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by Beth Stackpole, Contributing Editor
Posted on Monday, April 10, 2006 5:20:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    In a continued effort to expand the scope and reach of its multi-channel commerce platform, Access Commerce (Skokie, IL and Toulouse, France) has acquired a product information management (PIM) software vendor, making content publishing and a unified product database part of its product arsenal. By agreeing to acquire four-year-old Exsyde (Paris), Access Commerce gains a major player in the European PIM market, a company that posted revenue of €1.5 million with positive EBIT and net profit in 2005. The ExsydeSuite solutions are deployed by manufacturers to help in the management of electronic content and the creation of a unified product database -- both of which serve as the foundation for exchanging critical product information internally and with suppliers and customers. The value of the acquisition was not disclosed. In a prepared statement, Access Commerce officials positioned the acquisition and Exsyde's tools as complementary to Access's Cameleon Commerce platform, which is said to simplify the sale of complex products and services through any sales channel. The Cameleon Commerce Suite examines key steps in the Lead-to-Order-to-After-Sales process and optimizes business functions around e-commerce, electronic catalog, guided selling, product and service confirmation, advanced pricing, quote and proposal generation, order management, and BOM/routing generation. [Click to continue] |
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