Extol International
Type | Private |
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Industry | Retail, Trucking & Logistics, Apparel & Textiles, Food & Grocery, Industrial Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical & Healthcare, Wholesale & Distribution |
Founded | Frackville, Pennsylvania, U.S. (June, 1989) |
Founder | Tony Baran Joe Baran |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Tony Baran (President) & (CEO) Joshua Baran (Chief Technology Officer) Matthew Baran (Chief Operating Officer) Jack Byrne (Chief Financial Officer) |
Products | Business Integration Software |
Services | Business Integration Services |
Website | www |
EXTOL International Inc. is the largest technology firm in the city of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, employing over 90 technology professionals in the field of electronic data interchange (EDI) and business-to-business (B2B) data integration. It has also been named one of the top private companies in the Lehigh Valley,[1] and one of the top 500 technology firms in the United States.[2]
EXTOL was incorporated in 1989 by Joe Baran and Tony Baran,[3] who at the time, recognized the need for companies throughout the supply chain to comply with EDI mandates.[4] They created EDI integration software that ran on the IBM AS/400 platform,[5] which today, remains one of the last IBM i-based EDI integration products actively being developed and supported.[6] In 2006, EXTOL publicly released the next generation of its EDI integration software, EXTOL Business Integrator (EBI), which allowed companies to exchange EDI through multiple platforms, including Linux[7] and Windows. EBI expanded enterprise data integration capabilities beyond traditional EDI to include other data file tips such as XML, spreadsheets, flat files, and application-to-application (A2A) data.
By the start of 2012, EXTOL had grown their customer base by 750 companies[8] and had realized record-breaking sales revenues.[9] The continued need for EDI and B2B integration solutions[buzzword] across the supply chain helped EXTOL develop significant software releases, and by the end of 2015, had increased market share by 26.9%.[10]
In 2016, EXTOL was acquired[11] by Illinois-based Cleo, an enterprise software company that provides electronic data interchange, and application-to-application, business-to-business, and big data integration services to organizations with managed file transfer needs. The Pottsville, PA office will operate under the Cleo name.
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- ^ "Lehigh Valley Business Top Private Companies: 41-60". Lehigh Valley Business. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
- ^ Extol, inc5000 Article - Inc. Article
- ^ "Keeping it all in the family at EXTOL International". Lehigh Valley Business. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
- ^ "EXTOL International: Accelerating e-Business Integration with Real-time Visibility". Logistics Tech Outlook.
- ^ Inc, IDG Network World (1991-03-25). Network World. IDG Network World Inc.
- ^ "The Four Hundred--The IBM i 500". www.itjungle.com. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
- ^ "Four Hundred Stuff--EXTOL Adds Support for Linux in EDI Software". www.itjungle.com. Archived from the original on 2013-03-09. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
- ^ "Keeping it all in the family at EXTOL International". Lehigh Valley Business. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
- ^ "EXTOL International Extends Momentum from Record-Breaking 2012 into New Year". Lehigh Valley Business. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
- ^ "EXTOL International Announces Double-Digit Growth in 2015 Computers, Networks & Communications". www.highbeam.com. Archived from the original on 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
- ^ "Pottsville tech firm acquired by Illinois company". Lehigh Valley Business. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
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