Currently, various international standard organizations, academic institutes, and private organizations are making efforts to improve and expand the traditional EDI. The next generation EDI has potential to impact on the existing and planned EDI systems. Major objective of this study is to systematically analyze and compare various next generation EDI technologies. In order to accomplish the research objective, this paper presented the following three issues. First, overall development trend and types of the next generation EDI were analyzed. Secondly, basic concepts of a few important next generation EDI technologies were presented. Lastly, models to be used to analyze the various next generation EDI technologies were proposed and results of the analyses peformed based on the proposed models were presented.