Chicago, September 19, 2008 (word count: 471)
Generix Group announced that it is part of the Magic Quadrant 2008 dedicated to B2B platform providers. Generix Group is well-known for its performance capability and its vision as a provider of inter- and intra-company collaborative solutions in the rapidly expanding B2B gateway market. The Magic Quadrant is published by Gartner, a leading specialist in information technology consulting and analysis firm.
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant report offers a visual snapshot of the players in a specific market, classified according to their view of how the market will evolve and their ability to implement this view. In its 2008 analysis of the “B2B Gateway” independent software vendor market, Gartner has selected 14 world-class publishers on the basis of a number of criteria, including the positions of the independent software vendors in their markets, their views of their markets and their abilities to act in response to these. The selected vendors must have a turnover above 10 million USD and an international presence.
A historic player for EDI/EAI solutions with its Influe brand, Generix Group has been selected because of its position in the market, the functional coverage of its TradeXpress solution, and its European customer portfolio. TradeXpress is a B2B integration platform for handling large volumes, designed to reduce administration costs and speed up the business process by automating exchanges all along the value chain. TradeXpress, applying web technologies, can integrate 100% of inter-company commercial applications and partners, regardless of the acquisition or publication means.
Paolo Malinverno and Benoît Lheureux, Gartner analysts and the authors of the Magic Quadrant 2008 report, explain that “the B2B Gateway market is booming, reflecting the quantitative and qualitative changes in users’ expectations for optimized inter-company exchange applications, for the management of greater numbers of and increasingly complex B2B projects.” Michel Jardat, Alliances and Strategy Director for Generix Group, adds, “the Generix Group inclusion in the Gartner Magic Quadrant B2B Gateway survey is a real acknowledgement of the comprehensiveness and the quality of our TradeXpress solution as well as of our ability to implement it. Faced with increasing expectations for conformity, the globalization of exchanges, and competition pressure, companies more than ever need reliable, efficient, and cost-effective solutions for their inter-company management. Our objective is now to consolidate our international positions.” Belron Carglass, DHL, and Dachser are among the most recently added references.
To buy the full Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers 2008 report, visit: www.gartner.com.
About Gartner Magic Quadrant:
Magic Quadrant is the intellectual property of Gartner (2008, All Rights Reserved) and is used subject to its authorization. Magic Quadrant is a visual snapshot of the market over a defined time period. It offers an assessment of a number of providers based on criteria defined by Gartner for a given market. Gartner does not guarantee any provider, product or service described in Magic Quadrant and does not recommend that users only select the providers covered in the “Leaders” quadrant. Magic Quadrant must be understood as being an analytical tool and not as a decision-making aid. Gartner Inc. expressly rejects any explicit or implicit liability with regard to this survey, including any guarantee of the merchandizable quality or suitability for a specific purpose.
About Generix Group:
Generix Group offers a comprehensive range of collaborative solutions enabling data exchanges, the managing of flows and the optimizing of the value chain. This product offer is aimed at companies in the food processing, consumer goods (CPG), food and specialized distribution, automobile, healthcare and transport sectors. With eight subsidiaries around the world, 550 employees, and a pro-forma turnover of €70M, Generix Group is the leading European scale independent software vendor of Commerce and Supply Chain software. Carrefour, Gefco, Leclerc, Leroy Merlin, Nestlé, Unilever, DHL Exel Supply Chain, Louis Vuitton, Sodiaal, Metro, Sara Lee, Kuehne + Nagel, and Cdiscount are part of the 1,500 international manufacturers, retailers, and software service providers who have opted for Generix Group collaborative solutions.
For more information, please contact:
INFOLOG AMERICA
Olivier Vaillancourt
3100, Côte Vertu, Suite 260
Montréal, Quebec
CANADA H4R 2J8
Tel: (514) 733-3599
E-mail: olivier.vaillancourt@infolog-america.com
Web: www.infolog-solutions.com
or:
GENERIX GROUP
Christelle Marchetti
Internation Marketing and Communications
69/71 rue Beaubourg
75003 Paris
FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0)1 77 45 41 80
E-mail: cmarchetti@generixgroup.com
Web: www.generixgroup.com and www.gartner.com
or:
FRENCH TECHNOLOGY PRESS OFFICE
205 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 3740
Chicago, IL 60601
Fax: (312) 327-5261
E-mail: contact.ftpo@ubifrance.fr