Microsoft, GXS announce partnership
eWeek | at | by Mike
After years of wrangling, business-to-business software companies are still working it. Their goal: to connect smaller suppliers with their global, often much larger, supply chain partners.
The issue? While most big buyersthink Toyota or Hondahave massive IT departments to facilitate backend integrations to suppliers, smaller "mom and pop" shops are lacking in those facilities.
GXS and Microsoft are out to fix that. The two companies announced May 8 a partnership that will have GXS, which has arguably one of the largest electronic B2B trading hubs in the world, and Microsoft, which has some of the most ubiquitous collaboration technology on the face of the planet (if you consider e-mail) combining forces.