Comparatio: EDI engineers you know by first name.
Founded in 2006 in Minnesota. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Constellation Software since December 2023. Around 190 customers — and most of them address our engineers by first name, rather than as a ticket queue.
- 2006
- Founded in Minnesota
- 70+
- Combined years of P21 expertise
- ~190
- Customers
- 100M+
- EDI transactions in 2025
Our story
Twenty years of doing one thing well
Comparatio was founded in May 2006 in Minnesota and has been building EDI software from St. Louis Park ever since. What started as custom software development became a single focus: the EDI platform that connects distributors, manufacturers, and their trading partners — with the team carrying 70+ combined years of Prophet 21 expertise behind it.
Since December 2023
Backed by Constellation Software
Comparatio is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Constellation Software — enterprise-grade stability and security governance behind a company that still answers the phone like a small one. Your EDI provider is not going anywhere.
How we work
Named engineers, not a ticket queue
Same-day map updates for existing partners. New document types supported within 24 hours. And monitoring that opens the ticket before you notice the problem — usually with a first name already on it.
Leadership
The people your team will actually know
First names on purpose — that's how customers address us every day.
Jan
Jan Poehland — Founder & President
Building software for more than two decades — originally from Germany, studied in Chemnitz, now home in the Twin Cities. Jan still works hands-on in the platform, and customers email him directly.
Chad
Chad Burnett — Support Manager / COO
Came up through the EDI work itself — EDI Specialist, then EDI Support Manager, now COO. When your integration has a question, Chad has usually seen it before.
Mark
Mark Populorum — Director of Sales
Two decades in sales for tech and software. Mark is the first call for most customers — and the one who makes sure what was promised is what ships.
Tyson
Tyson Pickelmann — EDI Engineer
One of the engineers customers work with by name. When a trading-partner map needs a same-day update, odds are Tyson is the one who ships it.
John
John Hamtil — EDI Developer
Works on the platform itself — the mapping engine and the integrations that sit behind every document flow.
Douglas
Douglas Boyce — EDI Support Developer
Sits where support meets development: the fixes customers ask for get built by the same person who picked up the ticket.
What we build
One platform, watched around the clock
Everything Comparatio ships serves the same goal: EDI that runs without your attention. The platform moves the documents, validates them field by field, and watches for the ones that never arrive.
Want to know who you'd actually be working with?
Ask for a demo and you'll meet the engineers, not a sales deck. We've been doing this from Minnesota since 2006.