Trends Report

The Impact Of The GXS/Inovis Merger

The Combined Unit Will Target Managed Services, SaaS-Based Solutions, And Cloud Computing

December 9th, 2009
Ken Vollmer, null
Ken Vollmer
With contributors:
Mike Gilpin , David D'Silva

Summary

The proposed merger between GXS and Inovis will combine the resources of two of the largest business-to-business (B2B) service providers. Forrester does not believe that this development should be cause for concern among existing customers or those who are considering becoming customers of either of these two B2B providers. In fact, this move could lead to a combined entity that is better able to support higher levels of managed services, software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based solutions, and cloud computing alternatives.

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