Crossgate Positioned in “Leaders” Quadrant in 2009 Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers.
The world’s leading IT research and advi-sory company Gartner has included Crossgate in the latest 2009 report “Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers”.
Munich, December 8, 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 Quadrant for Integration Service Providers"[1] 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 others):, leaders must have a critical mass of users (community) in selected industries; a comprehensive and compelling service offering vision; a significant 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, Provide collaboration and automation tools for community management, demonstrate agile behavior by flexibly responding to customers' evolving commercial and B2B project requirements, substantially diversified vertical industry market share, substantial year-to-year integration services revenue and market share growth, a clear commitment to the integration services market and a sufficient differentiation to attract new business away from other providers.”1 Crossgate meets all of these requirements.
1 Gartner Research, Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers, Publication Date: 20 November 2009/ID Number:G00172249
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 embedded within SAP applications via a service-oriented architecture (SOA) repository. For one simple fixed cost, customers can connect once to Crossgate’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, communications, and processes aligned with ERP application installations and upgrades.
“We take pride in moving the industry forward by focusing on fixed cost solutions 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 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 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 technicaltechnical capability. In addition, Crossgate's B2B-360° Services powered by SAP provide clients direct access to all integrated business partners in the B2B transaction network 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, representing over 10 industries, currently exchange documents and data via the Business-Ready Network.
Crossgate is represented at four sites in Germany, with operations in Atlanta, London, Milan, Paris, and AsiaPac. For more information, visit www.crossgate.com
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