Corporate Overview

Cactus Commerce is an e-business software and services company with over 10 years of experience integrating Microsoft solutions. Dedicated to helping organizations of all sizes drive additional revenue through electronic commerce in B2C, B2B and B2E scenarios, Cactus offers solutions for Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Collaboration & Integration and e-Commerce. Cactus solutions combine a wide array of professional services and unique industry expertise that enables companies in the Retail, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing and Healthcare industries to collaborate electronically with business partners, taking full advantage of their existing and future Microsoft technology investments.

History

Cactus Commerce Inc. is a privately held company, incorporated in 1995. The company’s experience in B2B e-commerce and enterprise application integration (EAI) dates to 1997, when Cactus Commerce developed, in collaboration with the Bank of Montreal, a first-generation electronic marketplace system. In the spring of 2000, Cactus began the development of the Cactus Settlement Server, a B2B payment solution designed entirely for XML, which completed electronic transactions by supporting online financial settlement.

In August 2000, Cactus started work with one of Microsoft’s server product groups in Redmond, Washington through which Cactus was involved in the development of Microsoft’s B2B strategy, using products such as BizTalk Server and Commerce Server. These solutions enabled suppliers to offer their products, services and catalogues online using XML standards. In 2004, Cactus delivered Nautilus, a full-service online catering and conference management system to Compass Group’s Eurest Division. Also in 2004, Microsoft engaged Cactus in an exclusive agreement to deliver Cactus GDS Accelerator for BizTalk in order to provide 1SYNC (formerly UCCnet™ and Transora) connectivity to retail, consumer goods, manufacturing and distributor customers running on the Microsoft platform.

Today, Cactus is actively working with enterprise Retailers and Consumer Packaged Goods Manufacturers to facilitate the flow of goods from the point of fabrication to the point of consumption. Cactus’ Multi Channel Retail (MCR), Enterprise Collaboration & Integration (ECI), PIM, GDS, and RFID solutions are built on top of Microsoft’s Commerce Server and BizTalk platform and combine both Intellectual Property and unique industry expertise to enable companies to get the most out of their investment in Microsoft.

Market Overview

In today's global economy, companies are faced with the need to effectively integrate applications, systems, and technologies from a variety of sources. Redundancy, erroneous data and slow response to changes in the marketplace are costing companies billions of dollars annually. According to AT Kearney, a global management consulting firm, $40 billion, or 3.5% of sales, are lost each year due to supply-chain information inefficiencies.

Supply Chain Management (SCM) encompasses the automated exchange of information between different organizations such as partners, customers, suppliers and distributors. TPI enables the creation of truly collaborative business relationships that facilitate real-time decision-making, accelerated cycle times and better monitoring of business performance across the value chain.

As organizations are moving away from complex electronic data interchange (EDI) infrastructures, which use expensive, proprietary networks for integrating with trading partners, Internet-based technologies are becoming the Enterprise Collaboration & Integration (ECI) solutions of choice through their ability to deliver all the advantages of EDI at a fraction of the cost.

Technology Overview

Cactus Commerce has developed its reputation by building robust Supply Chain, Enterprise Integration and eCommerce solutions. Through this experience, Cactus has created the Cactus Connected Commerce System (CCS), a set of products and technologies which form the core of the Cactus Solutions.

Each of these products can be leveraged independently or combined together for more robust solutions depending on the business requirements.

Cactus CCS leverages the extensive research and development that has gone into making the Microsoft Windows Server System an unrivaled commercial platform. The Cactus products are a set of vertical application level functionality designed to work in conjunction with Microsoft platforms such as BizTalk Server and Commerce Server, to help our customers get the most out of their investment in the Microsoft technology. The collaborative technology effort allows Microsoft to focus on the horizontal platform while Cactus focuses on the vertical application layer.

Customers

Cactus has completed projects or is currently engaged with over 50 Fortune 1000 customers to implement Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Collaboration & Integration as well as e-Commerce solutions within their organizations. These customers include: BCE, Briggs & Stratton, CBC, Compass Group PLC, Corning, Costco, Credit Valley Hospital, Emergis, Energizer, Jean Coutu, Nortel Networks, Miller Brewing, Ocean Spray, Symcor, Tellabs, Tommy Hilfiger, United Western Grocers, Wesco and W.W. Grainger.

Partners

Cactus collaborates with strategic and technology partners such as Microsoft, 1SYNC, EPCglobal, Allstream, and global system integrators to deliver solutions that enable companies to increase revenues, improve sales margins and differentiate themselves from their competition.