Vinimaya Inc. offers Supplier Network 2.0 Solutions for E-Procurement. Headquartered in Shelton CT, with R&D facilities in Bangalore, India, Vinimaya offers catalog and transaction management solutions for both buyers and suppliers that are 100% compatible with leading e-procurement systems like Ariba Buyer, SAP EBP, Oracle I-Procure and Peoplesoft E-Procure among others.

The Vinimaya team has a long-standing reputation for innovation in the e-procurement market. In 1997, CEO Gary Hare and EVP Orville Bailey left GE to co-found the company that developed the world's 1st commercial Supplier Network for e-procurement, TPN Register (GE was an investor). Many of the processes and technologies being used in today Supplier Networks, including XML Punchout, screen-scraping, and self-service catalog authoring, were developed and first used at TPN Register. This first generation of Supplier Networks, associated technologies and processes, are referred to as Supplier Networks 1.0.

After TPN Register was sold to GXS in 2001, Hare and his team left to build what they hoped would be the next generation of Supplier Network technologies, aka Supplier Network 2.0. Using their TPN Register experience as the benchmark (having run TPN Register for years, they were keenly aware of the shortcomings of the Supplier Network 1.0 model), they formed Vinimaya and focused on developing a faster, easier and less expensive way to enable e-procurement catalogs, which were (and still are) considered the most challenging area of e-procurement. They applied and enhanced technologies not normally associated with B2B (e.g. METASearch, intelligent agents, high performance parsing) and created the Vinimaya Intelligent Agent Search (IAS) platform, and based their flagship product, the ViniSyndicate Catalog Integration System, and other Vinimaya Solutions, on this unique technology.

Today, world class companies like Sunoco, 3M, Corning Inc., Alcoa, Agilent Technologies and many, many more have dropped the Supplier Network 1.0 model and embraced Vinimaya's Supplier Network 2.0 solution with tremendous results!