The GT Nexus Platform

• Community
• Applications
• Network Controller
• Data Grid

Traditional business software was designed and architected for the single enterprise. But supply chain is defined by its focus on inter-company collaboration across business networks that span the globe. To enable the massive levels of information sharing and process automation that these business networks require, an entirely new technology approach is needed. One that harnesses the power of the Internet to connect and communicate across company boundaries quickly. One that can model complex business relationships and commerce rules among trading companies and their service providers.

At GT Nexus we combined three critical and inter-locking technology components into a single unified Cloud platform to give companies supply chain collaboration on a global scale — at a fraction of the cost and risk of traditional software deployments:

• First: a collection of functionally rich business-to-business software applications for automating global trade and logistics processes across business networks.
• Second: a network controller for creating and administering the complex and highly dynamic business relationships, permissions and roles of multiple organizations working together in business communities.
• Third: a global data grid to connect to the systems of thousands of partners and providers, and to standardize the data from the systems of those partners. Without a data strategy — and without standardized data transformed into useful supply chain information — no software application can deliver results. In global trade and logistics, information is king.

But no technology platform, however perfect, is, by itself, enough to deliver breakthrough results. A platform needs a community. Community gives the platform ultimate value. Like the social networks of the consumer world that have become so pervasive, business networks succeed when their communities succeed. These networks are not just technology platforms; they are places populated with communities, and the communities are the solution. Learn more about the power of the GT Nexus community.