We, at EDISPHERE Software Private Limited in India, are outraged by GXS plans to terminate interconnect agreement with Loren Data. This will adversely impact our business and that of thousands of companies.
We have launched India’s first indigenous self-service data integration network startup (anytoany.com), after several years of hard work, and significant investment in building the product, including native integration with Loren Data, as gateway, to our customer’s trading partners, who are spread across different EDI VANs. The concerns highlighted by GXS in terminating the interconnect agreement with Loren Data states, “GXS will no longer process these transactions with Loren Data given concerns regarding tracking, latency, security and the daisy chaining of EDI data.” This is insincere and calculating for the following reasons: The entire “daisy-chain” theory of GXS is a false premise for cancelling the interconnect agreement with Loren Data. Whether the data is processed by a third party service provider attached to ECGrid, or an end-users own mapping/translation software attached to ECGrid, the data moves with the same tracking, latency and security; as is being done by EDI VANs for several years. Further, this looks like a classic CLEC vs. ILEC battle in telecom space a decade back! To me it’s a clear case of GXS (ILEC), an 800lb gorilla, muscling it’s way into crushing not just competition but also innovation, as it’s only on account of Loren Data (CLEC) that a small service provider like us can think of providing global connectivity. Loren Data is a great innovation in commoditizing the VAN business and we urge the US Supreme Court to bar GXS from cancelling Loren Data’s interconnect agreement, as the cancellation of the agreement is neither in the interest of end customer or small the service provider businesses like ours. We will explore our options in India of stopping GXS disconnect Loren Data as our business gets directly affected by it. I hope others also join in voicing against GXS! Thank you for your consideration. Regards, Ajay Sanghi Managing Director ________________________________________________________________ EDiSPHERE Software Private Limited | 215, Congress Nagar, Nagpur 440012 | India Tel: +91 712 664 8618 (Direct) | Cell: +91 982 391 9760 | USA: +1 408.649.5635 (VOIP) Email: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] | Skype: ajayksanghi | Website: <http://www.edisphere.com/> http://www.edisphere.com From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Todd Gould Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 7:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EDI-L] <EVENT>GXS to Terminate Loren Data Interconnects - March 4, 2014 I am overwhelmed by the letters of encouragement I have already received; however, I am also bitterly disappointed. Everyone who has any concern over these actions by GXS needs to speak out publicly, now. If you cannot go on the record representing your company, then speak out for yourself. If you can’t do that, then make some noise at your company so they understand what is going on, so they can speak out. Remaining silent only supports GXS, tacitly, but support nonetheless. If you are with a VAN and you currently have EDI Service Providers as customers, be ready for a letter from GXS in the very near future banning all EDI Service Provider traffic from transiting your TGMS and Inovis interconnects. GXS is going to make your customers pay and connect to GXS directly for all that traffic. Think about it. If you work for an EDI Service Provider shouldn’t you be able to choose whichever VAN you wish to route your customers’ traffic? Very soon your VAN (if it is not GXS) will be told that your customers’ traffic can no longer go over the TGMS interconnect, you will need to pay for another account on GXS. And if you would rather have interconnects to each VAN, shouldn’t you be able to do that on the same terms as any other VAN? Why made GXS king of deciding who can play and who has to pay? If you are an end user, make no mistake, GXS is willing to interfere with over 10,000 trading partnerships and all the commerce that represents in order to control the market. These are your relationships, representing your supply chain, your business. Do not let GXS use your business to harm competition in this market. If you are a GXS customer affected by this, call your account rep and ask them why they are doing this. How is this serving me? Tell them you want your trading partners to use whatever systems they want, and if that requires interconnects to ECGrid or any other service provider, then GXS should put them in place. Not since AT&T v. MCI have we seen anything like this. It was bad for the market then, it is bad for the market now. If you don’t speak out, you are supporting GXS’s actions. Now is the time. Make your voice heard. This is your market, not GXS’s. Regards, Todd Gould President Loren Data Corp. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! 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