Anda Corporation Gains Substantial Market Traction from Cyclone and Axway's First-To-Market Controlled Substance Ordering Solution

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. and PARIS - Cyclone Commerce and Axway, which are currently integrating operations following their January merger, today announced that their Controlled Substance Ordering System (CSOS) has successfully enabled Anda, the premier generic drug distributor for independent retail pharmacies, to reduce paperwork, speed transaction times, lower costs — and gain significant new levels of market share.

CSOS is a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) mandate that outlines the procedures and requirements to secure, report, and retain the e222 form for ordering and distributing controlled substances.

"All pharmacies, drug distributors, practitioners and manufacturers are currently scrambling to comply with CSOS regulations," said Daryl Eicher, Cyclone and Axway's vice president of solutions for heathcare and life sciences. "Because Cyclone was among the first-to-market with a robust CSOS solution based on open and widely-accepted e-commerce standards like AS2, we've been fortunate to attract top companies like Anda to our customer roster."

Jerry Cazzell, vice president of Internet strategies at Anda, confirmed this view, and suggested that Cyclone and Axway's time-to-market aided Anda's own market approach. "Working with Cyclone we were able to get up-and-running with CSOS a year earlier than we had projected. We have been able to compete and win a significant amount of new market share as a result."

"We performed an exhaustive review of other vendors' CSOS offerings, because we could not afford to entrust our business to a solution that was not rock-solid and future-proofed," Cazzell added. "Cyclone and Axway had the best CSOS solution, the best technical staff and the commitment to open standards that gave us comfort that this solution could evolve with our needs."

Anda's pharmacy customers benefit from a streamlined ordering process that automates formerly manual procedures. By eliminating paperwork CSOS reduces the amount of human errors — and orders that used to take two or three days can now ship overnight.

This is possible because Cyclone CSOS provides validation and fulfillment of e222 orders. The solution accepts encrypted e222 orders, verifies them using FIPS-validated order verification and CRL-checking, and then routes them to Anda's supply chain applications and distribution centers.

"As the DEA's automation mandates grow, the entire industry will benefit," Eicher concluded. "We look forward to helping Anda and our other customers grow market share while reducing costs using CSOS and other advanced solutions."

About Axway

Axway is the Business Interaction Networks company — the only provider in the market today to manage, run, secure, and monitor all of your business interactions, including email, files, messaging, services, events, and processes. Serving over 11,000 organizations in more than 100 countries, Axway facilitates the multi-enterprise transactions, processes and integration that accelerate business by eliminating the barriers between vendors, customers, departments, partners and suppliers. Axway's comprehensive offerings include business-to-business integration, managed file transfer, secure email, business activity monitoring, enterprise application integration, service-oriented architecture, business process management, track & trace and identity validation solutions. Axway provides professional and managed services, as well as cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Axway's global presence spans 20 countries.