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IDC Opinion - SAP & Crossgate (140.74 kb)

This is one of a series of IDC Customer Needs and Strategies studies that examine how customers are using business-to-business integration software and services. In this case, we discuss Crossgate’s software-as-a-service offering, align Crossgate customer purchases with overall B2B purchasing trends, and highlight four customers and why they selected this vendor’s offeri

Crossgate Positioned in “Leaders” Quadrant in 2008 Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers.
June 25, 2008 – The world’s leading IT research and advisory company Gartner has positioned Crossgate in the latest report “Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers”.

16 October 2008
SAP Steps Into the Growing B2B Services Market Via Crossgate, Paolo Malinverno
“SAP has formalized and strengthened its alliance with Crossgate as it makes a decisive move into the business-to-business infrastructure market.”

Date: 11 October 2007
Crossgate Challenges B2B Market With Tight Alliance With SAP, Paolo Malinverno
"Crossgate has announced an alliance with SAP that has the potential to change the vendor dynamics in the business-to-business infrastructure market”

November 2008, Nari Viswanathan, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Supply Chain Management and Logistics

Enabling Multi-Enterprise SCM: SAP Invests in Crossgate

In a move that has long term implications, SAP AG announced an investment in Crossgate AG (a provider of hosted business-business integration services).  Why has SAP done this?  What is the solution that Crossgate provides that is appealing to SAP?  What does this mean to SAP, it customers and Crossgate?  These questions will be covered in this Market Alert.

November 02, 2008
Chief Research Officer Bruce Richardson, AMR Research
A few weeks ago SAP made a minority investment in Crossgate AG, a top provider of hosted B2B integration services. The company has more than 40,000 customers running on the Crossgate Business-Ready Network. http://blogs.amrresearch.com/enterprisesoftware/2008/11/epicor-3q-sap-at-a-crossroads.html