Commerce One has announced an alliance with GE Global Exchange Services (GXS). The alliance is intended to drive significant transactions through Commerce One’s open e-maketplaces by creating an easy onramp for GXS customers that utilizes existing technology investments (including EDI). The alliance provides a clear migration path from EDI to Internet commerce for GXS’ customer base.
GE Global eXchange Services (GXS) and Commerce One intend to form a B2B alliance that will bring together their complimentary technologies and marketplace strengths to increase access to more open e-marketplaces. Definitive agreements are expected to be executed during the third quarter of 2000.
Commerce One’s e-marketplaces will be supported by GXS transaction processing and trading partner enablement capabilities. The resulting interoperability between GXS’ data transaction and translation technology and services (including EDI) and Commerce One’s XML Common Business Library (xCBL) based e-commerce solutions is expected to significantly increase the number of buyers and sellers who can transact business with one another on a global basis.
In addition to this technology support, the alliance will provide GXS’ network of 100,000 trading partners with access to the scores of open e-marketplaces in Commerce One’s Global Trading Web. Access will be provided using Commerce One’s e-procurement solution, BuySite Portal Edition. GXS has licensed BuySite Portal Edition in support of e-commerce initiatives throughout the GXS customer base.
“Our focus is clearly on the customer and this alliance will allow our customers to take advantage of expanded trading relationships,” said Harvey Seegers, president and CEO of GXS. “Key to this agreement is the unprecedented synergy between GXS’ data transaction and translation services and Commerce One’s Web-based solutions. We expect the result to provide significantly more real-time transactions between buyers and sellers worldwide.”
“Commerce One is focused on delivering the world’s premier e-marketplaces, and the key to that is delivering easy access to those marketplaces from any type of platform,” said Robert Kimmitt, president of Commerce One. “We anticipate that our alliance with GXS will allow companies to combine the flexibility and power of Web-based trading with the efficiencies of computer-to-computer trading to increase transparency and boost cost savings throughout the supply chain.”