providing online information about suppliers, such as financial performance, health, safety, environmental policy, CSR, products, and services data; providing total supplier management solutions, which offers organizations a view of supply chain risk, as well as validates and maintains information about suppliers; and developing global business directories, which is a reference for buyers to provide information about suppliers. When they started out in 1990 operating in the gas and oil industry, they saw that control was something buyers needed more of. So they designed their community model, their supporting services and the technology that powers them to address this need. They wanted to drive a new kind of procurement with less risk, less cost and less compliance issues. At the same time, wanted to bring suppliers into the fold – to help them meet buyers’ needs while reducing their own qualification burdens.