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Inovis and Competitor: GXS
GXS Company Facts:
- Size: $386 Million in 2006 (source: Standard and Poors)
- # of Employees: 1600+
- Financial Status: Privately held
| Product Name—GXS |
Description |
Competitive Inovis Product |
| Trading Grid |
Business Process Network for Content Exchange |
Inovisworks |
| Application Integrator |
Enterprise Translator |
TrustedLink Enterprise or BizManager |
| Intelligent WebForms |
Data Entry based compliance solution for EDI and B2B exchange. |
Inovis Webware |
| GXS PIM |
Product Information Management Software |
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| GXS Global Product Catalogue |
Hosted Data Synchronization services |
Inovis Catalogue |
| GXS Community Link |
Online enablement, provisioning and compliance testing services. |
ComplianceLink |
| B2B and Partner Gateways |
MSFT BizTalk and WebM BPM solution integration. Including SAP, Oracle and other application Adapters |
BizManager |
| End-to-End Visibility |
Order to Cash Lifecycle |
TLM |
| Inventory Visibility |
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| Global Shipment Tracking |
TLM |
| Sterling Hosted Solution for Data Sync |
GS1 Compliance Services |
Inovis Catalogue |
| WebForms |
SMB Enablement and Compliance |
Inovis Webware |
| Desktop EDI w/ Label Printing |
EDI Translator SMB focused |
TLW and Inovis Webware |
What's different about Inovis?
- Reduced Total Cost of Ownership: We are the underdog and we know it, so you can be rest assured that we will "bend over backwards" to keep you thrilled with our solutions. On average our customers see at least a 23% reduced TCO with Inovis. We also don't charge you for our high availability offering separately, it's included as a standard feature in our MESH platform.
- Proven & Reliable Network: Our MESH (Multi-enterprise Expert Services Hub) took 2+ years to implement & supports over 300,000 trading relationships on the latest J2EE platform with 99.995% availability. Don't take our word for it, check out what our customers say about us.
- Flexibility of Software & Services: Since our customers are in various industries and of different sizes, we offer translation / transaction software and services—we are not just VAN (Value Added Network). In layman's terms we offer the phone (device) and/or the service on an open network (you choose if you want either or both).
- Faster time to implement: Since most of our customers were historically small and medium in size, they cared deeply about implementing our solutions quickly. Our offerings implement in days not in months.
- Deep industry expertise: Our Master Data Management and Global Data Synchronization offering are the standard in the Retail industry. It's no wonder that Inovis catalog is the standard in over 80% of the retail organizations.
Top 5 questions to ask competitor:
- What are the current service level guarantees for their hosted services? & What is the service availability for the last 6 months?
- Is high availability and fail over at 99.995% included as standard offering or does it cost extra?
- What is the average implementation timeline for the solutions you're purchasing?
- What key trading partners are on their network to ensure end-to-end visibility?
- How many different applications, data centers and hardware platforms are required to route your transactions globally within their service?
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