Business has evolved as we have transitioned into a global economy.  The world is definitely flat, and competitive advantage is no longer just about your products and services. Leading companies are focused on turning their collaboration with business partners into real value.  In the short term with the current economic environment, “Business as usual” has given way to aggressive cost cutting, restructuring and eliminating redundancies. But businesses worldwide have discovered that internal cost reductions have their limits; to achieve additional efficiencies, they need to start thinking outside their four walls.

Enter Business Network Enablement, a paradigm shift in the way you communicate with trading partners. Every company should be taking advantage of it, but only about 20% do. Why? The barriers of traditional, electronic data interchange, EDI: cost, time, and technology.

But what if you could automate a single partner and a single process with any partner— for example, a sales order—for a fraction of the cost and in a fraction of the time of existing in-house B2B middleware and EDI translators? More importantly, what if you could tell any customer or supplier that you can accept any electronic format, data standard, communication protocol becoming easier to do business with then your competition?

You can. Crossgate’s Business-Ready Network simplifies collaboration for you and your partners and transforms time and material B2B integration projects into a fixed, predictable cost, delivering:
HARD DOLLAR SAVINGS
Outsourcing to Crossgate can help your company improve its balance sheet by avoiding the costs of new and redundant applications, staff, and EDI translators. There’s no software maintenance, hardware costs, or out of control integration projects. You just connect to us once, and we take care of the rest.
OPERATIONAL SAVINGS
Manually processing a business partner transaction is much more cost-intensive than processing that same transaction electronically, and the costs spin out of control when extra IT and business staff is needed to deal with exceptions. Crossgate’s B2B enablement lets you easily scale to address new partners, exchange orders faster, deliver products more quickly and accurately, and increase efficiency—and revenue.
ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY
Accelerating trading partner enablement is key to reducing costs and improving organizational agility. It’s costly to integrate and test mappings in-house; taking around 37 days to enable a partner. Outsourcing with Crossgate lets you accelerate that enablement, more importantly, all at a fixed, predictable cost.