Perhaps the biggest measure of success of the solution Cactus Commerce built for EPSI is that it opened-up entirely new markets and created a new business model for the Montreal-based human resources consulting company.
Supply chain management firm Cactus Commerce and Ward Griffin of printing services company The Lowe-Martin Group received top honours at Thursday night's Ottawa Business Achievement Awards gala. Cactus Commerce took home the gold award in the Company of the Year category, while Mr. Griffin was named the Businessperson of the Year.
The night started off with renowned channel consultant and researcher Ken Presti delivering an insightful educational session on partnering. Presti also presented the Best E-Commerce and Online Portal Solution gold award to Cactus Commerce Inc.
Chip Ganassi Racing Teams, the winners of seven championships and over 85 races across six different touring series including stock cars, IndyCars and sports cars, will be using the Cactus RFID Track and Trace solution built on Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2006 (R2) to help boost the performance of its high-speed race cars using real-time, actionable intelligence.
Cactus Commerce, a Quebec-based software and services company, has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to drive product development, partner ecosystem development, marketing, services and support of the Microsoft Commerce Server Platform. The companies will jointly deliver platform enhancements and complementary solution accelerators, which are software applications that work with the platform to speed up implementations for technology or industry deployment. This will begin in the second half of 2008 and continue through to 2010.
On August 8, Microsoft officially christened the next standalone version of the Microsoft Commerce Server “Commerce Server 7.”… Microsoft also announced partner Cactus Commerce will be working with Microsoft on enhancements, as well as future versions, of Commerce Server.
Cactus announces it has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corporation to drive product development, partner ecosystem development, marketing, services and support of the Commerce Server platform. Jean-Yves Martineau, CTO and founder of Cactus Commerce, speaks about Cactus’ partnership with Microsoft.
E-commerce software company Cactus Commerce has entered a long-term strategic partnership with Microsoft Corp. to support Microsoft's Commerce Server platform.
Microsoft released roadmap information for Commerce Server, saying it would release the next major update of the product in mid-2010. .. The company is working with Ottawa-based Cactus Commerce Inc. to build these add-ons, which will begin shipping in the second half of 2008.
Cactus Commerce, a booming Gatineau business software company, plans to hire more than 125 employees over the next 18 months to drive an expanded business alliance with Microsoft.
Jean-Yves Martineau, CTO and founder of Cactus Commerce, speaks with Greg Hebert of Biz@ Nite, about Cactus’ partnership with Microsoft.
Local e-commerce software company Cactus Commerce is hiring more than 125 new Ottawa staff to support a new long-term strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp.
A Canadian software company has reached a unique deal with Microsoft in which it has essentially become part of the product development team for the next version of Commerce Server. Ottawa-based Cactus Commerce said the deal would include developing relationships with other Microsoft partners around Commerce Server as well as marketing, services and support…
Cactus Commerce founder and CTO Jean-Yves Martineau said, “It's a very unique deal. The actual agreement is worth tens of millions of dollars. This is not a one year thing, it's not a couple year thing. It's long-term.
As part of the agreement , Cactus Commerce Inc. will work with Microsoft to deliver enhancements to Commerce Server 2007 as well as a set of "solution accelerators" for the e-commerce technology. The two companies said that the new offerings are scheduled to start appearing in the second half of next year, with rollouts continuing at least until the end of 2010 under the deal.
This year's "Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100" feature focuses on how supply chain solution and service providers are helping their customers meet the challenges of today's marketplace.
CHEP tapped Cactus Commerce to provide real-time visibility to its customers for their products as well as for CHEP's reusable assets in its extended supply chain. Results: Customers are able to see exactly where their products are at any given time, enabling more efficient management of stock throughout the global supply chain.
Five Canadian partners get recognized by Microsoft at worldwide partner conference
In the business process and integration category Cactus Commerce Inc. of Gatineau, Que. won.
The Business Process and Integration Solutions Partner of the Year was Cactus Commerce. This award goes to companies that sell or deploy business process management solutions. It's given to system integrators, service providers or software developers using a service-oriented architecture approach or providing enterprise application integration.
CDN editor Paolo Del Nibletto takes you inside day one in Denver, from Allison Watson to Tom Cochrane and everything in between.
The next version of Microsoft BizTalk Server business process management software will have RFID capabilities that Microsoft positions as a more enterprise-ready approach to RFID than that offered by traditional RFID middleware… Steve Sloan, senior product manager for Microsoft's Connected Systems Division, says there are 100 partners in an early adopter program, and eight customers for solutions—two of which are in production…The software partners include Cactus Commerce, which offers a track-and-trace solution.
Amid all the hype about RFID, many retailers still are searching for the right business models
Tags run about 8 cents to 50 cents each depending on design and volume, a cost usually covered by a retailer’s suppliers, while a reader costs about $1,000, depending on the number of readers a retailer needs to deploy. A package including a tag printer, one or two RFID readers and imbedded software for processing RFID data can run under $50,000, says Winson Woo, director of supply chain management at Cactus Commerce, an RFID systems vendor. But the cost of deploying a system of tags and readers is only part of the equation. To get real value out of RFID data, the information must be transmitted and shared over a company network and integrated with applications like inventory databases and point-of-sale systems.
For the tenth time, the OBJ has recognized 40 recipients for an award that recognizes business accomplishments, professional expertise and community involvement.
Cactus’ Jean-Yves Martineau, Founder and CTO is one of the 40 recipients to receive the 2007 Forty under 40 award.
CHEP's senior vice president of marketing, Brian Beattie, told conference attendees that a CHEP customer in Brazil has reduced its labor costs, order-processing time and transportation expenses by employing CHEP's service to track containers and their contents within its facilities. Improved product visibility, he said, has enabled the company to reduce the amount of facility space it uses for inventory storage by 30 percent. The CHEP offering uses a software platform called Track & Trace, made by Quebec-based e-business software provider Cactus Commerce. Cactus developed Track & Trace as an application utilizing RFID data collected by Microsoft's BizTalk RFID platform for managing auto-ID devices.
"Managing multiple retail channels from a single infrastructure provides retailers with the opportunity to improve customer service and selling opportunities by providing a consolidated view of customer and product information whenever and wherever it is needed,” says Marinelli. “This enables retailers to drive enhanced supply chain efficiency and trading partner collaboration, and easily manage the adoption of transforming technologies such as global data synchronization and RFID."
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