Partners

Strategic Partners

Enhance value through technology innovations.

IDEA is dedicated to delivering continual results to supply and demand partners. To achieve this, we partner with companies that enhance the value and sophistication of our solutions and services. Together, we can deliver the highest degree of product integration and parallel technology development to increase value for our customers and enhance the future of B2B eCommerce.

1WorldSync™ was established from the consolidation of Transora and UCCnet in August 2005. The strengths of both organizations have been combined to offer a cost-effective Data Pool with solutions and services that support user needs and make implementation easier. 1SYNC operates as a not-for-profit subsidiary of GS1 US™ to help the industry maximize the value of data synchronization.

1WorldSync has a collaborative community of trading partners and the most customers implemented within the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN). More than 4,000 leading manufacturers and retailers in the alcohol and beverage, automotive, drug, entertainment, grocery, hardlines, healthcare, and office products industries are part of the 1SYNC community working with other GDSN-certified Data Pools and Solution Partners to synchronize value chain data.

For more information, visit the 1WorldSync web site.

DATAgility helps companies drive significant sales growth, build brand loyalty and increase profits, by unlocking the power of high quality product data. If your company has staff dedicated to correcting purchase orders, resolving price differences, adjusting invoices - poor quality product data is likely the culprit! If the information you are sharing on your website is not being easily conveyed to your trading partner websites and B2B systems, you are losing critical sales opportunities. Don’t let the costs of poor quality and unsynchronized product data continue. Contact DATAgility to learn more about our cost-effective enriched catalog content, description building, and data alignment services to leverage your product data as a powerful asset.

For more information, visit the DATAgility, Inc. web site.

ecmarket is focused on delivering eBusiness solutions which allow companies to reap the benefits of eBusiness without forcing trading partners to change their processes or invest in lengthy and costly technology projects. The CONEXIOM solution is used by some of the worlds largest and most innovative companies such as 3M. ecmarket distributes its CONEXIOM solution via resellers both under its own brand and as a white-label solution under partner brands such as iConex.

For more information, visit the ecmarket web site.

The ElectricSmarts Network has been providing the electrical industry with innovative web-based Marketing, e-Learning, and e-Commerce services for over a decade. Through their Syndicated Content Network, e-Learning Platform, NetPricer electronic pricing service, and SMART eCat e-catalog tool they serve thousands of electrical contractors, MROs, distributors, and manufacturers throughout the industry. ElectricSmarts Network’s mission is to enhance communication and provide value to all levels of the supply chain, improving the efficiency of an already strong channel.

For more information, visit the ElectricSmarts web site.

Epicor Software Corporation (recently combined with Activant Solutions Inc.) is a global leader delivering business software solutions to the manufacturing, distribution, retail and services industries. With nearly 40 years of experience serving midmarket organizations and divisions of Global 1000 companies, Epicor has more than 33,000 customers in over 150 countries. Epicor enterprise resource planning (ERP), point of sale (POS), supply chain management (SCM), and human capital management (HCM) enable companies to drive increased efficiency and improve profitability. With a history of innovation, industry expertise and passion for excellence, Epicor inspires customers to build lasting competitive advantage. Epicor provides the single point of accountability that local, regional and global businesses demand. The Company’s headquarters are located in California, with offices and affiliates worldwide.

For more information, visit the Epicor web site.

IBM Smarter Commerce integrates industry-leading capabilities and offerings from its software, services and systems portfolio to help clients increase the value they generate for their customers, partners and shareholders. Smarter Commerce integrates and transforms how companies manage and adapt their buy, market, sell, fulfill, and service processes, putting the customer at the center of the value chain. It increases differentiation, customer loyalty, revenue and margin growth. For more information, visit ibm.com/smarterplanet/commerce. 

For more information, visit the IBM Smarter Commerce web site.

Unilog is India’s leading catalog management and data cleansing company. Unilog employs over 300 people, is ISO 9001:2000 certified and supports customers in North & South America, Europe and Asia. Unilog provides classification, cleansing, attribute extraction and enrichment services for all major industry verticals, and has excellent relationships with most PIM, ERP and SCM implementation companies.

IDEA partners with Unilog to offer our customers the iCIMM2, a web storefront solution that seamlessly integrates product information from the Industry Data Warehouse (IDW).

For more information, visit the Unilog Content Solutions web site.

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