Hubspan Eases Integration Pain

Hubspan Eases Integration Pain for HD Supply Facilities Maintenance

HD Supply Facilities Maintenance Turns to Hubspan for Rapid Business Process Integration and End-to-End Visibility across Supply and Demand Chains

SEATTLE, July 15, 2008 – Hubspan, Inc. today released a case study detailing the deployment of the company’s on-demand integration platform by HD Supply Facilities Maintenance. The study outlines Hubspan’s ability to drive rapid business process integration and end-to-end visibility across the HD Supply Facilities Maintenance supply and demand chains.

When HD Supply was sold by The Home Depot to a group of three leading private equity firms, the new company’s facilities maintenance business had six months to transition all suppliers and customers from Home Depot systems over to its new platforms. With a sophisticated and globally diverse value chain, maintaining tight business integration with high volume trading partners was mission critical for the company. In addition to addressing immediate tactical issues, HD Supply Facilities Maintenance also needed to establish a solution for end-to-end visibility of goods flowing through both the supply and demand chains.

“During the evaluation process, we balanced immediate needs with a long-term view of being well positioned for emerging changes in technology across partner integration and evolving supply and demand chains,” said Mark Linder, director of e-business with HD Supply Facilities Maintenance. “We looked for a company with vision, broad capability and a defined roadmap that maintained technology advantages as our business environment evolves.”

Hubspan was the perfect fit for HD Supply Facilities Maintenance. The Hubspan solution bundled integration software-as-a-service, infrastructure and a full suite of professional services to deliver the agility and scalability the company needed to enable true business connections with trading partners. With Hubspan, it can interact with customers and suppliers in an automated fashion despite differences in back-end systems, technical capabilities and business processes.

“By utilizing Hubspan’s on-demand integration platform, HD Supply Facilities Maintenance now has complete visibility across thousands of daily transactions occurring with both suppliers and customers,” said Robert Pease, vice president of marketing for Hubspan. “Our centralized management portal provides high-level observation along with drill-down capabilities to interrogate specific transactions. With advanced alerts and monitoring, the company knows when the first hints of trouble arise and can respond immediately to maintain smooth operations.”

HD Supply Facilities Maintenance achieved significant results from the Hubspan on-demand integration solution. The company improved business agility to meet evolving customer needs quickly; improved operational efficiency; achieved on-boarding and integration ten times faster than in-house solutions; gained full transactional visibility with suppliers and customers; and maintained full business continuity throughout the divestiture with no supply disruptions.

To learn more about the Hubspan deployment within HD Supply Facilities Maintenance, or to receive a detailed case study, please visit Hubspan online at http://www.Hubspan.com.

About HD Supply Facilities Maintenance

HD Supply is a leading wholesale distribution company, providing a broad range of products and services to professional customers in the infrastructure & energy, maintenance, repair & improvement and specialty construction markets. With a diverse portfolio of market-leading businesses, HD Supply is one of the largest diversified wholesale distributors in North America, with approximately 1,000 locations.

About Hubspan, Inc.

Hubspan connects businesses by providing a complete business-to-business integration solution for companies of all sizes. More than 9,000 trading partners across 34 countries benefit from Hubspan’s scalable, flexible technology. Hubspan’s market-leading solution, delivered as a service, yields increased revenue, improved customer satisfaction and retention, and increased operational efficiency faster and more cost-effectively than in-house development. Hubspan serves some of the largest, global enterprises as well as organizations with just a few hundred employees – managing even the most complex business processes.