Crossgate Positioned in “Leaders” Quadrant in 2008 Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers

Starnberg on 25 June 2008

The world’s leading IT research and advisory company Gartner has positioned Crossgate in the latest report “Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers”. Crossgate is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant among the vendors in this sector. Crossgate believes this positioning highlights the importance of the recently established SAP partnership, especially in terms of recognition, visibility and international focus.

Gartner positioned Crossgate in the Leaders Quadrant in the “Magic Quadrant for In-tegration Service Providers” published at the end of May.

Gartner evaluated both North American and European service providers for this re-port, fourteen of which were placed in the quadrant and evaluated in the report. The placements were based on a completeness of vision and the ability to execute.

According to the report,”In the highly evolving IaaS and B2B project outsourcing market segments, leaders must have a critical mass of users (community) in se-lected industries; a comprehensive and compelling service offering vision; a signifi-cant geographic reach (or be likely to establish one); secure, reliable and efficient hosted integration service operations; sustained profitability (or likely to establish it); and strong account management and customer loyalty. They must also be regularly on organizations’ shortlists for new B2B projects and be agents of change to the evolving market segment.”. Crossgate meets all of these requirements.

“We are very proud of this positioning, “ explains Stefan Tittel, CEO and founder of Crossgate AG. “We believe this shows that our market assessment was done well. With our Business-Ready Network, companies reach a large number of trading part-ners, and they don’t have to worry about interfaces or different formats. Today, B2B can be this easy!“

About the Gartner Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warran-ties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Crossgate

Crossgate offers the world’s first Business-Ready Network, guaranteeing 100% integration of business partners, clients and suppliers. A single connection to the Network means electronic data exchange with any business partner regardless of their technical capability. In addition, Crossgate’s B2B-360° Services powered by SAP provide clients direct access to all inte-grated business partners in the B2B transaction network via their SAP systems. With its le-gally compliant eInvoicing Services, Crossgate also provides an innovative and 100% secure solution to cover the entire process of incoming and outgoing invoices, including signatures, EU compliance monitoring, and revision-secure automated long-term archiving. More than 40,000 business partners, representing over 10 industries, currently exchange documents and data via the Business-Ready Network.

Crossgate was founded in 2001 in Starnberg, Germany. The principal investors are the family of the SAP founder Dietmar Hopp, the Otto Wolff Industrieberatung und Beteiligungen GmbH and the Al-Jomaih Group. In addition to the headquarters in Starnberg, Crossgate is repre-sented at four sites in Germany, with subsidiary branches in Atlanta, London, Milan