on 8 December 2009
The world’s leading IT research and advisory company Gartner has included Crossgate in the latest 2009 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 their global repository of re-usable B2B mappings, e-Invoicing capabilities in 36 countries. Gartner positioned Crossgate in the Leaders Quadrant in the “Magic Quad-rant for Integration Service Providers” published at the end of November. Gartner evaluated both North American and European service providers for this report, seventeen of which made it into the quadrant. The placements were based on a completeness of vision and the ability to execute.
According to the report, ” In the highly evolving integration services market, leaders will have more of the following types of characteristics (among oth-ers):, leaders must have a critical mass of users (community) in selected in-dustries; a comprehensive and compelling service offering vision; a signifi-cant geographic reach (or be likely to establish one); secure, reliable and effi-cient 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, Provide collaboration and automation tools for community management, demonstrate agile behav-ior by flexibly responding to customers’ evolving commercial and B2B project requirements, substantially diversified vertical industry market share, substan-tial year-to-year integration services revenue and market share growth, a clear commitment to the integration services market and a sufficient differen-tiation to attract new business away from other providers.”1 Crossgate meets all of these requirements.
Crossgate’s Business-Ready Network raises the efficiency and value of IT systems and increases strategic business agility for clients by shortening time for partner enablement, expanding types of automated processes, simplifying change management, and managing global requirements such as e-Invoicing. With Crossgate’s B2B360° Services Powered by SAP, B2B services are em-bedded within SAP applications via a service-oriented architecture (SOA) re-pository. For one simple fixed cost, customers can connect once to Cross-gate’s Business-Ready Network and access more than 40,000 pre-integrated business partner profiles, regardless of transaction type or volume. Instead of providing only generic data standards and toolsets, Crossgate’s managed services approach to EDI includes partner-specific mappings, communica-tions, and processes aligned with ERP application installations and upgrades.
“We take pride in moving the industry forward by focusing on fixed cost solu-tions rather than time and material consulting projects, reusable B2B content rather than point to point mappings, and simplified ERP integration through the use of a service-oriented architecture rather than legacy translators,” said Stefan Tittel, CEO and Founder, Crossgate AG. “Through our innovation and experience with international B2B requirements, regulations, and standards, we are helping global organizations meet their business objectives and react promptly to opportunities in the market to maintain a competitive advantage.”
About the Gartner Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permis-sion. 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 spe-cific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties 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 techni-cal capability. In addition, Crossgate’s B2B-360° Services powered by SAP provide clients direct access to all integrated business partners in the B2B transaction net-work via their SAP systems. With its legally compliant e-Invoicing Services, Crossgate also provides an innovative and 100% secure solution to cover the entire process of incoming and outgoing invoices, including signatures, global compliance monitoring, and secure automated long-term archiving. More than 40,000 business partners, rep-resenting over 10 industries, currently exchange documents and data via the Busi-ness-Ready Network.
Crossgate is represented at four sites in Germany, with operations in Atlanta, London, Milan, Paris, and AsiaPac. For more information, visit http://www.crossgate.com
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