STARNBERG, Germany, June 25 GA-Crossgate-Leaders
STARNBERG, Germany, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 cooperation with SAP AG, especially in terms of recognition,
visibility and international focus.
Gartner positioned Crossgate in the Leaders Quadrant in the "Magic
Quadrant for Integration Service Providers"(1) published at the end of May.
Gartner evaluated both North American and European service providers for
this report, 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 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."(2) 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 partners, 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 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 technical capability. In addition, Crossgate's
B2B-360 Degree 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 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 represented at four sites in
Germany, with subsidiary branches in Atlanta, London, Milan.
Contact:
Crossgate, Inc, Steve Sprague
Steve.sprague@crossgate.com
Tel: 888-422-2360
Fax: 678-348-7444
www.crossgate.com
Crossgate UK Limited, Rakesh Harji
rakesh.harji@crossgategroup.com
Tel: +44 (0) 208-622-3098
Fax: +44 (0) 208-622-3599
www.crossgategroup.com
1 Gartner Research, Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers,
Publication Date: 28 May 2008/ID Number: G00157093
2 Gartner Research, Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers,
Publication Date: 28 May 2008/ID Number: G00157093
SOURCE Crossgate, Inc
