By Michael Kotoyan - Founder & Instructor EDI Academy - https://ediacademy.com/
The daisy chain excuse by GXS is the most ridiculous one that I have ever heard, GXS does not even have the guts to tell the real reason (revenge for the retail catalog issue). Read more below. When GXS bought a good EDI company called Inovis, EDI folks hoped for the best, some where sure that GSX would change their name considering how much bad publicity there is with it. A once well-known TrustedLink translator or a BizManager communication tool has been polluted with GXSs brand. When GXS acquired Inovis they monopolized the retail EDI Catalog industry. Loren Data stood up against the monopolization strategies of GXS in regards to the retail cataloging after the Inovis acquisition and now GXS is punishing them for speaking out. After the GXS acquisition of Inovis, InterTrade (a good VAN / catalog company based out of Canada) is now there to offer an alternative to the retail EDI catalog. If Loren Data had not spoken out about this, GXS would have a close to 100% of the retail EDI catalog business in the USA. I am going to make sure that hundreds of EDI Academy class attendees that are confirmed to attend our classes rest of this year alone will know about this issue. When I was an EDI manager at a national retail chain back in the early 2000s I was disgusted with what GXS did to ICC.NET/EasyLink by cutting them out of the interconnect. It was disruptive to the supply chain to thousands of vendors and there was outrage in the industry. They let ICC return to the interconnect several months later after industry outrage and a complaint filed with the department of justice http://www.justice.gov/atr/contact/newcase.html). EDI Academy has been providing EDI Fundamentals & Best Practices Training for over 6 years to thousands of EDI Professionals worldwide. Some of these attendees are GXS Customers. As an EDI Academy instructor I have been teaching against bad EDI practices (e.g. issues caused by poor quality testing in on-retail boarding programs and testing fees) for years and always mention the ICC / GXS saga of the early 2000s in all of my classes. I tell the story of how ICC was brave enough to stand up against GXS and Sterling and route its traffic temporarily through the IBM. I am not shocked that they have now done this to Loren Data. GXS bullies its ways to the top executives of organizations that are not as aware of whats going in the industry. I praise Loren Data Corp for standing up against their monopolizing antitrust-like business practices. By the way, GXS executives, in case you are actually reading this email, please not the fact that most GXS customers that take an EDI Academy class constantly complain about your outages. The tendency is that they are in a way simply "stuck" with your service because it has "just been there for years". I know the GXS bottom line looks strong and your sales are doing well so you may not really care. However, if you think you do not have any industry-wide reputation issues you are being ignorant and living in a bubble. Hopefully if the industry again puts enough pressure on GXS they will let Lore Data back in, just like they let ICC.NET back into the network over 10 years ago. [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! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
