GXS Acquires HAHT Commerce or More Synchronized Retail B2B Data
Part Four: Challenges and User Recommendations.
P.J. Jakovljevic - March 12, 2004

Challenges

On January 15, Global eXchange Services, Inc. (GXS, www.gxs.com), the large, privately-held business to business (B2B) e-commerce software, services, and solutions pioneer, which operates one of the largest B2B e-commerce networks in the world and manages one billion annual transactions for more than 100,000 trading partners, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HAHT Commerce (www.haht.com). HAHT Commerce is based in Raleigh, North Carolina and is a privately-held provider of demand chain management applications (DCM) that strategically automate, integrate, and optimize order management, product information management (PIM), channel management, business intelligence (BI), and customer services functions between manufacturers, their channel partners and end customers...