Covisint
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| Covisint | |
|---|---|
| Type | subsidiary of Compuware Corporation |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters |  Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| Key people | David McGuffie, President David Miller, Chief Security Officer Bill Penn, Chief Architect Brett Furst, VP - Healthcare Michael Minelli, VP - Automotive & Manufacturing Todd Foland, Director, Security |
| Industry | Automotive Healthcare Public Sector |
| Employees | 225+ (2008) |
| Website | www.covisint.com |
Covisint is a global enabler of interoperability solutions and services for organizations of any size, connecting people and systems across industries. Covisint supports over 300,000 users, representing more than 45,800 organizations in over 96 countries in the global automotive and healthcare industries.
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[edit] History
Founding:
In February 2000, General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler founded "NewCo" as an independent online automotive exchange. Shortly after its announcement, Renault and Nissan joined. The original vision was to create the world's largest online marketplace where the OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) and their supply base would perform business activities using online catalogs, sourcing, auctions, supply chain management, portals, and other collaborative applications. Business would be conducted through a single online environment using one user ID and password.
On May 16, 2000, NewCo was officially renamed Covisint to reflect the fusion of Communication, Vision, and Integration. The company's world headquarters was located in Southfield, Michigan in the United States.
Selling of Covisint:
Covisint's sourcing and services business was sold to FreeMarkets in January, 2004 while the remaining online messaging, portal, and identity management portions were sold to Detroit-based Compuware Corporation in February, 2004. The company's software and employees have since been folded into Compuware's suite of offerings as Covisint, a susidiary of Compuware.
Current State:
Since becoming part of Compuware, Covisint continues to provide and expand EDI, portals, and identity management services to the automotive community, including significant ongoing business with the original stakeholders. The company is also moving beyond its automotive roots and into additional verticals such as healthcare and government. In the healthcare space, Covisint provides healthcare IT on a software-as-a-service basis to exchange information and provide real-time support to the healthcare industry. Recent uses of the Covisint healthcare platform include maintaining a physician portal for an Independant Physicians Association, providing electonic-based solution for paper-based processes, such as diagnostic ordering, and providing a secure identity management framework for RHIOs to enable safe medical record sharing. For governments, Covisint's technologies enable the safe and secure distribution of homeland security information to various government organizations and security entities.
Covisint is currently located in the Compuware World Headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.
[edit] Industries
Automotive:
Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM's)
Tier 1-n Suppliers
Logistics Service Providers (3PLs)
Healthcare:
Health Information Networks (RHIO/HIN)
Health Systems/Hospitals
Commercial Payers
Physician Groups
Extended Care Facilities
Home Medical Equipment Providers
State Medicaid Programs
Public Sector
Federal Government
State Government
[edit] Solutions and Services
Collaboration Center 2.0 (C2.0) – Federated identity and access management is combined with a global SOA to support portal hosting, aggregation (e.g. portlet aggregation), web-service and application sharing (SaaS). C2.0 makes use of developing industry standards (e.g., WSRP, JSR 168, JSR 170, Struts), Web 2.0 (RSS, Wikis, Blogs) and leading consumer web technology (collaborative applications; secure email; community management; personalization and search) to provide a next generation collaborative platform, secured for industry use.
Identity and Access Management as a Service - Multi-factor authentication (including tokens, smartcards and PKI) and web-based user provisioning and administration tools supporting policy enforcement, secure information and application sharing across multiple domains.
Global B2B Messaging – XML-based, B2B messaging that includes: EDI (ANSI.X12, EDIFACT, E-5, AS2, flat files (e.g. CSV's), HL7, Medifax (WebMD), vendor-proprietary (SAP, QAD, Oracle), XML (including OAG BODs, ebXML), Odette, VDA, xCBL, SAML), webEDI webEDI(webform), machine-to-machine EDI, XML BODs, gateway software and fax-to-EDI service. B2B messaging also includes mapping, routing, translation and interconnectivity (to other VANs and networks) to deliver secure, multi-protocol (FTP, SFTP, FTP SSL, OFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, Direct file transfer (NFS, Windows, SAMBA)), multi-standard B2B communications
Process Packs - providing "Software-as-a-Service" (SaaS) capabilities that include an integrated collaboration tool set, logistics visibility dashboard, structured problem solving and support for a mid-tier ERP suite.
Global Integration Services – Technical consulting, integration and support services (e.g. community enablement for B2B communities)
[edit] Locations
North America:
Covisint World Headquarters / One Campus Martius / Detroit, Michigan 48226
Covisint / 410 Blackwell Street, Suite 200 / Durham, North Carolina 27701
Europe:
Covisint / An der Trift 65 / 63303 Dreieich / Germany
Covisint / Hoogoorddreef 5 / PO Box 12933 / 1100 AX Amsterdam / The Netherlands
Asia-Pacific:
Covisint / Suite 804, United Plaza / 1468 Nanjing Road West / Shanghai, China 200040
