The GXS Trading Grid is the world’s largest electronic business community. Over 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and more than 40,000 small and medium-sized businesses use the Trading Grid every day to exchange goods and services.

Enabling extensive collaboration and knowledge sharing—at minimal cost—the GXS Trading Grid provides a robust architecture that offers a variety of interfaces to business partners. With applications developed using service-oriented architecture (SOA), and able to access a wide range of infrastructure services using an enterprise services bus (ESB), the GXS Trading Grid is a specialized distributed computing platform optimized for business-to-business technologies.

• Management of trading partners and trading relationships
• One common virtual data repository for information sharing
• Powerful system for event management
• Set of business services APIs offering web services access to a growing number of GXS Trading Grid features

All of the GXS Trading Grid infrastructure and applications are connected via an enterprise services bus (ESB), that enables them to communicate both synchronously and asynchronously.
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Most applications and services also incorporate the ESB as a part of their own service-oriented architecture (SOA), which is the dominant design pattern for the GXS Trading Grid.
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Web Services are a perfect solution to supply chain communication challenges because they do not require all parties to agree on a vendor or even a particular technology.
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Leveraging both hardware and software standards, the GXS Trading Grid offers a distributed architecture that enables multiple copies of services and applications to be run in parallel. Key services are run in clusters, utilizing fault tolerant disk systems from EMC, and an high availability database configuration leveraging Oracle 10g RAC.