Integration and Consulting Services for GXS and Inovis Business Products
Our EDI experts serve GXS / Inovis clients mostly by supplementing current staff, but also in various project capacities. Our EDI analysts and experts are capable of GXS / Invois upgrades, installation and configuration, mapping, product training, and so much more. Delivery is in an on-site, remote, or blended manner depending on clients requirements. REMEDI helps clients take further advantage of the the GXS features and capabilities of GXS / Inovis products, provides training to your staff in times of team growth or turnover, or manages your environment and integrations in a best practices manner. A. On average our EDI professionals have 8 years of experience in GXS / Inovis consulting across the organizations’ products, even more experience if time as an employee doing EDI in corporate America is considered. We have consultants that have worked with the product(s) since inception and typically our consultants have at least 2 years experience with a given product(s). Q. What is the scale of your B2B integration services? A. The scale of our GXS / Inovis services is from EDI mappers, to EDI spec writers, to EDI business analysts, to full spectrum integration professionals. Within and across each of these roles we can ramp numbers, experience levels, and combinations of professionals according to project requirements. Q. What kind of work do you normally do across GXS / Inovis engagements? A. Approximately 55% EDI mapping / testing / implementation, 10% rapid community on-boarding, 10% EDI upgrades / conversions, 25% specification writing, project management, and program management. Q. How long have you delivered EDI services to clients where these products are concerned? A. We have assisted clients with consulting, training, managed services, and placement needs since 1994. A majority of GXS / Inovis services have been delivered direct to client, but also delivered as a services partner while in this program with the two organizations. Q. Can you come in and troubleshoot problems, review our infrastructure, and make recommendations for improvements? A. We have done system reviews for many companies over the years. At the direction of the client, some of these were very systematic and others were very problem specific. Q. What is the history of the two organizations? A. Existing previously as two separate companies, GXS acquired Inovis in 2010. GXS ( Global Exchange Services ) was formed out of a spin off from GEIS ( General Electric Information Services ). The GXS marquee on-premises software product is Application Integrator added to the solution suite many years ago through the acquisition of RMS and their OmniTrans product. The product has evolved to include the WorkBench and TradeGuide portion of the product. Inovis, before being acquired by GXS, was formed from several acquisitions, spin-offs, and divestitures involving a number of eCommerce organizations. As Harbinger Corporation the organization began in the EDI industry with such products as TrustedLink Enterprise and TrustedLink Commerce. After acquiring Supply Tech such products as STX Windows, now TrustedLink Windows, and STX Mainframe were added to the portfolio. Harbinger then acquired Premenos Corporation subsequently placing EDI/400, now TrustedLink iSeries, in the portfolio. Harbinger Corporation was then acquired by Peregrine Systems. With Peregrine came Power.Enterprise! and Power.Commerce!. Inovis was formed when spun off by Peregrine and since acquiried IPNet Solutions which added BizManager and BizConnect to the portfolio. CLIENT PROFILE BUSINESS CASE The client uses Pubnet as a VAN channel for a large majority of its trading partners. They were utilizing old proprietary software and processes to manipulate the data before and after their EDI translations. Their desire was to bring this into the TLE processing and discontinue the old processes. SITUATION SOLUTION/DELIVERABLES OUTCOME CLIENT PROFILE BUSINESS CASE The client initiative involved assistance with migrating existing global transaction processing, reporting, and connectivity, off the legacy platform to a hosted environment at Global Exchange Services. SITUATION The project initiative began to address existing legacy system constraints, and contained a requirement to offer customers a wider range of product and connectivity solutions. As part of the effort to come up with a solution that would enhance and strengthen file processing, the project initiative was to include a largely new infrastructure. SOLUTION/DELIVERABLES The solution is comprised of two components. The first was purely internal; client redirected customer file flows across the internal servers. The change had no impact on how customers send or receive files and required no change from the customer end. The second component required that customers work with client/REMEDI to switch connectivity from existing legacy server platforms to the new hosted platform. Existing file processing was suspended customer by customer as activity was redirected to the new hosted system. The legacy platform is to be decommissioned upon final completion of the conversion. OUTCOME PROJECT DESCRIPTION CLIENT PROFILE SITUATION SOLUTION / DELIVERABLES OUTCOME
REMEDI has EDI specialists with consulting and integration experience on all GXS / Inovis products including:
GXS and Inovis Consulting and Integration include:
Q. On average how much experience do your EDI specialists have?
TrustedLink Enterprise – Book Distribution
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
TrustedLink Enterprise Upgrade
Leading provider of distribution services to independent publishers and a top ten vendor in the industry.
The company found it necessary to upgrade to the current version of the TLE software. Inovis sunsets the older versions and they are no longer supported.
Application Integrator – Banking/Finance
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Payment and remittance processing system conversion
Client is a banking and financial services company offering highly diversified financial services to clients throughout the world. With a broad inventory of products and a worldwide delivery network, the company has a presence in more than 100 countries.
The project involved migrating over 250 full service global customers from the legacy platform to the new hosted infrastructure. Full service clients were migrated to the new infrastructure with no impact or issues to the flow of client daily business transactions. As part of the migration and hosted solution, client also offers customers the opportunity to change existing FTP protocols to other protocols such as HTTPS and FTP-SSL.BizManager – Apparel Manufacturer
BizManager Mapper training
A major producer and marketer of sports apparel. A privately owned company with around $225M in annual revenue. It is a well known brand and uses other apparel brands to manufacture and supply.
