170 Systems (www.170systems.com)

170 Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of software products and services designed to dramatically reduce enterprise costs by streamlining the business processes of large ERP systems, such as the Oracle E-Business Suite. Since 1990, 170 Systems has provided its customers with products that optimise core business functions, creating cascading cost savings. 170 MarkView is designed to leverage and extend the functionality of existing enterprise applications, for business processes including Accounts Payable, Expense Management, and Records Management.

BizAps (www.bizaps.net)

Business Applications Associates (BizAps) is a specialised professional services, SAP consultancy and a products company.

BizAps has developed a number of Purchase to Pay Products which can be used to provide a highly automated and seamless accounts payable process for organisations which use SAP. The AP Workbench allows organisations using SAP to automate the line item matching, processing, validation and approval of inbound invoices from OB10. The AP Workbench has the following functionality:

• Web based and easy to use in a Shared Services environment
• Automated line item matching engine within SAP
• Easy to use screens for managing invoices
• Return to vendor functionality
• Query management functionality
• Web based approval and coding workflow
• Integration to Procurement Card solutions
• Open interface to integrate to any e-invoicing and OCR solutions
• KPI reporting

Concur (www.concur.com)

Concur Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of business services that automate Corporate Expense Management. Established in 1993, Concur's solutions are used in over 60 countries around the world and are trusted by more organisations than any other provider of Corporate Expense Management solutions. Serving thousands of customers both large and small – including seven of the ten largest companies in the world – Concur’s solutions deliver rapid ROI by streamlining business processes, reducing operating costs, improving internal controls and empowering financial managers to apply greater insight into their company's spending patterns.

AuthentiDate (www.authentidate.com)

AuthentiDate (Düsseldorf, Germany), develops and provides independent business-process solutions enabling customers to simply and quickly integrate digital signatures and time stamps into existing corporate processes. The unique set of solutions can be used for almost any business process (i.e. billing, workflow, archiving, scanning and e-mail communication) to significantly reduce costs and optimize processing immediately.

Many high-profile companies in various industries and governmental organizations have used AuthentiDate’s digital signature solutions for years in Germany, Europe and other countries to substitute paper processing with legally binding, electronic business processes in accordance with international and local legal environments. 

For the first time, professional signature solutions are available either as boxed products, web services or individual solutions, based on a common, flexible and modular architecture. The elements of the unique offering, available from AuthentiDate may be used independently or in combination with other solutions. Today, many software vendors have already integrated AuthentiDate’s signature products into their standard offerings. Therefore any organization now may easily benefit from automatic digital signatures processing.

In addition, AuthentiDate offers governmentally certified trust center services in accordance with the German Signature Act and the EU Signature Directive. AuthentiDate International AG was accredited by the German Federal Network Agency in November of 2001 and operates a trust center especially for time stamp services. The AuthentiDate Group is also present in USA. AuthentiDate Holding Corp, Inc. (New Jersey) is listed on the NASDAQ (ADAT).

GXS (www.gxs.co.uk)

GXS is a leading worldwide provider of business-to-business EDI and supply chain integration, synchronisation and collaboration solutions. The company operates a highly reliable, secure global network services platform enabling more than 40,000 businesses, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, to conduct business together in real time.

They offer an extensive range of outsourced EDI and supply chain management solutions to help companies, both large and small, connect worldwide with their business partners, synchronise product and price information, optimise inventory control management and demand forecasts, and speed the overall performance of their global supply chains. With the broadest array of outsourced EDI and supply chain management solutions as well as an unsurpassed worldwide reach, GXS ensures No Trading Partner is Left Behind.

In June 2002, GXS was acquired by Francisco Partners from General Electric Company (GE) and now operates as an independent firm. GE retains a minority investment in GXS. Francisco Partners is one of the world's largest technology-focused buyout funds with over $2.5 billion of committed capital under management. For more information on Francisco Partners, visit www.franciscopartners.com.

The GXS Trading Grid Messaging Service Advantage

With Trading Grid Messaging Service, GXS offers an Internet-based service that provides customers with a full-featured, event-driven EDI/XML service that:

• Is fast, easy and cost-effective
• Is reliable, secure and fully supported
• Provides visibility services that help you improve your supply chain processes

The Trading Grid Messaging Service solution enables your business to utilise e-commerce effectively to increase the productivity of your entire trading community. You are connected to the world’s largest trading community of more than 40,000 customers worldwide. You can grow your e-commerce program quickly with the world’s leader in e-commerce products and services.

Why GXS?

GXS offers an unparalleled combination of expertise and longevity. For the past 40 years, GXS has been a world leader in information management and e-commerce services. They manage a global community of more than 40,000 customers. We offer a complete, end-to-end set of B2B exchange solutions.

The GXS customer base includes over 75% of the Fortune 500 companies and they have been rated the “number one” provider of EDI services in the USA and Europe and “number two” in Asia Pacific. They have proven experience in developing, integrating and servicing high-volume B2B electronic transactions. The volume of their business - over 4 billion B2B e-commerce transactions annually in more than 50 countries - demonstrates their expertise and experience. This represents 41% of all e-commerce transactions in the world.

GXS has the business knowledge and experience to help you become more competitive in an aggressive marketplace. Their people know the metrics that drive your industry and can quickly understand your business processes. GXS’s proven expertise in implementing solutions will achieve optimal return on your investment.

OB10 and GXS, the leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions, announce a strategic technology partnership.  The partnership will leverage the OB10 e-Invoicing network and GXS Trading Grid® to build an integrated e-Invoicing solution

Oracle (www.oracle.com)

Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. For three decades, Oracle has provided the software and services that enable organizations to get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems. Oracle's partner ecosystem, managed by Oracle PartnerNetwork, is fundamental to Oracle's success. Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global network of more than 19,500 companies who deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle's leading products.