Two specialist IT service organisations within the Entertainment Industry, B2Boost and Vision Information Logistics, conclude a partnership. Vision is specialised in Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) solutions and data management services for Suppliers. The goal of this partnership is to provide a comprehensive single service offering to its clients to help drive business development and growth and reduce overall costs to service.

GXS (the world's leading supplier of EDI services) and B2Boost announce the conclusion of a 5-year cooperation agreement for offering a unique combination of services to professional users in Europe. Thanks to this cooperation, B2Boost is now supported by a technical infrastructure with a virtually unlimited transaction volume capability.

Launch of e-Invoicing services : B2Boost extends its activity to include the processing of dematerialized invoices by offering a universal application for issuing and archiving invoices in Europe in any format or protocol whilst respecting the different EU State legislations. A strategic decision was made to extend these services to all industry sectors. In addition to projects in the entertainment sector, B2Boost also currently has major e-Invoicing projects deployed for companies in the Telecoms, Retail Banking and ICT sectors.

B2Boost and Electronic Arts Europe, a world leader in Interactive Entertainment, announce an agreement to deploy "Connect EA", a web-based channel to connect Electronic Arts (EA) with its retailers and distributors in all European countries. Currently, this system processes more than 75% of the total activity of EA in Europe. Since 2002, several other major entertainment industry including Ubisoft, Sega, BigBen Interactive and Free Record Shop have decided to use B2Boost connections network and services in Europe. Currently, B2Boost operates in over 20 countries and in over 15 different languages.

B2Boost releases the B2Boost Integration Package (BIP) Solution, an integration package wich enables retailers to connect their infrastructure to each other in a way that promotes easy machine-to-machine communication, using secure "web services" technology. B2Boost is one of the very first companies to release a solution based on secure web services technology.

B2Boost was originally founded by people who have built their careers at top levels of the entertainment industry. Over the years they noticed how difficult it was for game publishers, resellers and retailers to collaborate efficiently with each other, due to differing ERP, procurement and ordering systems. This was the trigger for B2Boost's founders to develop a fully secure, easy to implement web based platform that could serve as a universal translator for the various electronic languages used by their clients.