GXS and RollStream Join Forces to Transform B2B Trading Partner Community Management

GAITHERSBURG, MD and FAIRFAX, VA, Jun 16 (MARKET WIRE)
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GXS, a leading provider of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce
solutions, and RollStream, a leading provider of enterprise community
management solutions, today announced a partnership that will
dramatically change how multi-enterprise business communities are
managed. The two companies will offer organizations with large and
complex trading partner networks an online solution to accelerate
communication and collaboration with their business partners. By
integrating RollStream with GXS Trading Grid(R), GXS is giving customers
an entirely new capability to optimize the human aspect of trading partner
relationships required to enhance supply chain performance and serve
customers.

In a recent survey, GXS customers identified community performance as a
top priority and a key area of future investment for their businesses.
Nonetheless, B2B community management remains one of the biggest
challenges and time commitments for enterprises. Ensuring electronic
integration and improving community performance and compliance is often
the full-time job of multiple staff members. To address this, RollStream
delivers a powerful social networking platform that automates and
streamlines the creation and ongoing maintenance of B2B relationships.
Utilizing the latest in Web 2.0 technologies, companies can establish
secure, online communities of suppliers or customers in a matter of
hours. Within these communities, RollStream delivers ROI-based solutions
that span the partner lifecycle, including profile and credential
capture, communications and compliance, dispute resolution and
performance management.

"Community management continues to be a challenge for enterprises and is
often a cost center versus a source of savings or profit," said Bobby
Patrick, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at GXS. "With
RollStream, customers will be relieved of much of the day-to-day burden of
community management by enabling their trading partners themselves to
maintain their data in a centralized fashion. Furthermore, the service
provides on-going community support, ensuring exceptional performance and
compliance with current and future trading partner requirements."

GXS Trading Grid is the world's largest B2B e-commerce network with more
than 30,000 companies globally and nearly six million trading partner
relationships. GXS has decades of experience in integrating data standards
and protocols and automating transaction exchange between trading
partners. RollStream brings automation to the human aspects of B2B
integration, such as profile management, communication, education and
workflow. Together, the two services are complementary and comprehensive
in their approach to B2B community management.

"GXS' knowledge and expertise in B2B e-commerce is unparalleled and we are
delighted to partner with them. By combining RollStream's collaboration
platform with the breadth of GXS' community management capabilities, the
two companies will deliver a solution unmatched in its ability to address
trading partner integration," said Kristin Muhlner, CEO of RollStream.
"Through this partnership, GXS and RollStream can help customers take the
next logical step in global supply chain automation and resolve the
complexities of enterprise community management."

With today's global supply chains, a company's ability to trade
electronically with all of its trading partners in real-time results in
higher profits, faster payments, significant cost reductions and stronger
business partner relationships. GXS has decades of experience in ramping
trading partner communities and has a variety of services and solutions to
help customers of every size, type and location conduct B2B e-commerce.
RollStream will complement GXS' experience and expertise and will enable
GXS to incorporate a proven, social networking platform into ongoing
community management activities.

GXS Trading Grid is a global B2B e-commerce and integration platform that
supports the creation and adoption of on-demand supply chain management
solutions for companies of any size. As the world's largest electronic
business community, GXS Trading Grid is used by more than 30,000 customers
to exchange goods and services, gain visibility into global logistics
operations and to synchronize product data. Trading Grid helps customers
automate global trading communities by shielding complexity from rapidly
changing standards, eliminating manual and duplicative processes and
enabling the highest levels of B2B integration and collaboration.

About RollStream(R), Inc.

As the leader in enterprise community management, RollStream's
business-to-business collaboration platform is transforming business
networks in the same way that social software has transformed personal
networks.

Fortune 500 market leaders, including McKesson, Owens & Minor, and
Ethicon/Johnson & Johnson, are using RollStream to revolutionize their
partner relationships and achieve multi-million dollar returns on their
investment. Visit www.rollstream.com to learn more.

About GXS

GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify
and enhance business process integration and collaboration among trading
partners. Organizations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the
Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid(R) to
extend supply chain networks, optimize product launches, automate
warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain
visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS' B2B outsourcing solution, empowers
customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program
support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally.

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has
local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. GXS can be
found on the Web at www.gxs.com, http://blogs.gxs.com/ and
http://twitter.com/gxs.

All products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective
companies.

Media Contacts:
Allison Tobin
GXS
+1 (301) 340-4988
Email Contact

Kerry Lenahan
RollStream
+1 (703) 259-5243
Email Contact

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