GXS has recently been covered in the following current Gartner research:

GXS positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers (click here to access this Gartner research)
Gartner, Inc., by Benoit J. Lheureux, Paolo Malinverno, 28 May 2008
“Increasing automation, international e-commerce, business-to-business service-oriented architecture, cloud computing and vendor innovation are driving new offerings, infrastructure improvements and consolidation in the integration-as-a-service and B2B project outsourcing market segments.”

Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers
Gartner, Inc., by Benoit J. Lheureux, Paolo Malinverno, 3 June 2008
“Service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, international e-commerce, proliferating business-to-business projects and changing user requirements are driving vendor innovation and consolidation in the B2B gateway software market.”

The Impact of SaaS on Multienterprise SCM Is Growing
Gartner, Inc., by Andrew White, 28 July 2008
“The use of software as a service in supply chain management is increasing as companies consider emerging multienterprise business process platforms. Users need to understand the changes in the market and to monitor the emergence of SaaS-delivered solutions”

Hype Cycle for E-Commerce, 2008
Gartner, Inc., by Gene Alvarez, Debbie Wilson, et. al., 4 August 2008
“This Hype Cycle will help organizations understand the hype associated with the e-commerce capabilities of established and emerging technologies, and will enable them to assess the impact of these capabilities on their businesses.”

Hype Cycle for Application Infrastructure, 2008
Gartner, Inc., by Paolo Malinverno, Yefim V. Natis, et. al., 10 July 2008
“The software foundation of business applications is undergoing a continuing transformation that directly affects architects, application developers and middleware technologists and that, via service-oriented architecture, indirectly affects applications and IT services worldwide.”

Hype Cycle for Software as a Service, 2008
Gartner, Inc., by Robert P. Desisto, Michele Cantara, et. al., 9 July 2008
“The SaaS Hype Cycle represents an aggregate of different software markets. This Hype Cycle will help organizations discern the relative maturity and progression of various SaaS applications, with implications for a business model architecture and buying dynamics.”

Hype Cycle for IT Outsourcing, 2008
Gartner, Inc., by Gianluca Tramacere, Adam W. Couture, et. al., 1 July 2008
“As the uptake of outsourcing continues unabated, old and new ITO services evolve and mature. Organizations should use this ITO Hype Cycle to review their sourcing strategies and gauge the potential variety of offerings to meet changing business needs in long-term management contracts.”

Market Update for Integration Service Providers
Gartner, Inc., by Benoit J. Lheureux and Paolo Malinverno, 15 May 2008
“Companies implementing business-to-business projects should be aware that integration service providers continue to evolve. This creates more opportunities for companies to outsource B2B projects, even when they involve innovations, such as B2B service-oriented architecture and Web services.”

The Status of B2B in Europe, 2H07
Gartner, Inc., by Paolo Malinverno, 14 December 2007
“Economic forces are making European companies much more open to international trade. This trend mainly affects European users and multienterprise, business-to-business infrastructure vendors, but it also has multienterprise project implications and commercial consequences worldwide.”

Microsoft, Verizon and Other Vendors Drive IaaS Maturity
Gartner, Inc., by Benoit J. Lheureux, 10 September 2007
“Boomi, GXS, ICC, Inovis, Microsoft and Verizon -- vendors with diverse roles in IT and go-to-market strategies -- have initiated events that collectively will help modernize and mature the integration-as-a-service market segment.”

Global Supply Chain Transformation Driving New Partnerships in Supply Chain Finance
Aberdeen Group, by Viktoriya Sadlovska, Melissa Spinks, January 2008
“With three-fourths of all companies surveyed by Aberdeen in its recent benchmark report, The 2008 State of the Market in Supply Chain Finance (December 2007), either using Supply Chain Finance (SCF) programs, planning to use them, or investigating SCF options, the market of solution providers is more active than ever. Over the past two years, there have been an increasing number of partnerships, expanded product offerings, acquisitions and white-labeling deals in the Supply Chain Finance realm. The latest development in the market: on December 11, 2007, Branch Banking & Trust (BB&T) announced its decision to partner with GXS to add supply chain financing to GXS' supply chain visibility / global trade transaction processing platform.”

Supply Chain Disruptions of Olympic Proportions: Are You Ready for Beijing Fallout
AMR Research, by C.J. Wehlage, Jane Barrett, Noha Tohamy, July 12, 2008
“Are you prepared for your plant, supplier, or distributor to be shut down for 12 weeks because of the Olympic Games?  In addition, incoming shipments will be delayed for security checks, and Beijing area travel will be restricted and prioritized. In this article, we will explore what leading companies have done to simulate these events, explain how the Olympics is a microcosm of larger risks in China, and share recommendations on how to manage these disruptions now and in the future.”

B2B E-Business in the Supply Chain: New Services and Technologies Require Companies To Reevaluate Their Strategies
AMR Research, by John Fontanella , May 27, 2008
“IT groups aspire to standardize on common integration platforms, but the pressure to quickly integrate electronically with business partners forces companies to favor expediency over strategy. The need for quick and decisive action generally sends companies down multiple paths to achieve their integration objectives, often with a combination of licensed software and third-party services.  Throw SaaS providers into the mix, and it is easy to see how a company’s B2B portfolio can expand rapidly.”

Industrial Supply Chains: Are You Focused on Supply or Delivering Value? 
AMR Research, by Jane Barrett, Lora Cecere, April 7, 2008
“The evolution of supply chain processes has led to different organizations defining them in different ways. For some, the processes deliver value from the point of purchase through the extended supply chain. Others think only about supply. As companies navigate their supply chain journey from a focus on supply and efficiency to delivering value, sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a way to work from the same understanding.”

Multi-Enterprise Collaboration: Are You Creating Collaborative Relationships or Developing Collaborative Practices? 
AMR Research, by Jane Barrett, Stephen Hochman, December 31, 2007
“In supply chain, the term collaboration is frequently used, but not well understood. This Report provides collaboration insights, with a focus on building collaborative relationships that use collaborative practices as building blocks.”

Awarding Excellence in B2B 
AMR Research, by John Fontanella, October 23, 2007
“When GXS asked AMR Research to judge its 2007 Global Customer Awards, we used the opportunity to get further insight into how companies are implementing their B2B strategies. Here we profile six companies that have made significant progress in their efforts to implement B2B technologies across their trading communities.”

GXS Competitor Assessment
Current Analysis, by Brad Shimmin, July 25, 2008
“GXS continues to address supply chain inefficiencies stemming from inadequate visibility and integration between constituent ERP systems and the supply chain as a whole. To this end, GXS has recently achieved “Certified for SAP NetWeaver” status for NetWeaver version 6.”

Retail Enterprise Apps Evolution
Forrester, by George Lawrie, May 16, 2008
“Retailer process and applications professionals face mounting costs for adapting their portfolios of legacy point solutions to support interactions with consumers across channels and manage more sophisticated data about merchandise with shorter life cycles. But for most, the standardization, integration, and uniformity benefits of an application suite or ERP implementation do not yet outweigh the immaturity of the emerging retail suites. Emerging standards and tools enable retailers to better manage heterogeneous apps, but most will make their decision about best-of-breed or enterprise suites based on the relative importance to their strategy of either merchandise data enrichment or process agility.”

B2B Integration Trends: B2B Modernization
Forrester, by Ken Vollmer, December 10, 2007
“Many enterprises are still supporting their B2B requirements with basic electronic data interchange (EDI) technology that is more than 20 years old. While this technology still provides value, its ongoing use in isolation from newer alternatives will increasingly limit the ability of organizations to implement flexible and strategic process improvements. For maximum impact, enterprise architects need to pursue B2B modernization efforts with tools that support both business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA).”

So You Think You Understand Supply Chain Finance: A Primer on Innovative Working Capital Financing
Tower Group, by Susan Feinberg, June 11, 2007

Connecting Banks and Corporate Clients: B2Bank Integration Solution Alternatives
Tower Group, by Susan Feinberg, March 26, 2007