B2BGateway to sponsor 2012 St. Pat's 5k Fun Run.

B2BGateway, a world leader in cloud-based fully integrated EDI solutions, will be sponsoring the 2012 St. Pat’s 5k fun run which takes place in Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday March 10, 2012.

The St. Pat’s 5k fun run is an annual event and this year’s run is number two of a trilogy of races that will take place in the Rhode Island-Massachusetts area collectively known as the Tour De Patrick. The St. Pat’s 5k will start from the Rhode Island State House on Smith St. (route 44), Providence, RI and will be followed by the annual St. Patrick Day Parade which starts at 12 noon.

According to B2BGateway’s CEO, Kevin Hoyle, “B2BGateway is delighted to be associated with this year’s St. Pat’s 5k fun run. Having offices in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island it’s great to sponsor a local event. The run is a great way to keep fit and is also great fun for all who participate. We are also delighted that a portion of all monies collected goes to such worthy and charitable organizations such as the Brown Kenya Program, Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Foundation and the Rhode Island Food Bank”.

For full information on the 2012 St. Pat’s 5k fun run and details how to enter, please log onto http://stpats5k.com/ or call (401) 952-6333.

Sage Peachtree turns 50 this year!

Sage Peachtree turns 50 this year! No not that the accounting software package Sage Peachtree was first developed in 1962, but rather as with all Sage North America products, Sage Peachtree will be rebranded this year as Sage 50.

In 2012 all Sage North America software products, including Peachtree, Simply Accounting and MAS will be rebranded Sage 50, Sage 100, Sage 300 and Sage 500 ERP in line with the current branding structure of their European counterparts.

As a Sage Universal Developer, B2BGateway has been providing fully integrated cloud based EDI solutions for all Sage products on both sides of the Atlantic since 1999. B2BGateway’s EDI solutions are currently used by clients operating Sage 50, Sage 200, Sage Line 500, Sage Peachtree, Sage Simply Accounting and Sage MAS 90, 200 & 500 ERP software solutions.

B2BGateway looks forward to the rebranding of all Sage North American products in 2012 and will continue to offer market leading, fully integrated cloud based EDI solutions for all Sage products, no matter what their new name tends to be.

B2BGateway to attend NRF's Retail's BIG Show

B2BGatewaywill be attending the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) 101st Annual Convention and EXPO which takes place in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York form January 15th-18th, 2012.

The National Retail Federations’ Annual Convention & EXPO was nicknamed ‘Retail's BIG Show’ many years ago and because the name was so appropriate, it stuck. Today, ‘Retail's BIG Show’ is NRF's flagship industry event and is held annually in New York City. The four day event offers unparalleled education, collegial networking, and an enormous EXPO Hall full of technologies and solutions. Over 22,000 attendees from 82 countries and 500 exhibitors attended last year’s event.

B2BGateway has been providing cloud based fully integrated EDI and supply chain solutions to suppliers of large retailers such as Walmart, Target, Michael’s, Amazon, Buy.com, etc., since 1999. B2BGateway is a GS1 Accredited EDI Solution Provider offering supply chain solutions such as Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), Supplier Portals and Warehouse Support Sites (WSS) with ASN and GS1-128 capabilities. B2BGateway also offers outsourced trading partner Testing & Validation solutions to large retailers, manufacturers and distributors who wish to cut down on costs and free up resources in their IT departments.

If you plan on attending the NRF ‘Retail’s BIG Show’ in New York, make sure to look out for the B2BGateway.Net team and say hello!

What do B2BGateway and the Commodore 64 have in common?

Just like the Commodore 64 in 1982, B2BGateway.Net, a world leader in cloud based fully integrated EDI and Data Integration solutions, will make its debut at the 2012 International CES.

B2BGateway.Net will be at CES to support existing and new clients’ EDI and Data Integration needs. Over thirty of B2BGateway.Net’s current clients will be attending the show including MerchSource, CWD Limited, Buffalo Technology, Consumer Cellular and Dream Gear to name but a few.

30 years ago this week the very first Commodore 64 was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The iconic machine went into production just eight months later and a legend was born. According to Commodore 64 fan site C64.com, the personal computer was first shown as a prototype at CES in VIC-20 casing in January 1982.The Commodore 64 had just 64k of RAM and 20k of ROM. During its lifetime, sales totaled between 12.5m and 17m units and for a time it outsold IBM PC clones, Apple Inc computers and Atari 8-bit family computers. Part of the reason for its success was it was sold in retail stores as opposed to electronics stores. It was still selling more than 1.5m machines by the early 1990s

At CES, B2BGateway.Net will also be demonstrating Webconnect 2.0, the latest version of their highly acclaimed web based EDI solution. WebConnect 2.0 allows vendors and suppliers to trade EDI business documents - such as purchase orders, invoices, shipping notifications, etc. with their trading partners.
B2BGateway.Net also offers fully integrated EDI solutions for suppliers who would like complete EDI integration with their Accounting Package\ERP software solutions.

However, unlike the Commodore 64, B2BGateway.Net is already looking forward to meeting you and/or your successors at CES 2042!

Make sure to have your Credit and Debit Cards topped up!!! Black Friday & Cyber Monday are fast approaching. Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. The term dates back to at least 1966, although its usage was primarily on... the East coast. The term has become more common in other parts of the country since 2000. Because Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Black Friday occurs between the 23rd and the 29th of November. According to Reuters, in 2007 135 million people participated in the Black Friday shopping rush.
The term "Black Friday" may have originated in Philadelphia, where it was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. More recently, merchants and the media have used it instead to refer to the beginning of the period in which retailers go from being in the red (i.e., posting a loss on the books) to being in the black (i.e., turning a profit).
Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States. The term made its debut in 2005 in a Shop.org press release entitled "'Cyber Monday' Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the Year". According to the Shop.org/BizRate Research 2005 eHoliday Mood Study, "77 percent of online retailers said that their sales increased substantially last year on the Monday after Thanksgiving, a trend that is driving serious online discounts and promotions on Cyber Monday this year (2005)". In 2006, Shop.org announced that it launched the CyberMonday.com portal, a one-stop shop for Cyber Monday deals. In 2009, comScore reported that consumers spent $887M online on Cyber Monday (excluding travel), the second highest spending day of 2009.

Make sure to have your Credit and Debit Cards topped up!!! Black Friday & Cyber Monday are fast approaching. Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. The term dates back to at least 1966, although its usage was primarily on... the East coast. The term has become more common in other parts of the country since 2000. Because Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Black Friday occurs between the 23rd and the 29th of November. According to Reuters, in 2007 135 million people participated in the Black Friday shopping rush.
The term "Black Friday" may have originated in Philadelphia, where it was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. More recently, merchants and the media have used it instead to refer to the beginning of the period in which retailers go from being in the red (i.e., posting a loss on the books) to being in the black (i.e., turning a profit).
Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States. The term made its debut in 2005 in a Shop.org press release entitled "'Cyber Monday' Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the Year". According to the Shop.org/BizRate Research 2005 eHoliday Mood Study, "77 percent of online retailers said that their sales increased substantially last year on the Monday after Thanksgiving, a trend that is driving serious online discounts and promotions on Cyber Monday this year (2005)". In 2006, Shop.org announced that it launched the CyberMonday.com portal, a one-stop shop for Cyber Monday deals. In 2009, comScore reported that consumers spent $887M online on Cyber Monday (excluding travel), the second highest spending day of 2009.

Happy Thanksgiving

B2BGateway would like to wish all our clients, partners and friends a very Happy Thanksgiving!