa Cargo, Epson Europe, Schleich, and many more. It has both enterprise-level security and the ability to handle high volumes of data and complex workflows.
Lobster is designed to make deployment as quick as possible.
Depending on the chosen deployment mode and integration needs, it can take anything from days to weeks.
For supply chain companies that choose Lobster Cloud, most of the setup will be automated, even if your team doesn’t have deep cloud expertise.
Lobster is GDPR-compliant and provides enterprise-level security, including ISO 27001 and ISO 27018 certifications and SAP S/4HANA certification. It also has strong certificate management and data governance policies.
Internally, we follow these security practices:
● Strict access controls applied to all sensitive data and systems
● Industry-standard encryption protocols
● Data minimization, purpose limitation, and support for data portability and erasure rights
● Dedicated security team to ensure business continuity
In addition to online training programs, we also offer remote and in-person training. Read more about training options here.
Lobster is developed to make data workflow development easy. Most of the teams are able to design and build their own workflows with our drag-and-drop interface, OOTB integrations and pre-built templates without any external help.
With Pathfinder AI, it’s even easier for non-IT users to understand the process map, interpret logs, and have team questions answered through natural language queries. If you have specific concerns around complex data workflows and integrations, reach out, and we’ll cover relevant Lobster capabilities in a demo tailored to your needs.
See how Lobster Data Platform fits into your world. Get a custom walk-through built around your systems and the data challenges you’re trying solve.
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