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| Private | |
| Industry | Retail, Trucking & Logistics, Apparel & Textiles, Food & Grocery, Industrial Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical & Healthcare, Wholesale & Distribution |
| Founded | Frackville, Pennsylvania, U.S. (June, 1989) |
| Founder | Tony Baran Joe Baran |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Tony Baran (President) & (CEO) Joshua Baran (Chief Technology Officer) Matthew Baran (Chief Operating Officer) Jack Byrne (Chief Financial Officer) |
| Products | Business Integration Software |
| Services | Business Integration Services |
| Website | www |
EXTOL International Inc. is the largest technology firm in the city of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, employing over 90 technology professionals in the field of electronic data interchange (EDI) and business-to-business (B2B) data integration. It has also been named one of the top private companies in the Lehigh Valley, [1] and one of the top 500 technology firms in the United States. [2]
Pottsville is a city in, and the county seat of, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 14,324 at the 2010 census, and is the principal city of the Pottsville, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area. The city lies along the west bank of the Schuylkill River, 52 miles (84 km) south of Wilkes-Barre. It is located in Pennsylvania's Coal Region.
Electronic data interchange (EDI) is the concept of businesses electronically communicating information that was traditionally communicated on paper, such as purchase orders and invoices. Technical standards for EDI exist to facilitate parties transacting such instruments without having to make special arrangements.
Business-to-business is a situation where one business makes a commercial transaction with another. This typically occurs when:
EXTOL was incorporated in 1989 by Joe Baran and Tony Baran, [3] who at the time, recognized the need for companies throughout the supply chain to comply with EDI mandates. [4] They created EDI integration software that ran on the IBM AS/400 platform (IBM System i), [5] which today, remains one of the last IBM-based EDI integration products actively being developed and supported. [6] In 2006, EXTOL publicly released the next generation of its EDI integration software, EXTOL Business Integrator (EBI), which allowed companies to exchange EDI through multiple platforms, including Linux [7] and Windows. EBI expanded enterprise data integration capabilities beyond traditional EDI to include other data file tips such as XML, spreadsheets, flat files, and application-to-application (A2A) data.
The IBM System i is IBM's previous generation of midrange computer systems for IBM i users, and was subsequently replaced by the IBM Power Systems in April 2008. The platform was first introduced as the AS/400 on June 21, 1988 and later renamed to the eServer iSeries in 2000. As part of IBM's Systems branding initiative in 2006, it was again renamed to System i. The codename of the AS/400 project was "Silver Lake", named for the lake in downtown Rochester, Minnesota, where development of the system took place.
By the start of 2012, EXTOL had grown their customer base by 750 companies [8] and had realized record-breaking sales revenues. [9] The continued need for EDI and B2B integration solutions[ buzzword ] across the supply chain helped EXTOL develop significant software releases, and by the end of 2015, had increased market share by 26.9%. [10]
In 2016, EXTOL was acquired [11] by Illinois-based Cleo, an enterprise software company that provides electronic data interchange, and application-to-application, business-to-business, and big data integration services to organizations with managed file transfer needs. The Pottsville, PA office will operate under the Cleo name.
Cleo is a software company that provides business-to-business (B2B), embedded integration, application-to-application (A2A), cloud integration and big data integration solutions. The privately held company, formally known as Cleo Communications LLC, was founded in 1976, but goes by "Cleo."
Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software (EAS), is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than individual users. Such organizations include businesses, schools, interest-based user groups, clubs, charities, and governments. Enterprise software is an integral part of a (computer-based) information system; a collection of such software is called an Enterprise system.
"Big data" is a field that treats ways to analyze, systematically extract information from, or otherwise deal with data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software. Data with many cases (rows) offer greater statistical power, while data with higher complexity may lead to a higher false discovery rate. Big data challenges include capturing data, data storage, data analysis, search, sharing, transfer, visualization, querying, updating, information privacy and data source. Big data was originally associated with three key concepts: volume, variety, and velocity. Other concepts later attributed to big data are veracity and value.
