GXS (company)
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 1967 |
| Headquarters | Gaithersburg, MD |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | David Stanton, Chairman Bob Segert, President and Chief Executive Officer Bobby Patrick, Chief Marketing Officer Rowland Archer, Chief Technology Officer Gary Greenfield, Director and former CEO. |
| Industry | B2B e-Commerce B2B Integration |
| Products | GXS Trading Grid(R) GXS B2B Managed Services GXS Application Integrator GXS Order Lifecycle Visibility GXS Logistics Visibility GXS Intelligent Web Forms GXS Document Tracking and Control Service GXS Product Data Quality |
| Website | www.gxs.com www.gxs.co.uk |
GXS[1] is an award-winning Managed Services Company providing Business-to-Business e-Commerce services around-the-world. GXS unlocks measurable opportunities to manage and improve the ongoing complexities and costs of B2B e-Commerce. GXS provides services and expertise for a variety of vertical markets including retail/consumer packaged goods, high tech/manufacturing, automotive, and finance/banking.
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[edit] History
GXS was founded in 1967 as GE Information Services (GE IS), a computer time-sharing service based in Rockville, MD. With Dartmouth College, GE IS created the BASIC language for use their Mark I mainframe. As they expanded, they developed their Mark III global network and a variety of languages, applications, and database systems for use by businesses around the world. In their heyday as a timesharing service (the early 1980s), GE IS billed only for CPU time. Users could run GE IS-developed applications or write their own in FORTRAN-77. GE IS operated three large computer clusters called "supercenters" utilizing dozens of state-of-the-art Honeywell-6000 mainframes and hundreds of large, removable-pack disk drives.
In the mid 1980's, GE IS rapidly lost large customers due to the rise of cheap, small computers which served the same function as the Mark III service, but at a fraction of the total cost, zero incremental cost for CPU time on any specific machine, and without going through a modem. They tried to recover by focusing on selling their international network communications service instead of mainframe CPU time, but rapid advances in computer communications technology obsoleted the 110/300/1200 baud network which GE IS had invested millions in developing. in 1985 they created GEnie, one of the first online services for consumers, similar to Compuserve and AOL. However lack of support by management as well as the rise of the Internet led to the demise of GEnie... and GE IS, which was sold by General Electric and renamed GXS.
GXS is now privately owned by technology investment firms Francisco Partners of Menlo Park, California and Norwest Venture Partners based in Palo Alto, California. Since the spin-out from GE, GXS has transformed its business into a leader of B2B Managed Services for e-Commerce, which are sophisticated on-demand integration services supporting physical and financial supply chains. Within four years, GXS managed services has captured over 20% of the company's total revenues, accomplishing an annual compound growth rate exceeding 40%,
GXS today has nearly 2,000 employees and operates in every industrialized country and many emerging economies like China and the Philippines. It has regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, San Paulo, Shanghai, Sydney, and Tokyo. The company's primary data centers, which are fully-redundant, are located in Cleveland, Ohio and Amstelveen, The Netherlands. The company also operates a collocated data center in Hong Kong. GXS' primary research and development centers are located at Gaithersburg, MD; Raleigh, NC; London; Bangalore and Manila.
[edit] Business model
GXS provides business-to-business EDI and on-demand supply chain integration, synchronization and collaboration solutions. The company operates the world's largest global integration services platform, the GXS Trading Grid, which enables the real-time flow of information between businesses regardless of standards preferences, spoken language or geographic location. In 2005, GXS processed more than 4 billion business documents.
[edit] Acquisitions and partnerships
In 2004, GXS acquired HAHT Commerce, launching its global data synchronization capability.
In November 2004, webMethods and GXS formed a partnership, combining webMethods integration software with GXS Trading Grid.
In 2005, GXS acquired the EDI and Business Exchange Services assets of IBM Corporation, increasing its presence in the U.S., Japan, Europe, and Latin America.
In May 2006, Microsoft and GXS formed a partnership to integrate Microsoft technologies with the GXS Trading Grid.[2] Microsoft endorsed the GXS Trading Grid as its recommended network for Microsoft BizTalk Server. GXS and Microsoft were awarded the first Power of Partnership Award in June 2006 by START-IT magazine.
In November 2006, GXS acquired UDEX, a provider of on-demand product data cleansing, validation and certification marketed as "UDEX - A GXS Service".
On June 4, 2007, Verizon announced that it will sell GXS Trading Grid services as Custom Supply Chain Managed Services and Invoice Automation Service.
In China, GXS partnered with ChinaECnet and CEDEX to serve the Chinese high-technology and automotive industries, respectively. Other partners include [[eBRI[1]DGE Software]], epcSolutions, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, IVANs, JDA Software, Liaison Technologies, Symbol, Verizon Communications and Zebra.[citation needed]
On January 5, 2009, GXS announced its acquisition of Interchange, one of the leading e-commerce service providers in Brazil. GXS acquired Interchange from Banco Real, Citibank Brazil, EDS, an HP company, and Itaú Unibanco.
[edit] Patents
GXS patents include a system for converting a plurality of data structures within an industry, an abstract initiator, a system for access management control, a full-service e-marketplace, and an intermediary system for business document management between companies.
[edit] Products/Tools
- On-Demand Solutions and Tools
- GXS Trading Grid Messaging Service
- GXS Trading Grid Messaging Service - IE Experience
- GXS Intelligent Web Forms
- GXS B2B Managed Services
- GXS Order Lifecycle Visibility
- GXS Logistics Visibility
- GXS Accounting Packaged Accelerators
- B2B Integration Software
- GXS Enterprise Gateway
- GXS Application Integrator
- Microsoft BizTalk Server - Grid Ready
- GXS Trading Grid for Microsoft Excel
[edit] External links
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- GXS France
- GXS Germany
- GXS UK
- GXS Worldwide
