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Crossgate AG 
Type Aktiengesellschaft Industry B2B integration, B2B transaction network, automation of business process, supply chain management, e-Invoicing, Industry-specific knowledge (automotive, trade, consumer products, technology, pharmaceutical, chemical, process industry) Founded Starnberg, Germany (2001) Headquarters Munich, Germany Key people Stefan Tittel, Founder and CEO Employees 200 (Estimated, October 2009) Website www.crossgate.com Crossgate AG is a multinational company which has developed a unique network approach to B2B transactions allowing for data to be transferred regardless of EDI system or EDI map [1]. Crossgate's network approach is revolutionary enough to attract a partnership and investment from SAP AG [2].
The company is headquartered in Munich, Germany with field offices in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Waldbronn, Cologne, and Walldorf. As well as the four sites in Germany, Crossgate is represented with subsidiary branches in Atlanta (Crossgate, Inc.), London (Crossgate UK Ltd), Milan (Crossgate Italia S.p.A.) and Paris (Crossgate s.a.r.l.). Crossgate AG operates as a subsidiary of Otto Wolff von Amerongen Group. Stefan Tittel is the founder and CEO.
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History
Crossgate AG was founded as indatex SCI GmbH in 2001 by Stefan Tittel. In 2006 indatex SCI GmbH changed its name to Crossgate AG [3]. That same year, Dietmar Hopp[4], founder and major shareholder of SAP AG became financially involved and Crossgate's operations were expanded.
On 14 October 2008, SAP AG announced at SAP TechED 2008 Berlin.[2] that it has made a strategic investment by taking a minority stake in Crossgate, a business-to-business (B2B) integration service provider. This follows several deployments of Crossgate’s B2B 360° Services, which utilizes SAP to enable mulltienterprise B2B integration (which SAP calls "business network transformation"), one of the fundamental points of SAP's future strategy[5]. Financial details have not been disclosed but a SAP Executive Board Member has joined the Crossgate Supervisory Board.
Business and Services
Business-Ready Network
Crossgate offers the world's first Business-Ready Network that supports standards-based and custom EDI and B2B, 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° Services, powered by SAP [6], provide clients direct access to all integrated business partners in the B2B transaction network via their SAP systems.
The beauty of the network approach is its "one to one" ratio versus traditional "one to many" architecture. This makes changing, upgrading or expanding a company's B2B infrastructure much easier because they would only need to unplug from the network and then plug back in after the changes are completed. Since the Crossgate network isn't map or language dependent, expanding into foreign or emerging markets and connecting to their systems is as easy as connecting to the network.
e-Invoicing
With its legally compliant e-Invoicing (electronic billing) 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.
SAP
B2B 360 Services powered by SAP provide fixed-cost service extensions to help customers simplify trading partner integration with SAP Business Suite and other SAP applications.
Crossgate AG has developed a set of core service extensions for SAP Business Suite applications including SAP ERP and SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) as well as for SAP Business All-in-One solutions. In order to simplify business network enablement, Crossgate has pre-packaged B2B 360 Services powered by SAP software for specific business processes, industries and SAP applications. The joint collaboration by Crossgate AG and SAP AG, provides a set of core service extensions to streamline and reduce the cost of enabling end-to-end business processes, such as order-to-cash and procure-to-pay.
The main shareholders of Crossgate AG are the SAP founder's family Dietmar Hopp, Otto Wolff von Amerongen and the Al-Jomaih Investment Group [7].
Acquisitions
March 2, 2010 SAP Finally Makes a Decisive Move in the B2B Market [8]
On 7 November 2006, Crossgate announced that it has acquired a majority interest in B&N Software [9], a developer of software components to support mulitenterprise process integration including M@gic EDDY.
Video
SAP Investment - "Crossgate CEO Stefan Tittel and SAP CEO Léo Apotheker" SAP TechEd 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhpEfq0c2cw
References
- ^ "New EDI Approach for SAP NetWeaver Process Integration Users". Kevin Benedict. http://b2b-bpo.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-edi-approach-for-sap-netweaver.html. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
- ^ a b "SAP Facilitates Business Network Transformation to Help Businesses Compete and Thrive in a Changing Global Economy". SAP. http://www.sap.com/about/newsroom/press.epx?pressid=10251. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
- ^ "indatex becomes CROSSGATE". Crossgate. http://www.crossgate.com/about-crossgate/press-item/article/indatex-becomes-crossgate/. Retrieved 2006-05-12.
- ^ "The Hopp family: a new investor in indatex". Crossgate. http://www.crossgate.com/about-crossgate/press-item/article/the-hopp-family-a-new-investor-in-indatex/. Retrieved 2006-04-07.
- ^ "SAP Steps Into the Growing B2B Services Market Via Crossgate". Gartner. http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=778914. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
- ^ "Crossgate Challenges B2B Market With Tight Alliance With SAP". Gartner. http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=531007. Retrieved 2006-10-11.
- ^ "New Strategic Investor for EDI Specialist Crossgate (formerly indatex SCI)". Crossgate AG. http://www.crossgate.com/about-crossgate/press-item/article/new-strategic-investor-for-edi-specialist-crossgate-formerly-indatex-sci/. Retrieved 2006-10-04.
- ^ "SAP Finally Makes a Decisive Move in the B2B Market". Gartner. http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=1311333. Retrieved 2010-03-02.
- ^ "Crossgate Acquires B&N Software to Ride European B2B Growth". Gartner. http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=498498. Retrieved 2006-11-14.
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