“GXS is deeply involved in helping customers to understand the opportunities and challenges associated with e-invoicing adoption, which can range from cost savings to improved governance and supplier relationships” commented Nigel Taylor, global head of e-invoicing, GXS. “The European Commission has stated that e-invoicing should be the primary method of invoicing by 2020, and I am delighted to have been voted onto the EESPA executive committee to help to support this goal.”

Nigel has also presented extensively on e-invoicing, including recent educational webinars, “Lost in the Hype of e -invoicing. Don’t know where to begin?” and “How to Build a Believable (But Compelling) e-invoicing Business Case”.

For more information about e-invoicing visit our new informational and educational site, E-Invoicing Basics, at www.einvoicingbasics.co.uk.

About GXS

GXS is a leading B2B integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 400,000 businesses, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 23 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid® with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,300 professionals. To learn more, see www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at www.gxsblogs.com, follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/gxs. You can also access our public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.

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This press release may contain “forward-looking statements.” All statements, other than statements of historical facts, that address activities, events or developments that the company expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are affected by risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including but not limited to those set forth in the company’s public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Accordingly, actual results or outcomes may differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on these statements and the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise.

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Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

This CAB was formed in 2008 by Inovis and following the Inovis/GXS merger the board has evolved into the GXS UK CAB, which includes original participating companies such as Danone, Bernard Matthews, Moto Hospitality, NMBS and Polypipe, as well as a number of new GXS customer members.

The GXS UK CAB members participate on a voluntary basis to provide insights and direction to GXS, share best practices, helping to shape the GXS business for the benefit of members and the wider GXS UK customer base. Focus areas include:

• General market and industry trends
• Sharing of current/future B2B integration business challenges and ways to address them
• Product/service enhancement recommendations
• Product roadmap ideas, direction and prioritisation

Details of the event are as follows:

About GXS:
GXS is a leading B2B integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 400,000 businesses, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 23 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid® with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,300 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://www.gxsblogs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs. You can also access our public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release may contain “forward-looking statements.” All statements, other than statements of historical facts, that address activities, events or developments that the company expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are affected by risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including but not limited to those set forth in the company’s public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Accordingly, actual results or outcomes may differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on these statements and the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408  / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

#1 – Cloud-Based Integration Platforms Come of Age
The market is at the right inflection point to massively adopt cloud-based integration. Much like SalesForce.com has built a platform for cloud-based applications in the CRM area, cloud-based integration platforms will emerge to support information exchanges between corporate ERP systems.

#2 – ERP and SaaS Providers Seek Partners for Cloud Integration
Traditionally, developers of ERP and supply chain applications have left the connectivity and integration of business partners to the customer’s IT department. In 2012 we will see more ERP and supply chain vendors leveraging cloud-based integration platforms to accelerate implementation.

#3 – Purchase Orders become Cross-Channel in Retail
As mobile goes mainstream and online sales reach double-digit percentages in many categories, retailers are re-engineering their supply chains to support these fast growing channels. In 2012, retail industry associations will lead efforts to enhance the standard B2B e-commerce transactions to better accommodate the cross-channel model. <<Read more>>

#4 – Next Best Offer Forces Marketing to Align with Supply Chain
Next Best Offer (NBO) is the analysis that determines, often within 200 milliseconds, which marketing offer is most likely to entice customers. To deliver on NBO, the entire retail supply chain will need to exchange price and promotions information in real time. <<Read more>>

#5 – Consolidation Wave Hits e-Invoicing
More than 550 vendors provide e-invoicing services in Europe alone, many of which are small providers with less than $50 million in annual revenues. In 2012, we will see a continuation in the consolidation of the e-invoicing  sector that started in 2011 when SAP acquired Crossgate and Ariba acquired b-process.

#6 – Austerity Drives Public Sector e-Invoicing Adoption
Within Europe and the United States, austerity and growth are the government watchwords of today. By implementing e-invoicing, public sector authorities can decrease back-office expenses. Already, the governments of Norway, Denmark, Spain and Greece have announced e-invoicing programs. More will follow in 2012. <<Read more>>

#7 – Bank Payment Obligation Booms in Emerging Markets
Suppliers in emerging markets are beginning to push back on open account terms due to the credit risk imposed on them. Paper-based letters of credit (L/C) are not an attractive alternative due to the costs. The Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) functionality of SWIFT’s Trade Services Utility (TSU) may be the answer.  <<Read more>>

#8 – Supplier Risk Management
At least three Global 1000 brands will suffer a public relations disaster in 2012 for issues related to environmental impact, product quality and human rights in their supply chains. As a result, risk management in their supplier community will become a paramount concern in 2012.

#9 – Freemium Models Gain Traction in B2B
In a freemium model the majority of users are subsidised by a small group of customers who pay for access to enhanced features. Examples of freemium models already exist in the EDI network and e-invoicing sectors.  In 2012, we will see a freemium-style file sharing service enter  B2B.

#10 – OFTP 2.0 Adoption Levels to Triple
OFTP2 has seen widespread adoption by the major car manufacturers and tier 1 suppliers in Europe. Expect the use of OFTP2 to expand beyond Europe in 2012. The increasing requirement to exchange engineering and design files has led automakers to find a reliable, secure and fast way to exchange this big data. <<Read more>>

#11 – The End of Managed File Transfer
Historically, technical and commercial limitations drove a distinction between moving small and large, structured and unstructured files between companies. As the availability of network bandwidth, processing power and storage capacity, increase this unnecessary division of technologies will dissolve. The category of MFT will become a feature of broader integration suites.

 #12 – The Digital Economy Grows
As technologies such as RFID, sensors, video cameras and GPS devices, more and more information will be exchanged via machines creating fully digital business processes. Middleware and integration technologies will form a critical underpinning of this second (or digital) economy as they do in the physical world today.

About GXS:
GXS provides B2B integration services to global brands and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 400,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 23 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate supply chain processes and manage electronic payments. GXS Managed Services, our outsourcing service, combines the GXS Trading Grid with process orchestration services and global teams to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,300 professionals. To learn more, see www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at www.gxsblogs.com, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/gxs. You can also access our public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.

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This press release may contain “forward-looking statements.” All statements, other than statements of historical facts, that address activities, events or developments that the company expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are affected by risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including but not limited to those set forth in the company’s public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Accordingly, actual results or outcomes may differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on these statements and the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408  / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

GXS customers, such as Tesco, use RollStream to collaborate and communicate with their suppliers on a global basis, reducing the time taken to setup and enable new suppliers by as much as 60%. The new additional language options offered by GXS RollStream will help companies to improve adoption levels and relationship collaboration further, by supporting the language preference of each individual user.

“GXS RollStream is redefining the way companies interact with their business partners, to bring about a social revolution in supply chain relationship management” commented Nick Parnaby, vice president of extended enterprise solutions at GXS. “You can’t do that without providing an unbelievably simple and easy to use interface, which can be provided to business partners in their native language. French and German support is a major step forward in our global language support rollout plans.”

About GXS:
GXS provides B2B integration services to global brands and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 400,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 23 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate supply chain processes and manage electronic payments. GXS Managed Services, our outsourcing service, combines the GXS Trading Grid with process orchestration services and global teams to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,300 professionals. To learn more, see www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at www.gxsblogs.com, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

“Providing secure credit card information is critical,” said Jim Plourde, vice president of SaaS Systems, Infor. “By combining with GXS’s tokenization Service, Infor is able to offer customers a safe, reliable way of handling confidential data.”

“The Infor partnership is another great proof-point for cloud-to-cloud integration,” said Andrea Brody, vice president, business development, GXS. “We’re excited to be able to partner with Infor to safely protect consumer data.”

The GXS Tokenization Services accepts transactions from credit card issuers and replaces information such as the card number and expiration date with a secure “token” (a random string of characters) before sending the data to Infor.

Infor10 Expense Management SaaS is a software-as-a-service that helps companies manage the costs and compliance in employee spending, with modules for expense reports, payment requests, travel plans and time sheets. Like many companies who handle credit card data, Infor was concerned about providing a secure, reliable service and ensuring their brand’s reputation in the market. By integrating with GXS’s cloud-based service, Infor can provide a PCI-compliant service while reducing the need for complex changes to their internal systems and minimising the scope of PCI compliance audits.

In 2006, credit card organisations created the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) to combat the security threats of hackers and protect cardholder data, ensuring that companies process, store and transmit cardholder data in a secure environment. But creating the systems and processes to establish and maintain PCI compliant services can be substantial for companies processing high volumes of card transactions.

As part of the partnership, Infor joins the GXS GridConnect program, which enables software vendors and cloud service providers to embed the GXS Trading Grid into their offerings, pre-connecting to 400,000 trading partners.

To learn more:

• Read about GXS GridConnect http://www.gxs.com/GridConnect
• Email GridConnect@gxs.com

About GXS:

GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 400,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals. To learn more, see www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at www.gxsblogs.com, follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

About Infor

Infor is a leading provider of business software and services, helping more than 70,000 customers in 164 countries improve operations and drive growth. To learn more about Infor, please visit www.infor.com.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

The EESPA was formed to ensure that decisions made at the European level take into account industry opinion and preferences to ensure fully workable and fit-for-purpose processes. By working with the EESPA, GXS will be able to further its commitment to improving understanding and adoption of e-Invoicing. GXS recently launched a dedicated e-Invoicing resource site – e-Invoicing Basics – which aims to dispel the myths and vendor hype that surrounds e-Invoicing initiatives and instead allows companies to understand the opportunities and the challenges associated with moving from paper to electronic invoices. Membership to the EESPA allows GXS to take this industry-leading knowledge and expertise to the next level, providing a mouthpiece for GXS to contribute to dialogue around standards and guidelines in a meaningful way.

“GXS has significant experience in the adoption of e-Invoicing and we are keen to help our customers to understand the benefits that widespread adoption can provide and what steps to take to best integrate electronic invoicing and compliance into their business,” comments, Nigel Taylor, head of e-Invoicing at GXS.  “With a growing number of EU states compelling suppliers to use e-Invoicing, particularly in the public sector, e-Invoicing adoption is set to skyrocket, but complexities have long pre-empted the need for a coordinated body to take a lead on discussing issues such as standards, data privacy and upcoming legislation. GXS is excited to be part of this initiative which will help to shape a fully workable environment for e-Invoicing in Europe.”

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 400,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals. To learn more, see www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at www.gxsblogs.com, follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

The webinar, which builds upon Nigel Taylor’s recent, successful introductory webinar – ‘Lost in the hype of e-Invoicing. Don’t know where to begin?’ – will encourage attendees to acknowledge and understand the fundamental differences in e-Invoicing processes from buyer and supplier perspectives. In addition, the webinar will provide attendees with a step-by-step methodology to assess the return on investment and total cost of ownership associated with the deployment of an e-Invoicing solution.

You can find full details on the webinar below and can also register to attend here.

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 400,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals. To learn more, see www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at www.gxsblogs.com, follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

Attendees at this online event will hear about the day-to-day working of Tesco’s online trading partner community, how using cloud-based community management solutions has enabled Tesco to improve their purchasing practices and how this has resulted in reducing the time to set up and approve new suppliers by 66%.

You can register to attend this webinar here:

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 400,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals. To learn more, see www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at www.gxsblogs.com, follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.co

GAITHERSBURG, MD — November 14, 2011 — GXS, a leading integration services provider, today announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2011.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE QUARTER

• Q3 Total Revenue: $122.7 million, up 8% versus 3Q10
• Q3 Managed Services Revenue: $39.3 million, up 28% versus 3Q10
• Q3 Adjusted EBITDA: $41.3 million, up 8% versus 3Q10
• Q3 Net Income: Break-even as compared to a net loss of $3.0 million in 3Q10
• Q3 Minimum Contracted Value (MCV): $44.7 million, up 11% versus 3Q10 – a record quarter for GXS
• Exceeded the high end of revenue and Adjusted EBITDA guidance for 3Q11 and increased FY11 Total Revenue and MCV guidance while tightening the range of guidance for FY11 Adjusted EBITDA

BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE QUARTER

• GXS held its seventh annual Integration Customer Forum with a record customer attendance, and featured presentations from Bank of America, Bank of Montreal, Dell, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Mars, Ralph Lauren and Under Armour
• GXS was ranked 73^rd in the 2011 Information Week 500, ranked 3^rd among all IT Vendors
• GXS Active Invoices with Compliance solution was certified by one of the Big Four accounting services firms to provide electronic invoice validation and presentation for 30 countries
• GXS’s new Data Quality and Compliance service was selected by one of the largest discount retailers in the United States to improve its shipment processes
• GXS BizManager integration software was launched globally, enabling GXS to offer a B2B Gateway workhorse worldwide
• GXS RollStream continued to gain market traction by winning the largest deal since its founding with a major financial services firm

“Our business in the third quarter continued to strengthen as demonstrated by year-over-year revenue growth and new business bookings,” commented Bob Segert, GXS President and Chief Executive Officer. “During the quarter, 39 new strategic B2B projects went ‘live’ on GXS Trading Grid®, including ten from new customer logos. This is in addition to the thousands of retailers, suppliers, carriers, and banks that subscribe to our services and establish new trading relationships every day. We believe our results and new sales momentum continue to validate our long-term vision that Integration Belongs in the Cloud^SM.”

FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2011

Revenue

Total revenues for 3Q11 were $122.7 million, up 8% as compared to $114.1 million in 3Q10. Managed Services revenues were $39.3 million in 3Q11, up 28% as compared to $30.8 million in 3Q10. Messaging Services revenues were $58.7 million in 3Q11, down slightly in comparison to $58.8 million in 3Q10. B2B Software and Services, Data Synchronisation, and Custom Outsourcing revenues were $24.7 million in aggregate for 3Q11, up 1% as compared to $24.5 million in 3Q10.

Our total revenues for 3Q11 and 3Q10 have been negatively impacted by the write-down of certain deferred revenue from RollStream, Inc. (“RollStream”) in relation to the acquisition of RollStream on March 28, 2011 and from Inovis International, Inc. (“Inovis”) in relation to the acquisition of Inovis on June 2, 2010, in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). These amounts totaled $0.1 million (predominantly related to RollStream) and $1.4 million (solely related to Inovis) in 3Q11 and 3Q10, respectively. Adjusting for such write-downs, pro forma total revenues for 3Q11 were $122.8 million, up 6% as compared to $115.6 million in 3Q10. Pro forma Managed Services revenues were $39.4 million in 3Q11, up 27% as compared to $31.0 million in 3Q10. Pro forma Messaging Services revenues were $58.7 million in 3Q11, down 1% as compared to $59.1 million in 3Q10. Pro forma aggregate B2B Software and Services, Data Synchronisation, and Custom Outsourcing revenues were $24.7 million in 3Q11, down 3% as compared to $25.4 million in 3Q10.

Expenses and Net Income (Loss)

Cost of revenues, sales and marketing, and general and administrative expenses for 3Q11 were $96.7 million, as compared to $93.7 million in 3Q10. Restructuring charges, merger and acquisition fees, and loss on disposition of assets were $0.8 million in 3Q11, as compared to $1.3 million in 3Q10. Operating income in 3Q11 was $25.2 million, as compared to $19.2 million in 3Q10, and was $25.3 million and $20.6 million on a pro forma basis in the same periods, respectively. Net interest expense and net other income (expense) was ($23.9) million for 3Q11, as compared to ($20.5) million in 3Q10, resulting in income (loss) before income taxes of $1.3 million and ($1.3) million in 3Q11 and 3Q10, respectively, and $1.4 million and $0.1 million on a pro forma basis in the same periods, respectively. Net income (loss) was $0.0 million (slightly positive) in 3Q11 after $1.3 million in income tax expense, as compared to ($3.0) million in 3Q10 after $1.7 million in income tax expense, and was $0.1 million and ($1.6) million on a pro forma basis in the same periods, respectively.

Adjusted EBITDA

Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation, and certain other charges (“Adjusted EBITDA”, a non-GAAP measure) for 3Q11 was $41.3 million, as compared to $38.2 million in 3Q10.

Management relies upon Adjusted EBITDA as a primary measure to review and assess operating performance of its business and management team. Adjusted EBITDA is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as (i) an alternative to net income, (ii) as a measure of operating income, or cash flows from operating, investing and financing activities, or (iii) as a measure of liquidity. Adjusted EBITDA, as presented, may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures presented by other companies. The table below reconciles net income to Adjusted EBITDA for the periods presented.

LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL EXPENDITURES

Cash and cash equivalents totaled $25.2 million at the end of 3Q11, as compared to $15.1 million at the end of 2Q11. There were no borrowings outstanding under the revolving credit facility at the end of 3Q11 as compared to $16.0 million outstanding at the end of 2Q11. At the end of both 3Q11 and 2Q11, $11.7 million of the $50 million of revolving credit facility capacity was pledged as security for certain letters of credit. Therefore, total available cash liquidity, including cash and cash equivalents and total revolving credit facility capacity less outstanding borrowings and letters of credit secured by the revolving credit facility, was $63.5 million and $37.4 million at the end 3Q11 and 2Q11, respectively.

Capital expenditures (“CAPEX”) were $11.9 million in 3Q11, as compared to $7.4 million in 3Q10.

CUSTOMER ACQUISITION ACTIVITY

Total MCV for 3Q11 was $44.7 million, as compared to $40.2 million in 3Q10. Sales activity in 3Q11 continued to be focused predominantly on new Managed Services deals which represented 72% of total MCV in the quarter as compared to 76% in the same quarter last year.

MCV is the incremental future minimum committed revenue of new sales agreements signed in the current period by our customers. If the new contract signed is to replace an existing revenue stream, the MCV is adjusted to reflect only the incremental value from the sale. The MCV calculations are not reflected or recorded within the condensed consolidated financial statements. MCV is not a measure of financial condition or financial performance under U.S. GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to deferred income or revenues, as a measure of financial condition or operating performance.

NEW AND REVISED FINANCIAL GUIDANCE

For 4Q11, revenues are expected to be in the range of $121 to $123 million and Adjusted EBITDA is expected to be in the range of $42 to $44 million. This would result in FY11 revenue of between $477 and $479 million, higher than prior guidance of $470 to $475 million, and FY11 Adjusted EBITDA of between $154 and $156 million, within the range of previous guidance for FY11 of $150 to $160 million. Guidance for CAPEX for FY11 is increased to $41 to $43 million from our prior guidance of $38 to $41 million based on expected CAPEX of $7 to $9 million in 4Q11, and MCV guidance for FY11 is increased to $165 to $170 million from $155 to $165 million based on expected MCV of $45 to $50 million in 4Q11. Achieving this guidance is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties as described in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result, there can be no assurance that such guidance can be achieved.

EARNINGS CONFERENCE CALL

Bob Segert (President and Chief Executive Officer) and Gregg Clevenger (Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer) will conduct a call with GXS bondholders on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time. To access the call, please dial 877-269-6740, or outside the U.S. 816-650-0840, at least 10 minutes before the start of the call (when calling in, you’ll be asked for your name and the Conference ID Number) and use conference ID number 26286990. A replay will be available for one week beginning two hours after the call ends at 855-859-2056 or 404-537-3406.

ABOUT GXS

GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 400,000 businesses, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 23 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid® with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,300 professionals. To learn more, see www.gxs.com, read our blog at www.gxsblogs.com, follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/gxs. You can also access our public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

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NON-GAAP MEASURES

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More than 100 nominees were submitted for the contest, which celebrates the individuals leading the day-to-day operations in multi-enterprise programs at global brands.

“These individuals truly raise the bar by demonstrating how you can make an impact to your business through B2B integration,” said Bob Segert, President and Chief Executive Officer, GXS. “We’re impressed by their passion and proud to recognise their efforts.”

By its nature, a company’s multi-enterprise business process can involve hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people in technology, supply chain and finance, both within a company and across trading partners. It’s within this context that these individuals made a difference to their organisations.

The top twenty winners include:

• Paul Adema (Warner Bros) orchestrated a company-wide EDI integration with SAP
• Jim Batey (DHL) integrated an acquisition’s legacy B2B platform on-time and on-budget
• Jeff Besh (Chrysler) rolled out an advance ship notice (ASN) program to global partners
• Michael Brady (Marks & Spencer) led a “100% EDI Enablement” program to 2,000 vendors
• Rodolfo Caloni (Consorzio DAFNE) expanded B2B integration services to 400 pharmaceutical partners
• Giuseppe Cannavò (Bitron Industrie S.p.A.) executed a “100% paperless” program to 300 automotive and HVAC suppliers
• Samantha Cook (Ralph Lauren) simplified the e-invoicing process for thousands of smaller retail partners
• Neysa Cross (Wegmans) rolled out an online onboarding process for 300 grocery vendors
• Amélie Donnally (Geodis) simplified inter-company invoicing across 100 departments for one of Europe’s top five logistics providers
• Kevin Falls (Dell) helped modernise global B2B integration processes across manufacturers, retailers and service dispatch partners
• Christopher Gesualdi (Comcast) led a “100% paperless” initiative to automate the setup and invoicing for 10,000 suppliers
• Andy Grenier (Under Armour) modernised a B2B integration platform to scale with the brand’s 30-35% annual growth
• Juanita Hardin (BMO Harris) led two fast-track “B2Bank” integration programs across 41,000 corporate customers
• Rachel McCracken (Sears) created a product data synchronisation program with thousands of retail vendors, ensuring accurate promotions, e-commerce sites and store displays
• Eric Minning (MillerCoors) tapped into the flow of data across an extended supply chain, connecting hundreds of distributors and 400,000 retail outlets
• Sundar Nagarajan (CNH) rolled out a demand-driven supply network process across 170 countries and 11,300 dealers
• Susan Phillips (Godiva) led trading partner initiatives as the brand transitioned into the grocery and retail channels
• Carolyn Robbins (Coast Guard Exchange System) continued to earn the respect of her retail partners through her commitment to customer service in B2B integration
• John Tiernan (Wrigley)rolled out order-management and supplier-owned inventory programs for the 100-year-old brand’s global partners
• Richard Young (Land O’ Lakes) streamlined the member-owned co-op’s multienterprise process, lowering costs while adding B2B integration capabilities

The Top Twenty B2B Heroes are among the hundreds of thousands of professionals worldwide in more than 400,000 companies who connect to the GXS Trading Grid® for B2B integration services.

To see the complete list of winners, visit www.b2bheroes.com.

About GXS
GXS provides B2B integration services to global brands and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 400,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 23 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate supply chain processes and manage electronic payments. GXS Managed Services, our outsourcing service, combines the GXS Trading Grid with process orchestration services and global teams to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,300 professionals. To learn more, see www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at www.gxsblogs.com, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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“Gartner research has highlighted that most European invoices are still in paper form, despite the fact that a paper invoice costs more to process than an electronic invoice.  We have estimated that millions of Euros can be saved from e-invoicing in Europe alone,” states Paolo Malinverno, research vice president at Gartner, Inc.  “In addition, with a growing number of EU states compelling suppliers to use e-invoicing, particularly in the public sector, e-invoicing adoption is set to skyrocket.” 

E-Invoicing Basics is an informative web resource that explains how companies can benefit operationally and strategically from electronic invoicing and presents real life case studies, webinars, a glossary of terms and other useful resources.

This is the third site in the ‘Basics’ series of microsites from GXS. ‘EDI Basics’ was the first site which launched in 2009 (www.edibasics.co.uk), with over 17,000 unique visitors per month in the UK. EDI Basics is also available in French, German, Hungarian and Chinese languages.

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 400,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals. To learn more, see www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at www.gxsblogs.com, follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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Launched earlier this year, GXS GridConnect enables independent software vendors (ISVs), software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors and cloud services providers to embed the GXS Trading Grid into their applications, using the integration cloud platform to accelerate customer enablement, on-boarding and time-to-revenue.

3rdwave helps organisations source globally and manage non-asset-based manufacturing operations, bridging the gap between internally-focused enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and supply chain applications. Since many companies source up to 20% of their products globally, it’s critical to manage both owned and non-owned plants and service providers with equal capability and speed.

3rdwave is now seamlessly integrated into GXS Trading Grid’s ecosystem of ocean carriers and data translation capabilities, helping Blinco Systems attract and retain customers.

“We selected GXS because they provide a ready-made, global network of companies, logistics providers and transactions flows. This gives our customers a seamless way to gain end-to-end visibility across very complex and tricky supply chains while increasing operational efficiency, reducing costs, and dramatically improving product providence,” said David Blinick, President, Blinco Systems.  

“By embedding GXS Trading Grid into a SaaS or software application, GridConnect partners instantly gain access to a broad portfolio of cloud-based integration options.  This strengthens their ability to setup and serve their customers, helps differentiate their product offerings and speeds their time-to-value,” said Andrea Brody, Vice President, Business Development, GXS.  “We are thrilled to have Blinco Systems as a GridConnect partner. From the very beginning, they saw the value in integrating their application with the largest e-commerce ecosystem in the world, bringing new sources of value to customers.”

For more information:

• Watch this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUeMBTcu-co
• Read about the program at www.gxs.co.uk/gridconnect
• Email GridConnect@gxs.com

About Blinco Systems
Blinco Systems Inc. (BSI) helps companies that source and manufacture globally to command and control their global supply chain networks and deliver orders that meet or exceed their customers’ expectations. Based in Toronto, Canada, BSI is the maker of 3rdwave, a fully-integrated global commerce management software solution that helps organisations who source globally and outsource manufacturing operations improve quote management, logistics, inventory and order fulfillment. To learn more, visit www.blinco.com.

About GXS:
GXS provides B2B integration services to global brands and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®.  Our software and services help more than 400,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 23 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate supply chain processes and manage electronic payments.  GXS Managed Services, our outsourcing service, combines the GXS Trading Grid with process orchestration services and global teams to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,300 professionals.  To learn more, see www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at blogs.gxs.co.uk, follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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Sunbury and London, United Kingdom — October 13, 2011 — GXS™, a leading provider of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions and GS1 UK, the independent supply chain standards and solutions organisation, today announce that they will no longer jointly provide data pool services in the UK and will instead provide separate GDSN compliant data pools.

GS1 UK and GXS have worked together to minimise any customer impact as a result of this announcement and are jointly coordinating any required customer transitions. All supplier data published on either the GXS or the GS1 UK service will be accessible to their participating customer subscribers on an ongoing basis.

About GS1 UK
GS1 UK has driven innovation in the supply chain for over thirty years. It is part of the global GS1 organisation, dedicated to the development and implementation of global data standards and solutions for the supply chain.  The GS1 System is member owned and the most widely used supply chain standards system in the world.  GS1 UK helps industry to implement these data standards through the use of bar codes, RFID, Global Data Synchronisation (GDS) and electronic business messaging. www.gs1uk.org

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals. To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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Sunbury, United Kingdom — October 11, 2011 —GXS™ kicked off their annual customer conference today, with keynotes on business-to-business (B2B) integration services from Mars, Dell, Dr Pepper Snapple and other global brands. The theme for this year’s event is “Integration Belongs in the Cloud,” focusing on the impact of cloud computing on trading partner management, SaaS integration and the social supply chain.

The GXS Integration Customer Forum will be held October 11-12, 2011 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, in Washington DC.  Attendees for the invitation-only event include senior IT executives from multinational manufacturers, retailers and financial services firms.

Speakers (clockwise from top left): Kate Vitasek, Supply Chain Visions; Doug Schmitt, Dell; Susan Colles, BAML; Claudio Borlo, REXEL.

“It’s fantastic to see the breadth of B2B integration use-cases at this year’s event.  As integration moves to the cloud, our customers are expanding beyond traditional B2B e-commerce scenarios, and rolling out integration for treasury services, field dispatch and SaaS integration,” said Bobby Patrick, Chief Marketing Officer, GXS.

Keynote topics and speakers include:

• “GXS Company Update,” Bob Segert, President and CEO, GXS.
• “Vested Outsourcing,” Kate Vitasek, Supply Chain Visions
• “Dell’s Global Support Services Story,” Douglas Schmitt, Dell
• “Flavored to Win with B2B Managed Services,” Lauren DeCuir, Dr Pepper Snapple Group
• “The B2B Impact of Extreme Growth,” Andy Grenier, Under Armour
• “E-invoicing with Small and Medium Customers,” Samantha Cooke, Polo Ralph Lauren
• “Future-Proofing Your B2B Integration Strategy,” Claudio Borlo, REXEL
• “Global B2B Program Management,” Thierry Felt-Schreck, Mars Information Services
• “B2Bank Integration,” Juanita Hardin, William J Watt Jr., BMO Harris Bank
• “Continuous Supply Chain Efficiencies,” Kelly Alder, Benchmark Brands
• “B2B in Financial Services,” Susan Colles, Bank of America Merrill Lynch; Mie Aoki, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi

In addition to the keynotes, the event includes a Discovery Center showcasing 14 GXS products, Education Workshops, a Retail Roundtable, and roadmap meetings for GXS TrustedLink® i and GXS BizManager™ users.

For more information, see http://www.gxs.com/customerforum2011UK/ and follow #GXSForum on Twitter.

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®.  Our software and services help more than 400,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 23 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate supply chain processes and manage electronic payments.  GXS Managed Services, our outsourcing service, combines the GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global teams to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,300 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs. 

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HomePlus selected GXS Managed Services, a comprehensive business-to-business (B2B) outsourcing solution, to provide more responsiveness and visibility into its global procurement model as it continued its rapid growth.  As part of the program, HomePlus will transition from using a local EDI service provider on a shared B2B infrastructure with other local retailers to the GXS Trading Grid®, a cloud-based B2B integration services platform that manages more than 10 billion transactions a year across 400,000 companies.

“Recently, as part of Korean government’s policy, major companies are expected to take a win-win approach with their suppliers. We aim to reduce 20% of the total B2B integration cost to our suppliers by leveraging GXS Managed Services, which will also provide us with local support in local language in our time zone,” said Dong-Jin Kim, Executive Director of IT & Operating Model, Home Plus.  “We are very impressed by the GXS team and their global B2B integration experience and capabilities that can address our current challenges. The retail market in Korea is very competitive and improving how we work with trading partners will help us differentiate ourselves from competitors and allow us to stay ahead.”

HomePlus is Tesco’s largest business outside the UK, with £5 billion in revenue in 2010 ($7.8 billion), 354 stores and 23,000 employees.  HomePlus is also South Korea’s number one home shopping provider, delivering 1.5 million orders in 2010.

“We are proud that our global B2B experience, local presence and our commitment for delivering results has enabled us to gain the trust of HomePlus,” said Lui Sim Hua, Vice President of Asia Pacific, GXS.  “It’s exciting to see the continued growth in Korean-based companies like HomePlus and we are proud that they have chosen us to support their supplier programs.”

About HomePlus

HomePlus, owned by Tesco UK, is the second largest retail chain in South Korea with 354 stores throughout the country and is the market leader in the rapidly growing grocery home shopping sector.  In 2010, HomePlus received South Korea’s “Most Admired Company” award in 2010. To learn more, see http://www.homeplus.co.kr.

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 400,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals. To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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ECR-Tag will examine how manufacturers and retailers can best meet the requirements of customers of the future and will also provide attendees with the opportunity to share information and experiences, encouraging best practice supplier collaboration through both digital and human interactions. GXS will be demonstrating how businesses can:

• Reduce the costs associated with managing trading partner communities
• Accelerate the speed of trading partner on-boarding
• Reduce supply chain disruption and trading partner risk

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals. To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

GXS ranked 3rd among Information Technology (IT) companies, ahead of IBM, Salesforce.com and Dell,  moving up from 6^th in 2010.  Tweet this

The annual list was revealed last night at a gala awards ceremony at the exclusive InformationWeek 500 Conference taking place at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort, Dana Point, CA, USA.

“We’re flattered to be recognised again among the other IT leaders in the InformationWeek 500,” said Karl Salnoske, executive vice president and chief information officer, GXS.  “In 2010, we continued to make significant investments in the global capabilities and reach of GXS Trading Grid, our integration cloud platform, including the innovations underlying our improved ranking. We believe that the growing number of companies using GXS Trading Grid is living proof that ‘integration belongs in the cloud.’ This is further supported by the business outcomes our customers are achieving, including faster speed-to-market, higher customer satisfaction, and improved business agility.    

GXS’s ranking was attributed to three innovations the company made in 2010 to support the delivery of its business-to-business (B2B) integration services and accelerate the provisioning of customers to the GXS Trading Grid, the company’s integration cloud platform.  

• Simplifying Event Services Setup.  To shorten the time to setup a trading partner connection, GXS created a publish-and-subscribe event integration system that makes it easier to integrate event occurrences and services, configure rules, processes and other peculiarities relevant to how a company processes transactions, including how those transactions are integrated into customer ERP and back-office applications. For example, this would help an Accounts Payable manager at an apparel retailer validate the item quantity in an invoice against the quantity ordered and received before the invoice gets processed in her financial system.  The service not only had to make it faster to provision a single customer, but also had to scale to support the GXS Trading Grid’s daily flow of 10 to 12 million events (more than 4 billion events per year).
• Aggregating Third-Party Web Services.   With the rise of cloud computing, companies and B2B integration providers like GXS are picking up the role of aggregating (brokering) multiple third-party cloud services to better manage end-user access, master data and service levels. To support this need, GXS created a cloud service to integrate third parties, such as e-invoicing providers.  By aggregating web services, GXS provides customers with faster provisioning and “one-stop-shopping” for cloud services.
• Bringing People Back Into The Supply Chain.For decades, much of the supply chain efficiencies have been realised by squeezing people out of the picture, by automating, scaling and simplifying transactions. Today, many companies are realising the value of pulling people back into these B2B integration processes.  To support these needs, GXS integrated its integration cloud platform to a third-party community management SaaS application (RollStream), to combine data flows in the people network with data flows in the transaction network, enabling companies to shorten the time it takes to onboard a partner by up to 50%.

“For 23 years, the InformationWeek 500 has chronicled and honored the most innovative users of business technology,” said InformationWeek Editor In Chief Rob Preston. “In this day and age, however, being innovative isn’t enough. Companies and their IT organisations need to innovate faster than ever before to stay a step or two ahead of their customers, partners, and competitors. This year’s ranking placed special emphasis on those high-octane business technology innovators.”

InformationWeek identifies and honors the nation’s most innovative users of information technology with its annual 500 listing, and also tracks the technology, strategies, investments and administrative practices of America’s best-known companies.  Top winners have included: The Vanguard Group, CME Group, Conway, National Semiconductor, Kimberly-Clark, Hilton Hotels and Unum. The InformationWeek 500 rankings are unique among corporate rankings as it spotlights the power of innovation in information technology, rather than simply identifying the biggest IT spenders. 

Additional details on the InformationWeek 500 can be found online at www.informationweek.com/iw500/.  

About GXS:
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®.  Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 23 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility.  GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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Marketing Programmes International, GXS                   
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For many organisations, integrating business communities is getting more complex, and with transactions expected to double by 2014 across Global 2000 organisations, the lines are blurring between traditional B2B e-commerce transactions and cloud integration. Companies that can effectively manage the B2B information of an entire trading community throughout the supply chain have a strategic advantage.

“We have seen how social networking technology has transformed business-to-consumer interactions. But we have yet to see this transformation  in B2B e-commerce,” said Steve Cochran, Vice President of Product Management, GXS. “Supply networks are still often bogged down with out-of-date contact lists, hard-to-share supplier certifications, and a reliance on faxes, email and spreadsheets. GXS RollStream is changing this by allowing procurement teams at Global 2000 companies to simplify the human side of B2B integration, minimise supplier compliance risk and improve supplier time-to-market by up to 60 percent.”

Pranabesh Nath, industry manager for Frost & Sullivan’s ICT practice in Malaysia believes that B2B integration can have a tremendously positive impact in the exchange of information for businesses on both sides of the supply chain. “Solutions such as the GXS Trading Grid are very useful in enabling real time information flows between businesses regardless of standards and preferences. However, there are significant challenges in adopting data interchange and integration solutions, chief of which are the accompanying business process changes that are required, and the initial investment. A cloud solution solves the investment challenge. Companies today seek flexible solutions that can be customised, without this adoption is slower and the benefits are greatly reduced.”

GXS RollStream’ benefits global procurement, quality management and compliance teams by accelerating supplier setup by up to 60 per cent. It enables businesses to gain vital control and visibility to information, supply chain risk and address issues faster and with greater productivity.  Businesses using RollStream have reduced the cost per supplier management by up to $750 per supplier, centralising access to extended supplier information and making it self-serviceable by the supplier community. RollStream’s community interaction tools include B2B Project Management, Broadcast Communications, Workflow and B2B Workspaces, serving to make procurement, finance and supply chain teams more productive when managing the everyday activities and rollout of systems, regulations and policies.

“With social media, the chain of information changes from being linear to something completely different, where multiple people have access to view, create, edit and delete different kinds of information. And this brings issues of control, security and cultural change required into the forefront, which is what most organisations are grappling with today,” adds Nath.

Recent Frost research reveals that companies are investigating how social media can improve collaboration internally as well as externally with customers and partners. It can transform how people communicate, create and share information.

“Our customers realise they need a balance of people, processes and technology to compete on a global scale, and they know that the human side of B2B integration matters,” Steve Cochran confirmed.

In March this year, GXS announced the acquisition of Rollstream. The GXS RollStream service is available today and will be internationalised and available with local language support by first quarter 2012.

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid.  Our software and services help more than 400,000 businesses, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility.  GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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Marketing Programmes International, GXS                   
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denise.oakley@gxs.com

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE QUARTER

• Q2 Total Revenue: $118.8 million, up 22% versus 2Q10
• Q2 Managed Services Revenue: $35.9 million, up 35% versus 2Q10
• Q2 Adjusted EBITDA: $37.8 million, up 14% versus 2Q10
• Q2 Net Income: $0.1 million as compared to a net loss of $8.5 million in 2Q10 (normalising for a transaction-related tax benefit in 2Q10 as described below)
• Q2 Minimum Contracted Value (MCV): $43.5 million, up 53% versus 2Q10
• Achieved the high end of revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance for the quarter and raised the lower range of full year revenue guidance to $470 million (now $470 to $475 million)

BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE QUARTER

• GXS Trading Grid® earned SaaS Product-of-the-Year Award by TechWorld
• GXS achieved SWIFTReady Connectivity “Best Practice” label
• GXS unveiled that its integration cloud platform powers 23 of the companies recognised in “The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2011”
• GXS demonstrated the benefits of Cloud Computing in B2B integration alongside China Construction Bank, Li & Fung, and Marks and Spencer, in separate industry events in Hong Kong and London
• GXS RollStream continued to gain momentum in the market, winning adoption by a large consumer electronics and a large chain drugstore retailer within the first 90 days following the acquisition

“Our momentum in the second quarter continues to validate our fundamental vision that integration belongs in the cloud,” commented Bob Segert, GXS President and Chief Executive Officer. “During the quarter, 40 new customers went “live” and we signed another 16 entirely new large enterprise customers to our “integration-in-the-cloud” platform. This is in addition to the many existing customers that continue to expand their managed services business with GXS. Looking forward, I am confident that the breadth of our capabilities on GXS Trading Grid® – from global supply chain visibility to electronic invoicing – offers businesses the most complete solution for significantly improving their many business-to-business interactions.”

FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2011
Revenue
Total revenue for 2Q11 was $118.8 million, up 22% as compared to $97.6 million in 2Q10. Managed Services revenue was $35.9 million in 2Q11, up 35% as compared to $26.6 million in 2Q10. Messaging Services revenue was $58.1 million in 2Q11, up 10% as compared to $53.0 million in 2Q10. B2B Software and Services, Data Synchronisation, and Custom Outsourcing revenue was $24.8 million in aggregate for 2Q11, up 38% as compared to $18.0 million in 2Q10.

Total revenue in the second quarter of 2010 does not include a full quarter of contribution from Inovis International, Inc. (“Inovis”), which GXS acquired on June 2, 2010. Additionally, our total revenue for the second quarter of 2011 has been negatively impacted by $0.4 million due to the write-down of certain deferred revenue from Inovis in relation to the acquisition, in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

Pro forma total revenue for 2Q11 was $119.2 million (considering those adjustments), down 1% as compared to $120.6 million in 2Q10. Pro forma Managed Services revenue was $36.1 million in 2Q11, up 12% as compared to $32.3 million in 2Q10. Pro forma Messaging Services revenue was $58.1 million in 2Q11, down 4% as compared to $60.4 million in 2Q10. Pro forma aggregate B2B Software and Services, Data Synchronisation, and Custom Outsourcing revenue was $25.0 million in 2Q11, down 10% as compared to $27.9 million in 2Q10.

Pro forma revenue and pro forma results of operations assume that the acquisition of Inovis had occurred on April 1, 2010. This information does not purport to be indicative of the actual results that would have occurred if the acquisition had actually been completed on the date indicated, nor is it necessarily indicative of the future operating results or the financial position of the combined company.

Expenses and Net Income
Cost of revenues, sales and marketing, and general and administrative expenses for 2Q11 were $96.1 million, as compared to $75.9 million in 2Q10. Restructuring charges, loss on disposition of assets, and merger and acquisition fees were $1.5 million in 2Q11, as compared to $9.0 million in 2Q10. Operating income in 2Q11 was $21.2 million, as compared to $12.7 million in 2Q10. Net interest income (expense) and net other expense was ($20.7) million for 2Q11, as compared to ($21.2) million in 2Q10, resulting in income (loss) before income taxes of $0.5 million and ($8.5) million in 2Q11 and 2Q10, respectively. Net income was $0.1 million in 2Q11 after $0.4 million in income tax expense, as compared to $28.0 million in 2Q10 after $36.8 million in income tax benefit realised by the reduction of deferred tax asset valuation allowance in conjunction with Inovis acquisition purchase accounting. Without this tax benefit in 2Q10, net loss would have been ($8.8) million.

Net income attributable to GXS Worldwide, Inc. was $0.1 million for 2Q11, as compared to $28.0 million in 2Q10 (impacted largely by the tax benefit described above).

Pro forma cost of revenues, sales and marketing, and general and administrative expenses for 2Q10 were $93.0 million and pro forma restructuring charges, loss on disposition of assets, and merger and acquisition fees were $20.8 million in 2Q10, resulting in operating income of $6.8 million, as compared to $21.6 million in 2Q11. Pro forma net income was $0.5 million in 2Q11, as compared to $22.1 million for 2Q10. 

Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation, and certain other charges (“Adjusted EBITDA”, a non-GAAP measure) for 2Q11 was $37.8 million, as compared to $33.2 million in 2Q10 and $40.3 million in 2Q10 on a pro forma basis.

Management relies upon Adjusted EBITDA as a primary measure to review and assess operating performance of its business and management team. Adjusted EBITDA is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as (i) an alternative to net income, (ii) as a measure of operating performance, or cash flows from operating, investing and financing activities, or (iii) as a measure of liquidity. Adjusted EBITDA, as presented, may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures presented by other companies. The table below reconciles net income to Adjusted EBITDA for the periods presented. 

LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL EXPENDITURES
Cash and cash equivalents totaled $15.1 million at the end of 2Q11, as compared to $19.4 million at the end of 1Q11. Borrowings outstanding under the revolving credit facility were $16.0 million at the end of 2Q11 while no amounts were outstanding at the end of 1Q11. At the end of each quarter year-to-date, $11.7 million of the $50 million of revolving credit facility capacity was pledged as security for certain letters of credit. Total available cash liquidity, including cash and cash equivalents and total revolving credit facility capacity less outstanding borrowings and letters of credit secured by the revolving credit facility, was $22.3 million and $38.3 million at the end 2Q11 and 1Q11, respectively.

Capital expenditures (CAPEX) were $11.6 million in 2Q11, as compared to $10.4 million in 2Q10.

CUSTOMER ACQUISITION ACTIVITY
Total MCV for 2Q11 was $43.5 million, as compared to $28.4 million in 2Q10. Sales activity in 2Q11 continued to be focused predominantly on new Managed Services deals with 16 new Managed Services contracts signed in the quarter with an average MCV of $845,000, as compared to 15 signed in 2Q10 with an average MCV of $582,000. Additionally, Managed Services deals represented 75.4% of the total MCV in the quarter, as compared to 68.3% of the total MCV in 2Q10.

MCV is the incremental future minimum committed revenue of new sales agreements signed in the current period by our customers. If the new contract signed is to replace an existing revenue stream, the MCV is adjusted to reflect only the incremental value from the sale. The MCV calculations are not reflected or recorded within the condensed consolidated financial statements. MCV is not a measure of financial condition or financial performance under U.S. GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to deferred income or revenues, as a measure of financial condition or operating performance.

INOVIS INTEGRATION
Within the first twelve months after the acquisition of Inovis, the company took certain actions that resulted in annualised net cost savings of approximately $32 million (approximately $35 million in cost savings related primarily to headcount reductions and elimination of various redundant systems and services net of approximately $3 million in lost revenue associated with customer overlap between GXS and Inovis). These savings exceeded the company’s planned annualised net synergy target of approximately $27 million for this period. Additionally, the company has incurred $7.2 million in restructuring and other one-time costs in connection with the acquisition through June 30, 2011. Given the degree to which GXS and Inovis have been integrated as of this date, it will no longer be possible to accurately determine synergies achieved in the future and, as such, the company does not plan to report on integration cost savings going forward.

NEW AND REVISED FINANCIAL GUIDANCE
For 3Q11, revenue is expected to be in the range of $117 to $119 million and Adjusted EBITDA is expected to be in the range of $37 to $39 million. Full year 2011 revenue is expected to be between $470 and $475 million, higher than prior guidance of $465 to $475 million, while Adjusted EBITDA guidance for the full year 2011 remains unchanged at $150 to $160 million, CAPEX guidance for the full year 2011 remains unchanged at $38 to $41 million, and MCV guidance for the full year 2011 remains unchanged at $155 to $165 million. Achieving this guidance is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties as described in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result, there can be no assurance that such guidance can be achieved.

EARNINGS CONFERENCE CALL
Bob Segert (President and Chief Executive Officer) and Gregg Clevenger (Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer) will conduct a call with GXS bond holders on Friday, August 19, 2011 at 6:00 PM British Summer Time. To access the call, please dial 877-269-6740, or outside the U.S. 816-650-0840, at least 10 minutes before the start of the call (when calling in, you’ll be asked for your name and the Conference ID Number) use conference ID number 91571757. A replay will be available for one week beginning two hours after the call ends at 855-859-2056 or 404-537-3406.

ABOUT GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 400,000 businesses, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 23 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,300 professionals. To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs. You can also access our public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release may contain “forward-looking statements.” All statements, other than statements of historical facts, that address activities, events or developments that the company expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are affected by risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including but not limited to those set forth in the company’s public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Accordingly, actual results or outcomes may differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on these statements and the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise.

NON-GAAP MEASURES
This press release contains certain supplemental measures of performance that are not required by, or presented in accordance with, GAAP. Such measures should not be considered as alternatives to GAAP measures.

INVESTOR RELATIONS CONTACT:
Gregg Clevenger
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
GXS Worldwide, Inc.
301-340-5188
gregg.clevenger@gxs.com

Details of the event:

Companies with the ability to effectively manage the B2B information of an entire trading community throughout the supply chain have a strategic advantage. GXS recently acquired RollStream™, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) leader of enterprise community management, deepening GXS’s long-term commitment to the Social Supply Chain, a vision that brings together information flows and information workers to break down the barriers hampering supply chain efficiency. During the panel discussion, Leo Yeung will share his insights and experience on this subject.

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid.  Our software and services help more than 400,000 businesses, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility.  GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

Media Contact:
Denise Oakley                                                
Marketing Programmes International, GXS                   
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481    
denise.oakley@gxs.com

“We are delighted that GXS Trading Grid has been named the SaaS Product of the Year,” said Bobby Patrick, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, GXS. “Over the past few years, our customers have been consistently asking for a flexible, global integration platform that can handle all of their B2B transactions across their trading communities, including unstructured data as well as more traditional electronic invoices and purchase orders. We’ve invested over $200 million on this platform since 2004 to continually deliver on these needs and it’s fantastic to get the recognition.”

GXS Trading Grid is the largest global B2B e-Commerce platform, managing 10 billion transactions a year across 400,000 businesses, with more than 2,000 new businesses joining each month.

The annual Techworld Awards have become a major infrastructure and networking awards event in the IT industry, and recognises both products and users. The 2011 Techworld Award winners were announced at a ceremony on June 29, 2011at Dartmouth House in London. Judges included Techworld editors as well as chief technology officers and executives from Cap Gemini, Computacenter UK, IDC and the SAP and Oracle User Groups. Techworld is owned by IDG, the world’s leading technology media company that also owns International Data Corporation (IDC) and major publications such as CIO and Computerworld.

For the complete list of winners, see http://awards.techworld.com/

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 400,000 businesses, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 23 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals. To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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Marketing Programmes International, GXS
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denise.oakley@gxs.com

The shortlist nomination highlighted that GXS Trading Grid is regarded as the largest global B2B e-Commerce platform serving over 400,000 businesses including 75% of the Fortune 500 and that a further 2000 new businesses are joining GXS Trading Grid on average each month.  Highlighting performance and innovation within the IT industry, the TechWorld Awards have firmly established themselves as the major infrastructure and networking awards event in the IT calendar.

“I am delighted that GXS Trading Grid has been recognised by TechWorld” said Bobby Patrick, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, GXS, “The TechWorld Awards are widely respected within the technology industry and this nomination really highlights the role that GXS Trading Grid plays in eliminating the ongoing complexities and costs of do-it-yourself B2B integration for companies across the globe.”

About GXS:
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®.  Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 23 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility.  GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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Denise Oakley                                                
Marketing Programmes International, GXS                   
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481     
denise.oakley@gxs.com

GXS has a long heritage in working with CPG companies and over 6,000 CPG companies are customers directly connected to GXS’s cloud computing platform, GXS Trading Grid. This includes 95% of the 2010 Fortune 500 CPG manufacturers and 100% of Apparel, Beverage, Household Product, Food Production and Consumer Product companies. GXS Trading Grid eliminates the ongoing complexities and costs of do-it-yourself B2B integration for CPG’s and their supply chain partners.

“Early adopters of GUSI were primarily in Europe, but the US consumer goods industry has shown interest in the initiative as a potential strategy to digitise the exchange of catalog, forecast, shipment and invoice data with ingredient suppliers,” commented Melanie Nuce, Director of Retail/CPG Industry Marketing, GXS. “The consumer packaged goods industry vertical is a key market for GXS and it is important that companies are aware of and educated on initiatives like GUSI. The GUSI Implementation Team Meeting will provide an opportunity to show how this messaging standard can help supply chains become more streamlined and visible going forward.”

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals. To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

Held over two days, the third Cloud Computing World Forum will showcase key players within the cloud computing and SaaS markets as well as providing an introduction, discussion and insight into the future of the ICT industry with regards to cloud-based ‘X’-as-a-service technologies. During the panel discussion, Andrea Brody will discuss customer attitudes towards the adoption of cloud and web 2.0 services, as well as reflecting on changing CIO attitudes towards migration, particularly relating to business-critical resource intensive tasks like B2B communications.

“We are delighted to have the opportunity to take part in this panel to discuss how GXS customers are moving towards cloud adoption, and the ways this is benefiting B2B interactions throughout the supply chain,” said Andrea Brody, Vice President of Global Business and Market Development at GXS. “Participating in the panel discussion alongside a GXS customer, Marks and Spencer, will be a good opportunity to highlight the 400,000 businesses that rely on the Trading Grid to manage global supplier and customer interactions daily.”

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals. To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

The goal of the research, now in its seventh year, is to raise awareness of the supply chain discipline and how it impacts business.  The report profiles Fortune Global 500 companies by using a composite score comprised of peer opinion, analyst opinion, return-on-assets (ROA), inventory turns, and revenue growth.

Four key themes emerged this year among the leaders, including how they deal with volatility, their approaches to value chain network integration, their focus on sustainable execution and their abilities to orchestrate.

To learn more about the report, and participate in a live Q&A session, sign up for the upcoming webinar:

 *Gartner, Inc., “The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2011,” Debra Hofman, Kevin O’Marah, Carla Elvy, June 1, 2011.

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®.  Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility.  GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

Media Contact:
Denise Oakley                                              
Marketing Programmes International, GXS                
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481   
denise.oakley@gxs.com

The Odette International Conference and Exhibition takes place over two days and focuses on trends and developments in supply chain management, IT and telecommunications which relate to the global automotive sector. GXS will demonstrate the latest developments in GXS Trading Grid®, the world’s largest integration cloud, including newly acquired RollStream^TM. GXS will show how developing online communities can help to minimise supplier compliance risk and improve time-to-market, transforming the way in which automotive companies can communicate with trading partners around the world whilst simultaneously offering true enterprise level security to businesses. 

“GXS hosts the world’s largest B2B cloud, and the Odette International Conference and Exhibition will be a chance to demonstrate how companies in the automotive industry can reduce supply chain disruption by improving management of trading partner communities,” said Mark Morley, Director of Automotive Industry Marketing at GXS. “GXS’s customers include 75% of the Fortune 500, and we work with automotive leaders around the world, giving us unparalleled experience in this sector.”

Odette International is an organisation formed by the automotive industry for the automotive industry. It sets the standards for e-business communications, engineering data exchange and logistics management, which link the 4000 plus businesses in the European motor industry and their global trading partners.

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®.  Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 80 percent of the Top 20 global automotive OEMs, and 82 percent of the world’s Top 100 automotive suppliers, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility. GXS Trading Grid® supports regional automotive B2B networks including ANX, ENX and JNX and GXS actively participates in automotive industry bodies around the world including Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), Odette and Galia. GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk , read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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Denise Oakley                                              
Marketing Programmes International, GXS                
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denise.oakley@gxs.com

Jane Cheng, Marketing Director of Asia Pacific at GXS and vice chair of AsiaB2B will be the Master of Ceremony for the first day. The agenda of the event is now available on the AsiaB2B website. For more details, please visit www.asiab2b.org.

Details of the event are as follows:

AsiaB2B, is affiliated with EDIFICE in Europe, and GXS is one of the founding members. Other members include: Cisco, CrimsonLogic eTrade Services, Fairchild Semiconductor, Freescale Semiconductor, Intel, Microsoft, SAP, Seeburger, Siltronic. The mission of the organisation is to provide a user group forum for Asia-Pacific based companies to drive and enable adoption of global best practices in B2B.

About AsiaB2B
AsiaB2B, the first standard-independent B2B user community in Asia Pacific, is founded in August 2009. The objective is to facilitate the need for a standard-independent B2B user community that’s allows companies to create an active knowledge sharing network for B2B and business experts in the Asia Pacific region. AsiaB2B aims to establish active working groups in various business process areas, offering opportunities for learning about and influencing of B2B and business process standards. For more information on AsiaB2B, please visit http://www.asiab2b.org

About GXS:
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®.  Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 24 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility.  GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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Media Contact:
Denise Oakley                                              
Marketing Programmes International, GXS                
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481   
denise.oakley@gxs.com

SWIFT (www.swift.com) manages the world’s largest network for financial transactions.  Each day, more than 9,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers across 209 countries trust the member-owned cooperative to safely exchange millions of standardised financial messages. 

“We are seeing increased interest from global corporations to simplify multi-bank connectivity using SWIFT,” said Fred Slavin, Head of Channels and Partner Management, SWIFT Americas.  “We congratulate GXS on achieving the SWIFTReady Connectivity label, since it recognises the GXS SWIFT Service as an offering with high operational standards and security for SWIFT connectivity.”

“This recognition fits well with GXS’s commitment to providing a reliable, global service.  We are delighted that SWIFT has recognised our commitment to these high standards,” said Mark Mixter, Senior Global Product Manager for Financial Services, GXS.

The GXS SWIFT Service Bureau, launched in late 2010, allows corporations to exchange payments, securities orders, reporting, and other financial information with their financial institutions through one highly secure, standardised communication platform, without taking on the administrative burdens or costs of managing its associated IT infrastructure.  The GXS SWIFT Service Bureau is run on the GXS Trading Grid, the world’s largest integration cloud that manages more than 10 billion transactions a year.

The SWIFTReady Connectivity Best Practices Label is the highest form of certification awarded by SWIFT and helps end-users identify best-in-class providers who are recognised as having the highest operational standards for managing electronic financial transactions between companies. 

To receive the label, GXS underwent a multi-day on-site inspection of its data centres, including an audit of its service availability, security, access control, disaster recovery, telecommunications, system integrity, financial integrity and change management processes.  The GXS SWIFT Service Bureau has also achieved SAS70 Type 2 and SWIFT audit certifications.

B2Bank Webinar:

GXS and SWIFT will host a webinar for corporate treasury executives on May 18, showcasing how improved B2Bank connectivity can enhance banking relationships and support team goals in improving liquidity, optimising cash, securing financing and controlling risk.

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®.  Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 24 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility.  GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Media Contact       
Denise Oakley                                                
Marketing Programmes International, GXS                   
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481     
denise.oakley@gxs.com

A wholesale distributor of IT and consumer electronics in Italy and Spain that is listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, Esprinet is ranked as the number one distributor in Italy, top three in Spain,  and No.7 in Europe with sales in 2009 of more than €2.1 billion. Esprinet’s core business is delivering technology to over 40,000 resellers who typically address the needs of small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs). With this network of trading partners, Esprinet wanted to drive down costs whilst increasing operational quality and productivity.  To achieve these goals, the company is now deploying GXS Managed Services to replace Esprinet’s existing internal B2B platform. As part of this decision, Esprinet is consolidating its disparate B2B traffic, encompassing value-added network, AS2 and Internet based electronic trading, with GXS Trading Grid®.

Esprinet estimates that the adoption of GXS Managed Services will allow it to reduce the costs of its B2B e-commerce network by 45%. There are significant benefits to Esprinet beyond these cost savings. A key objective for the company was to enhance visibility across the business via a central point that would allow the company to track and monitor customer transactions in real time. GXS Managed Services is now delivering a dramatically improved level of visibility across incoming purchase orders. Finally, GXS Managed Services will improve Esprinet’s ability to implement new connectivity and transactions requirements with customers and suppliers worldwide.

“We set out to identify and implement an elegant solution that would help reduce ongoing costs, while delivering distinct and measurable business benefits,” commented Cesare Pedrazzini, Chief Information Officer of Esprinet. “With a very large installed base of more than 40,000 reseller customers across two countries, it was vital for us to make a step change in terms of our capability for transaction tracking and real time monitoring, which we have been able to achieve with GXS Managed Services.”

“Outsourcing can drive down fixed costs, but it can also provide the platform for improved processes that are more closely aligned with the requirements of the growing business,” commented Jon Keating, GXS vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa. “In this agreement, Esprinet is working with GXS Managed Services and has seized the opportunity to re-model critical business processes that are at the heart of the company’s sustained business profitability.”

GXS Managed Services leverages GXS Trading Grid, a powerful B2B integration cloud that provides on-demand Services allowing Esprinet to engage GXS as a partner to help manage the day-to-day operations of its B2B e-Commerce program including mapping, on-boarding and technical support. Managed Services is flexible. GXS can assume responsibility for an entire complex, multi-national B2B program or handle a smaller subset of selected projects, regions or trading partner relationships. More than 250 clients from around the world are currently using GXS Managed Services.

About Esprinet
Esprinet (Italian Stock Exchange: PRT) is engaged in the wholesale distribution of IT and consumer electronics in Italy and Spain, with roughly 40.000 resellers customers served and over 500 brands supplied. Consolidated 2009 sales of € 2.1 billion rank the Company No. 1 in Italy, among the top three in Spain and No. 7 in Europe. Uniquely enabled by its internet-based business model (www.esprinet.com), Esprinet is especially focused on delivering technology to resellers mainly addressing the small-to- midsize businesses (SMB).

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®.  Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 24 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility.  GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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“Participating in the Advisory Board has been an invaluable experience and business resource. The chance to collabourate with GXS and other GXS customers has allowed us all to have a better understanding of the challenges we face as EDI and e-commerce professionals,” commented Sue Phillips, Godiva Chocolatier, Inc., a member of the GXS Americas CAB.

“Working with customers on their ongoing B2B e-commerce requirements is a privilege and core to the  GXS business strategy as the business seeks to continually find ways to improve product and service offerings, as demonstrated by the recent acquisition of Rollstream,” said Denise Oakley, international marketing director for GXS. “Meeting with EMEA customers from multiple industry sectors allows us to get a real understanding of the B2B e-commerce challenges that organisations are experiencing today and how GXS can help by developing solutions to these problems.”

The CAB will be launched at a GXS Managed Services Executive Briefing where GXS will update customers on plans and developments around GXS’s Managed Services product portfolio while providing a forum for discussion between senior management at GXS and customers from the EMEA region.  

Details of the event are as follows:

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®.  Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 24 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility.  GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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“Our customers realise they need a balance of people, process and technology to compete on a global scale, and they know that the human side of B2B integration matters,” said Bob Segert, CEO, GXS.  “RollStream is one of the more innovative startups to enter the B2B integration market in recent years.  At GXS, we are firm believers that integration belongs in the cloud and the RollStream acquisition enables us to accelerate this vision.”

For many organisations, integrating business communities is getting more complex, as transactions are expected to double by 2014 across Global 2000 organisations and the lines are blurring between traditional B2B e-commerce transactions and cloud integration.  And despite social software’s transformation among consumer interactions, supply networks are still often bogged down with out-of-date contact lists, hard-to-share supplier certifications, and a reliance on faxes, email and spreadsheets.  Using RollStream, procurement teams at Global 2000 companies are simplifying the human side of B2B integration, minimising supplier compliance risk and improving supplier time-to-market by up to 60 percent.    

The acquisition builds upon the companies’ business partnership that began in 2009 and helps accelerate the rollout of RollStream’s products across the GXS portfolio.  The GXS RollStream service is available today and will be internationalised and available with local language support by first quarter 2012. 

RollStream’s SaaS platform benefits global procurement teams by:

• Accelerating supplier setup by up to 60 percent, from months to weeks.
• Simplifying social exception handling and supply chain collabouration.
• Improving supplier contact accuracy with self-service updates.
• Providing a single source for sales forecasts, supplier communications, and project rollouts.

RollStream is also known for its Web 2.0 user experience and interface, developed on the Ruby-on-Rails (“Rails”) Web development framework. 

Terms of GXS’s acquisition of RollStream were not disclosed.  Both companies are based in the Washington DC area. 

To learn more, and view a GXS/RollStream webinar, visit http://www.gxs.co.uk/rollstream.

About RollStream
RollStream is a leader in enterprise community management.  The company’s SaaS platform optimises supplier relationships through a powerful collabouration platform that includes master data management, robust communications tools, and process applications.  Global retailers, healthcare suppliers and consumer companies use RollStream to collabourate with their supplier community to improve supplier registration cycle times, compliance management, and dispute resolution. RollStream is based in McLean, VA. Learn more at http://www.rollstream.com.

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®.  Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 24 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility.  GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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“It is increasingly becoming obvious that the perceived barrier between application vendors and integration infrastructure vendors is, in reality, a very porous veil,” said Deborah Wilson, research director, Gartner. “Looking forward, the composite integration market looks healthy as organisations continue to shift their focus from internal business processes to external collabouration, and as application implementation moves increasingly outside the firewall.”[1]

“Over the past year, many of our software partners have asked us to help accelerate and differentiate their cloud offerings by directly integrating to the GXS Trading Grid,” said Andrea Brody, vice president, market and business development, GXS.  “Traditionally, e-procurement systems, vendor managed inventory (VMI) systems, supply chain planning applications and transportation management systems (TMS) were process-specific and separate from a company’s business partner network.  But with the rise of cloud computing, the lines are blurring between applications and integration platforms.  ISVs are realising that time-to-revenue is heavily dependent on speed-to-implementation between their applications and their customers.”

The GXS GridConnect partner program includes integration and access to GXS Trading Grid, flexible pricing options, joint go-to-market programs and support and implementation for both partners and their customers.

GXS Trading Grid is a multi-tenant integration platform that provides: 

• Pre-wired connections to more than six million trading partner relationships.
• Global community on-boarding and management expertise with local language support.
• Social networking tools to improve partner on-boarding and collabouration.
• Elastic usage, allowing you to scale up or down capacity based on demand.
• Network-based integration services, including connectivity, translation, data quality, track-and-trace, dashboards and support for industry standard protocols such as cXML, used in procurement processes.

To learn more, visit http://www.gxs.co.uk/gridconnect.   

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®.  Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 24 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility.  GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

[1] Source: Gartner “Examining the Embedded Multienterprise Integration Market”, 23 November 2010, Deborah R Wilson, Chad Eschinger, Benoit J. Lheureux, Fabrizio Biscotti, C. Dwight Klappich, Tim Payne, Andrew White, Nigel Rayner, Paolo Malinverno, Thomas Skybakmoen.

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Kerry Foods is a category leader in chilled foods, including added-value dairy, meat & savoury products, supplying all major supermarket groups, convenience stores and independent retailers in the UK and Ireland with leading brands including Cheestrings, Richmond and Wall’s sausages. The company is the number one UK frozen ready meals supplier and the number two UK chilled ready meals supplier. Speed of order turnaround is critical to their success, with customers typically sending final electronic order confirmations just a few hours before products are loaded onto trailers.

Use of third-party logistics suppliers adds to the complexity of a B2B trading platform that processes an average of 30,000 orders and 150,000 invoices each month with 200 customers. Kerry Foods’ customers include major multiples such as Tesco, Asda, J.Sainsbury, Morrisons and Marks & Spencer. Kerry Foods is a long-standing customer of GXS; GXS enables Kerry Foods to react to ongoing customer requirements for increased supply chain efficiencies, as evidenced by recent and escalating interest in using Advanced Shipping Notices (ASNs) and, now, sending radio frequency identification (RFID) data within ASNs via electronic data interchange (EDI).

“GXS Managed Services allows us to farm out specific areas of technical expertise and effort and all the associated headaches to GXS,” said Peter Johnson, senior business analyst responsible for Kerry Foods customer supply chain systems. ”Without GXS, we could have accomplished this ourselves, but our relatively small team would have been completely consumed in this effort for a considerable period of time. With GXS, we have been able to focus our time and energy on strategy, not the leg-work. As a business, we are firmly of the view that smart deployment of technology and automation can deliver competitive advantage, and GXS Managed Services is no exception.”

A project in process last year was to EDI enable suppliers based in Ireland. Kerry Foods and GXS both immediately recognised the opportunity to utilise GXS’ on boarding and community management capabilities to quickly and painlessly move these trading partners to the Kerry Foods B2B trading infrastructure. As part of the project, GXS took on all aspects of this integration challenge, including the consultation, individual requirements and the enablement of each of the new trading partners.

According to Peter Johnson there are additional benefits that GXS Managed Services brings to Kerry Foods including technology diversification, ease-of-adoption and disaster recovery capabilities for its B2B trading environment. “It means that as customers push us into technologies such as Secure FTP and AS2, we have easy and ready access to expertise in these areas, without the need to maintain those skills in-house. Another benefit for us is in the area of disaster recovery, which has historically occupied a huge amount of our time and attention, reflecting the huge importance of e-trading to our business. GXS has the resource and scale as well as the technical know-how to take our disaster recovery planning and execution to the next level.”

“The Kerry Group has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions in its relatively short history and increasingly, the successful companies are those that are expert at managing all aspects of an acquisition quickly and cost-effectively,” commented Jon Keating, vice-president of GXS EMEA. “Following an acquisition, a company typically wants to get its newly integrated business and IT infrastructure up and running as quickly as possible. GXS Managed Services is a powerfully effective way to ensure this goal for B2B e-commerce, putting in place the technical skills and business know-how to ensure that trading partners are swiftly integrated, with minimal disruptions to the business.”

GXS Managed Services, underpinned by GXS Trading Grid®, our world leading B2B Integration cloud computing platform, provides companies with the people, processes and technologies necessary to maintain complex B2B e-commerce programs. With B2B outsourcing from GXS, companies can build and grow B2B networks without making additional investment in hardware, software or human resources. GXS has more than 40 years’ experience in B2B e-commerce as well as 20 years’ experience in supporting full-service B2B outsourcing programs. GXS Managed Services customers represent a variety of industries including consumer products, financial services, high tech, manufacturing and retail. More than 500 companies currently use GXS Managed Services around the world, including BB&T, Henkel, Jaguar Land Rover, Miller Brewing Company, Shinhan Bank, Sun Microsystems and WHSmith. GXS provides customers with world-class B2B program management including trading community management, global supply chain visibility, transaction management, data translation, systems administration and supplier performance reporting.

About Kerry Foods
Kerry Foods is a division of the Kerry Group, a €4.8 billion company that is listed on the London and Dublin stock exchanges. The group is a world leader in food ingredients and flavours serving the food and beverage industry, and a leading supplier of added value brands and customer branded foods to the Irish and UK markets. Kerry Foods is a category leader in chilled cabinet market segments with brand leaders in the Irish and UK markets. The company has manufacturing facilities throughout Ireland and the UK, and is a supplier to all major supermarket groups, convenience stores and independent retailers.

About GXS
GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com/ and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Steve Keifer, GXS’ vice president of Industry and Product Marketing, will be delivering the keynote on ‘Differentiating the Customer Experience in a Teardown Economy’. The presentation will highlight how the high-tech industry is dominated by increasingly short product lifecycles and intense competition and will discuss ways in which companies can employ a flexible B2B e-commerce program to gain competitive advantage.

“As commoditisation of the supply chain increases, companies have come to feel that product differentiation is growing increasingly weak”, commented Steve Keifer. “As a result, more competition is now being enabled through superior processes and service solutions, than solely in products themselves. The 113^th EDIFICE plenary will be a chance to debate the customer centric supply chain, including best practices for engaging partners in B2B processes, how to adapt to varying customer business models, and the customer technology preference such as web services, AS4, and OAGI standards.”

EDIFICE, the European Network for B2B integration in High Tech Industries, provides a forum for European organisations to create standardised processes through best practices, information sharing and standards development. Each Plenary brings together companies interested in sharing ideas and best practices specifically within the technology market, including B2B standards, governance and legislation, ROI and business modeling.

“The sharing of experiences around the strategies and tools needed to differentiate customer experiences around B2B integration is important to the success of high tech organisations in 2011”, said Denise Oakley, vice chair of EDIFICE and international marketing director for GXS.  “ This EDIFICE plenary will enable member organisations to explore ways in which productivity and efficiency across their business can be improved.”

Details of the event are as follows:

About GXS
GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS’s automotive customers include 80 percent of the Top 20 global OEMs and 82 percent of the world’s Top 100 suppliers. GXS participates in a number of automotive industry bodies around the world including North America’s Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) and Europe’s Odette and Galia associations. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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This is the third year in a row that the company has witnessed at least 50 percent customer growth in B2B Managed Services, which combines the world’s largest ecosystem for B2B integration, process orchestration and data quality services, with a global shared services team to monitor and manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.

The new companies spanned multiple industries, including particularly strong growth in the high tech, consumer goods, retail, and general manufacturing industries.  50 percent of the 2010 customers are based outside the US.  Asian banks and tech manufacturers like LG Electronics contributed to 90 percent year-over-year growth in Asia-Pacific.  Tech manufacturers and top retailers like Virgin Stores contributed to 40 percent year-over-year growth in Europe.

“One of the mantras we have within the IT team at Electronic Arts is to keep our IT-enabled business operations “Always On” – that means ensuring our IT projects are always delivered on-time, on-budget and on-quality, and ensuring that our IT operations are always on from an availability and reliability perspective.  This is why we brought GXS on board,” said Dennis Self, chief information officer, Electronic Arts.  “We wanted a turn-key program whereby GXS would help manage the initial transition associated with consolidating our B2B platforms and ensure that ongoing B2B operations were “always on.”  And that’s exactly what GXS has done.  GXS has served as a key contributor in helping EA realise its vision to establish a world-class, global integration platform.”

“Whether improving ERP performance or consolidating integration platforms, companies are increasingly turning to cloud-based integration platforms,” said Bobby Patrick, chief marketing officer, GXS.  “We are continually humbled to be helping our customers transform their businesses. Cloud-based services provide an excellent opportunity for businesses to realign information ownership and responsibilities.  While B2B e-commerce is by far the most popular customer scenario today, we are also excited by emerging scenarios using GXS Trading Grid, such as customer data integration in corporate banking, and help-desk to help-desk integration in manufacturing.”

According to GXS, companies are choosing B2B Managed Services to address three common business challenges:

Modernising IT platforms:  Trying to balance cost pressures and customer needs, companies are faced with the need to rapidly modernise IT systems and extend business partner connections without adding headcount (FTE), hardware and software.

Keeping ERP projects on schedule:  Companies are looking to ways to ensure their ERP projects on-track and on-budget and improve the overall return-on-investment.  With an average of 34 percent of the data feeding an ERP coming from external sources, according to AMR Research[i], a company’s ability to orchestrate integration changes across business partners is critical to the success of any ERP update (learn more at www.b2bforsap.co.uk).

Improving customer service and speed-to-market:  Banks and retailers need to improve their ability to service corporate customers by delivering faster implementation timeframes, a broader set of integration options and more responsiveness.

For more information, see: http://www.gxs.co.uk/managed_services

About GXS
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®.  Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 24 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility.  GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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[i] AMR Research, “ERP Projects Create Significant B2B Opportunities” by Karen Carter, Dennis Gaughan and Jim Shepherd, August 2009.

For 2011, TowerGroup predicts that Wholesale Banking will be shaped by an uneven economic recovery, major regulatory changes, client demand for innovation, reputational risk arising from cybercrime and increasingly global competition. In contrast to 2010, TowerGroup expects FSI teams to place more focus on lowering the overall cost of the technology infrastructure supporting Wholesale Banking units.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this webinar:

• The impact of Basel III, the Dodd-Frank Act (US), SEPA (EU) and other regulatory initiatives.
• How banks are deploying payments convergence systems.
• How electronic bank account management (eBAM) is driving investment on multibank digital identity management systems.
• How technology teams are modernising core banking platforms to support global branch networks.
• The impact of life-cycle management solutions on managing wholesale banking customers.

 Following the webinar, a replay will be available at http://www.gxs.co.uk/resources/thought_leadership/gxs_webinars.htm

About GXS:
GXS is a leading integration services provider and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®.  Our software and services help more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 24 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate receiving processes, manage electronic payments, and improve supply chain visibility.  GXS Managed Services, our unique approach to improving B2B integration operations, combines GXS Trading Grid with our process orchestration services and global team to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,000 professionals.  To learn more, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, read our blog at http://blogs.gxs.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.

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The one-day event includes ten chief information officers from global businesses, including LG Chemical, Mado and Hanjin Shipping.  The CIOs will share their insights on cloud computing adoption in Korea, including examples of implementations and benefits realised by manufacturers, automotive suppliers and logistics providers as they integrate with global business partners.  

Bobby Patrick, GXS chief marketing officer, will deliver a presentation on “Cloud Computing and its Impact on B2B Integration.”

GXS’s three main business-to-business integration services —Managed Services, Messaging, and Active Applications—are powered by the GXS Trading Grid platform, the world’s largest integration cloud that manages more than 10 billion transactions a year. 

For more information, including the “GXS B2B Wave Asia” video series, see http://www.gxschina.com.cn/. 

About CIO Korea
CIO Korea is a monthly magazine which reaches more than 10,000 CIOs, e-business executives who control the purchase of technology products and service in Korea.  For more information, see http://www.ciokorea.com. 

About GXS
GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com/ and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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The reality of this disruptive innovation was a major finding in recent global research sponsored by GXS. The research was led by Martin Christopher, Emeritus Professor of Marketing and Logistics at the UK’s Cranfield School of Management and carried out by SCM World. Over 800 businesses took part from a broad range of industry sectors across the world. More information on the research, video, blogs and best practices can be found at http://www.gxsinsights.eu/4th_edition/.

One of the research’s starkest findings was that this complexity is set to become a challenge for many companies in the very near future. Some 84% of companies taking part in the research said they anticipated that the level of supply chain complexity will increase inside the next three years.

The sheer pace of this innovation and its concomitant complexity are spurring demand for new technology solutions, according to Martin Christopher who noted: “An increasing number of suppliers are enlisting the help of a combination of new cloud-based technology platforms and specialised B2B outsourcing providers to wage war against complexity. The manufacturing companies that master complexity in their demand chains will be the long-term winners in the marketplace.”

73% of participants agreed that the number of requests from large customers for customised processes have been on the increase in the past three years as the top 500 companies have aggressively pursued supply chain optimisation in order to maximise their performance. The research discovered that these companies are introducing radical customisation, touching almost every aspect of their business operations – where they manufacture, how they order and pay suppliers for parts and components, where and how they transport and stock products, and how they get them to the shop-floor.

“We are standing on the cusp of a potentially major shift in the balance of power between very large customers and their suppliers,” commented Steve Keifer, industry and product marketing vice president at GXS. “Suppliers are faced with more customisation as they struggle to comply with the unique support services requested from their largest customers. As a result, suppliers are forced to support a myriad of different order forecasting, fulfillment and logistics processes and a wide variety of technology standards for visibility, collabouration and synchronisation. These manufacturers are in a battle against the growing complexity in their demand chains.”

There is a broad consensus among suppliers and manufacturers that commoditisation has become an accepted fact of life. Among its findings, the research indicated that:

• 65% of respondents across many different sectors – including high-tech, food and beverage, automotive and pharmaceuticals – admitted there was a general trend towards ‘commoditisation’ in their markets, with product differentiation becoming weaker.
• 9 out of every 10 people quizzed in the survey agreed with the proposition that, increasingly, companies will compete as much through superior processes and service solution as they used to do via superior products.

Finally, the research found that a growing number of companies are now focused on the opportunity to differentiate based less upon product quality and more upon process excellence and superior service. The leaders in tomorrow’s supply chain will be companies which harness the potential of technology to master complexity and begin to differentiate based on service and process.

About GXS
GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com/ and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Justin Duewel-Zahniser, global product manager at GXS, will present on “Cloud Computing in Asia and its Impact on B2B.” The talk will include a case study on GXS’s use of the Microsoft Windows Azure platform to deliver a cloud-based service for small businesses to manage supply chain performance and information flows in their B2B communities.

GXS is a founding member of AsiaB2B and sponsor of the event. GXS will participate in two other sessions at the event, including a presentation by Leo Yeung, director of solution consulting GXS in Asia on leveraging B2B technology in Asia-Pacific supply chains and a panel on enabling small and medium enterprises (SME) for B2B e-commerce.

For more information, see the “GXS on Windows Azure” video case study at http://www.gxs.com/azure.

About AsiaB2B
AsiaB2B, the first standard-independent B2B user community in Asia Pacific, is founded in March 2009. The objective is to facilitate the need for a standard-independent B2B user community that’s allows companies to create an active knowledge sharing network for B2B and business experts in the Asia Pacific region. AsiaB2B aims to establish active working groups in various business process areas, offering opportunities for learning about and influencing of B2B and business process standards. For more information on AsiaB2B, please visit http://www.asiab2b.org

About GXS
GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com/ and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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The European CAB was formed in 2008 by Inovis and is chaired by Steve Coussins the former Chief Executive of GS1 UK. The CAB is representative of the broad spectrum of customers that GXS now serves and participating companies include Danone, Bernard Matthews, Moto and Polypipe. This is the second meeting of the CAB this year and the first since the GXS and Inovis merger combined two of the world’s largest B2B integration services providers, creating the world’s largest network of integrated business communities.

The CAB provides a forum for discussion between GXS and former Inovis customers in Europe and this meeting will provide a platform for GXS to share strategic plans including the expanded GXS roadmap for new products and services to better meet customers’ needs in 2011.

“Customer engagement has always been a primary focus, and following the recent merger, GXS welcomes this opportunity to meet with the CAB and share our future European business plans with them. This is also a great opportunity for the newly acquired GXS customers to discuss their views and experiences, allowing GXS a deep understanding of the services they require,” commented Steve Coussins, chair of the CAB. “We anticipate that this meeting will provide the CAB members with a more detailed understanding of the merged business as well as providing an excellent opportunity to discuss current industry trends.”

About GXS
GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS’s automotive customers include 80 percent of the Top 20 global OEMs and 82 percent of the world’s Top 100 suppliers. GXS participates in a number of automotive industry bodies around the world including North America’s Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) and Europe’s Odette and Galia associations. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

The conference has more than 70 speakers and will deliver insight into solutions, industry roadmaps and provide supporting case studies. GXS will be exhibiting a range of B2B to SAP integration solutions and services and demonstrating the substantial benefits they deliver for SAP customers, including:

• Ensuring SAP systems are fed with accurate information;
• Improving visibility of cross-enterprise information;
• Increasing standardisation of business processes;
• Boosting supply chain efficiencies.

GXS B2B to SAP Integration services range from complex document mapping, incorporating the SAP IDoc format, managing global trading partner relationships and monitoring data quality. GXS services help to solve a number of common issues that affect the ROI from ERP investments including lack of trading partner participation, poor data quality and the resulting project delays. Changes to ERP applications such as version upgrades and consolidation often necessitate significant changes to B2B integration infrastructures and B2B managers need to redevelop maps and perform end-to-end testing of integration functionality to support ERP projects, but many B2B groups are not staffed adequately to support the intensive workloads required from such ERP projects, causing delays in deployment.

“The symbiotic nature of B2B and SAP ERP is often overlooked,” noted Denise Oakley, GXS International Marketing Director. “Project leaders sometimes forget the critical supply chain links and external data flows needed to power SAP ERP applications. Too many companies get half-way through a new SAP ERP roll-out to discover that they are not staffed to support the massive mapping, testing and trading partner management activities necessary for SAP ERP upgrades. Our goal is to keep ERP projects on-schedule and under budget with a best-in-class approach to B2B integration.”

Details of the event are as follows:

About GXS
GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

“We are delighted to welcome our customers to this event and to show our appreciation for their ongoing support” commented Jon Keating, vice president sales EMEA, GXS. “This event confirms our commitment in Europe to help customers achieve their business objectives and goals. Now the merger with Inovis and Freeway Commerce is complete, we look forward to celebrating with our customers and continuing to develop innovative solutions with tangible business benefit.”

The merger created the world’s largest network of integrated business communities, with exceptionally deep vertical expertise and an expansive global footprint. Together, the network platforms of both companies – GXS Trading Grid® and Inovisworks™ – represent over $200 million in cumulative research and development since 2004, when the companies initiated the transition of traditional value-added networks (VANs) to service-oriented, integration platforms capable of delivering high-value managed services.

The combined company now has over 40,000 direct customers, and offers unique capabilities in a variety of industries, including retail, automotive, consumer products, financial services, high-tech manufacturing, logistics and transportation. To serve our customers’ global operations, suppliers, and customers, GXS maintains direct operations in over 20 countries, offering customers the advantage of a single worldwide provider, a global feature set, and a consistent high-quality service expectation.

About GXS

GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

Conference call details:

About GXS
GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com/ and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

The 2-day conference will bring together EMEA channel partners offering an opportunity to hear firsthand the plans and strategy of the new company, following the merger of GXS and Inovis, which created the world’s largest network of integrated business communities. The conference will give GXS and former Inovis channel partners across EMEA the opportunity to hear directly from a number of senior GXS executives, including Bobby Patrick, senior vice president and chief marketing officer and Jon Keating, vice president sales, EMEA.

Demonstrating the expanding reach of GXS Trading Grid® in EMEA GXS partner representatives from a number of countries will attend, including Spain, Belgium, Hungary, France, Ireland, Israel, Czech Republic, Portugal, Germany, United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

What:               2010 GXS EMEA Partner Conference.

Who                 Keynote presentation by Bobby Patrick, GXS SVP and Chief Marketing Officer with other senior GXS executives in attendance.

Where              Amstelveen, The Netherlands.

When               Thursday 4th and Friday 5th November.

“Customers in EMEA today require a combination of global reach with local presence. GXS EMEA partners provide a powerful combination of GXS Trading Grid® solutions and local knowledge, expertise and language capability” commented Jon Keating, vice president sales, EMEA at GXS. “The merger of Inovis and GXS further expands our EMEA channel partner network and this Conference brings all of these partners together for the first time”.

GXS works with many different kinds of partners serving a wide range of market segments worldwide. The GXS Partner Programme is respected in the B2B industry and GXS is dedicated to enabling its channel partners to find new business through innovative solutions, marketing and sales programmes.

About GXS
GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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denise.oakley@gxs.com

Clevenger brings more than 20 years of experience in corporate finance and capital markets to the role and will replace John Duvall as head of the company’s finance organisation. Duvall will remain with GXS serving as Senior Vice President of Finance, reporting to Clevenger, and will continue to work with the management team to extend the company’s leadership position in the market.

“Gregg is a fantastic fit for the GXS team and brings a unique set of experiences in managing corporate finance teams, operating public companies and leading investment banking deals across the world,” said Bob Segert, President and Chief Executive Officer, GXS. “We look forward to Gregg’s contributions as we continue to expand our managed services business globally.”

“It’s a very exciting time in the B2B e-commerce market and GXS continues to lead the way throughout the world,” said Gregg Clevenger. “The combination of the market opportunity, the company’s unique position in the market and global reach, and the excellent team in place made joining GXS a very easy decision.”

Before joining GXS, Clevenger was CFO at Infinia Corporation, a solar technology company which has raised more than $125 million in venture capital to commercialise the company’s thermal solar energy generating system. Previously, Clevenger served as CFO of MPower Communications, a publicly traded telecommunications provider, and was an investment banker for ten years, completing nearly 50 transactions across 11 countries while working for Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Argent Group.

About GXS
GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS’s automotive customers include 80 percent of the Top 20 global OEMs and 82 percent of the world’s Top 100 suppliers. GXS participates in a number of automotive industry bodies around the world including North America’s Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) and Europe’s Odette and Galia associations. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

Bobby Patrick, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at GXS, will present a keynote on “The SME Dilemma: Building Customised Supply Chains while Serving SME Markets.” Mr. Patrick will address the state of global trading partner collabouration, emphasising how rising supply chain complexity and costs and demands for 100% automation can be lowered through the use of B2B e-commerce solutions designed for SME trading partners.

“There’s a fundamental shift underway in the balance of power between trading partners,” said Bobby Patrick. “The latest research shows that 86% of supply chain executives expect an increase in complex requests from customers, while 87% agree that flexible B2B e-commerce programs enable them to differentiate on service. Buyers are increasingly requesting customised item setups (SKUs), more complex replenishment models and a range of shipping, logistics and warehousing models. As small suppliers adapt to these new demands, it’s important that we come together as an industry to analyse these changes, assess the constraints and identify the opportunities.”

EDIFICE, the European Network for B2B integration in High Tech Industries, provides a forum for European organisations to create standardised processes through best practices, information sharing and standards development. Each Plenary brings together companies interested in sharing ideas and best practices specifically within the technology market, including B2B standards, governance and legislation, ROI and business modeling.

“This EDIFICE plenary provides the perfect opportunity to highlight the strategies and tools needed to accelerate B2B SME adoption while maintaining supply chain flexibility,” said Denise Oakley, vice chair of EDIFICE and international marketing director at GXS. “Sharing best practices enables organisations of all sizes to identify new sources of sustainable competitive advantage enabling them to improve efficiency across the business.”

Details of the event are as follows:

About GXS
GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

Steve Keifer, vice president of industry and product marketing, GXS, will be participating in a panel discussing e-invoicing between banks and service providers. The panel also includes executives from Gartner, SWIFT and Banco Santander. According to Gartner Inc., electronic submission of supplier invoices can reduce per-invoice processing costs by as much as 70% to 90%, reduce errors and invoice cycle times, build stronger supplier relationships, improve cash management and the realisation of discount opportunities.

GXS is also sponsoring the “Sibos Forum for Corporates,” a dedicated two-day programme during the Sibos 2010 conference focused on corporate-to-bank data integration for banking and corporate executives in treasury and trade. Key topics include electronic bank account management (EBAM), digital identity and e-invoicing.

GXS recently launched a SWIFT Service Bureau, providing corporate customers with an outsourced IT service to manage banking transactions, including payments, foreign exchange and securities processing, without the burden and costs of managing the associated technology infrastructure. The service provides treasury groups with visibility to their cash positions across their banking relationships, improving liquidity management and working capital.

About GXS
GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

The GXS Integration Customer Forum will be held October 20-22, 2010 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, in Washington DC.

“The huge interest in this year’s event is a testament to both an improving economy and a rising interest in integration services and business networks. We’re thrilled to be able to host our customers this week,” said Bobby Patrick, chief marketing officer, GXS.

The event provides an opportunity for GXS customers to collabourate with peers and includes customer case studies, panel discussions, business updates, advisory board meetings and solution breakouts.

Key topics and speakers include:

• B2B E-Commerce Case Studies from MillerCoors, Delphi and Godiva.
• “The New GXS”, by Bob Segert, GXS President and CEO.
• The Future of B2B E-Commerce, by John Radko, GXS Chief Technology Strategist.
• The E-Invoicing Outlook, by Christiaan van der Valk, CEO, TrustWeaver.
• Working Capital in the Financial Supply Chain, by Wells Fargo.
• B2B Community Management Best Practices, by Kristin Muhlner, CEO, RollStream.
• Annual User Group Meetings for Managed Services and SAP Users.

Highlights from the Forum will be posted on the GXS blog (http://blogs.gxs.com) and on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/GXS, using hashtag #GXSForum).

About GXS
GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS’s automotive customers include 80 percent of the Top 20 global OEMs and 82 percent of the world’s Top 100 suppliers. GXS participates in a number of automotive industry bodies around the world including North America’s Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) and Europe’s Odette and Galia associations. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

GXS has embedded an OFTP2 communications service in its B2B communications and outsourcing platforms, including the GXS Trading Grid® and GXS Managed Services. The ability to exchange electronic transactions securely is essential for automotive suppliers and OEMs, especially for the exchange of engineering CAD/CAM files, which need to be shared across the supply chain throughout the product lifecycle, from manufacturing through recalls and the aftermarket, often spanning a period of twenty years.

Hella, a top fifty global automotive supplier of lighting and electronics, is one of an emerging group of European automotive companies that is currently deploying OFTP2 with their trading partners. Hella exchanges more than 35,000 transactions a day with customers, suppliers and third-party logistics providers (3PLs). “No business could be conducted at Hella without reliable connections with business partners. GXS’s support of OFTP2 will allow us to further consolidate data communications with trading partners in any region of the world,” said Udo Thienelt, Manager of Integrated Applications at Hella.

Up until now, many European automotive companies have utilised OFTP as a data transfer standard, a 25 year-old point-to-point protocol that relies on slow ISDN connections or aging X.25 networks. As supply chains have grown in complexity and Internet networks and cloud-based services have risen in usage, companies have searched for alternative communication options.

Odette International was formed by the automotive industry to set the standards for e-business communications, engineering data exchange and logistics management for the European motor industry and their global trading partners. “We are pleased that GXS has released an OFTP2 service. Odette has been working hard to introduce OFTP2 and with GXS’s announcement we expect to see many more automotive companies standardise on OFTP2,” said John Canvin, Managing Director of Odette.

The new GXS OFTP2 service provides a faster, safer, cheaper alternative to older point-to-point solutions and supports the following capabilities:

• Internet for file transfer, eliminating the need for dedicated networks.
• A combination of file encryption and digital certificates (certificates can be provided by Odette).
• Exchange of very large files using file compression and checkpoint mechanisms.

“At GXS, we have seen significant interest in OFTP2 from our automotive customers and are pleased to offer this important new communications protocol as a service,” said Mark Morley, Automotive Industry Marketing Director at GXS.”

To learn more, please register for the live webinar below:

About GXS
GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS’s automotive customers include 80 percent of the Top 20 global OEMs and 82 percent of the world’s Top 100 suppliers. GXS participates in a number of automotive industry bodies around the world including North America’s Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) and Europe’s Odette and Galia associations. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

The conference brings together the global cash management and treasury community to exchange strategic innovations, best practice and expert opinion. GXS will be exhibiting a range of services for the corporate banking community with TDI Consulting.

Who:               GXS

What:              International Cash and Treasury Management conference

When:             6–8 October 2010

Where:           Booth S1021, Geneva Palexpo, Switzerland

GXS is promoting solutions designed to enable banks to securely connect and exchange critical real-time cash and trade services data with their corporate clients.  GXS’ Financial Integration Suite provides solutions such as Bank-to-Corporate Managed Services, enabling seamless integration and straight-through processing between banking applications and corporate ERP systems. By facilitating stronger integration, GXS solutions help to automate transaction management processes, enhancing visibility, and accelerating account reconciliation across commercial cash management and trade services areas. 

In addition, the recently announced GXS SWIFT Service Bureau provides an outsourced service to manage a company’s banking transactions, including payments, foreign exchange and securities processing, without the burden and costs of managing the associated technology infrastructure.  With the GXS SWIFT service, treasury groups can gain visibility to their cash positions across their banking relationships, improving liquidity management and working capital.  Following the announcement of this new service GXS will sponsor the SIBOS corporate forum, on 26 and 27 October in Amsterdam, where the latest developments and challenges facing the corporate-to-bank space will be discussed by treasury, trade and senior finance professionals from corporations and financial institutions.

About GXS 

GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions.  The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world.  For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs. 

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Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

Gaithersburg, MD. —

A key factor driving the need for stronger and more flexible B2B programs is the growing complexity in supply chains.  More than 86 percent of supply chain executives expect complex requests from customers, such as vendor-managed inventory (VMI), cross-docking and floor-ready merchandise, to increase through 2013. 

In June 2010, SCM World surveyed 819 supply chain executives around the world to gain an understanding of trends in customer-supplier relationships and supply chain technology.  The research, one of the largest studies ever completed on B2B e-commerce, was led by Martin Christopher, Member of the Supervisory Board at SCM World and Emeritus Professor of Marketing and Logistics at Cranfield School of Management. 

Professor Martin Christopher

“The pendulum of power in the supply chain is swinging away from suppliers and towards the customers. These large buyers are demanding more complex and customised support services from their community of suppliers, many of whom are facing growing commoditisation at the same time,” said Professor Christopher.  “As a result, supply chain executives around the globe are acknowledging that process flexibility and customer service are just as important for differentiation as delivering superior products.” 

Highlights of the research include: 

• 94 percent of respondents agreed that increasingly companies like theirs will compete as much through superior processes and service solutions as through superior products.
• 86 percent of respondents expect an increase in the number of requests from large customers for more complex inventory management and replenishment models over the next three years.
• 79 percent of respondents expect an increase in the number of requests from large customers for more complex transportation and logistics models over the next three years.
• 77 percent of respondents agreed there is still a lack of trust amongst supply chain partners that is impeding the flow of information.

“Manufacturers are facing greater levels of complexity as their larger customers require them to support complex processes such as vendor-managed inventory, cross-docking and supply chain finance, and more advanced technology programs such as CPFR, data sync and e-invoicing,” said Steve Keifer, vice president of industry and product marketing, GXS.  “Companies who can use their B2B e-commerce programs to overcome process complexity and technology variability will be able to delight customers with better service.” 

Additional findings of the research include: 

• 87 percent of respondents agreed that the flexibility of their B2B e-commerce program enables them to differentiate from competitors on service.
• 91 percent of respondents agreed that the flexibility of their B2B e-commerce program is important to demonstrate to customers how easy they are to do business with.
• 93 percent of respondents agreed that they are making good progress in working more collabouratively with customers.

The study is the fourth in a series published by GXS and research partners on trends in managing networks of business partners.  Prior studies are available at http://www.gxs.co.uk/resources/strategic_b2b_tools/. 

1. Driving Business Value Through B2B Outsourcing (Stanford University)
2. Understanding Your Total Cost of Ownership for Managing B2B Operations (Hobson & Company)
3. ERP Projects Create Significant B2B Opportunities (AMR Research)
4. Enhancing Customer-Centric Supply Chains (SCM World)

For more information, join the live webinar below and receive a complimentary copy of the research report. 

Webinar: Enhancing Customer-Centric Supply Chains:  How B2B E-Commerce Increases Customer Satisfaction and Drives Revenue Growth
Date: Thursday September 30th 2010, 10:00AM New York / 3:00 PM London / 4:00 PM Paris
Speakers: Professor Martin Christopher, Member of the Supervisory Board at SCM World and Emeritus Professor of Marketing and Logistics at Cranfield School of Management;  and Steve Keifer, Vice President of Industry and Product Marketing, GXS
Registration: http://bit.ly/GXS-webinar 

About GXS 

GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions.  The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world.  For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs. 

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Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

The Logistics Special Interest Group (SIG) is open to both members and non-members and the meeting will start with a discussion on how consumers are driving business trends with a focus on B2B integration, efficiencies and best practice.

Julian Tanner, CEO and founder of AxiCom, is guest speaker and will present on the future impact of Web 3.0 within B2B. After discussing the benefits and potential challenges of Web 3.0, Tanner will go on to explain how the technology can potentially benefit organisations by providing an intelligent and centralised data repository which improves the speed and efficiency at which businesses can make decisions. 

What:               BASDA Logistics Special Interest Group: member and non-member annual meeting

When:              28th September, 2010

Where:             GXS, Sunbury-On-Thames, UK

 “Encouraging debate and discussion on key industry initiatives is essential to maintaining progressive and thought-leading initiatives,” said John Kearns, Chair of BASDA Logistics Special Interest Group and UK Head of Strategic Development and Alliances at GXS. “As customers and suppliers look to solutions providers to help streamline B2B transactions this SIG group discussion will provide an opportunity to share experiences in supply chain communications.”

About GXS

GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Media Contact:

Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

The GXS and Inovis merger has created the world’s largest network of integrated business communities, and the webinar will give customers in Europe the opportunity to hear first hand from senior GXS executives and to participate in a Q&A session. The webinar will outline the detailed practical plans that are now in place to combine the best from both businesses and will address both immediate questions such as renewals, migrations and upgrades, as well as the longer term vision for the development of software and services.

What:               GXS and Inovis Post-Merger Update Webinar

When:              Monday 20^th September at 14:00 BST

Where:             Register at http://now.gxs.eu/content/post-merger-update-webinar

Who:                The webinar will be led by Bobby Patrick, Senior Vice-President Marketing and CMO

The GXS and Inovis merger has combined two of the world’s largest B2B integration services providers. Operating as GXS, the new company processes billions of transactions per year for approximately 40,000 customers worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500. GXS seeks to strengthen its product offerings, accelerate the innovation of dynamic business networks, and enable businesses to reach their goals by empowering their data.

“The combined company can bring exceptional new innovations to the B2B e-commerce industry,” commented Bobby Patrick. “The webinar will explain clearly to our combined customer base how we intend to build on a best-of-breed platform that assures ease‐of‐integration with in-house software deployments as well as with global trading partners.”

About GXS

GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions.  The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world.  For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

GXS was ranked 6^th among the 50 Information technology (IT) companies included in this year’s list and the only company focused exclusively on B2B e-commerce. Other IT companies in the InformationWeek 500 include Dell, Salesforce.com and Intuit.

Interview with Karl Salnoske, GXS CIO

“Growth is today’s prevailing business theme regardless of industry or geography, and our customers realise that a high-performance supply chain improves not only a company’s top-line, but bottom-line as well,” said Karl Salnoske, executive vice president and chief information officer, GXS. “With GXS Managed Services, we’re dedicated to helping our customers speed time-to-revenue through faster trading partner enablement, improved data accuracy and higher quality-of-service. We’re honored to be included alongside such a fine group of companies.”

“For 22 years, the InformationWeek 500 has honored the most innovative users of business technology,” said InformationWeek Editor In Chief Rob Preston. “As we start to emerge from the worst recession in decades, the IT focus is now on driving growth—new sources of revenue, new relationships with customers, even new business models. This year’s ranking placed special emphasis on those companies and business technology executives leading that charge.”

InformationWeek identifies and honors the nation’s most innovative users of information technology with its annual 500 listing, and also tracks the technology, strategies, investments and administrative practices of America’s best-known companies. Top winners have included: CME Group, Conway, National Semiconductor, Kimberly-Clark, Hilton Hotels and Unum. The InformationWeek 500 rankings are unique among corporate rankings as it spotlights the power of innovation in information technology, rather than simply identifying the biggest IT spenders.

Additional details on the InformationWeek 500 can be found online at www.informationweek.com/iw500/.

An interview with Karl Salnoske, GXS CIO, can be found at http://blogs.gxs.com.

About GXS

GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com/ and http://twitter.com/gxs.

About InformationWeek Business Technology Network

The InformationWeek Business Technology Network provides IT executives with unique analysis and tools that parallel their work flow – from defining and framing objectives through to the evaluation and recommendation of solutions. Anchored by InformationWeek, the multimedia powerhouse that looks across the enterprise, the network scales across the most critical technology categories with online properties like DarkReading.com (security), IntelligentEnterprise.com (application architecture), NetworkComputing.com (networking and communications) and PlugintotheCloud.com (cloud computing). The network also provides focused content for key IT audiences, such as CIOs, developers, SMBs and IT Support Managers via InformationWeek Global CIO, Dr. Dobb’s, InformationWeek SMB, and HDI respectively, as well as vital vertical industries with InformationWeek Financial Services, Government and Healthcare sites. Content is at the nucleus of our information distribution strategy, and the network provides a deep and rich portfolio of decision-making tools and peer based research through InformationWeek Analytics, the leading service for peer-based IT research and analysis. IT professionals turn to our experts and communities to stay informed, get advice and research technologies to make strategic business decisions. The InformationWeek Business Technology Network is part of UBM TechWeb. For more information, see http://www.informationweek.com.

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Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

The GXS SWIFT Service Bureau provides an outsourced IT service to manage a company’s banking transactions, including payments, foreign exchange and securities processing, without the burden and costs of managing the associated technology infrastructure.

With today’s increased focus on financial transparency, businesses are seeking better visibility and tighter integration with their banking partners. With the GXS SWIFT service, treasury groups can gain visibility to their cash positions across their banking relationships, improving liquidity management and working capital.

“Access to the SWIFT network gives corporate treasury groups two things that are on top of their lists these days: simplifying their banking transactions and improving transparency and control,” said Susan Feinberg, senior research director, TowerGroup. “The ability to manage both banking services and B2B e-commerce through a single provider is a major advantage to businesses in today’s challenging economic environment.”

“Secure, reliable integration with financial institutions is mandatory for most businesses around the world,” said David Pryce, head of partner and channel management, SWIFT Americas. “With 40,000 customers, GXS is a significant addition to the SWIFT partner network and we are delighted to work with them on this new service.”

“At GXS, we’re seeing a clear trend of companies rationalising the number of banking relationships to improve Treasury operations,” said Mark Mixter, senior global product manager for financial services, GXS. “As corporate treasurers look for efficiencies, they are often restructuring back office operations and using SWIFT Corporate Access to standardise their B2Bank integration channels.”

SWIFT: the world’s financial network.

SWIFT manages the world’s largest network for financial transactions. Each day, more than 9,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers across 209 countries trust the member-owned cooperative to safely exchange millions of standardised financial messages.

Based in Belgium, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) provides the communications platform and services that allow its customers to connect and exchange financial information, and also leads the financial community in defining standards. SWIFT standards define the exchange of payment instructions, bank statements, foreign exchange transactions and securities holdings reports.

Corporate treasury departments use SWIFT to simplify their connections and straight-through processing (STP) of financial payments and messages with their banking partners while improving the visibility of their cash positions and securities holdings. Financial institutions rely on SWIFT to better serve their customers and to provide secure, automated treasury management services.

Features: GXS SWIFT Service Bureau.

The GXS SWIFT Service Bureau is available today for customers of GXS Managed Services and GXS Trading Grid, giving banks and corporations a single platform for automating B2B e-commerce communications.

Key features include:

• SWIFTNet Services, supporting exchange of messages and files across SWIFTFIN, InterAct and FileAct services.
• Network Protocol Mediation, supporting Internet protocols AS2, AS3, SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS and MQ.
• Messaging Transformation, supporting any-to-any transformation services to convert messages to and from SWIFT MT/FIN ISO 20022 XML, SAP IDOC, Microsoft Excel, EDI, XML and proprietary formats.
• Non-SWIFT Connections, to establish direct Internet-based connections to banks that do not support SWIFT or prefer a direct connection.
• Partner On-boarding, to connect, test and roll out partners using a proven five-phase process.

For more information, including podcasts and datasheets, see www.gxs.co.uk.

About GXS

GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com/ and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

Electronic Data Interchange, or EDI, is the automated exchange of standard business documents such as orders and invoices between two companies. The technology has been widely adopted throughout the UK across many different sectors, by businesses both large and small. EDI helps a company cut down on unnecessary paperwork, drive down the cost of managing business documents, reduce the amount of manual processing and eliminate errors.

At the same time, the very popularity of EDI has given rise to a plethora of data flavours and variants that can sometimes cause headaches and even deter businesses. A recent survey of 300 information technology professionals found that 95 percent of respondents still use comparatively unsophisticated tools such as spreadsheets for some or all of their B2B transactions. This highlights a requirement for greater use of electronic trading across a wide range of companies and industries. Addressing this issue head-on, the EDI Basics site offers a wealth of information and resources, designed for business professionals ranging from highly experienced users to complete beginners. Since its launch in 2006, the site has seen a 278 percent increase in traffic and is now the top ranking EDI site for organic searches on Google.

A major feature of the new site is the EDI Community, which allows visitors to pool their expertise and help each other to solve problems. A visitor can ask questions, suggest answers, contribute insights and share experiences. The community is open to all visitors and not limited to GXS customers. Where appropriate, GXS experts will be available to contribute help and advice.

“There are an extensive set online forums devoted to discussions about new XML-based e-commerce standards,” noted Denise Oakley, International Marketing Director at GXS, “However, there are relatively few web resources devoted to explaining the EDI standards such as Tradacoms that the whole British economy depend upon.  We were taken by surprise at the pent-up demand in the UK for ‘how to’ type information about all aspects of electronic trading. The success of the first version has encouraged us to expand the site, adding new content including the EDI Community, which will help make the site even more useful.”

The resources section of the EDI Basics site now covers a broad range of content, including variants of EDI and document standards. This is combined with tutorials, reference documents and case studies of UK companies such as Dixons, JO Sims, Organic Farm Foods, Royal Mail and WH Smith. A multimedia library provides access to videos, webinars and podcasts.  Finally, the site also features an EDI quiz, which provides an instant assessment of your electronic trading expertise.

About GXS

GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid^® to extend supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS’ B2B outsourcing solution, empowers customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally.

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. GXS can be found on the Web at http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

The goal of the research, now in its sixth year, is to raise awareness of the supply chain discipline and how it impacts business. In the report, AMR Research, now a part of Gartner, profiles Fortune Global 500 companies by using a composite score comprised of financial data and peer opinion.

According to the report, “By embedding product and process innovation in supply chain operations and consciously managing and shaping demand from a customer, production and fulfillment standpoint, the companies included in our Top 25 are doing a lot more than just shipping.”

Leading supply chain performers, as defined by the Supply Chain Top 25, are more financially successful than their competitors, according to a study by Dr. Alex Ellinger and a team of colleagues at the University of Alabama and Texas A&M cited in the report.

GXS believes that operating a world-class supply chain requires a seamlessly integrated network of trading partners. By using GXS software and services, a company can extend electronic connections across 100% of their business network, accelerate the flow of transactions and critical files, proactively find and fix trading partner errors and manage compliance issues.

Webinar & Report:

• To view the Supply Chain Top 25 webinar, with live Q&A hosted by AMR’s Kevin O’Marah (@komarah) and GXS’s Steve Keifer (@smkeifer), please visit www.bit.ly/AMRTop25. The webinar is scheduled for 3:00 PM BST, July 8, 2010.
• To access the Supply Chain Top 25 report please visit www.gartner.com

About GXS
GXS is a leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions and operates the world’s largest and most expansive network of integrated business communities. The company’s software and services simplify and enhance businesses process integration and collabouration among networks of trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world. For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com, and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Marketing Programmes International
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denise.oakley@gxs.com

U.K. approval was the last regulatory hurdle for the worldwide merger between GXS and Inovis, which has created the world’s largest network of integrated business communities, with deep vertical expertise and the most expansive global footprint. Together, the network platforms of both companies – GXS Trading Grid® and Inovisworks™ – represent over $200 million in cumulative research and development since 2004, when the companies initiated the transition of traditional value-added networks (VANs) to service-oriented, integration platforms capable of delivering high-value managed services. The combined company now has over 40,000 direct customers and direct operations in over 20 countries, offering customers the advantage of a single worldwide provider, a global feature set, and a consistent high-quality service expectation.

“We are now in a position to begin delivering the benefits of the merger to businesses throughout the United Kingdom,” commented Bob Segert, GXS president and CEO. “Drawing upon our unique capabilities in a number of industries, including retail, automotive, consumer products, financial services, high-tech manufacturing, and logistics and transport, GXS is well positioned to deliver a wide variety of advanced capabilities to automate global supply chain operations and simplify business-to-business integration for businesses throughout the UK.”

In a December 2009 report, The Impact of a GXS/Inovis Merger, Forrester Research stated, “A forward-looking strategy is driving the merger. Most enterprises are looking for a wide range of integration solutions from a single vendor, and the ability to obtain these services via multiple channels — software licenses, managed services, [software-as-a-service] SaaS-based software solutions, and cloud computing alternatives — is becoming increasingly important. GXS’ and Inovis’ combined resources will be able to deliver these types of flexible integration solutions better than either provider could on its own.”

The OFT’s decision is independent confirmation that the merger will not adversely affect U.K. customers, resellers or other competitors. GXS can also confirm that all products and services provided by GXS and Inovis in the UK today will continue to be maintained and supported. In addition, all customers should be assured that any efforts to combine overlapping services in the future will be where practical and beneficial to customers. As demonstrated with numerous previous acquisitions, GXS has the proven ability to combine platforms transparently and with little-to-no service impact.

Francisco Partners and its co-investors, Golden Gate Capital, Cerberus and Norwest Venture Partners will own the combined company with Francisco Partners retaining the controlling interest. More details about the merger of GXS and Inovis, including a questions and answer document, can be found at www.gxs.co.uk/inovis.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Media Relations Contacts:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking statements.” You should not place undue reliance on these statements. These forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of our management as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, us. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements about our strategies, plans, objectives, expectations, intentions, expenditures, and assumptions and other statements contained in this release that are not historical facts. These statements are affected by risks, uncertainties and assumptions.

Steve Keifer, GXS vice president of industry and product marketing, is among the speakers at this cross-industry event with an agenda designed for senior leaders in supply chain, logistics, procurement, finance and IT. The objective is to bring together an influential group of business leaders in a format that allows participants to put questions direct to the speakers. Each session features a panel of senior executives who will present thoughts, experiences and insights around defined topics and then invite participants to submit questions and comments live.

As part of its involvement at the event, GXS has a virtual booth, which allows a participant to find relevant information such as white papers and case studies, store it in a virtual briefcase and even arrange a discussion in the booth with a GXS representative. The participant can choose the GXS person they wish to talk to, define the agenda and decide how and when to arrange the conversation.

Steve Keifer is one of three panelists exploring the theme of ‘The Importance of Supply Chain Collabouration in the New Normal’. Risk, uncertainty and volatility characterise today’s economy. Organisations need to have visibility of both ‘upstream’ supply and ‘downstream’ demand to react quickly to changing market conditions.  The agility required for this New Normal economy demands new types of collabourative relationships between buyers and suppliers.  But what needs to be done to stimulate collabouration and actually get that visibility?  This session will discuss how partner collabouration, information exchange and business process design can form the building blocks for extended visibility and set companies on road to building a best-in-class supply chain organisation.

“This is an innovative event,” commented Denise Oakley, International Marketing Director at GXS. “For zero attendance fees and zero time out of the office, a company’s leaders can gain access to new opinion, best practice case studies and innovative supply chain approaches from the most senior level global executives at a range of Fortune 500 companies.”

The keynote webinars will also include live research using e-polling around critical focus areas, where the results will be shared direct with all participants to help further operational improvement, cross-industry collabouration and supply chain performance for all attendees.

About GXS

GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid^® to extend supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS’ B2B outsourcing solution, empowers customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally. 

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. GXS can be found on the Web at http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Denise Oakley

Marketing Programmes International                                                                           

Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481                                       

denise.oakley@gxs.com

This year marks the 25^th annual Odette conference, which focuses on trends and developments in supply chain management, IT and telecommunications in the global automotive sector. Bringing together decision makers and experts from all over the world under one roof, Odette consists of an exhibition of service providers alongside two days of plenary sessions that include speakers from s companies including  BMW, Clepa (the European Association of Automotive Suppliers), Renault, Volvo Cars, Volvo Powertrain and ZF.

The  GXS stand will highlight its close partnership with many leading companies in the automotive sector. With more than 40 years of automotive industry experience, GXS has one of the largest B2B networks in the world, supporting an unmatched automotive customer base that includes seven out of the top ten global OEMs, 86 percent of the world’s Top 100 suppliers, 90 percent of the top 20 suppliers in EMEA and 85 percent of the top 20 suppliers in ASPAC.

What:               Odette25 exhibition and conference for the global automotive industry

When:              June 14-15, 2010

Where:             Holiday Inn City Centre, Munich, Germany

Stand:              GXS is located at Stand 2

“Automotive represents a key sector for GXS,” noted Mark Morley, Manufacturing Industry Marketing Director at GXS. “Our customers in this space include Chrysler, Continental, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Jaguar Land Rover and Mitsubishi among many others. The sector is facing a range of challenges such as tighter environmental requirements, extension of manufacturing into new markets, and a wave of alliances and mergers. Odette provides the perfect opportunity to take stock of these trends.”

Odette International is an organisation formed by the automotive industry for the automotive industry. It sets the standards for e-business communications, engineering data exchange and logistics management, which link the 4000 plus businesses in the European motor industry and their global trading partners.

About GXS

GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid^® to extend supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS’ B2B outsourcing solution, empowers customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally. 

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. GXS can be found on the Web at http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Denise Oakley

International Marketing     Director                                

Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481                                       

http://mailto:denise.oakley@gxs.com

The combined company now has over 40,000 direct customers, and offers unique capabilities in a variety of industries, including retail, automotive, consumer products, financial services, high-tech manufacturing, logistics and transportation. To serve our customers’ global operations, suppliers, and customers, GXS maintains direct operations in over 20 countries, offering customers the advantage of a single worldwide provider, a global feature set, and a consistent high-quality service expectation.

“With this merger, our company will significantly advance its B2B e-commerce capabilities to serve our customers’ integrated business networks in new and more impactful ways,” said Bob Segert, president and CEO of GXS. “By combining the managed services leadership, multi-national footprint and vast trading partner network of GXS with the application suites and deep retail experience from Inovis, we are optimally positioned to serve both large and small enterprises around the world. Going forward, GXS will continue to deliver B2B e-commerce solutions that will enable our customers to win in the marketplace.”

“The completion of this merger signals the beginning of a new, more powerful and dynamic company,” said Jim Eberle, senior vice president of Inovis integration. “The B2B industry is changing rapidly and the excitement and rejuvenation is being felt not only within our new company, but amongst our customers and business partners around the world. With the combined resources of GXS and Inovis, we are building a strong, interlocked team of knowledgeable and passionate employees. This new team is dedicated to delivering pioneering products and services that will enable our customers to build agile and efficient business networks that will be models for all others to follow.”

In a December 2009 report, The Impact of a GXS/Inovis Merger, Forrester Research stated, “A forward-looking strategy is driving the merger. Most enterprises are looking for a wide range of integration solutions from a single vendor, and the ability to obtain these services via multiple channels — software licenses, managed services, [software-as-a-service] SaaS-based software solutions, and cloud computing alternatives — is becoming increasingly important. GXS’ and Inovis’ combined resources will be able to deliver these types of flexible integration solutions better than either provider could on its own.”

All products and services provided by GXS and Inovis today will continue to be maintained and supported. In addition, all customers should be assured that any efforts to combine overlapping services in the future will be where practical and beneficial to customers. As demonstrated with numerous previous acquisitions, GXS has the proven ability to combine platforms transparently and with little-to-no service impact.

Francisco Partners and its co-investors, Golden Gate Capital, Cerberus and Norwest Venture Partners will own the combined company with Francisco Partners retaining the controlling interest. Combination of the local entities in the United Kingdom remains under regulatory review and will proceed in accordance with local laws.

More details about the merger of GXS and Inovis, including a questions and answer document, can be found at www.gxs.co.uk/inovis.

About GXS
GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid® to extend supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS’ B2B outsourcing solution, empowers customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally.

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. GXS can be found on the Web at http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Media Relations Contacts:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking statements.” You should not place undue reliance on these statements. These forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of our management as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, us. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements about our strategies, plans, objectives, expectations, intentions, expenditures, and assumptions and other statements contained in this release that are not historical facts. These statements are affected by risks, uncertainties and assumptions.

Lantiq is a business with limited internal resources yet a large volume of trading partner transactions. The business exchanges supply chain data with 48 trading partners through 158 communication maps. This equates to over 1000 transactions per week. Becoming an independent organisation meant that Lantiq was undergoing a number of major business and IT function changes. Due to the limited resources within the organisation, it was decided that a specialised third-party organisation with expertise in supply chain communication would be required to ensure that the migration and ongoing communications remained stable.

Lantiq required a complete and reliable managed service offering which was capable of meeting the businesses specific requirements within the short time-frame that had been designated.  As a best practice measure, Inovis provided a dedicated project group which worked alongside management teams from both Lantiq and Infineon.  Through daily calls the team worked closely to ensure the project was completed on time.  The project was supported by Inovis’ Management Portal, an easy-to-use online tool, which allowed complete ‘real time’ visibility over each implementation task, including graphical representations of the status, the project plan, risk logger and open issues lists.

“Working to such a strict time-frame meant that we required the support of a dedicated and professional managed service provider that went  the extra mile to ensure that the project was delivered on time,” said Markus Schuemmelfeder, Vice President and CIO of Lantiq.  “We had 48 valuable trading partners which needed to be seamlessly integrated onto the new system. Customer satisfaction is essential to us at Lantiq, so any response or transmission delays during the migration process, or after the project, would have been a major issue. Inovis was able to ensure that the on-boarding process ran smoothly and has since supported the communications platform with 99.995% availability. This has given us confidence that our trading partner data will be communicated around the clock with great efficiency.”

“Outsourcing has become increasingly viable for  businesses that require dedicated expertise to ensure specific critical business functions are maintained, managed and able to scale up and down by an on-demand resource,” said Steve Carroll, implementations manager, EMEA, Inovis. “Inovis Managed Services provides businesses of all sizes with these expertise as well as flexibility. This adaptability ensures that the customers’ needs are met today and their ever changing requirements are future proof. Inovis Managed Services is scalable, customer focused and can be tailored to address each businesses individual requirements; therefore creating ideal environment for a potentially long-term partnership.”

Inovis provides Lantiq with the ability to exchange data with its suppliers on multiple platforms, using different data format options and transport protocols such as FTP, AS2 or via a Value Added Network (VAN). Through the Inovis Managed Services, Inovis oversees Lantiq’s trading relationships with organisations of all sizes, regardless of their technical capabilities. As a growing business, Lantiq is also safe in the knowledge that Inovis has the scope to expand trading partner connections without complexity.

About Lantiq

Lantiq offers a broad and innovative product portfolio for next-generation networks and the digital home. The company employs about 900 people in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific region. Headquartered in Neubiberg, Germany.  Lantiq specialises in broadband communications, encompassing analog, digital and mixed-signal ICs along with comprehensive software suites. Lantiq is a fabless company, and its semiconductor solutions are deployed by major carriers and in home networks in every region of the world. Further information is available at www.lantiq.com. 

About GXS

GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions.  The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world.  For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

The two-day ‘The Value of B2B’ event is designed for CIOs, senior executives, B2B supply chain directors and managers of Asia based companies or multinational companies with Asia operations that would like to adopt the best practices of B2B in Asia. The objective is to provide a platform for Asia based companies across industries to share insights and experience and tap into the existing expertise of an organisation such as EDIFICE. Emphasising the close links between AsiaB2B and EDIFICE, the two organisations will this week sign a Memorandum of Understanding.

Denise Oakley, International Marketing Director at GXS and EDIFICE Vice-Chairman, will outline the role and contribution of EDIFICE to the development of B2B in Asia-Pacific. EDIFICE is the European B2B User Group for business partners with interests in computing, electronics and telecommunications, and Denise Oakley will provide a detailed insight into a range of cross-industry knowledge sharing and collabourative efforts that are already underway. She will highlight the partnership with AsiaB2B and identify areas in which EDIFICE is sharing insights and best practices

EDIFICE’s mission is to drive global standardised B2B adoption through best practice, information sharing and influencing of standards development. The focus is on collabourative business processes using B2B solutions based on global standards. EDIFICE members number many of the world’s leading computing, electronics and telecom companies, including such names as Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Fairchild Semiconductor, Freescale Semiconductor, Fujitsu Microelectronics, GXS, HP, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, National Semiconductors, Nokia, SAP, Sony Ericsson, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.

“EDIFICE’s collective experience and best practice sharing can help companies in Asia-Pacific achieve their B2B goals,” explained Denise Oakley. “EDIFICE is a very well established B2B competence centre, setting direction, creating awareness and providing learning opportunities. B2B is gathering speed in Asia-Pacific as companies begin to appreciate the business benefits, and we want to ensure that those companies can accelerate their advance by taking advantage of existing best practice.”

About GXS

GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid® to extend supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS’ B2B outsourcing solution, empowers customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally.

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. GXS can be found on the Web at http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

A supplier to over 120 retailers including supermarket giants Sainsbury’s and Tesco, Kallo also deals with a number of smaller independent retail outlets, and produces both chilled and ambient goods.  Although Kallo processes all invoices internally from one account held under the customer’s name, some major customers ask to receive chilled and ambient invoices separately to align with their own invoicing channels. This created the need for a tailored EDI invoicing solution. The rollout of Spectrum Enterprise by the team at Freeway Commerce automated this invoice separation process, which had previously involved many hours of manual data input. This frees up much needed IT resources at Kallo, and also ensures that retail customers receive invoice details in their preferred format every time. 

Kallo Foods also required a more flexible EDI solution, as the previous system would delay processing batches of invoices if a fault on just one of those invoices existed, delaying payments from customers. Spectrum Enterprise resolves this issue by automatically identifying and isolating problem invoices, ensuring improved efficiency and a quicker order-to-payment process. In addition, as Spectrum Enterprise is accessible over the Internet, authorised personnel can now access the system from any location using a web browser. This has ensured that invoicing and other trading partner processes are more transparent, and can now be closely monitored by managers across the business at any time. 

“As a relatively small supplier, we have a very large retailer portfolio. Dedicated support and skill from our EDI provider to help us address complex challenges such as dual-channel invoicing is therefore essential” said Jonathan Merchant, Systems and Quality manager, Kallo Foods.

 ”Spectrum Enterprise and the team at Freeway have allowed us to automate and overcome what had been a major time and efficiency issue by adapting the solution to address our business needs. This has improved the working practices of all staff involved in the invoice-to-payment process, at the same time as reducing costs and improving the overall efficiency of the trading platform.”

Spectrum also provides Kallo Foods with the ability to exchange data with its customers on multiple platforms, using different data format options and transport protocols such as FTP, AS2 or Value Added Network (VAN). Through Spectrum, Kallo can trade with organisations of all sizes, regardless of their technical capabilities, and are able to add new trading partners onto their EDI system without complexity.

“Suppliers today have their work cut out in meeting the requirements of retailers. Exchanging data such as invoices and purchase orders in the right format can be a major headache, especially for smaller suppliers,” said John Redfern, Managing Director, EMEA, Inovis. “Fortunately, EDI solutions such as Spectrum Enterprise which can be tailored to address specific complexities are now providing a cost-effective answer to these challenges, allowing organisations to focus on growing their business and driving sales rather than dealing with technical issues.”

About GXS

GXS is the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions.  The company’s software and services simplify and enhance how networks of businesses integrate business processes and collabourate among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500, use GXS solutions to extend their supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility.  Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has operations and offices around the world.  For more information, see http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

GXS, the world’s leading provider of B2B e-commerce services, leverages IBM Lotus Forms as a critical component of its Intelligent Web Forms (IWF) service. IWF enables thousands of small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to easily participate in B2B programs without having to purchase, manage and maintain additional desktop software. Gander Mountain is using GXS IWF to obtain significant cost savings and productivity improvements by exchanging electronic business documents with hundreds of suppliers and enabling critical automation within the product-procurement process.

Further details are as follows:

Who: Robert Specht, vice president and controller of Gander Mountain and Tom Varghese, senior product manager of GXS

What: Presentation at IBM’s Impact 2010, Automating Business Processes with Lotus Forms – a Case Study

When: Tuesday May 4, 2010 3:15 p.m. PDT

Where: The Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas

Why: To demonstrate how Gander Mountain, the nation’s largest retail network of stores for outdoor equipment and apparel, is using GXS Intelligent Web Forms to automate the product-procurement process.

GXS IWF is designed for large companies seeking to automate business transactions, such as purchase orders and invoices, with their smaller trading partners. This service enables SMBs to receive, turn around, create and manage electronic documents using a web browser. With web forms, buyers can quickly on-board hundreds or thousands of suppliers to a B2B e-commerce program. IWF is designed for SMBs that often lack the budget, resources or experience to participate in EDI or XML-based B2B e-commerce programs.

About GXS
GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid® to extend supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS’ B2B outsourcing solution, empowers customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally.

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. GXS can be found on the Web at www.gxs.co.uk http://blogs.gxs.com/ and http://twitter.com/gxs.
All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

GXS PIM Food Service Edition enables businesses to:
respond quickly to customer and regulatory inquiries regarding the ethnic, locality, nutritional and dietary information about food products;
• centrally manage product formulation and product recipes;
• increase food safety and reduce product spoilage;
• reduce waste in transportation costs and warehouse space;
• disseminate corporate responsibility/sustainability/fair trade information quickly; and
• adhere to labeling and packaging requirements.

“There is no doubt that product data alignment is becoming higher on the priority list for companies of all types. But we noticed distinct needs within the food service industry. Consumers are demanding more and better information about the food they eat,” said Pat. Salmonese, vice president and general manager of GXS PMDM Business. “PIM Food Service Edition is a solution catered to the food service industry’s very specific and demanding needs for detailed, quality product data that must be consistent across all levels of an organisation and throughout the supply chain and manufacturing process. Several of our food service industry customers have recognised the value of this solution.”

An important feature of PIM Food Service Edition is its integration and alignment with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Product data currently stored in ERP and other back-office systems can be easily leveraged by PIM Food Service Edition, protecting current investments. Importing this information into PIM and offloading the responsibilities of product data to a specialised system intended for such purposes, not only improves data quality, but also increases business agility.

According to Andrew White of Gartner1, “MDM of product data ensures consistency, accuracy, stewardship and accountability for the enterprise’s core product information, thus enabling the enterprise to avoid endless debates regarding ‘whose data is right.’ MDM of product data moves the enterprise closer to clean, semantically consistent reuse of information. A MDM of product data discipline helps enterprises break down operational barriers, enabling greater enterprise agility and simplifying integration activities.”

Available as a hosted solution or licensed software, GXS PIM solutions empower businesses of all sizes to manage product information and optimise product data synchronisation, effectively creating a ‘single version of the truth’ for all product data. Service offerings include PIM Food Service Edition, PIM Supplier Edition, PIM Retailer Edition and PIM Data Sync Edition. All are linked to the GDSN via a GS1-certified data pool that serves as a key enabler for the synchronisation of product information between trading partners around the world. With GXS’ PIM solutions, organisations can streamline business processes, reduce operating costs, increase product data accuracy and timeliness and enhance interoperability with global data pools.

About GXS PMDM
GXS PMDM is a leading global provider of Product MDM solutions and subsidiary of GXS. GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. For additional information, call 800-698-3266 option 3.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

1 Gartner, Inc. “Ten Best Practices for MDM of Product Data” by Andrew White, March 16, 2010.

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Media Contact:
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Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

Who: Ryan Kraudel, director of product management, GXS Managed Services

What: Presentation at Software AG’s Supply Chain Management Summit, Raising the Bar with Better
B2B Supply Chain Integration

When: Thursday April 22, 2010 2:00 p.m. CDT

Where: Gaylord Texan Hotel and Convention Center

Why: To demonstrate how customers can use B2B outsourcing to grow their B2B e-commerce environments and improve their supply chain operations.

GXS Managed Services is a comprehensive B2B outsourcing solution that provides companies with the people, processes and technologies necessary to maintain complex B2B e-commerce programs. As director of Product Management for GXS Managed Services, Ryan leads the team responsible for strategy, development and execution of GXS’ portfolio of B2B outsourcing services. GXS Managed Services is the company’s fastest growing product segment, deployed by companies in nearly every vertical market and every continent around the world.

About GXS

GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid® to extend supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS’ B2B outsourcing solution, empowers customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally.

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.  GXS can be found on the Web at http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/GXS.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

Based in Belgium, B2Boost is an integration service provider that helps companies optimise collabouration with trading partners by automating their data exchanges. Rapid growth led B2Boost to outsource their B2B transactions to GXS.  GXS extends B2Boost’s ability to support customers worldwide via a multilingual helpdesk along with global technical support. Games suppliers and retailers across Europe now will be able to collabourate more easily and efficiently, thus improving product availability. The companies may use a range of different enterprise resource planning (ERP), procurement and ordering systems, but via the GXS solution from B2Boost, they will be able to easily integrate these systems with their B2B transactions. B2Boost provides transaction services to vendors such as Electronic Arts, Namco Bandai, Ubisoft, Bigben Interactive, Codemasters and Sega, as well as more than 150 major retail chains across Europe, including Amazon, Carrefour and Media Market.

“This agreement puts us in a position to offer an unmatched combination of services to professional users in Europe,” said Gilles Collet, chief customer officer at B2Boost. “Through collabouration with GXS, we can offer European retailers and suppliers of any size access to state-of-the-art B2B e-commerce integration services.”

GXS and B2Boost now are collabourating on managing the day-to-day operations of B2Boost’s B2B e-commerce program including mapping, on-boarding and technical support. B2Boost intends to deliver value-added services such as pan-European e-invoicing solutions, industry dedicated B2B e-commerce portals and field inventory management tools. During the initial stage, B2Boost will migrate its existing internal infrastructure to GXS Managed Services and also will exchange transactions with customers via GXS Trading Grid® Messaging Service, GXS Intelligent Web Forms and GXS Trading Grid® for Excel with customers and partners throughout Europe.

“B2B outsourcing is the strategic core of our business and GXS is the market leader in this fastest-growing segment of the B2B integration market,” commented Jon Keating, GXS vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa. “We have invested heavily in our outsourcing services, based on the conviction that we can deliver new levels of flexibility, scalability and reliability to existing and new customers throughout Europe and beyond. This deployment by B2Boost is a perfect example of the scale of our services and the value and efficiencies they can provide.”

GXS Managed Services is a comprehensive B2B outsourcing solution that provides companies with the people, processes and technologies necessary to maintain complex B2B e-commerce programs. With B2B outsourcing from GXS, companies can build and grow B2B networks without making additional investment in hardware, software or human resources. More than 240 companies currently use GXS Managed Services around the world, including Accenture, Avid Technologies, BB&T, Jaguar Land Rover, Mitsubishi and Verizon. GXS provides customers with world-class B2B program management including trading community management, global supply chain visibility, transaction management, data translation, systems administration and supplier performance reporting.

About B2Boost

B2Boost is the leading provider of Business Transaction Management services in the videogame industry and also offers e-invoicing solutions used by major operators throughout Europe. B2Boost’s network includes over 150 of the largest European retailers. The company’s mission is to develop a fully secured, easy to implement web based platform that can serve as a universal translator for all the various electronic languages used by clients.

B2Boost can be found on the Web at www.b2boost.com.

About GXS

GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid^® to extend supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS’ B2B outsourcing solution, empowers customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally.

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.  GXS can be found on the Web at http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/GXS.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Media Contact:
Denise Oakley
Marketing Programmes International, GXS
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481
denise.oakley@gxs.com

GXS attributes the growth in data synchronisation in part to the increased adoption by retail and consumer products companies globally. In fact, GXS has added 361 users in the retail/consumer products industries in the UK alone since September 2009. The GDSN is a global, centralised, internet-based tool that enables buyers and suppliers to synchronise item data. The result is a single view of master item data, updated continuously throughout the supply chain. Data Pools are single points of entry to the GDSN for suppliers, retailers and distributors. Data pools enable data readiness and provide on-boarding services, education and GS1 standards-compliant synchronisation of product and trading partner data. GXS Data Pool Manager is the foundational technology for 27 GS1 Member Organisations and their GDSN-certified data pools. These data pools support local retailers and suppliers and enable them to trade consistent, standardised data with trading partners around the world.

“GXS is the power behind many of the largest and most successful GDSN data pools around the globe,” said Pat. Salmonese, vice president and general manager of GXS PMDM Business. “The GDSN is important because it is a market enabler that can increase supply chain efficiency and provide the structure for the level of information that consumers expect today to make informed buying decisions. Through the adoption of standards and the use of GXS Data Pool Manager, companies benefit from accurate and complete product information which increases productivity, improves customer satisfaction and reduces operational inefficiencies.”

Customers of GXS’ data synchronisation solutions are quickly seeing the benefits of the GDSN. For example, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is the world’s largest marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products. Scotts has numerous items registered with the GDSN and is synchronising those items with 10 retailers. Benefits of using the GDSN via GXS include: fewer data errors, greater alignment, increased sales and better use of resources.  Scotts is continually on-boarding new partners and foresees that their list of retailers on the GDSN will grow as more see the benefits of eliminating paper-based processes and having a centralised, efficient resource to synchronise and access product information.

At the recent GS1 Global Forum 2010 in Brussels, 19 GS1 organisations and specialised health care exchanges for which GXS provides data pool services, gathered.  Mark Fuller, COO of GS1 Australia, one of the world’s largest data pools, stated, “In addition to providing item synchronisation for our community, GXS has delivered a GDSN-certified price synchronisation capability for companies on the GS1 Australia data pool, enabling price synchronisation for more than 250,000 items. We are appreciative of the contribution GXS has made to GS1 Australia’s pioneering efforts. As a result, Australia’s participating retailers and suppliers are experiencing greater data accuracy throughout their supply chains as well as lower product return rates and greater customer satisfaction. We are working toward growing our data pool to include additional suppliers and retailers so that they may experience the same benefits.”

“I am pleased and encouraged to see the level of enthusiasm of GS1 organisations, data pools and exchanges, and the technology providers who support them,” stated Maria Palazzolo, CEO of GS1 Australia.

About GXS PMDM
GXS PMDM is a leading global provider of Product MDM solutions and a subsidiary of GXS. GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. GXS PMDM can be found on the Web at http://gxsproductmasterdata.com and http://twitter.com/GXS_PMDM.

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.  GXS can be found on the Web at http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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For further information please contact:

Denise Oakley, Director, Marketing Programmes International GXS
Tel – +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481 Email: denise.oakley@gxs.com

Segert brings more than 15 years of broad and diverse business leadership experience to GXS. Since joining the company in January of 2008, Segert has been active in repositioning the business to accelerate growth and drive operational improvements that have enabled GXS to extend its leadership position in the B2B integration services and solutions market. During this period, GXS has rapidly expanded its core Managed Services business, driven a successful acquisition strategy and improved its core service delivery processes.

About GXS
GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid® to extend supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS’ B2B outsourcing solution, empowers customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally.

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.  GXS can be found on the Web at http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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For further information please contact:

Denise Oakley, Director, Marketing Programmes International GXS
Tel – +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481 Email: denise.oakley@gxs.com

GXS also has a booth at this event, an established thought-leadership conference attended by Europe’s forward thinking and innovative supply chain leaders. ESC2010 brings together supply chain & logistics directors from a range of industry sectors to network and debate supply chain best practice and operational excellence. Companies speaking at ESC2010 include AMR Research, Asda, Chiquita, Cisco Systems, Disney, Electrolux, Henkel, HP, IBM, Kimberly-Clark, and Pepsico.

GXS is attending ESC2010 to promote GXS Trading Grid, a global B2B e-commerce and integration platform that supports the creation and adoption of on-demand supply chain management solutions for companies of any size. As the world’s largest electronic business community, GXS Trading Grid is used by more than 30,000 customers to exchange goods and services, gain visibility into global logistics operations and to synchronise product data. Trading Grid helps customers automate global trading communities by shielding complexity from rapidly changing standards, eliminating manual and duplicative processes and enabling the highest levels of B2B integration and collabouration.

About GXS
GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid® to extend supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS’ B2B outsourcing solution, empowers customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally.

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.  GXS can be found on the Web at http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com/ and http://twitter.com/gxs.

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For further information please contact:

Denise Oakley, Director, Marketing Programmes International GXS
Tel – +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481 Email: denise.oakley@gxs.com

The drivers and benefits behind GXS’ move to a new facility were multi-fold. They included significant operational cost-savings; a more environmentally sustainable office environment and a facility that fosters greater interaction among departments and employees. The move has greatly reduced GXS’ real estate costs, freeing up that capital for investment in innovation and customer-facing services.

“We are thrilled about our new headquarters building and are very proud of the effort we made, in partnership with the builders and building management, to ensure its environmental sustainability,” said Bob Segert, president and CEO of GXS. “GXS is a leading IT services company with tremendous prospects for growth and we needed a headquarters that reflected those prospects as well as our culture of collabouration and innovation. Not only is our new building sustainable, but it also significantly reduces GXS’ operating costs and ensures we have a facility that encourages greater interaction between employees and departments as well as with our partners and customers.”

GXS is pursuing Silver LEED certification for its new headquarters location via the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). LEED is an internationally-recognised green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building project was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts. To meet its sustainability goals, GXS located its office within walking distance to restaurants and amenities, incorporated water reducing fixtures and purchased Energy Star equipment. To provide healthier work environments, GXS specified low VOC paints, adhesives and furniture and incorporated indoor air quality controls during the construction process.  In addition to specifying materials with recycled content for the new construction, GXS also recycled more than 50 percent of the waste generated by the construction process.

GXS’ new headquarters address is 9711 Washingtonian Boulevard, Gaithersburg, Md. 20878.

About GXS
GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid® to extend supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS’ B2B outsourcing solution, empowers customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally.

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.  GXS can be found on the Web at http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com/ and http://twitter.com/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

1 United States Department of labour, Bureau of labour Statistics, “Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment—January 2010” March 19, 2010.

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For further information please contact:

Denise Oakley, Director, Marketing Programmes International GXS
Tel – +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481 Email: denise.oakley@gxs.com

Many companies use Microsoft Excel as a tool for sales reporting, spend analysis, cash flow forecasting and e-mailing B2B transactions (invoices, purchase orders, shipping documents, etc.) with business partners. Given the continued globalisation of business and the lack of IT system maturity among companies in many emerging markets, the popularity and use of Excel for B2B will likely continue. GXS Trading Grid® for Excel enables companies with no formal B2B infrastructure to use Microsoft Excel 2007 to exchange spreadsheet-based transactions with their trading partners in an automated fashion, thus minimising the business impact to the users, but introducing B2B e-commerce-based automation. GXS receives the spreadsheets from the customers electronically and automatically translates them into electronic data interchange (EDI) or their trading partner’s standard of choice.

“Driven by the globalisation of supply and rapid growth of emerging markets, it is not surprising to see so many participants in supply chains using spreadsheets as a primary vehicle for exchanging information,” said Karl Salnoske, executive vice president of Service Delivery and CIO of GXS. “The good news is that there are many options to integrate these trading partners in an automated fashion that do not require significant investments in back-office systems or the deployment of complex integration software. Powerful and easy-to-use web forms technologies and new capabilities within Microsoft Excel 2007 and 2010 provide means for companies of all sizes and locations to participate in global B2B e-commerce automation. Automating more B2B processes saves money, shortens the order-to-cash cycle and enables higher customer satisfaction. Businesses with robust B2B integration capabilities are now in prime-position to finally automate relationships with all business partners, regardless of size or technical prowess, worldwide.”

According to the Forrester study, only 19 percent of enterprises (with revenue greater than $1 billion per year) conduct B2B e-commerce with more than 80 percent of their communities. In short, the vast majority of enterprises still conduct transactions using paper, e-mail, fax or non-standard means with their trading partners and need additional automation solutions to address the shortfall. Forrester found that nearly 70 percent of respondents—enterprises and SMBs alike—have more than 500 trading partners, demonstrating the scale and opportunity for additional B2B automation solutions.

The Forrester study also explored many other aspects and drivers of B2B automation. Some examples include:

1. 85 percent of respondents use some form of B2B e-commerce services, versus software, in their B2B environments;
2. 46 percent plan on putting more focus on services-based transport for B2B in the next three years; and
3. Several business issues are driving the need for an improved ability to interact with trading partners including the need to reduce rising costs (82 percent); the need to exchange electronic documents with business partners (82 percent) and the need for real-time visibility into business processes (81 percent).

The 300 companies that participated in the survey range in size from approximately $100 million in revenue to more than $5 billion. The respondents were senior IT managers and executives evenly split geographically with one-third based in North America, one-third in Europe and one-third in the Asia-Pacific region. The manufacturing industry (38 percent) was the largest vertical represented in the survey followed by financial services/insurance (18 percent), retail/wholesale (12 percent), transportation/logistics (ten percent); utilities (nine percent); healthcare (eight percent) and government (six percent).

About GXS
GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid® to extend supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS’ B2B outsourcing solution, empowers customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally.

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.  GXS can be found on the Web at http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com/ and http://twitter.com/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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For further information please contact:

Denise Oakley, Director, Marketing Programmes International GXS
Tel – +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481 Email: denise.oakley@gxs.com

With an objective of rapidly bringing more powerful, customisable analytics and services to its global customer base, GXS is using Microsoft Windows® Azure to put greater business intelligence behind its B2B e-commerce services. GXS Trading Partner Analytics service is targeted for small and medium-sized businesses seeking greater insight and reporting on their B2B e-commerce transactions and history. Cloud computing enables GXS to bring powerful, customisable analytics and services to its global customer base at a low cost. Microsoft Windows Azure provides unlimited computing power via a scalable, standardised platform.

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About GXS
GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid® to extend supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS’ B2B outsourcing solution, empowers customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally.

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. GXS can be found on the Web at http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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For further information please contact:

Denise Oakley, Director, Marketing Programmes International GXS
Tel – +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481 Email: denise.oakley@gxs.com

“The winners of this year’s Active Business Awards demonstrate the possibilities and benefits that can be achieved through B2B e-commerce. They include sustainability benefits, improved customer service, lower product return rates and greater data accuracy,” said Chris Beall, senior vice president of product innovation at GXS and one of the 2010 GXS Active Business Awards judges. “As we have seen from large retailers like Wal-Mart, supply chain performance requirements are becoming more stringent and the penalties greater. Companies can better serve their customers by introducing greater automation throughout their B2B environments. At GXS, we are proud of the role our services play in helping our customers achieve success and we are constantly innovating to increase the positive impact we have on their businesses.”

The winners of the 2010 Active Business Awards are:

• Dr Pepper Snapple: GXS Active Business Award for Demand Responsiveness and Agility. This award recognises companies that embrace the tenets of an Active Business and have optimised their use of GXS Trading Grid® to ensure accurate and swift response to customer demand. These companies also demonstrate best practices in using GXS solutions to transform and streamline their B2B e-commerce programs. 
• China Mobile and Rutronik (First Place Tie): GXS Active Business Award for Proactive Trading Partner Engagement. This award recognises companies that embrace the tenets of an Active Business and have used GXS Trading Grid® in innovative and beneficial ways to grow their electronic trading partner networks and increase their overall use of B2B e-commerce. 
• Yanmar: GXS Active Business Award for Supply Chain Visibility. This award recognises companies that have embraced the tenets of an Active Business and have enhanced supply chain processes, such as forecasting, procurement, logistics, invoicing or payments with quantifiable operational cost savings.
• Novartis Animal Health and Kraft (First Place Tie): GXS Active Business Award for Environmental Sustainability. This award recognises companies that embrace the tenets of an Active Business and are using GXS Trading Grid to reduce their environmental impact by minimising paper-based transactions and/or streamlining their supply chain operations to minimise their use of oil, gas and carbon-emitting energy resources.
• The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company: GXS Active Business Award for Supply Chain Data Accuracy. This award recognises companies that embrace the tenets of an Active Business and have made the best use of managing their product data using a single set of business rules to enhance customer loyalty, protect brand equity and reduce operational costs in their extended supply chain.

Nominees for the 2010 GXS Active Business Awards were evaluated by a panel of judges that included Rob Guerriere, editor of Global Trade Best Practices; Clive Longbottom, head of research at Quocirca; and Chris Beall, GXS’ senior vice president of product innovation. Representing a variety of industry verticals and geographic markets, the winners have demonstrated best practices in B2B e-commerce and B2B outsourcing to become Active Businesses.

“The customers represented in these awards show how B2B can actually give companies competitive advantages and true business benefits,” said Longbottom. “B2B e-commerce is more complex and demanding than ever. Businesses are under pressure to leverage the information flow inside and outside their business to improve supply chain performance. The variety of strategies and results here demonstrate the value of B2B e-commerce services and the leadership of the companies that deployed them.”

GXS Trading Grid is a global B2B e-commerce and integration platform that supports the creation and adoption of on-demand supply chain management solutions for companies of any size. As the world’s largest electronic business community, GXS Trading Grid is used by more than 30,000 customers to exchange goods and services, gain visibility into global logistics operations and to synchronise product data. Trading Grid helps customers automate global trading communities by shielding complexity from rapidly changing standards, eliminating manual and duplicative processes and enabling the highest levels of B2B integration and collabouration.

About GXS
GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collabouration among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid® to extend supply chain networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS’ B2B outsourcing solution, empowers customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally.
Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.  GXS can be found on the Web at http://www.gxs.co.uk, http://blogs.gxs.com/ and http://twitter.com/gxs.
All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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For further information please contact:

Denise Oakley, Director, Marketing Programmes International GXS
Tel – +44 (0) 1932 776408 / +44 (0) 7768 537 481 Email: denise.oakley@gxs.com