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Research & Technology · Historical information services · control sold 2002
GE Information Services · GXS
Business networks connecting suppliers, customers and transactions.
Vintage-style artistic recreation of GE's historic businesses.
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Business history
GE Information Services developed business-to-business electronic commerce and transaction services. This later services lineage is distinct from GE’s computer-manufacturing business sold in 1970.
Francisco Partners completed its acquisition of GE Global eXchange Services on September 27, 2002; GE retained a 10% interest at that transaction. OpenText completed its acquisition of GXS on January 16, 2014.
Subsidiaries, acquisitions & joint ventures
Spun off · Control sold 2002 · OpenText acquisition 2014
GE Global eXchange Services · GXS
Francisco Partners acquired control in September 2002, with GE retaining 10% at completion.
Ownership outcome: OpenText completed its GXS acquisition in January 2014.
Source
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Major products & innovations
- ✦ B2B electronic commerce
- ✦ Supply-chain transaction networks
- ✦ Managed integration services
- ✦ GXS Trading Grid
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Heritage illustration
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Employee memories
No approved memories from GE Information Services · GXS yet. Be the first to share one.
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GE Jokes
The sixth why
We asked the five whys. We found the root cause. Then the manager asked a sixth why.
We're still in that conference room.
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GE Garfield
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GE Motivational Quotes
No turbine was ever built by one person. Every one of those hands mattered.
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GE Legend Collectable Cards
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GE Honorable Mentions
Know someone from GE Information Services · GXS who deserves recognition — or is it your own story?
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