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Cleo Integration Cloud Enhances E-Commerce Integration Capabilities to Deliver Seamless Ecosystem Experiences

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Cleo,
the global category leader in ecosystem integration software, today
announced general availability of the latest Cleo Integration Cloud
platform release, which strategically builds out e-commerce
innovations
to further optimize critical order-to-cash,
procure-to-pay, and other supply chain processes driving the modern
enterprise.

Cleo’s latest release focuses on driving seamless experiences for
internal user personas and external trading partners when delivering
end-to-end transactions. To differentiate their brands and stay
competitive, businesses must deliver reliable, accurate, and timely data
for all process stakeholders – inside and outside the company – and the
latest Cleo Integration Cloud enhancements support that journey. New
capabilities bring additional visibility through real-time operational
insights and “smart” integration functionality to help businesses
accelerate creating their business-critical workflows to rapidly meet
customer expectations.

Cleo Integration Cloud – Spring 2019 Release Highlights

Cleo
Integration Cloud
is a single-platform ecosystem integration
solution available as a service in public and private cloud deployments
that enables companies to connect, transform, integrate, orchestrate,
and analyze end-to-end business processes, such as order-to-cash and
procure-to-pay, across internal and external ecosystems of applications,
systems, marketplaces, and trading partners. Highlights of the latest
release include:

  • Smart Integrations: Cleo’s latest release enhances an
    organization’s capability to optimize end-to-end business processes by
    using Cleo’s Smart Integrations – prebuilt or templatized workflows
    that enable organizations to rapidly onboard applications by
    automating multi-enterprise integration components of critical
    end-to-end business processes such as order-to-cash, procure-to-pay
    and many others.
  • Persona-based insights: Real-time visibility of content and
    business context for a variety of internal and external user personas.
    Cleo Integration Cloud provides an easy way to consume integration
    workflow data without needing to create custom reports or manually
    collect data from multiple systems to get consolidated views –
    regardless of a user’s role.

    • Executive teams get a global view of all revenue-generating
      transactions in a single, consolidated dashboard to optimize and
      uncover new growth opportunities.
    • Line-of-business managers can onboard trading partners
      faster, assess the health of existing relationships quickly, and
      proactively act on errors through “one-click” transaction
      reprocessing.
    • Integration specialists and technical teams can
      easily manage the key revenue driving integrations for the
      organization, with the ability to view, interact, and manage
      end-to-end integrations that connect business partners,
      applications, and data to their internal enterprise ecosystems.
    • Customers, partners, and suppliers can now be given access
      to transaction data directly in the Cleo Integration Cloud
      platform. The intuitive user experience enables proactive issue
      resolution and centralized exception management visibility –
      making Cleo Integration Cloud the industry’s first integration
      platform supporting ecosystem enablement and accelerating
      collaboration for external constituents.
  • Application integration connectors: Cleo has added a host of
    new application connectors designed to accelerate time-to-value by
    automating key parts of the order-to-cash or procure-to-pay processes.
    WooCommerce, SAP S/4 Hana Cloud, and others are the latest additions
    to Cleo’s expansive connector library. Such connectors
    further improve a company’s ability to quickly integrate end-to-end
    business processes with off-the-shelf support for e-commerce,
    payments, finance and ERP applications that span multi-enterprise
    ecosystems.

The Ecosystem Integration Imperative

A modern approach to business, ecosystem integration prioritizes the
designing, deploying, operating, and optimizing of end-to-end processes
between internal and external systems, customers, and partners that
drive core revenue generation. The latest updates to Cleo Integration
Cloud further underscore the value of an “outside-in” approach to
understanding how and where value can be created for businesses in any
industry in which order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and other end-to-end
processes are critical for growth.

What Cleo customers get from these enhanced capabilities, then, are more
predictable business outcomes, better trading partner relationships, and
the ability to provide better experiences for all stakeholders, inside
and outside the company. Cleo customer Charlie’s Produce, the largest
independent west-coast wholesale produce distributor, was looking to
modernize its legacy solutions and better serve its customers and
vendors.

Charlie’s Produce EDI Analyst Louie Brothers said the company was
looking for a better way to handle non-EDI transactions and speed up
trading partner onboarding. That’s when it migrated its B2B integration
to Cleo Integration Cloud. “By partnering with Cleo, we were able to
migrate trading partners from our legacy system to the cloud and can
onboard new partners more quickly,” he said. “We can now accept and
transform almost any data format, and we have real time visibility into
all data transactions. Cleo Integration Cloud provides the scalability,
reliability, and 24x7x365 support to ensure we are accelerating
end-to-end business processes and proactively meeting all new and
existing customer requirements.”

Jason Bloomberg, president of Intellyx, an industry analyst firm
familiar with Cleo’s offerings, said, “Cleo offers pre-built core
business processes like order-to-cash and others, thus giving its
customers a straightforward approach to optimizing their core process
while solving both B2B and internal integration problems.”

Cleo CEO Mahesh
Rajasekharan
highlighted the need for businesses to deliver top
quality unified commerce experiences, especially as manufacturers,
retailers, and other organizations adopt new sales channels, expand
their reach, and continue to compete with the “Amazon effect.”

“All told, our latest release of Cleo Integration Cloud is packed with
new capabilities and is without question our most innovative to date,”
Rajasekharan said. “Our focus on user experience for internal and
external personas enables Cleo customers to deliver unified commerce in
ways that create value throughout their ecosystem. They’re effectively
able to rise up and meet the challenges and opportunities that the
Amazon effect has created for every industry, and they’re providing
experiences that not only meet but exceed the expectations of all their
key integration process stakeholders.”

For more information and Cleo and the Cleo Integration Cloud platform,
visit the company website, www.cleo.com.

About Cleo

Cleo is an ecosystem integration software company focused on business
outcomes, ensuring each customer’s potential is realized by delivering
solutions that make it easy to discover and create value through the
movement and integration of enterprise data. Cleo gives customers a
strategic, “outside-in” visibility into the critical end-to-end business
flows happening across their ecosystems of partners and customers,
marketplaces, and internal cloud and on-premise applications. Our
solutions empower teams to drive business agility, accelerate
onboarding, facilitate modernization of key business processes, and
capture new revenue streams by reimagining and remastering their digital
ecosystem through robust application, B2B, and data integration
technologies. For more information, visit www.cleo.com
or call +1.815.282.7695.