Overview

The GXS Trading Grid® is the world’s largest electronic business community. Over 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and more than 40,000 small and medium-sized businesses use the Trading Grid every day to exchange goods and services.

Enabling extensive collaboration and knowledge sharing—at minimal cost—the GXS Trading Grid provides a robust architecture that offers a variety of interfaces to business partners. With applications developed using service-oriented architecture (SOA), and able to access a wide range of infrastructure services using an enterprise services bus (ESB), the GXS Trading Grid is a specialised distributed computing platform optimised for business-to-business technologies.

The range of infrastructure services available on the GXS Trading Grid makes it the premier technology platform for working across businesses. Key services include:

• Management of trading partners and trading relationships
• One common virtual data repository for information sharing
• A centralised point of entry for trading partners that use disparate communications protocols
  • Powerful system for event management
  • Set of business services APIs offering web services access to a growing number of GXS Trading Grid features
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All of the GXS Trading Grid infrastructure and applications are connected via an enterprise services bus (ESB) that enables them to communicate both synchronously and asynchronously.
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Most applications and services also incorporate the ESB as a part of their own service-oriented architecture (SOA), which is the dominant design pattern for the GXS Trading Grid.
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Web Services are a perfect solution to supply chain communication challenges because they do not require all parties to agree on a vendor or even a particular technology.
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Leveraging both hardware and software standards, the GXS Trading Grid offers a distributed architecture that enables multiple copies of services and applications to be run in parallel. Key services are run in clusters, utilising fault-tolerant disk systems from EMC and a high availability database configuration leveraging Oracle 10g RAC.
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