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Your Supply Chain Should be Like Your Car: Fast and Reliable
Automotive companies are concerned with two potentially conflicting values: going fast and not crashing. In a sense, all agile manufacturing…
Read more »How does your B2B program match up to that of your peers?
Would you like to know how much your peers in the industry are planning to spend on B2B integration programs…
Read more »NACHA Global Payments Forum 2013 – a GXS Waltz in Vienna
In a recent announcement GXS highlighted the reasons behind our new membership to the National Automated Clearing House Association’s Global…
Read more »Inside or Out? The Choice is Yours, but OpenText Can Help
As much as we might sometimes want, square pegs just do not fit well in roundholes. A frustrating example of…
Read more »Auto Report Generation, Adding New Drop Down in BIRT Report and Changing Query Parameter
While answering questions in the forums this week I came across a good thread asking how to add percentage data to a…
Read more »AS2 or Traditional EDI – Which is Better?
Companies of all sizes have found significant cost savings by automating high-volume or time-consuming processes—B2B commerce is no exception. Automating…
Read more »OFTP2, the ‘Fort Knox’ of B2B Communication Protocols?
Fort Knox has featured in many movies over the years, often labelled as the most secure bank vault in the…
Read more »Eurofinance SEPA Conference 2013 – Who Wins My “Guinea Pig” Award?
This week, I have been at the EuroFinance SEPA Conference in Frankfurt. In less than eleven months SEPA ends and the…
Read more »Late Fax Sacks Star NFL Player
Fax is not often at the center of a National Football League story. However,this past Friday, three-time Pro Bowl defensive…
Read more »Why You Should Consider AS2
Electronic exchange of B2B commerce documents will help to eliminate errors, minimize processing time, and provide better visibility into your…
Read more »The Bank’s SWIFT infrastructure: “I” should not stand for Interbank
When SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) allowed access to corporates, more than a decade ago, SWIFT-enabled banks were…
Read more »Game Over: “Anonymous” Posts more than 4,000 U.S. Bank Executives’ Credentials
The hacker group, Anonymous, recently broke into multiple U.S. governmentwebsites and published login and private information including cell phonenumbers from…
Read more »Don’t Neglect Any Customer – Every Customer Matters
In any trading community, there’s a mix of large, medium and small-size customers, but typically, only the top 20% of…
Read more »2013’s Supplier of the Year Will Be The Crowd
In 2013, crowdsourcing will move from being considered a risky experiment that a handful of innovative companies are piloting to…
Read more »How to Avoid The Bank’s 2012 Mayan Calendar
Last week, the Financial Services industry saw another global banking group announce plans to execute an aggressive cost-cutting plan. Similar decisions…
Read more »GXS Discusses Industry Challenges Over on AutomotiveWorld.com
Over the past few months I have been submitting a number of articles to an automotive industry related website called…
Read more »Borrowing the Hat of a CIO (….for a moment)
Having worn the hat for marketing, business development, channel managementand sales over the last 15 years, I thought I’d try…
Read more »Revisit EDI (part 4): Invoicing; Payment Process Benefits
This is the fourth and final blog post in a series that discusses EDI and the benefits associated with using…
Read more »Fax Content: Fast and Easy Search and Retrieval
When used with OpenText RightFax, Microsoft Search Service within Outlook benefitsusers because it pre-indexes emails and attachments to deliver search…
Read more »Sibos 2012: The Impact of Regulation on “Extraterritorial” Cloud Computing
The GXS team recently returned from the Sibos annual conference in Osaka, Japan. Sibos is billed by its organizers as the “world’s premier…
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