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Axway provides enterprise integration software that governs AI, manages APIs, and connects systems across cloud and on-premises environments, with a focus on security, compliance, and data governance. It serves regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and government.
Also known as Cyclone · Cyclone Commerce, Inc.
Investors · 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Cyclone Commerce, Inc. was a business-to-business e-commerce software company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Its software provided secure, profile-based, easy-to-configure web connections between an enterprise and its trading partners, allowing data to be exchanged regardless of the partners' preferred data types, communication protocols or security infrastructure. The Java-based product used a profile-driven interface to route information between internal applications and external counterparties, and it maintained an audit trail of documents such as purchase orders exchanged between partners.
Positioning itself as "the Collaborative Commerce Company," Cyclone offered a single integrated platform for managing business-to-business processes: administering trading-partner communities, giving visibility into key processes, enabling enterprises to act on information in transit between divisions, customers, suppliers and regulatory bodies, and handling exceptions as they occurred. The software was designed to extend existing enterprise applications and business intelligence investments beyond the enterprise boundary. Dave Bennett served as co-founder and chief technology officer.
In December 2005 Axway Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of France's Sopra Group, acquired 100% of Cyclone Commerce in an all-cash transaction. Cyclone's products were to be maintained and integrated into an updated version of Axway's XIP integration platform, serving the combined base of more than 7,000 clients.
Business model
Cyclone licensed B2B integration and collaborative commerce software to enterprises, including products such as Cyclone Central, which customers deployed to configure and manage connectivity with their trading partners and internal financial and order systems.
Latest developments
Following the December 2005 all-cash acquisition by Axway Software, Cyclone's products were slated for maintenance and integration into an updated release of Axway's XIP integration platform, with the combined company targeting healthcare, financial services, CPG retail, and logistics and transportation markets.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Cyclone competed in the market for software automating connections between trading partners, a segment described by Yankee Group analyst Jon Derome as in transition from decades of EDI-based communication toward web, XML and other collaboration technologies. Post-merger, Axway and Cyclone were described as forming a global player in B2B, SOA and collaborative services, with combined 2006 revenues estimated at $130-140 million.
Rather than requiring costly, time-consuming private communications links or hand-coded interfaces for each new partner, Cyclone's profile-based configuration allowed customers to add trading partners quickly while preserving an auditable record of exchanges. A noted drawback was hidden cost for partners that could not afford the required client software.
Technology
Java-based, profile-driven software that stored profiles of trading partners and their technologies and routed data to the appropriate applications and personnel. It supported connections across differing data formats, communication protocols and security infrastructures — including legacy approaches such as EDI alongside web and XML-based methods — and produced an audit trail of exchanged documents.
Go-to-market
Large enterprises automating supply-chain and trading-partner connections, with strength in healthcare, financial services, CPG retail, and logistics and transportation. Named customers included Do It Best Corp. and McKesson Corp., where the Cyclone Central product was used as a data switch to configure connectivity to partners' financial and order systems without hand-coding new interfaces.
Geography
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. The merger with Paris-based Axway was described as combining complementary geographic positions to serve large multinational corporations.
History
Founded in 1996 in Scottsdale, Arizona. By 2002 the company was supplying its trading-partner connectivity software to customers including McKesson, which had installed Cyclone's Central product around 2000. On 29 December 2005 Cyclone finalized a merger with Axway Software in the USA, with Axway acquiring 100% of the company; the transaction was announced in January 2006.
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Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsAxway Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sopra Group, finalized the merger of its US business with Cyclone Commerce on 29 December 2005, acquiring 100% of the company in an all-cash transaction. Cyclone's products were to be integrated into Axway's XIP integration platform.
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primary sources listed
- Cyclone Commerce Asset Profile | Preqinpreqin.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Cyclone Commerce do?
- Scottsdale, Arizona B2B software maker whose platform connected enterprises with trading partners; acquired by Axway Software in 2005.
- Who are Cyclone Commerce's investors?
- Cyclone Commerce's investors include The Argentum Group, Western Technology Investment.