On Tuesday at the Gartner AADI Summit in Las Vegas, I had a great chat with John Radko, Chief Technology Strategist at GXS. GXS is a B2B e-commerce and integration services company with over 30,000 customers and handles an impressive 8 billion transactions per year.
Radko was excited to tell me all about GXS's latest announcement: they're going to merge with Inovis, another B2B services provider. (Get the details on the merger in the press release right here.)
Besides discussing the advantages the merger will bring to both companies technology-wise, Radko gave me his take on a hot question: what are the challenges companies are going to face integrating in the cloud?
Hear Radko's answer to that as well as details on the GXS-Inovis merger in our podcast.
Listen to or download the 5:13 podcast below:
Interesting interview, although I'm surprised that:
1) he describes B2B outside the firewall as such a daunting task and
2) he doesn't know how to pronounce the name of the company he's merging with...
Er, what other way is there to pronounce Inovis?
Eye-no-viss?
(Odds on the merged company being called INXS?)
It's pronounced Uh-no-vis.
It's pronounced Uh-no-vis.
Good move for GXS - Inovis has some great software - Dan
I'm genuinely intrigued about this pronunciation issue.
Is the name derived from some non-English usage?
Why on earth would the 'In' of Inovis not rhyme with the 'in' of 'integration', 'innovation', 'internet'?
I can't think of a single English word where 'In' is pronounced 'Uhn'.
I think it's going to be an uphill battle getting GXSers to adopt the unintuitive pronunciation. Mind you, we're all used to people calling us GSX...