TIE is an international B2B eCommerce software company and is one of the few indigenously European vendor players within SEEM. TIE, has traded on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange since March 2000. TIE develops and markets high quality XML/EDI(tm)-based B2B eCommerce software and services. TIE facilitates the collaboration between partners in the Supply Chain by establishing ‘Digital Business Communities’ (DBCs) on the Internet and by integrating the business processes and semantics of one party with another. TIE’s customer base extends from Europe to Asia and from North America to South America.

TIE serves the market for B2B eCommerce integration software with a clear focus on the inter-company processes (order, shipping, payment, etc.) based on globally accepted standards. This market continues to grow to include business process management, data transformation and semantic interoperability.

TIE is a significant player in the eBusiness standardisation arena chairing the United Nations Center for eBusiness forum (UN/CEFACT), European Standards Institute’s (CEN), European Interoperability Forum (eBIF),and as ex-chair of European Board for eBusiness Standardisation (eBES), and ex-vice chair of the European eBusiness forum (EEMA) and as the largest European contributor and leader within the ebXML initiative. TIE chair the eBES Technical Coordination group and UN/CEFACT Technical committee dealing with the processing and assessment of semantics including the core semantic components of ebXML and UBL.