GXS Paves the Way with Managed Services
AMR Alert by Mickey North Rizza, March 24, 2009
"GXS, a provider of B2B e-commerce products, delivers on-demand services through its GXS Trading Grid. These services cut across supply chain networks, optimizing product launches, automating warehouse receiving, and managing electronic payments, all while providing supply chain visibility. Even though these capabilities provide great value, it’s GXS’s outsourcing product, Managed Services, that has enhanced the company’s value significantly. This value can be found in three of its offerings: EDI Outsourcing, B2B Consolidation, and Global Community Enablement."

ERP Projects Create Significant B2B Opportunities
By Karen Carter, Dennis Gaughan and Jim Shephard, August 2009
“Our study revealed that 34% of the data feeding ERP systems comes from external sources, further highlighting the importance of the relationship between ERP and B2B.”

Managed Services Emerges as a Common Thread in B2B Discussions
By Dennis Gaughan, September 2009
“There is one common thread through these discussions: interest in moving B2B integration responsibility to a managed service provider. Companies recognize how ERP upgrades, expanding partner communities, and consolidating trading partner visibility can be faster, cheaper, and easier when using managed services from a B2B provider.”

GXS Competitor Assessment
by Brad Shimmin, July 25, 2008
“GXS continues to address supply chain inefficiencies stemming from inadequate visibility and integration between constituent ERP systems and the supply chain as a whole. To this end, GXS has recently achieved “Certified ”status for NetWeaver version 6.”




Joint Industry EDI/B2B Survey, March 2010
Forrester Consulting recently conducted a survey of 300 IT professionals around the world to capture a snapshot of companies’ EDI/B2B environments and to gauge the future plans of both enterprises and SMBs as they relate to B2B. The Forrester study captures key issues and trends impacting the B2B landscape, including:

• Enterprise plans related to the ongoing usage/expansion of usage of EDI
• Enterprise plans related to other data formats (XML, flat files, spreadsheets)
• Enterprise plans for B2B modernization
• The impact of SaaS alternatives on the EDI/B2B market
• Trends related to the adoption of managed EDI/B2B services

The study was global in scope and included respondents from multiple vertical industries including automotive, high tech, retail/wholesale, manufacturing, financial services and others.

• Forrester: The Impact Of A GXS/Inovis Merger, December 9, 2009
  by Ken Vollmer
  “First, this is a merger of industry-leading firms. GXS and Inovis scored first and second, respectively, in our recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation of B2B service providers comparing product features and vendor strategy.”

• The Forrester WaveTM for B2B Service Providers Q4 2009
  By Ken Vollmer
  “Supporting the exchange of more than 8 billion transactions per year, GXS is the “biggest of the big three” B2B service providers. It has more than 30,000 unique customers and supports more than six million trading partner relationships. GXS has a strong focus on providing complete managed services for B2B integration but also provides hosted document exchange for some customers.”
  
  2009 Update: Evaluating Integration Alternatives
  By Ken Vollmer and Rob Karel
  “IC-BPMS (Integration-Centric Business Process Management Suites) solutions have proven to be particularly well suited to assisting enterprises in making improvements in both operational efficiency and business innovation. In the area of operational efficiency, tools in this category are frequently used to support process automation that results in increased employee productivity, faster cycle times, and improved operational agility.”
• It's Time To Revisit Product Information Management (PIM)
  By Rob Karel
  “Integration and business process management are fundamental requirement for any MDM architecture. Any organization that identifies integration competency as critical path to success — be it B2B integration with trading partners or integration requirements within your firewall — should consider partnering with a vendor with a strong message on how they can effectively support these capabilities.”

• GXS positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers
  Gartner, Inc., by Benoit J. Lheureux, Paolo Malinverno, 28 May 2008
  “Increasing automation, international e-commerce, business-to-business service-oriented architecture, cloud computing and vendor innovation are driving new offerings, infrastructure improvements and consolidation in the integration-as-a-service and B2B project outsourcing market segments.”
• Business Process Networks Offer Solutions for Collaborative Multienterprise Process Integration Gartner, Inc.
  byBenoit J. Lheureux and Paolo Malinverno September 21, 2009
  “Providers of IaaS, such as GXS, Inovis and Sterling Commerce, also operate private BPNs (for example, to support the supply chains for specific retailers or manufacturers) and public BPNs, such as GDS, so that their customers can publish product information to regional data pools.
• Magic Quadrant for Managed File Transfer
  by L. Frank Kenney September 18, 2009
  “As one of the largest and most widely used B2B integration service providers, GXS has the opportunity to crisply articulate what it means to be an MFTaaS provider. The vendor's network provides a variety of value-added services, from transformation to business intelligence, all of which can be combined with basic file transfer capabilities.”
• GXS and RollStream Will Help Lower the Cost of Running Large B2B Communities
  Benoit J. Lheureux and Paolo Malinverno, July 31 2009
  “GXS is modernizing its B2B Trading Grid network with collaborative community management capabilities from RollStream. This will make it easier and less expensive for GXS and its customers to run large B2B projects.”
• Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2009
  By Benoit Lheureux and Paolo Malinverno, July 16, 2009
  “The widespread use of IaaS for traditional e-commerce projects has been pulling IaaS steadily up the slope toward the Plateau of Productivity, and the fast-growing adoption of IaaS for multienterprise SOA projects and cloud-computing/SaaS integration projects will help drive IaaS momentum up the slope and ultimately into the Plateau of Productivity during the next few years.”