Benoit
Lheureux’s Guide to Selected Gartner Research on Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB)
and B2B Integration
Updated January 2012 Also
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Gartner clients should not have to “re-search” my research. I created
this guide for our clients to make it easier for you to easily navigate to and browse
abstracts of my research on CSB and B2B integration for Cloud services and ecommerce.
Browse research categorized by…
- Cloud Services Brokerage e.g.,
Value-added intermediaries for Cloud services
- Cloud Services Integration e.g.,
Strategies for Successful Cloud / SaaS Integration
- Date sorted by when the research was published
- Decision Frameworks e.g.,
MQ’s, Toolkits, Q&A’s
- Essential Top 10 the 10
pieces of research that every client doing B2B must read
- Integration
Brokerage managed B2B or EDI (formerly B2B Integration
Outsourcing)
- Title sorted by title of the research note
- Trends e.g., Gartner Predicts and Hype Cycles
- Vendor sorted by vendor name, e.g., Boomi or
- Vendor sorted by date, e.g., Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 2008
- Web / SOA B2B
research that addresses Web Services and SOA
In each list clicking on a research note title will link you directly to
the research abstract. To view the full research note simply click on the
research abstract title, or login to
Gartner.com and search on the document id, e.g., G00172249. Note: if the research note is “archived” –
typically if 2+ years old – then you must first check “Include Archived
Research” prior to searching on the document id.
Finally, let me know if you have any problems
using this research index and whether it made it easier to find what you needed from my research.
Benoit
Lheureux
Research VP, Gartner
Application Development, Integration and Web Technologies
benoit.lheureux@gartner.com
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave – Sir William Drummond
Research Sorted
by Date … Back to Top
·
Essential
Provider Selection Criteria to Use When Outsourcing the CSB Role –
January, 2012 (G00230681) à CSB
evaluation criteria to help you choose a suitable CSB provider
·
Cloud
Services Brokerage Proliferates – December, 2011 (G00226656) à This
Article Top View briefly introduces and links to all CSB research notes in 2011
CSB Special Report
·
Emerging
Services Analysis: Communications Service Providers as Cloud Services Brokers –
November, 2011 (G00217464) à How Telco’s can exploit Cloud Services Brokerage
·
Cloud
Services Brokerage Is Dominated by Three Primary Roles –
November, 2011 (G00226509) à Updated formal definition of cloud services
brokerage.
·
Predicts
2012: Cloud Services Brokerage Will Bring New Benefits and Planning Challenges –
November, 2011 (G00227370) à CSB predictions on adoption, evolution over next
5 years.
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
How to
Determine When to Use a Cloud Services Brokerage –
November 17th, 2011 (G00226112) à A decision framework for choosing when (or not)
to use CSB
·
How to
Evaluate Process Agility and Visibility in Cloud Business Process Services –
November, 2011 (G00219693) à What role does BPM have in CSB and Cloud
processes?
·
Predicts
2012: Application Integration Will Increase in Scope and Complexity –
November 10th, 2011 (G00226113) à Application integration predictions for the next
5 years.
·
The Role
of CSB in the Cloud Services Value Chain – October 4th, 2011
(G00218960) à How will
Cloud computing impact the $850m+ IT services industry?
·
Toolkit:
RFP Template for Integration Brokerage – August 18th, 2011 (G00215981) à An RFP
toolkit to help select a suitable vendor for B2B / EDI / Cloud integration
projects.
·
Case
Study: Mohawk Fine Papers Uses a CSB to Ease Adoption of Cloud Computing – July,
2011 (G00214537) à Mohawk
outsources ALL integration; focuses on process innovation.
·
Mobile and
Context-Aware Branches Grow From Public Web APIs – June,
2011 (G00213866) à
Successful Web API strategies need commercial and technical approaches.
·
Case
Study: Men's Wearhouse Finds StrikeIron's CSB Suits Its Customers – June,
2011 (G00213896) à Providers
in cloud services brokerage role can simplify cloud computing.
·
How a
Canonical Messaging Approach Can Help You Simplify and Reduce Interface Assets – May,
2011 (G00213216) à The how,
why and when of a canonical approach to integration.
·
Liaison
Technologies Continues to Widen Its B2B Portfolio With nuBridges Acquisition – April,
2011 (G00212650) à Liaison
continues to add B2B functionality and grow its network.
·
Cool
Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerage, 2011 – April, 2011 (G00212316) à A closer
look at some early adopters of the cloud services brokerage role.
·
GXS Gets Social With
RollStream Acquisition – April, 2011 (G00212381) à Our
analysis of the impact of this acquisition on GXS, its customers and the B2B
ecommerce market.
·
Taxonomy,
Definitions and the Vendor Landscape for Application Integration Solutions,
2011 – March, 2011 (G00211539) à We enumerate, define and list vendors for all AI
solutions.
·
The Pros and Cons of Seeking a Single Source for
Your Application Integration Solutions – March, 2011 (G00211608) à How to
choose between 1 – or several – integration solutions
·
Gartner
2011 Research Outlook for Application Integration – March, 2011
(G00211158) à Outlines
our 2011 research agenda for A2A and B2B application integration
·
Integration
Platform as a Service: Moving Integration to the Cloud – March,
2011 (G00210747 ) à Redefine
“Integration as a Service” as “Integration Platform as a Service”
·
Market
Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2010-2015, 1Q11
Update – February, 2011 (G00210355) à 5-yr forecast of things like Integration
Brokerage
·
Integration
Brokerage Provides Facilitated Intermediation for B2B E-Commerce and Cloud
Services Brokerage – January, 2011 (G00210460) à A new
form of B2B managed services
·
Ariba
Enters Into an Agreement to Acquire Quadrem – December, 2011 (G00209631)
à What
impact will Ariba’s acquisition of Quadrem have on the B2B market?
·
Examining
the Embedded Multienterprise Integration Market –
November, 2011 (G00207471) à In this research we introduce, define and
forecast the embedded integration market.
·
Predicts
2011: Application Integration: A Nimble Veteran of IT –
November, 2011 (G002091657) à Our annual roll-up of predictions regarding
application integration
·
Dell Must
Take Decisive Action to Fully Leverage the Boomi Acquisition – November 9th,
2010 (G00208939) à Boomi is
a Cloud integration specialist and CSB; How will Dell use it?
·
Cloud
Services Brokerages: The Dawn of the Next Intermediation Age –
November 5th, 2010 (G00208731) à Introduction to the ten research notes in the CSB
Special Report
·
The Delicate Side of Cloud
Services Brokerages: Governance – November 4th, 2010 (G00208451) à Here we
evaluate the role of governance technologies in CSB
·
Key Issues
for Cloud Services Brokerages, 2011 – November 3rd, 2010 (G00208712) à We
outline Gartner’s research agenda around the topic of Cloud services brokerage
·
Cloud Service Brokerages
Create a New Role for Integration Service Providers –
November 1st, 2010 (G00208700) à EDI VANs became Integration Service Providers;
Now – CSBs
·
Cloud
Services Brokerages Will Enable Business Process Utilities to Deliver
Off-the-Shelf Processes – October, 27th, 2010 (G00208045) à How CSBs
will enable Cloud-sourced BPO
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
A Logical
Reference Model for Cloud Services Brokerage – October 13th, 2010
(G00206188) à A
taxonomy of the enabling technology, functional capabilities and types of CSBs
·
Cloud
Interoperability Can Be Brokered – October 8th, 2010 (G00206169) à This
research explores the challenges of Cloud services interoperability, and the role
of CSB to address it
·
Defining Cloud Services
Brokerage: Taking Intermediation to the Next Level –
October, 8th, 2010 (G00206187) à Here we formally define the “Cloud services
brokerage” IT role.
·
Context
and the Cloud: How to Create Context Brokers Using the Cloud Services Brokerage
Framework – September 9th, 2010 (G00205897) à CSB relationship to Context Computing
·
Ariba and
Hubspan Partner to Scale Up Integration in the Cloud – August
18th, 2010 (G00205763) à Impact
analysis of the Ariba / Hubspan alliance on users and market
·
Market
Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2009-2014 – July
14th, 2010 (G00200571) à Our
five-year spend forecast for B2B integration software and services
·
IBM Makes
a Big B2B Play With Strategic Potential as It Acquires Sterling Commerce – July
12th, 2010 (G00205106) à We assess
the impact of this on IT users and the B2B market
·
Ipswitch
Buys MessageWay to Expand Beyond MFT Solutions – June
18th, 2010 (G00201680) à What does
this acquisition mean to users and the B2B market?
·
Gartner
2010 Research Outlook on Managed File Transfer – June
11th, 2010 (G00175726) à This
research lays out Gartner’s MFT scenario and MFT research plan
·
Forecast:
Public Cloud Services, Worldwide and Regions, Industry Sectors, 2009-2014 – June
2nd, 2010 (G00200833) à Includes
integration as a service for Cloud services projects
·
IBM Adds Comprehensive
Cloud Service Integration to WebSphere via Cast Iron Acquisition – May
25th, 2010 (G00200793) à What
impact will this have on IBM’s Cloud strategy?
·
Gartner
2010 Research Outlook on A2A Integration – May 17th, 2010 (G00175691)
à Our
formal definition of the Gartner A2A research plan for 2010 (includes
intermingled B2B)
·
SWOT: Axway, Application
Infrastructure and Middleware, Worldwide – April 23rd, 2010
(G00173114) à Our
team’s SWOT analysis of Axway
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 2 – April 14th, 2010
(G00175718) à We
evaluate more providers of solutions for Cloud services integration.
·
Cool
Vendors in Multienterprise B2B, 2010 – April 12th, 2010 (G00175294) à We
evaluate some “cool” IT vendors with diverse, innovative approaches to B2B
integration problems
·
Tibco Software's
Purchase of Foresight Provides Opportunity to Strengthen B2B Integration
Offerings – March 26th, 2010 (G00174125)
·
Key Issues
for Application Integration, 2010 – March 22nd, 2010 (G00175506) à What are
the top 8 Key Issues IT users facing regarding application integration in 2010?
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à Definitions
and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
SPS
Commerce Will Wield Its IPO Like a Sword, But Not Lethally, in the Battle for
B2B – February 19th, 2010 (G00174477) à Will SPS’ move be incremental – or disruptive?
·
GXS/Inovis
Merger Is Likely Precursor to an Initial Public Offering –
February 2nd, 2010 (G00174106) à Love ‘em or hate ‘em, what GXS does matters to
the B2B market
·
Liaison
Buys Advanced Data Exchange to Expand B2B Portfolio – January
14th, 2010 (G00173904) à Is this a
trivial commercial transaction, or part of a larger strategy?
·
Knitting
Clouds Together: How Integration as a Service Enables B2B Integration
Outsourcing – January 4th, 2010 (G00173186) à Can Cloud computing (IaaS) enrich IT outsourcing?
·
GXS/Inovis
Merger Will Change the B2B Landscape – December 15th, 2009 (G00173515) à How will
the GXS / Inovis impact the highly evolving B2B integration market segment?
·
Predicts
2010: Application Infrastructure for Cloud Computing –
November 30, 2009 (G00172072) à Predictions on IaaS, Cloud Computing and Cloud
Service Brokerages
·
Oracle and
E2open Deploy BPN to Simplify B2B for Global Transport Processes –
November 25, 2009 (G00172716) à
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
Predicts
2010: Business Process Management Will Expand Beyond Traditional Boundaries –
November 19th, 2009 (G00172856) à Includes my prediction on increasing BPN adoption
·
Business
Process Networks Offer Solutions for Collaborative Multienterprise Process
Integration – September 21st, 2009 (G00171214) à Definition of “BPNs”
·
Search
Analytics Trends: B2B Integration – August 26th, 2009 (G00169874) à How do
Gartner clients search for B2B integration-related topics on Gartner.com?
·
Five Key
Questions to Ask Your Integration Service Provider to Help Manage Risk –
September 3rd, 2009 (G00170783) à Don’t sign that ISP contact before you ask these
Q’s!
·
Integration
Service Providers Magic Quadrant Evaluation Criteria – August
7th, 2009 (G00170067) à
High-level integration service provider evaluation criteria and weightings
·
GXS and
RollStream Will Help Lower the Cost of Running Large B2B Communities – July
31st, 2009 (G00169590) à The value
of collaboration applied to large-scale B2B projects
·
Evaluating
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Application Infrastructure Strategies for
Integration Projects – July 31st, 2009 (G00169490) à Analysis
of their A2A & B2B strategies
·
Hype Cycle
for Governance, Risk and Compliance Technologies, 2009 – July
17th, 2009 (G00168610) à Contains
Technology Profile on Cloud Services Governance
·
How to
Evaluate Your Vendors' Application Infrastructure Strategy – June
1st, 2009 (G00168377) à We define
the rating criteria for assessing vendor’s application infrastructure
·
Case
Study: Fulcrum Biometrics Thrives on Packaged Integration for salesforce.com
and QuickBooks – May 29th, 2009 (G00168352) à Cloud
computing / SaaS integration example
·
IBM and
Hubspan Deploy IaaS-Based Platform for B2B Project Outsourcing – May
20th, 2009 (G00168096) à Analysis
of new joint IBM / Hubspan Webspan offering
·
Three
Types of Cloud Brokerages Will Enhance Cloud Services – May
11th, 2009 (G00164265) à Here we
enumerate and define three types of CSBs
·
Google App Engine Comes Closer to Enterprise Adoption – May 4th, 2009
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 1 – April 19th, 2009
·
Liaison
Deal Drives A2A and B2B Project Convergence – March 24th, 2009
·
Taxonomy
and Definitions for the Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market – March
4th, 2009
·
Forecast:
Sizing the Cloud; Understanding the Opportunities in Cloud Services – March
18th, 2009
·
Cool
Vendors in Platform and Integration Middleware, 2009 – March
17th, 2009
·
Key Issues
for Cloud-Enabled Application Infrastructure, 2009 – March
17th, 2009
·
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B Integration, 2009 – February 4th, 2009
·
What's
Between You and the Cloud? – January 22, 2009 (G00163985)
·
Findings:
A 'Rule of Thumb' Decision Framework for Sourcing IT Solutions for B2B Projects – January
20, 2009
·
Predicts 2009: Platforms and
Integration Middleware Move into the Cloud – December 23, 2008
·
Q&A: Hot Questions for
Multienterprise (B2B) Integration – December 18, 2008
·
Hot
Questions About SOA From Asia – November 19, 2008
·
Seeding
the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption – October
1, 2008
·
SaaS
Integration: How to Choose the Best Approach – October 1, 2008
·
Toolkit:
Request for Proposal for B2B Gateway Software – August 26, 2008
·
The Four
Styles of Process Execution in Multienterprise Scenarios – August
14, 2008
·
Boomi's
SaaS Integration Services Strategy Gets a Boost – July 8,
2008
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
·
Market Update
for Business-to-Business Gateway Software Vendors – May 15,
2008
·
Market
Update for Integration Service Providers – May 15, 2008
·
Key Issues
for Cloud-Enabled Application Infrastructure, 2008 – April
12, 2008
·
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B Integration, 2008 – March 11, 2008
·
Market
Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2008 – March
10, 2008
·
Findings:
Ownership of Processes Distinguishes Internal BPP From Multienterprise BPP –
February 8, 2008
·
Axway and Atos Origin Unite
to Offer B2B Integration Services – January 18, 2008
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
The
Emergence of the Multienterprise Business Process Platform –
November 27, 2007
·
Hot Questions for
Multienterprise (B2B) Integration – November 21, 2007
·
Inovis
Expands Its Portfolio of Multienterprise Applications –
November 6, 2007
·
Crossgate
Challenges B2B Market With Tight Alliance With SAP – October 11, 2007
·
Cape Clear
Updates ESB to Enable Integration as a Service – October 5, 2007
·
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B, 2007 –
September 14, 2007
·
Microsoft,
Verizon and Other Vendors Drive IaaS Maturity – September 10, 2007
·
Strategies
for Successful Multienterprise SaaS Integration – August 31, 2007
·
Inovis
Stakes a Claim in B2B Market – August
10, 2007
·
Outages
Tarnish Reputation of GXS's Trading Grid – July 25, 2007
·
Spider Diagram Ratings Highlight
Strengths and Challenges of Vendors in the B2B Infrastructure Market – July 23, 2007
·
Hype Cycle Plots for Multi-Enterprise (B2B)
Integration – July
2007
·
Think Twice About Migrating From
Sterling Commerce's Gentran:Server to Gentran Integration Suite – June 26
·
Taxonomy and Definitions for the
Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market – April 9, 2007
·
Software AG Aims for SOA Leadership
With webMethods Deal
– April 9, 2007
·
Sterling Adds Comergent E-Business
Functions to Its Portfolio
– November 29, 2006
·
Multi-enterprise Integration Projects
Will Proliferate and Innovate
– November 28, 2006
·
GXS's Udex Adds Product Data Quality to Supply Chain
Services – November
27, 2006
·
Crossgate Acquires B&N Software to
Ride European B2B Growth – November 14, 2006
·
Predicts 2007: Software as a Service
Provides a Viable Delivery Model – November 13, 2006
·
Deal With StrikeIron Extends BEA's
Data Services Platform
– September 26, 2006
·
SaaS Delivery Challenges On-Premise
Software – September
26, 2006
·
Take a Portfolio Approach to Your
Multienterprise Integration Strategy
– September 6, 2006
·
Additional Vendors in Supply Chain
Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06
– July 20, 2006
·
Who's Who in Supply Chain Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – July 20, 2006
·
Hype Cycle for Application Integration and Platform
Middleware, 2006 –
July 13, 2006
·
Hype Cycle for Web Technologies, 2006 – July 7, 2006
·
Microsoft, GXS and Covast Will
Automate E-Commerce Integration
– 9 June 2006
·
nuBridges Could Give Many AS2 Users a Second Chance – 31 May 2006
·
BT Launches Innovative SOA-Based Managed Integration
Service – 3 May 2006
·
Defining a Multienterprise Application
Architecture for Supply Chain Management – 26 April 2006
·
Evaluating SaaS Providers: Questions
to Ask Potential SaaS Providers
– 18 April 2006
·
Cool Vendors in B2B Integration and
Managed File Transfer, 2006
– 16 March 2006
·
A Tectonic Shift in the Business Process Center of
Gravity – 13 March
2006
·
IBM's Viacore Acquisition Will
Incrementally Benefit Outsourcing Customers – 3 March 2006
·
SPS Commerce Consolidates SMB-Focused
Hosted Integration –
3 March 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway
Providers, 1Q06 – 22
February 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
Grand Central's Demise Does Not Indict
B2B Web Services – 30
November 2005
·
Questions to Ask Your Integration
Service Provider – 21
November 2005
·
Predicts 2006: The Evolution of
Integration – 7
November 2005
·
Predicts 2006: Web Services Continue
to Mature – 7
November 2005
·
Vendor Rating – GXS – 17 October 2005
·
The Status of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
·
Answer Three Questions Before
Undertaking a Migration From Connect:Direct – 15 September 2005
·
European B2B Vendors Deliver Mature
Products – 3 August
2005
·
Microsoft Abandons MBN: A Wise
Strategy With Near-Term Challenges
– 13 June 2005
·
GXS’ Leaky Roof Exposes the Importance of High
Availability – 13 May
2005
·
When to Use (or Not to Use) an Integration Service
Provider – 15 April
2005
·
Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway
Providers, 2Q05 – 15
April 2005
·
Managed File Transfer Suites:
Technology Overview —
8 April 2005
·
Cool Vendors in Application
Integration, 2005 —
30 March 2005
·
GXS and webMethods' Partnership Acknowledges Hybrid B2B Projects 16 March 2005
·
Adapter Suites Bridge Gaps in
Integration Projects
7 January 2005
·
Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers, 4Q04 11 November 2004
·
Integration Service Provider Magic
Quadrant Criteria 11
November 2004
·
MarketScope for Managed File Transfer
Suites, 4Q04 — 10 November
2004
·
Packaged Composite Applications:
Applications That Integrate
23 September 2004
·
Grand Central Sets a New Standard for
B2B Self-Provisioning
19 April 2004
·
Integration as a Service: Evolving
VANs Focus on Processes
1 April 2004
·
Vendor Rating: E2open Will Make Ends
Meet 4 March 2004
·
Packaged Integrating Processes
Accelerate Integration
14 October 2003
·
Packaged Integrating Processes Raise
Bar for Integration 7
October 2003
·
Business Strategy Drives B2B
Connectivity Choices
7 August 2003
·
B2B Application Integration Is
Typically Event-Oriented
8 July 2003
·
B2B Web Services Will Drive New VAN
Traffic 19 May 2003
·
BT to Drive Business-to-Business Web
Services Adoption 30
April 2003
·
B2B Application Integration: In-House
or Outsourced? 26
February 2003
·
Enterprise-to-Enterprise Architecture
for Virtual Enterprises
— 31 July, 2002
·
Grand Central: The First WSN-Managed
Service Provider — 24
July, 2002
·
How Adapters Can Help Integrate
Applications 13 May
2002
·
Digital Dial Tone Will Carry XML
Messaging and XML RPC
— 9 February 2000
·
Web + XML = E-Business' Digital Dial Tone — 3 December 1999
·
Microsoft Wants Businesses to Agree
With BizTalk — 9
August 1999
·
webMethods Bets on Internet-Based
Application Integration
— 12 February 1999
·
XML Takes an Active Role in Middleware — 2 February 1999
Integration
Brokerage … Back to Top
·
Cloud
Services Brokerage Is Dominated by Three Primary Roles –
November, 2011 (G00226509) à Updated formal definition of cloud services
brokerage.
·
Predicts
2012: Cloud Services Brokerage Will Bring New Benefits and Planning Challenges –
November, 2011 (G00227370) à CSB predictions on adoption, evolution over next
5 years.
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530)
·
How to
Determine When to Use a Cloud Services Brokerage –
November 17th, 2011 (G00226112) à A decision framework for choosing when (or not)
to use CSB
·
Predicts
2012: Application Integration Will Increase in Scope and Complexity –
November 10th, 2011 (G00226113) à Application integration predictions for the next
5 years.
·
The Role
of CSB in the Cloud Services Value Chain – October 4th, 2011
(G00218960) à How will
Cloud computing impact the $850m+ IT services industry?
·
Toolkit:
RFP Template for Integration Brokerage – August 18th, 2011 (G00215981) à An RFP
toolkit to help select a suitable vendor for B2B / EDI / Cloud integration
projects.
·
How a
Canonical Messaging Approach Can Help You Simplify and Reduce Interface Assets – May,
2011 (G00213216) à The how,
why and when of a canonical approach to integration
·
Taxonomy,
Definitions and the Vendor Landscape for Application Integration Solutions,
2011 – March, 2011 (G00211539) à We enumerate, define and list vendors for all AI
solutions
·
Integration
Platform as a Service: Moving Integration to the Cloud – March,
2011 (G00210747 ) à Redefine
“Integration as a Service” as “Integration Platform as a Service”
·
Market
Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2010-2015, 1Q11
Update – February, 2011 (G00210355) à 5-yr forecast of things like Integration
Brokerage
·
Integration
Brokerage Provides Facilitated Intermediation for B2B E-Commerce and Cloud
Services Brokerage – January, 2011 (G00210460) à A new
form of B2B managed services
·
Ariba
Enters Into an Agreement to Acquire Quadrem – December, 2011 (G00209631)
à What
impact will Ariba’s acquisition of Quadrem have on the B2B market?
·
Predicts
2011: Application Integration: A Nimble Veteran of IT –
November, 2011 (G002091657) à Our annual roll-up of predictions regarding
application integration
·
Cloud Service Brokerages
Create a New Role for Integration Service Providers –
November 1st, 2010 (G00208700) à EDI VANs became Integration Service Providers;
Now – CSBs
·
Ariba and
Hubspan Partner to Scale Up Integration in the Cloud – August
18th, 2010 (G00205763) à Impact
analysis of the Ariba / Hubspan alliance on users and market
·
Market
Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2009-2014 – July
14th, 2010 (G00200571) à Our
five-year spend forecast for B2B integration software and services
·
IBM Makes
a Big B2B Play With Strategic Potential as It Acquires Sterling Commerce – July
12th, 2010 (G00205106) à We assess
the impact of this on IT users and the B2B market
·
Forecast:
Public Cloud Services, Worldwide and Regions, Industry Sectors, 2009-2014 – June
2nd, 2010 (G00200833) à Includes
integration as a service for Cloud services projects
·
Cool
Vendors in Multienterprise B2B, 2010 – April 12th, 2010 (G00175294) à We
evaluate some “cool” IT vendors with diverse, innovative approaches to B2B
integration problems
·
SPS
Commerce Will Wield Its IPO Like a Sword, But Not Lethally, in the Battle for
B2B – February 19th, 2010 (G00174477) à Will SPS’ move be incremental – or disruptive?
·
GXS/Inovis
Merger Is Likely Precursor to an Initial Public Offering –
February 2nd, 2010 (G00174106) à Love ‘em or hate ‘em, what GXS does matters to
the B2B market
·
Liaison
Buys Advanced Data Exchange to Expand B2B Portfolio – January
14th, 2010 (G00173904) à Is this a
trivial commercial transaction, or part of a larger strategy?
·
Knitting
Clouds Together: How Integration as a Service Enables B2B Integration
Outsourcing – January 4th, 2010 (G00173186) à Can Cloud computing (IaaS) enrich IT outsourcing?
·
GXS/Inovis
Merger Will Change the B2B Landscape – December 15th, 2009 (G00173515) à How will
the GXS / Inovis impact the highly evolving B2B integration market segment?
·
Oracle and
E2open Deploy BPN to Simplify B2B for Global Transport Processes –
November 25, 2009 (G00172716) à Alliance to deliver pre-built e-logistics
business process network
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
Predicts
2010: Business Process Management Will Expand Beyond Traditional Boundaries –
November 19th, 2009 (G00172856) à Includes my prediction on increasing BPN adoption
·
Business
Process Networks Offer Solutions for Collaborative Multienterprise Process
Integration – September 21st, 2009 (G00171214) à Definition of “BPNs”
·
Five Key
Questions to Ask Your Integration Service Provider to Help Manage Risk –
September 3rd, 2009 (G00170783) à Don’t sign that ISP contact before you ask these
Q’s!
·
Integration
Service Providers Magic Quadrant Evaluation Criteria – August
7th, 2009 (G00170067) à
High-level integration service provider evaluation criteria and weightings
·
GXS and
RollStream Will Help Lower the Cost of Running Large B2B Communities – July
31st, 2009 (G00169590) à The value
of collaboration applied to large-scale B2B projects
·
IBM and
Hubspan Deploy IaaS-Based Platform for B2B Project Outsourcing – May
20th, 2009 (G00168096) à Analysis
of new joint IBM / Hubspan Webspan offering
·
Liaison
Deal Drives A2A and B2B Project Convergence – March 24th, 2009
·
Taxonomy
and Definitions for the Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market – March
4th, 2009
·
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B Integration, 2009 – February 4th, 2009
·
Findings:
A 'Rule of Thumb' Decision Framework for Sourcing IT Solutions for B2B Projects – January
20, 2009
·
Q&A: Hot Questions for
Multienterprise (B2B) Integration – December 18, 2008
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
·
Market
Update for Integration Service Providers – May 15, 2008
·
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B Integration, 2008 – March 11, 2008
·
Market
Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2008 – March
10, 2008
·
Findings:
Ownership of Processes Distinguishes Internal BPP From Multienterprise BPP –
February 8, 2008
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
The
Emergence of the Multienterprise Business Process Platform –
November 27, 2007
·
Hot Questions for
Multienterprise (B2B) Integration – November 21, 2007
·
Inovis
Expands Its Portfolio of Multienterprise Applications –
November 6, 2007
·
Crossgate
Challenges B2B Market With Tight Alliance With SAP – October 11, 2007
·
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B, 2007 –
September 14, 2007
·
Inovis
Stakes a Claim in B2B Market – August
10, 2007
·
Outages
Tarnish Reputation of GXS's Trading Grid – July 25, 2007
·
Spider Diagram Ratings Highlight
Strengths and Challenges of Vendors in the B2B Infrastructure Market – July 23, 2007
·
Hype Cycle Plots for Multi-Enterprise (B2B)
Integration – July
2007
·
Taxonomy and Definitions for the
Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market – April 9, 2007
·
Multi-enterprise Integration Projects
Will Proliferate and Innovate
– November 28, 2006
·
GXS's Udex Adds Product Data Quality to Supply Chain
Services – November
27, 2006
·
Crossgate Acquires B&N Software to
Ride European B2B Growth – November 14, 2006
·
Additional Vendors in Supply Chain
Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06
– July 20, 2006
·
Who's Who in Supply Chain Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – July 20, 2006
·
Microsoft, GXS and Covast Will
Automate E-Commerce Integration
– 9 June 2006
·
nuBridges Could Give Many AS2 Users a Second Chance – 31 May 2006
·
BT Launches Innovative SOA-Based Managed Integration Service – 3 May 2006
·
Defining a Multienterprise Application
Architecture for Supply Chain Management – 26 April 2006
·
A Tectonic Shift in the Business Process Center of
Gravity – 13 March
2006
·
IBM's Viacore Acquisition Will
Incrementally Benefit Outsourcing Customers – 3 March 2006
·
SPS Commerce Consolidates SMB-Focused
Hosted Integration –
3 March 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
Questions to Ask Your Integration
Service Provider – 21
November 2005
·
Vendor Rating – GXS – 17 October 2005
·
The Status of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
·
European B2B Vendors Deliver Mature
Products – 3 August
2005
·
Microsoft Abandons MBN: A Wise
Strategy With Near-Term Challenges
– 13 June 2005
·
GXS’ Leaky Roof Exposes the Importance of High
Availability – 13 May
2005
·
When to Use (or Not to Use) an Integration Service
Provider – 15 April
2005
·
GXS and webMethods' Partnership Acknowledges Hybrid B2B
Projects 16 March
2005
·
Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers, 4Q04 11 November 2004
·
Integration Service Provider Magic
Quadrant Criteria 11
November 2004
·
Grand Central Sets a New Standard for
B2B Self-Provisioning
19 April 2004
·
Integration as a Service: Evolving
VANs Focus on Processes
1 April 2004
·
Vendor Rating: E2open Will Make Ends
Meet 4 March 2004
·
Business Strategy Drives B2B
Connectivity Choices
7 August 2003
·
B2B Web Services Will Drive New VAN
Traffic 19 May 2003
·
BT to Drive Business-to-Business Web
Services Adoption 30
April 2003
·
B2B Application Integration: In-House
or Outsourced? 26
February 2003
·
Grand Central: The First WSN-Managed
Service Provider — 24
July, 2002
Research Sorted
by Title … Back to Top
·
A Logical
Reference Model for Cloud Services Brokerage – October 13th, 2010
(G00206188) à A
taxonomy of the enabling technology, functional capabilities and types of CSBs
·
A Tectonic Shift in the Business Process Center of
Gravity – 13 March
2006
·
Adapter Suites Bridge Gaps in
Integration Projects
7 January 2005
·
Additional Vendors in Supply Chain
Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06
– July 20, 2006
·
Answer Three Questions Before
Undertaking a Migration From Connect:Direct – 15 September 2005
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
Ariba and
Hubspan Partner to Scale Up Integration in the Cloud – August
18th, 2010 (G00205763) à Impact
analysis of the Ariba / Hubspan alliance on users and market
·
Ariba
Enters Into an Agreement to Acquire Quadrem – December, 2011 (G00209631)
à What
impact will Ariba’s acquisition of Quadrem have on the B2B market?
·
Axway and Atos Origin Unite
to Offer B2B Integration Services – January 18, 2008
·
B2B Application Integration Is Typically
Event-Oriented 8 July
2003
·
B2B Application Integration: In-House
or Outsourced? 26
February 2003
·
B2B Web Services Will Drive New VAN
Traffic 19 May 2003
·
Boomi's
SaaS Integration Services Strategy Gets a Boost – July 8,
2008
·
BT Launches Innovative SOA-Based Managed Integration
Service – 3 May 2006
·
BT to Drive Business-to-Business Web
Services Adoption 30
April 2003
·
Business
Process Networks Offer Solutions for Collaborative Multienterprise Process
Integration – September 21st, 2009 (G00171214) à Definition of “BPNs”
·
Business Strategy Drives B2B
Connectivity Choices
7 August 2003
·
Cape Clear
Updates ESB to Enable Integration as a Service – October 5, 2007
·
Case Study:
Fulcrum Biometrics Thrives on Packaged Integration for salesforce.com and
QuickBooks – May 29th, 2009 (G00168352) à Cloud computing / SaaS integration example
·
Case
Study: Men's Wearhouse Finds StrikeIron's CSB Suits Its Customers – June,
2011 (G00213896) à Providers
in cloud services brokerage role can simplify cloud computing
·
Cloud
Interoperability Can Be Brokered – October 8th, 2010 (G00206169) à This
research explores the challenges of Cloud services interoperability, and the role
of CSB to address it
·
Cloud Service Brokerages
Create a New Role for Integration Service Providers –
November 1st, 2010 (G00208700) à EDI VANs became Integration Service Providers;
Now – CSBs
·
Cloud
Services Brokerage Is Dominated by Three Primary Roles –
November, 2011 (G00226509) à Updated formal definition of cloud services
brokerage.
·
Cloud
Services Brokerage Proliferates – December, 2011 (G00226656) à This
Article Top View briefly introduces and links to all CSB research notes in 2011
CSB Special Report
·
Cloud
Services Brokerages: The Dawn of the Next Intermediation Age –
November 5th, 2010 (G00208731) à Introduction to the ten research notes in the CSB
Special Report
·
Cloud
Services Brokerages Will Enable Business Process Utilities to Deliver
Off-the-Shelf Processes – October, 27th, 2010 (G00208045) à How CSBs
will enable Cloud-sourced BPO
·
Context
and the Cloud: How to Create Context Brokers Using the Cloud Services Brokerage
Framework – September 9th, 2010 (G00205897) à CSB relationship to Context Computing
·
Cool Vendors in Application
Integration, 2005 —
30 March 2005
·
Cool Vendors in B2B Integration and
Managed File Transfer, 2006
– 16 March 2006
·
Cool
Vendors in Multienterprise B2B, 2010 – April 12th, 2010 (G00175294) à We
evaluate some “cool” IT vendors with diverse, innovative approaches to B2B
integration problems
·
Cool
Vendors in Platform and Integration Middleware, 2009 – March
17th, 2009
·
Crossgate Acquires B&N Software to
Ride European B2B Growth – November 14, 2006
·
Crossgate Challenges
B2B Market With Tight Alliance With SAP – October 11, 2007
·
Deal With StrikeIron Extends BEA's
Data Services Platform
– September 26, 2006
·
Defining a Multienterprise Application
Architecture for Supply Chain Management – 26 April 2006
·
Defining Cloud Services
Brokerage: Taking Intermediation to the Next Level –
October, 8th, 2010 (G00206187) à Here we formally define the “Cloud services
brokerage” IT role.
·
Dell Must
Take Decisive Action to Fully Leverage the Boomi Acquisition – November 9th,
2010 (G00208939) à Boomi is
a Cloud integration specialist and CSB; How will Dell use it?
·
Digital Dial Tone Will Carry XML
Messaging and XML RPC
— 9 February 2000
·
Emerging
Services Analysis: Communications Service Providers as Cloud Services Brokers –
November, 2011 (G00217464) à How Telco’s can exploit Cloud Services Brokerage
·
Enterprise-to-Enterprise Architecture
for Virtual Enterprises
— 31 July, 2002
·
Essential
Provider Selection Criteria to Use When Outsourcing the CSB Role –
January, 2012 (G00230681) à CSB
evaluation criteria to help you choose a suitable CSB provider
·
European B2B Vendors Deliver Mature
Products – 3 August
2005
·
Evaluating
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Application Infrastructure Strategies for
Integration Projects – July 31st, 2009 (G00169490) à Analysis
of their A2A & B2B strategies
·
Evaluating SaaS Providers: Questions
to Ask Potential SaaS Providers
– 18 April 2006
·
Findings:
A 'Rule of Thumb' Decision Framework for Sourcing IT Solutions for B2B Projects – January
20, 2009
·
Findings:
Ownership of Processes Distinguishes Internal BPP From Multienterprise BPP –
February 8, 2008
·
Five Key
Questions to Ask Your Integration Service Provider to Help Manage Risk –
September 3rd, 2009 (G00170783) à Don’t sign that ISP contact before you ask these
Q’s!
·
Forecast:
Public Cloud Services, Worldwide and Regions, Industry Sectors, 2009-2014 – June
2nd, 2010 (G00200833) à Includes
integration as a service for Cloud services projects
·
Forecast:
Sizing the Cloud; Understanding the Opportunities in Cloud Services – March
18th, 2009
·
Gartner
2010 Research Outlook on A2A Integration – May 17th, 2010 (G00175691)
à Our
formal definition of the Gartner A2A research plan for 2010 (includes
intermingled B2B)
·
Gartner
2010 Research Outlook on Managed File Transfer – June
11th, 2010 (G00175726) à This
research lays out Gartner’s MFT scenario and MFT research plan
·
Gartner
2011 Research Outlook for Application Integration – March, 2011
(G00211158) à Outlines
our 2011 research agenda for A2A and B2B application integration
·
Google App Engine Comes Closer to Enterprise
Adoption – May 4th,
2009
·
Grand Central's Demise Does Not Indict
B2B Web Services – 30
November 2005
·
Grand Central Sets a New Standard for
B2B Self-Provisioning
19 April 2004
·
Grand Central: The First WSN-Managed
Service Provider — 24
July, 2002
·
GXS/Inovis
Merger Is Likely Precursor to an Initial Public Offering –
February 2nd, 2010 (G00174106) à Love ‘em or hate ‘em, what GXS does matters to
the B2B market
·
GXS/Inovis
Merger Will Change the B2B Landscape – December 15th, 2009 (G00173515) à How will
the GXS / Inovis impact the highly evolving B2B integration market segment?
·
GXS's Udex Adds Product Data Quality to Supply Chain
Services – November
27, 2006
·
GXS and webMethods' Partnership Acknowledges Hybrid B2B Projects 16 March 2005
·
GXS Gets Social With
RollStream Acquisition – April, 2011 (G00212381) à Our
analysis of the impact of this acquisition on GXS, its customers and the B2B
ecommerce market.
·
GXS’ Leaky Roof Exposes the Importance of High
Availability – 13 May
2005
·
Hot Questions for Multienterprise
(B2B) Integration – November 21, 2007
·
How a
Canonical Messaging Approach Can Help You Simplify and Reduce Interface Assets – May,
2011 (G00213216) à The how,
why and when of a canonical approach to integration
·
How Adapters Can Help Integrate
Applications 13 May
2002
·
How to
Determine When to Use a Cloud Services Brokerage –
November 17th, 2011 (G00226112) à A decision framework for choosing when (or not)
to use CSB
·
How to
Evaluate Process Agility and Visibility in Cloud Business Process Services –
November, 2011 (G00219693) à What role does BPM have in CSB and Cloud
processes?
·
How to
Evaluate Your Vendors' Application Infrastructure Strategy – June
1st, 2009 (G00168377) à We define
the rating criteria for assessing vendor’s application infrastructure
·
Hype Cycle for Application Integration and Platform
Middleware, 2006 –
July 13, 2006
·
Hype Cycle for Web Technologies, 2006 – July 7, 2006
·
IBM Adds
Comprehensive Cloud Service Integration to WebSphere via Cast Iron Acquisition – May
25th, 2010 (G00200793) à What
impact will this have on IBM’s Cloud strategy?
·
IBM and
Hubspan Deploy IaaS-Based Platform for B2B Project Outsourcing – May
20th, 2009 (G00168096) à Analysis
of new joint IBM / Hubspan Webspan offering
·
IBM Makes
a Big B2B Play With Strategic Potential as It Acquires Sterling Commerce – July
12th, 2010 (G00205106) à We assess
the impact of this on IT users and the B2B market
·
IBM's Viacore Acquisition Will
Incrementally Benefit Outsourcing Customers – 3 March 2006
·
Inovis
Expands Its Portfolio of Multienterprise Applications –
November 6, 2007
·
Inovis
Stakes a Claim in B2B Market – August
10, 2007
·
Integration as a Service: Evolving
VANs Focus on Processes
1 April 2004
·
Integration
Platform as a Service: Moving Integration to the Cloud – March,
2011 (G00210747 ) à Redefine
“Integration as a Service” as “Integration Platform as a Service”
·
Integration
Service Providers Magic Quadrant Evaluation Criteria – August
7th, 2009 (G00170067) à
High-level integration service provider evaluation criteria and weightings
·
Integration Service Provider Magic
Quadrant Criteria 11
November 2004
·
Ipswitch
Buys MessageWay to Expand Beyond MFT Solutions – June
18th, 2010 (G00201680) à What does
this acquisition mean to users and the B2B market?
·
Key Issues
for Application Integration, 2010 – March 22nd, 2010 (G00175506) à What are
the top 8 Key Issues IT users facing regarding application integration in 2010?
·
Key Issues
for Cloud-Enabled Application Infrastructure, 2009 – March
17th, 2009
·
Key Issues
for Cloud Services Brokerages, 2011 – November 3rd, 2010 (G00208712) à We
outline Gartner’s research agenda around the topic of Cloud services brokerage
·
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B Integration, 2009 – February 4th, 2009
·
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B Integration, 2008 – March 11, 2008
·
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B, 2007 –
September 14, 2007
·
Knitting
Clouds Together: How Integration as a Service Enables B2B Integration
Outsourcing – January 4th, 2010 (G00173186) à Can Cloud computing (IaaS) enrich IT outsourcing?
·
Liaison
Buys Advanced Data Exchange to Expand B2B Portfolio – January
14th, 2010 (G00173904) à Is this a
trivial commercial transaction, or part of a larger strategy?
·
Liaison
Deal Drives A2A and B2B Project Convergence – March 24th, 2009
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway
Providers, 1Q06 – 22
February 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
·
Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers, 4Q04 11 November 2004
·
Managed File Transfer Suites:
Technology Overview —
8 April 2005
·
MarketScope for Managed File Transfer
Suites, 4Q04 — 10
November 2004
·
Market
Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2008 – March
10, 2008
·
Market
Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2009-2014 – July
14th, 2010 (G00200571) à Our
five-year spend forecast for B2B integration software and services
·
Market
Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2010-2015, 1Q11
Update – February, 2011 (G00210355) à 5-yr forecast of things like Integration
Brokerage
·
Market
Update for Business-to-Business Gateway Software Vendors – May 15,
2008
·
Market
Update for Integration Service Providers – May 15, 2008
·
Microsoft Abandons MBN: A Wise
Strategy With Near-Term Challenges
– 13 June 2005
·
Microsoft, GXS and Covast Will
Automate E-Commerce Integration
– 9 June 2006
·
Microsoft,
Verizon and Other Vendors Drive IaaS Maturity – September 10, 2007
·
Microsoft Wants Businesses to Agree
With BizTalk — 9
August 1999
·
Mobile and
Context-Aware Branches Grow From Public Web APIs – June,
2011 (G00213866) à
Successful Web API strategies need commercial and technical approaches
·
Multi-enterprise Integration Projects
Will Proliferate and Innovate
– November 28, 2006
·
nuBridges Could Give Many AS2 Users a Second Chance – 31 May 2006
·
Oracle and
E2open Deploy BPN to Simplify B2B for Global Transport Processes –
November 25, 2009 (G00172716) à
·
Outages
Tarnish Reputation of GXS's Trading Grid – July 25, 2007
·
Packaged Composite Applications:
Applications That Integrate
23 September 2004
·
Packaged Integrating Processes
Accelerate Integration
14 October 2003
·
Packaged Integrating Processes Raise
Bar for Integration 7
October 2003
·
Predicts 2006: The Evolution of
Integration – 7
November 2005
·
Predicts 2006: Web Services Continue
to Mature – 7
November 2005
·
Predicts 2007: Software as a Service
Provides a Viable Delivery Model – November 13, 2006
·
Predicts 2009: Platforms and
Integration Middleware Move into the Cloud – December 23, 2008
·
Predicts
2010: Application Infrastructure for Cloud Computing –
November 30, 2009 (G00172072) à Predictions on IaaS, Cloud Computing and Cloud
Service Brokerages
·
Predicts
2010: Business Process Management Will Expand Beyond Traditional Boundaries –
November 19th, 2009 (G00172856) à Includes my prediction on increasing BPN adoption
·
Predicts
2011: Application Integration: A Nimble Veteran of IT –
November, 2011 (G002091657) à Our annual roll-up of predictions regarding
application integration
·
Predicts
2012: Application Integration Will Increase in Scope and Complexity –
November 10th, 2011 (G00226113) à Application integration predictions for the next
5 years.
·
Predicts
2012: Cloud Services Brokerage Will Bring New Benefits and Planning Challenges –
November, 2011 (G00227370) à CSB predictions on adoption, evolution over next
5 years.
·
Q&A: Hot Questions for
Multienterprise (B2B) Integration – December 18, 2008
·
Questions to Ask Your Integration
Service Provider – 21
November 2005
·
SaaS Delivery Challenges On-Premise
Software – September
26, 2006
·
SaaS
Integration: How to Choose the Best Approach – October 1, 2008
·
Search
Analytics Trends: B2B Integration – August 26th, 2009 (G00169874) à How do
Gartner clients search for B2B integration-related topics on Gartner.com?
·
Seeding
the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption – October
1, 2008
·
Spider Diagram Ratings Highlight
Strengths and Challenges of Vendors in the B2B Infrastructure Market – July 23, 2007
·
Software AG Aims for SOA Leadership
With webMethods Deal
– April 9, 2007
·
SPS Commerce Consolidates SMB-Focused
Hosted Integration –
3 March 2006
·
SPS
Commerce Will Wield Its IPO Like a Sword, But Not Lethally, in the Battle for
B2B – February 19th, 2010 (G00174477) à Will SPS’ move be incremental – or disruptive?
·
Sterling Adds Comergent E-Business
Functions to Its Portfolio
– November 29, 2006
·
Strategies
for Successful Multienterprise SaaS Integration – August 31, 2007
·
Take a Portfolio Approach to Your
Multienterprise Integration Strategy
– September 6, 2006
·
Taxonomy
and Definitions for the Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market – March
4th, 2009
·
Taxonomy and Definitions for the
Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market – April 9, 2007
·
Taxonomy,
Definitions and the Vendor Landscape for Application Integration Solutions,
2011 – March, 2011 (G00211539) à We enumerate, define and list vendors for all AI
solutions
·
The Delicate Side of Cloud
Services Brokerages: Governance – November 4th, 2010 (G00208451) à Here we
evaluate the role of governance technologies in CSB
·
The
Emergence of the Multienterprise Business Process Platform –
November 27, 2007
·
The Four
Styles of Process Execution in Multienterprise Scenarios – August
14, 2008
·
The Pros and Cons of Seeking a Single Source for
Your Application Integration Solutions – March, 2011 (G00211608) à How to
choose between 1 – or several – integration solutions
·
The Role
of CSB in the Cloud Services Value Chain – October 4th, 2011
(G00218960) à How will
Cloud computing impact the $850m+ IT services industry?
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
The Status of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
·
Think Twice About Migrating From
Sterling Commerce's Gentran:Server to Gentran Integration Suite – June 26
·
Three
Types of Cloud Brokerages Will Enhance Cloud Services – May
11th, 2009 (G00164265) à Here we
enumerate and define three types of CSBs
·
Tibco
Software's Purchase of Foresight Provides Opportunity to Strengthen B2B
Integration Offerings – March 26th, 2010 (G00174125)
·
Toolkit:
Request for Proposal for B2B Gateway Software – August 26, 2008
·
Toolkit:
RFP Template for Integration Brokerage – August 18th, 2011 (G00215981) à An RFP
toolkit to help select a suitable vendor for B2B / EDI / Cloud integration
projects.
·
Vendor Rating: E2open Will Make Ends
Meet 4 March 2004
·
Vendor Rating – GXS – 17 October 2005
·
Web + XML = E-Business' Digital Dial Tone — 3 December 1999
·
webMethods Bets on Internet-Based
Application Integration
— 12 February 1999
·
What's
Between You and the Cloud? – January 22, 2009 (G00163985)
·
When to Use (or Not to Use) an Integration Service
Provider – 15 April
2005
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 1 – April 19th,
2009
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 2 – April 14th, 2010
(G00175718) à We
evaluate more providers of solutions for Cloud services integration.
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Who's Who in Supply Chain Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – July 20, 2006
·
XML Takes an Active Role in Middleware — 2 February 1999
Essential Top
10 Research Notes on B2B/CSB … Back to Top
1. Cloud Services Brokerage Is Dominated by Three
Primary Roles – November, 2011 (G00226509) à Updated
formal definition of cloud services brokerage.
2. Predicts 2012: Cloud Services Brokerage Will Bring
New Benefits and Planning Challenges – November, 2011 (G00227370) à CSB
predictions on adoption, evolution over next 5 years.
3. Predicts 2012: Application Integration Will
Increase in Scope and Complexity – November 10th, 2011 (G00226113) à
Application integration predictions for the next 5 years.
4. Who's Who in Cloud Services Brokerage – November 21st, 2011
(G00217530) à Examples
of providers that do some combination of CSB aggregation, integration or
customization role
5. How to Determine When to Use a Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 17th, 2011 (G00226112) à A decision framework for choosing when (or not)
to use CSB
6. The Role of CSB in the Cloud Services Value Chain – October
4th, 2011 (G00218960) à How will
Cloud computing impact the $850m+ IT services industry?
7. Toolkit: RFP Template for Integration Brokerage – August
18th, 2011 (G00215981) à An RFP
toolkit to help select a suitable vendor for B2B / EDI / Cloud integration
projects.
8. Case Study: Mohawk Fine Papers Uses a CSB to Ease
Adoption of Cloud Computing – July, 2011 (G00214537) à Mohawk
outsources ALL integration; focuses on process innovation
9. Taxonomy, Definitions and the Vendor Landscape for
Application Integration Solutions, 2011 – March, 2011 (G00211539) à We
enumerate, define and list vendors for all AI solutions
10. Integration Brokerage Provides Facilitated
Intermediation for B2B E-Commerce and Cloud Services Brokerage –
January, 2011 (G00210460) à A new
form of B2B managed services
Trends in B2B Integration sorted by date… Back to Top
·
Predicts
2012: Cloud Services Brokerage Will Bring New Benefits and Planning Challenges –
November, 2011 (G00227370) à CSB predictions on adoption, evolution over next
5 years.
·
Predicts
2012: Application Integration Will Increase in Scope and Complexity – November
10th, 2011 (G00226113) à
Application integration predictions for the next 5 years.
·
The Role
of CSB in the Cloud Services Value Chain – October 4th, 2011
(G00218960) à How will
Cloud computing impact the $850m+ IT services industry?
·
Case
Study: Mohawk Fine Papers Uses a CSB to Ease Adoption of Cloud Computing – July,
2011 (G00214537) à Mohawk
outsources ALL integration; focuses on process innovation
·
GXS Gets Social With
RollStream Acquisition – April, 2011 (G00212381) à Our
analysis of the impact of this acquisition on GXS, its customers and the B2B
ecommerce market.
·
Integration
Platform as a Service: Moving Integration to the Cloud – March,
2011 (G00210747 ) à Redefine
“Integration as a Service” as “Integration Platform as a Service”
·
Market
Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2010-2015, 1Q11
Update – February, 2011 (G00210355) à 5-yr forecast of things like Integration
Brokerage
·
Integration
Brokerage Provides Facilitated Intermediation for B2B E-Commerce and Cloud
Services Brokerage – January, 2011 (G00210460) à A new
form of B2B managed services
·
Examining
the Embedded Multienterprise Integration Market –
November, 2011 (G00207471) à In this research we introduce, define and
forecast the embedded integration market.
·
Predicts
2011: Application Integration: A Nimble Veteran of IT –
November, 2011 (G002091657) à Our annual roll-up of predictions regarding
application integration
·
Cloud Service Brokerages
Create a New Role for Integration Service Providers –
November 1st, 2010 (G00208700) à EDI VANs became Integration Service Providers;
Now – CSBs
·
Cloud
Services Brokerages Will Enable Business Process Utilities to Deliver
Off-the-Shelf Processes – October, 27th, 2010 (G00208045) à How CSBs
will enable Cloud-sourced BPO
·
Context
and the Cloud: How to Create Context Brokers Using the Cloud Services Brokerage
Framework – September 9th, 2010 (G00205897) à CSB relationship to Context Computing
·
Market
Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2009-2014 – July
14th, 2010 (G00200571) à Our
five-year spend forecast for B2B integration software and services
·
IBM Makes
a Big B2B Play With Strategic Potential as It Acquires Sterling Commerce – July
12th, 2010 (G00205106) à We assess
the impact of this on IT users and the B2B market
·
Forecast:
Public Cloud Services, Worldwide and Regions, Industry Sectors, 2009-2014 – June
2nd, 2010 (G00200833) à Includes
integration as a service for Cloud services projects
·
Cool
Vendors in Multienterprise B2B, 2010 – April 12th, 2010 (G00175294) à We
evaluate some “cool” IT vendors with diverse, innovative approaches to B2B integration
problems
·
Key Issues
for Application Integration, 2010 – March 22nd, 2010 (G00175506) à What are
the top 8 Key Issues IT users facing regarding application integration in 2010?
·
SPS
Commerce Will Wield Its IPO Like a Sword, But Not Lethally, in the Battle for
B2B – February 19th, 2010 (G00174477) à Will SPS’ move be incremental – or disruptive?
·
GXS/Inovis
Merger Is Likely Precursor to an Initial Public Offering –
February 2nd, 2010 (G00174106) à Love ‘em or hate ‘em, what GXS does matters to
the B2B market
·
Knitting
Clouds Together: How Integration as a Service Enables B2B Integration
Outsourcing – January 4th, 2010 (G00173186) à Can Cloud computing (IaaS) enrich IT outsourcing?
·
GXS/Inovis
Merger Will Change the B2B Landscape – December 15th, 2009 (G00173515) à How will
the GXS / Inovis impact the highly evolving B2B integration market segment?
·
Predicts
2010: Application Infrastructure for Cloud Computing –
November 30, 2009 (G00172072) à Predictions on IaaS, Cloud Computing and Cloud
Service Brokerages
·
Predicts
2010: Business Process Management Will Expand Beyond Traditional Boundaries –
November 19th, 2009 (G00172856) à Includes my prediction on increasing BPN adoption
·
Search
Analytics Trends: B2B Integration – August 26th, 2009 (G00169874) à How do
Gartner clients search for B2B integration-related topics on Gartner.com?
·
Five Key
Questions to Ask Your Integration Service Provider to Help Manage Risk –
September 3rd, 2009 (G00170783) à Don’t sign that ISP contact before you ask these
Q’s!
·
Case
Study: Fulcrum Biometrics Thrives on Packaged Integration for salesforce.com
and QuickBooks – May 29th, 2009 (G00168352) à Cloud
computing / SaaS integration example
·
Google App Engine Comes Closer to Enterprise
Adoption – May 4th,
2009
·
Three
Types of Cloud Brokerages Will Enhance Cloud Services – May
11th, 2009 (G00164265) à Here we
enumerate and define three types of CSBs
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 1 – April 19th,
2009
·
Forecast:
Sizing the Cloud; Understanding the Opportunities in Cloud Services – March
18th, 2009
·
Cool
Vendors in Platform and Integration Middleware, 2009 – March
17th, 2009
·
Key Issues
for Cloud-Enabled Application Infrastructure, 2009 – March
17th, 2009
·
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B Integration, 2009 – February 4th, 2009
·
Findings:
A 'Rule of Thumb' Decision Framework for Sourcing IT Solutions for B2B Projects – January
20, 2009
·
Predicts 2009: Platforms and
Integration Middleware Move into the Cloud – December 23, 2008
·
Q&A: Hot Questions for
Multienterprise (B2B) Integration – December 18, 2008
·
Seeding
the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption – October
1, 2008
·
The Four
Styles of Process Execution in Multienterprise Scenarios – August
14, 2008
·
Boomi's
SaaS Integration Services Strategy Gets a Boost – July 8,
2008
·
Market
Update for Business-to-Business Gateway Software Vendors – May 15,
2008
·
Market
Update for Integration Service Providers – May 15, 2008
·
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B Integration, 2008 – March 11, 2008
·
Market
Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2008 – March
10, 2008
·
Findings:
Ownership of Processes Distinguishes Internal BPP From Multienterprise BPP –
February 8, 2008
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
The
Emergence of the Multienterprise Business Process Platform –
November 27, 2007
·
Hot Questions for
Multienterprise (B2B) Integration – November 21, 2007
·
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B, 2007 –
September 14, 2007
·
Strategies
for Successful Multienterprise SaaS Integration – August 31, 2007
·
Outages
Tarnish Reputation of GXS's Trading Grid – July 25, 2007
·
Spider Diagram Ratings Highlight
Strengths and Challenges of Vendors in the B2B Infrastructure Market – July 23, 2007
·
Taxonomy
and Definitions for the Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market – April
9, 2007
·
Multi-enterprise
Integration Projects Will Proliferate and Innovate –
November 28, 2006
·
SaaS
Delivery Challenges On-Premise Software – September 26, 2006
·
Crossgate
Acquires B&N Software to Ride European B2B Growth – November 14, 2006
·
Predicts 2007: Software as a Service Provides a Viable Delivery Model – November 13, 2006
·
Take a
Portfolio Approach to Your Multienterprise Integration Strategy – September
6, 2006
·
Who's Who in Supply Chain
Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – July 20, 2006
·
Hype Cycle for Application
Integration and Platform Middleware, 2006 – July 13, 2006
·
Hype Cycle for Web
Technologies, 2006 – July 7, 2006
·
Defining a Multienterprise Application Architecture for Supply Chain
Management – 26 April
2006
·
A Tectonic Shift in the
Business Process Center of Gravity – 13 March 2006
·
Predicts
2006: The Evolution of Integration – 7 November 2005
·
European
B2B Vendors Deliver Mature Products – 3 August 2005
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
·
Adapter
Suites Bridge Gaps in Integration Projects 7 January 2005
·
MarketScope
for Managed File Transfer Suites, 4Q04 — 10 November 2004
·
Packaged
Composite Applications: Applications That Integrate 23
September 2004
·
Packaged
Integrating Processes Accelerate Integration 14 October 2003
·
Packaged
Integrating Processes Raise Bar for Integration 7 October
2003
·
B2B
Application Integration Is Typically Event-Oriented 8 July
2003
·
Enterprise-to-Enterprise Architecture
for Virtual Enterprises
— 31 July, 2002
·
How
Adapters Can Help Integrate Applications 13 May 2002
·
Digital
Dial Tone Will Carry XML Messaging and XML RPC — 9
February 2000
·
Web + XML = E-Business'
Digital Dial Tone — 3 December 1999
·
XML Takes
an Active Role in Middleware — 2 February 1999
Decision Frameworks
for B2B Projects … Back to Top
·
Essential
Provider Selection Criteria to Use When Outsourcing the CSB Role –
January, 2012 (G00230681) à CSB
evaluation criteria to help you choose a suitable CSB provider
·
How to
Determine When to Use a Cloud Services Brokerage –
November 17th, 2011 (G00226112) à A decision framework for choosing when (or not)
to use CSB
·
Toolkit:
RFP Template for Integration Brokerage – August 18th, 2011 (G00215981) à An RFP
toolkit to help select a suitable vendor for B2B / EDI / Cloud integration
projects.
·
How a
Canonical Messaging Approach Can Help You Simplify and Reduce Interface Assets – May,
2011 (G00213216) à The how,
why and when of a canonical approach to integration
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
Five Key
Questions to Ask Your Integration Service Provider to Help Manage Risk –
September 3rd, 2009 (G00170783) à Don’t sign that ISP contact before you ask these
Q’s!
·
Integration
Service Providers Magic Quadrant Evaluation Criteria – August
7th, 2009 (G00170067) à
High-level integration service provider evaluation criteria and weightings
·
Evaluating
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Application Infrastructure Strategies for
Integration Projects – July 31st, 2009 (G00169490) à Analysis
of their A2A & B2B strategies
·
How to
Evaluate Your Vendors' Application Infrastructure Strategy – June
1st, 2009 (G00168377) à We define
the rating criteria for assessing vendor’s application infrastructure
·
Findings:
A 'Rule of Thumb' Decision Framework for Sourcing IT Solutions for B2B Projects – January
20, 2009
·
SaaS
Integration: How to Choose the Best Approach – October 1, 2008
·
Toolkit:
Request for Proposal for B2B Gateway Software – August 26, 2008
·
The Four
Styles of Process Execution in Multienterprise Scenarios – August
14, 2008
·
Hot Questions for
Multienterprise (B2B) Integration – November 21, 2007
·
Strategies
for Successful Multienterprise SaaS Integration – August 31, 2007
·
Think Twice About Migrating From
Sterling Commerce's Gentran:Server to Gentran Integration Suite – June 26
·
Multi-enterprise
Integration Projects Will Proliferate and Innovate –
November 28, 2006
·
Take a
Portfolio Approach to Your Multienterprise Integration Strategy –
September 6, 2006
·
Evaluating
SaaS Providers: Questions to Ask Potential SaaS Providers – 18
April 2006
·
Questions
to Ask Your Integration Service Provider – 21 November 2005
·
Answer Three Questions Before Undertaking a Migration From Connect:Direct – 15 September 2005
·
GXS’ Leaky Roof Exposes the
Importance of High Availability – 13 May 2005
·
When to Use (or Not to Use)
an Integration Service Provider – 15 April 2005
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
·
Integration
Service Provider Magic Quadrant Criteria 11 November 2004
·
MarketScope
for Managed File Transfer Suites, 4Q04 — 10 November 2004
·
B2B Web
Services Will Drive New VAN Traffic 19 May 2003
·
Business
Strategy Drives B2B Connectivity Choices 7 August 2003
·
B2B
Application Integration: In-House or Outsourced? 26
February 2003
·
Enterprise-to-Enterprise Architecture
for Virtual Enterprises
— 31 July, 2002
Cloud Services Brokerage … Back to Top
·
Essential
Provider Selection Criteria to Use When Outsourcing the CSB Role –
January, 2012 (G00230681) à CSB
evaluation criteria to help you choose a suitable CSB provider
·
Cloud
Services Brokerage Proliferates – December, 2011 (G00226656) à This
Article Top View briefly introduces and links to all CSB research notes in 2011
CSB Special Report
·
Cloud
Services Brokerage Is Dominated by Three Primary Roles –
November, 2011 (G00226509) à Updated formal definition of cloud services
brokerage.
·
Predicts
2012: Cloud Services Brokerage Will Bring New Benefits and Planning Challenges –
November, 2011 (G00227370) à CSB predictions on adoption, evolution over next
5 years.
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
How to
Determine When to Use a Cloud Services Brokerage –
November 17th, 2011 (G00226112) à A decision framework for choosing when (or not)
to use CSB
·
How to
Evaluate Process Agility and Visibility in Cloud Business Process Services –
November, 2011 (G00219693) à What role does BPM have in CSB and Cloud
processes?
·
Predicts
2012: Application Integration Will Increase in Scope and Complexity –
November 10th, 2011 (G00226113) à Application integration predictions for the next
5 years.
·
The Role
of CSB in the Cloud Services Value Chain – October 4th, 2011 (G00218960)
à How will
Cloud computing impact the $850m+ IT services industry?
·
Toolkit:
RFP Template for Integration Brokerage – August 18th, 2011 (G00215981) à An RFP
toolkit to help select a suitable vendor for B2B / EDI / Cloud integration
projects.
·
Case
Study: Mohawk Fine Papers Uses a CSB to Ease Adoption of Cloud Computing – July,
2011 (G00214537) à Mohawk
outsources ALL integration; focuses on process innovation
·
Case
Study: Men's Wearhouse Finds StrikeIron's CSB Suits Its Customers – June,
2011 (G00213896) à Providers
in cloud services brokerage role can simplify cloud computing
·
Cool Vendors
in Cloud Services Brokerage, 2011 – April, 2011 (G00212316) à A closer
look at some early adopters of the cloud services brokerage role.
·
GXS Gets Social With
RollStream Acquisition – April, 2011 (G00212381) à Our
analysis of the impact of this acquisition on GXS, its customers and the B2B
ecommerce market.
·
Taxonomy,
Definitions and the Vendor Landscape for Application Integration Solutions,
2011 – March, 2011 (G00211539) à We enumerate, define and list vendors for all AI
solutions
·
Integration
Platform as a Service: Moving Integration to the Cloud – March,
2011 (G00210747 ) à Redefine
“Integration as a Service” as “Integration Platform as a Service”
·
Predicts
2011: Application Integration: A Nimble Veteran of IT –
November, 2011 (G002091657) à Our annual roll-up of predictions regarding application
integration
·
Dell Must
Take Decisive Action to Fully Leverage the Boomi Acquisition – November 9th,
2010 (G00208939) à Boomi is
a Cloud integration specialist and CSB; How will Dell use it?
·
Cloud
Services Brokerages: The Dawn of the Next Intermediation Age –
November 5th, 2010 (G00208731) à Introduction to the ten research notes in the CSB
Special Report
·
The Delicate Side of Cloud
Services Brokerages: Governance – November 4th, 2010 (G00208451) à Here we
evaluate the role of governance technologies in CSB
·
Key Issues
for Cloud Services Brokerages, 2011 – November 3rd, 2010 (G00208712) à We
outline Gartner’s research agenda around the topic of Cloud services brokerage
·
Cloud Service Brokerages
Create a New Role for Integration Service Providers –
November 1st, 2010 (G00208700) à EDI VANs became Integration Service Providers;
Now – CSBs
·
Cloud
Services Brokerages Will Enable Business Process Utilities to Deliver
Off-the-Shelf Processes – October, 27th, 2010 (G00208045) à How CSBs
will enable Cloud-sourced BPO
·
A Logical
Reference Model for Cloud Services Brokerage – October 13th, 2010
(G00206188) à A
taxonomy of the enabling technology, functional capabilities and types of CSBs
·
Cloud
Interoperability Can Be Brokered – October 8th, 2010 (G00206169) à This
research explores the challenges of Cloud services interoperability, and the role
of CSB to address it
·
Defining Cloud Services
Brokerage: Taking Intermediation to the Next Level – October,
8th, 2010 (G00206187) à Here we
formally define the “Cloud services brokerage” IT role.
·
Context
and the Cloud: How to Create Context Brokers Using the Cloud Services Brokerage
Framework – September 9th, 2010 (G00205897) à CSB relationship to Context Computing
·
IBM Makes
a Big B2B Play With Strategic Potential as It Acquires Sterling Commerce – July
12th, 2010 (G00205106) à Amongst
other things, IBM is now the 1st CSB mega-vendor
·
IBM Adds
Comprehensive Cloud Service Integration to WebSphere via Cast Iron Acquisition – May
25th, 2010 (G00200793) à What
impact will this have on IBM’s Cloud strategy?
·
Knitting
Clouds Together: How Integration as a Service Enables B2B Integration
Outsourcing – January 4th, 2010 (G00173186) à Can Cloud computing (IaaS) enrich IT outsourcing?
·
Hype Cycle
for Governance, Risk and Compliance Technologies, 2009 – July
17th, 2009 (G00168610) à Contains
Technology Profile on Cloud Services Governance
·
Three
Types of Cloud Brokerages Will Enhance Cloud Services – May
11th, 2009 (G00164265) à Here we
enumerate and define three types of CSBs
·
What's
Between You and the Cloud? – January 22, 2009 (G00163985)
Cloud Services Integration … Back to Top
·
Cloud
Services Brokerage Is Dominated by Three Primary Roles –
November, 2011 (G00226509) à Updated formal definition of cloud services
brokerage.
·
Predicts
2012: Cloud Services Brokerage Will Bring New Benefits and Planning Challenges – November,
2011 (G00227370) à CSB
predictions on adoption, evolution over next 5 years.
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530)
·
How to
Determine When to Use a Cloud Services Brokerage –
November 17th, 2011 (G00226112) à A decision framework for choosing when (or not)
to use CSB
·
Predicts
2012: Application Integration Will Increase in Scope and Complexity –
November 10th, 2011 (G00226113) à Application integration predictions for the next
5 years.
·
Toolkit:
RFP Template for Integration Brokerage – August 18th, 2011 (G00215981) à An RFP
toolkit to help select a suitable vendor for B2B / EDI / Cloud integration
projects.
·
GXS Gets Social With
RollStream Acquisition – April, 2011 (G00212381) à Our
analysis of the impact of this acquisition on GXS, its customers and the B2B
ecommerce market.
·
Taxonomy,
Definitions and the Vendor Landscape for Application Integration Solutions,
2011 – March, 2011 (G00211539) à We enumerate, define and list vendors for all AI
solutions
·
Integration
Platform as a Service: Moving Integration to the Cloud – March,
2011 (G00210747 ) à Redefine
“Integration as a Service” as “Integration Platform as a Service”
·
Predicts
2011: Application Integration: A Nimble Veteran of IT –
November, 2011 (G002091657) à Our annual roll-up of predictions regarding
application integration
·
Dell Must
Take Decisive Action to Fully Leverage the Boomi Acquisition – November 9th,
2010 (G00208939) à Boomi is
a Cloud integration specialist and CSB; How will Dell use it?
·
Cloud Service Brokerages
Create a New Role for Integration Service Providers –
November 1st, 2010 (G00208700) à EDI VANs became Integration Service Providers;
Now – CSBs
·
Cloud
Interoperability Can Be Brokered – October 8th, 2010 (G00206169) à This
research explores the challenges of Cloud services interoperability, and the role
of CSB to address it
·
Ariba and
Hubspan Partner to Scale Up Integration in the Cloud – August
18th, 2010 (G00205763) à Impact
analysis of the Ariba / Hubspan alliance on users and market
·
IBM Adds
Comprehensive Cloud Service Integration to WebSphere via Cast Iron Acquisition – May
25th, 2010 (G00200793) à What
impact will this have on IBM’s Cloud strategy?
·
Forecast:
Public Cloud Services, Worldwide and Regions, Industry Sectors, 2009-2014 – June
2nd, 2010 (G00200833) à Includes
integration as a service for Cloud services projects
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 2 – April 14th, 2010
(G00175718) à We
evaluate more providers of solutions for Cloud services integration.
·
Cool
Vendors in Multienterprise B2B, 2010 – April 12th, 2010 (G00175294) à We
evaluate some “cool” IT vendors with diverse, innovative approaches to B2B
integration problems
·
Key Issues
for Application Integration, 2010 – March 22nd, 2010 (G00175506) à What are
the top 8 Key Issues IT users facing regarding application integration in 2010?
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
Knitting
Clouds Together: How Integration as a Service Enables B2B Integration
Outsourcing – January 4th, 2010 (G00173186) à Can Cloud computing (IaaS) enrich IT outsourcing?
·
Predicts
2010: Application Infrastructure for Cloud Computing –
November 30, 2009 (G00172072) à Predictions on IaaS, Cloud Computing and Cloud
Service Brokerages
·
Oracle and
E2open Deploy BPN to Simplify B2B for Global Transport Processes –
November 25, 2009 (G00172716) à
·
Business
Process Networks Offer Solutions for Collaborative Multienterprise Process
Integration – September 21st, 2009 (G00171214) à Definition of “BPNs”
·
Five Key
Questions to Ask Your Integration Service Provider to Help Manage Risk –
September 3rd, 2009 (G00170783) à Don’t sign that ISP contact before you ask these
Q’s!
·
Evaluating
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Application Infrastructure Strategies for
Integration Projects – July 31st, 2009 (G00169490) à Analysis
of their A2A & B2B strategies
·
How to
Evaluate Your Vendors' Application Infrastructure Strategy – June
1st, 2009 (G00168377) à We define
the rating criteria for assessing vendor’s application infrastructure
·
Case
Study: Fulcrum Biometrics Thrives on Packaged Integration for salesforce.com
and QuickBooks – May 29th, 2009 (G00168352) à Cloud
computing / SaaS integration example
·
IBM and
Hubspan Deploy IaaS-Based Platform for B2B Project Outsourcing – May
20th, 2009 (G00168096) à Analysis
of new joint IBM / Hubspan Webspan offering
·
Google App Engine Comes Closer to Enterprise
Adoption – May 4th,
2009
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 1 – April 19th,
2009
·
Taxonomy
and Definitions for the Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market – March
4th, 2009
·
Forecast:
Sizing the Cloud; Understanding the Opportunities in Cloud Services – March
18th, 2009
·
Cool
Vendors in Platform and Integration Middleware, 2009 – March
17th, 2009
·
Key Issues
for Cloud-Enabled Application Infrastructure, 2009 – March
17th, 2009
·
Q&A: Hot Questions for
Multienterprise (B2B) Integration – December 18, 2008
·
Seeding
the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption – October
1, 2008
·
SaaS
Integration: How to Choose the Best Approach – October 1, 2008
·
Boomi's
SaaS Integration Services Strategy Gets a Boost – July 8,
2008
·
Strategies
for Successful Multienterprise SaaS Integration – August 31, 2007
·
SaaS Delivery Challenges On-Premise
Software – September
26, 2006
Web Services-
and SOA-Focused Research … Back to Top
·
Mobile and
Context-Aware Branches Grow From Public Web APIs – June,
2011 (G00213866) à
Successful Web API strategies need commercial and technical approaches
·
Integration
Platform as a Service: Moving Integration to the Cloud – March,
2011 (G00210747 ) à Redefine
“Integration as a Service” as “Integration Platform as a Service”
·
Cool
Vendors in Multienterprise B2B, 2010 – April 12th, 2010 (G00175294) à We
evaluate some “cool” IT vendors with diverse, innovative approaches to B2B
integration problems
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
Evaluating
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Application Infrastructure Strategies for Integration
Projects – July 31st, 2009 (G00169490) à Analysis of their A2A & B2B strategies
·
How to
Evaluate Your Vendors' Application Infrastructure Strategy – June
1st, 2009 (G00168377) à We define
the rating criteria for assessing vendor’s application infrastructure
·
Case
Study: Fulcrum Biometrics Thrives on Packaged Integration for salesforce.com
and QuickBooks – May 29th, 2009 (G00168352) à Cloud
computing / SaaS integration example
·
Google App Engine Comes Closer to Enterprise
Adoption – May 4th,
2009
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 1 – April 19th,
2009
·
Taxonomy
and Definitions for the Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market – March
4th, 2009
·
Key Issues
for Cloud-Enabled Application Infrastructure, 2009 – March
17th, 2009
·
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B Integration, 2009 – February 4th, 2009
·
Q&A: Hot Questions for
Multienterprise (B2B) Integration – December 18, 2008
·
SaaS
Integration: How to Choose the Best Approach – October 1, 2008
·
Boomi's
SaaS Integration Services Strategy Gets a Boost – July 8,
2008
·
Market
Update for Business-to-Business Gateway Software Vendors – May 15,
2008
·
Market
Update for Integration Service Providers – May 15, 2008
·
Findings:
Ownership of Processes Distinguishes Internal BPP From Multienterprise BPP –
February 8, 2008
·
Market
Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2008 – March
10, 2008
·
Cape Clear
Updates ESB to Enable Integration as a Service – October 5, 2007
·
Taxonomy
and Definitions for the Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market – April
9, 2007
·
Software
AG Aims for SOA Leadership With webMethods Deal – April
9, 2007
·
Multi-enterprise
Integration Projects Will Proliferate and Innovate –
November 28, 2006
·
Grand
Central's Demise Does Not Indict B2B Web Services – 30
November 2005
·
Deal With
StrikeIron Extends BEA's Data Services Platform –
September 26, 2006
·
Microsoft
Abandons MBN: A Wise Strategy With Near-Term Challenges – 13 June
2005
·
Predicts
2006: Web Services Continue to Mature – 7 November 2005
·
B2B Web
Services Will Drive New VAN Traffic 19 May 2003
·
Grand
Central: The First WSN-Managed Service Provider — 24
July, 2002
·
Digital
Dial Tone Will Carry XML Messaging and XML RPC — 9
February 2000
·
webMethods
Bets on Internet-Based Application Integration — 12
February 1999
Research on IT
Vendors sorted by
date … Back to Top
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Case
Study: Men's Wearhouse Finds StrikeIron's CSB Suits Its Customers – June,
2011 (G00213896) à Providers
in cloud services brokerage role can simplify cloud computing
·
GXS Gets Social With
RollStream Acquisition – April, 2011 (G00212381) à Our
analysis of the impact of this acquisition on GXS, its customers and the B2B
ecommerce market.
·
Taxonomy,
Definitions and the Vendor Landscape for Application Integration Solutions,
2011 – March, 2011 (G00211539) à We enumerate, define and list vendors for all AI
solutions
·
Ariba
Enters Into an Agreement to Acquire Quadrem – December, 2011 (G00209631)
à What
impact will Ariba’s acquisition of Quadrem have on the B2B market?
·
Dell Must
Take Decisive Action to Fully Leverage the Boomi Acquisition – November 9th,
2010 (G00208939) à Boomi is
a Cloud integration specialist and CSB; How will Dell use it?
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
Ariba and
Hubspan Partner to Scale Up Integration in the Cloud – August
18th, 2010 (G00205763) à Impact
analysis of the Ariba / Hubspan alliance on users and market
·
IBM Makes
a Big B2B Play With Strategic Potential as It Acquires Sterling Commerce – July
12th, 2010 (G00205106) à We assess
the impact of this on IT users and the B2B market
·
IBM Adds
Comprehensive Cloud Service Integration to WebSphere via Cast Iron Acquisition – May
25th, 2010 (G00200793) à What
impact will this have on IBM’s Cloud strategy?
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 2 – April 14th, 2010
(G00175718) à We
evaluate more providers of solutions for Cloud services integration.
·
Cool
Vendors in Multienterprise B2B, 2010 – April 12th, 2010 (G00175294) à We
evaluate some “cool” IT vendors with diverse, innovative approaches to B2B
integration problems
·
Tibco
Software's Purchase of Foresight Provides Opportunity to Strengthen B2B
Integration Offerings – March 26th, 2010 (G00174125)
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
GXS/Inovis
Merger Is Likely Precursor to an Initial Public Offering –
February 2nd, 2010 (G00174106) à Love ‘em or hate ‘em, what GXS does matters to
the B2B market
·
Liaison
Buys Advanced Data Exchange to Expand B2B Portfolio – January
14th, 2010 (G00173904) à Is this a
trivial commercial transaction, or part of a larger strategy?
·
Oracle and
E2open Deploy BPN to Simplify B2B for Global Transport Processes –
November 25, 2009 (G00172716) à
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
Evaluating
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Application Infrastructure Strategies for
Integration Projects – July 31st, 2009 (G00169490) à Analysis
of their A2A & B2B strategies
·
Case
Study: Fulcrum Biometrics Thrives on Packaged Integration for salesforce.com and
QuickBooks – May 29th, 2009 (G00168352) à Cloud computing / SaaS integration example
·
IBM and
Hubspan Deploy IaaS-Based Platform for B2B Project Outsourcing – May
20th, 2009 (G00168096) à Analysis
of new joint IBM / Hubspan Webspan offering
·
Google App Engine Comes Closer to Enterprise
Adoption – May 4th,
2009
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 1 – April 19th,
2009
·
Liaison
Deal Drives A2A and B2B Project Convergence – March 24th, 2009
·
Taxonomy
and Definitions for the Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market – March
4th, 2009
·
Cool
Vendors in Platform and Integration Middleware, 2009 – March
17th, 2009
·
Seeding
the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption – October
1, 2008
·
Boomi's
SaaS Integration Services Strategy Gets a Boost – July 8,
2008
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
·
Market
Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2008 – March
10, 2008
·
Axway and Atos Origin Unite
to Offer B2B Integration Services – January 18, 2008
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
Inovis
Expands Its Portfolio of Multienterprise Applications –
November 6, 2007
·
Crossgate
Challenges B2B Market With Tight Alliance With SAP – October 11, 2007
·
Cape Clear
Updates ESB to Enable Integration as a Service – October 5, 2007
·
Microsoft,
Verizon and Other Vendors Drive IaaS Maturity – September 10, 2007
·
Inovis
Stakes a Claim in B2B Market – August
10, 2007
·
Outages
Tarnish Reputation of GXS's Trading Grid – July 25, 2007
·
Spider Diagram Ratings Highlight
Strengths and Challenges of Vendors in the B2B Infrastructure Market – July 23, 2007
·
Think Twice About Migrating From
Sterling Commerce's Gentran:Server to Gentran Integration Suite – June 26
·
Taxonomy
and Definitions for the Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market – April
9, 2007
·
Software
AG Aims for SOA Leadership With webMethods Deal – April
9, 2007
·
Sterling
Adds Comergent E-Business Functions to Its Portfolio –
November 29, 2006
·
GXS's Udex Adds Product Data
Quality to Supply Chain Services – November 27, 2006
·
Crossgate
Acquires B&N Software to Ride European B2B Growth – November 14, 2006
·
Predicts 2007: Software as a Service Provides a Viable Delivery Model – November 13, 2006
·
Deal With
StrikeIron Extends BEA's Data Services Platform –
September 26, 2006
·
Additional
Vendors in Supply Chain Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – July
20, 2006
·
Who's Who in Supply Chain
Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – July 20, 2006
·
Microsoft,
GXS and Covast Will Automate E-Commerce Integration – 9 June
2006
·
nuBridges Could Give Many AS2
Users a Second Chance – 31 May 2006
·
BT Launches Innovative
SOA-Based Managed Integration Service – 3 May 2006
·
IBM's
Viacore Acquisition Will Incrementally Benefit Outsourcing Customers – 3 March
2006
·
SPS
Commerce Consolidates SMB-Focused Hosted Integration – 3 March
2006
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
Grand
Central's Demise Does Not Indict B2B Web Services – 30
November 2005
·
Vendor
Rating – GXS – 17 October 2005
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
·
Answer Three Questions Before Undertaking a Migration From
Connect:Direct – 15 September 2005
·
European
B2B Vendors Deliver Mature Products – 3 August 2005
·
Microsoft
Abandons MBN: A Wise Strategy With Near-Term Challenges – 13 June
2005
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
·
GXS’ Leaky Roof Exposes the
Importance of High Availability – 13 May 2005
·
Cool Vendors in Application
Integration, 2005 —
30 March 2005
·
GXS and webMethods'
Partnership Acknowledges Hybrid B2B Projects 16 March 2005
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 4Q04 11 November 2004
·
MarketScope
for Managed File Transfer Suites, 4Q04 — 10 November 2004
·
Grand
Central Sets a New Standard for B2B Self-Provisioning 19 April
2004
·
Integration
as a Service: Evolving VANs Focus on Processes 1 April
2004
·
Vendor
Rating: E2open Will Make Ends Meet 4 March 2004
·
BT to
Drive Business-to-Business Web Services Adoption 30 April
2003
·
Grand
Central: The First WSN-Managed Service Provider — 24
July, 2002
·
Microsoft
Wants Businesses to Agree With BizTalk — 9 August 1999
·
webMethods
Bets on Internet-Based Application Integration — 12
February 1999
Research on IT Vendors sorted by vendor … Back to Top
Vendor List A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
·
Amadeus
·
Appirio
·
Appresso
·
Ariba
·
ASG (Allen Systems Group)
·
Axeda
·
Axway
·
bTrade à See Click
Commerce
·
BEA
·
Besol
·
BlinkHR
·
Bluewolf
·
Boomi
·
BT
·
Cast Iron Systems à Acquired
by IBM
·
Celigo
·
Click Commerce à See ITW
·
Comarch
·
CommonIT
·
Cordys
·
Covast
·
Covisint
·
CSC
·
Cyclone Commerce à See Axway
·
Dell
·
E2open
·
eBuilder
·
ECGridOS
·
EDS
·
Elemica
·
Exostar
·
Extol
·
Generix
·
Genpact
·
Google
·
GXS
·
Hubspan
·
IBM
·
ICC (Internet Commerce Corp) à Merged w/Easylink
·
indatex à See Crossgate
·
Inovis
·
Ipswitch
·
iSoft à See nuBridges
·
ITW (Acquired Click Commerce
(Acquired bTrade))
·
iWay
·
Kewill
·
Layer 7
·
Loren Data Corp à See ECGridOS
·
LTech
·
Mashery
·
Maventa
·
MessageWay
à
acquired by Ipswitch
·
nuBridges à
acquired by Liaison
·
Okta
·
OmPrompt
·
Oracle
·
OS33
·
Owens Direct à See SPS
Commerce
·
Primeur
·
psHEALTH
·
Quadrem
·
QRS à See Inovis
·
Radianz
·
RevX
·
RollStream à
Acquired by GXS
·
SAP
·
SeeBeyond à See Sun
·
Skyvva
·
Sterling Commerce à Acquired
by IBM
·
SupplyOn
·
SWIFT
·
Synnex
·
Taleo
·
TCS
·
TekSouth
·
Tibco
·
Tieto
·
Traxian
·
Verizon
·
Viacore à See IBM
·
Workday
·
Xignite
·
Zimory
·
Zuora
Vendors (Top of Vendor List)
Advanced
Data Exchange (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Liaison
Buys Advanced Data Exchange to Expand B2B Portfolio – January
14th, 2010 (G00173904) à Is this a
trivial commercial transaction, or part of a larger strategy?
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 4Q04 11 November 2004
Amadeus (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
Amalto Technologies (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services Brokerage –
November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Cool
Vendors in Platform and Integration Middleware, 2009 – March
17th, 2009
Appirio (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 2 – April 14th, 2010
(G00175718) à We
evaluate more providers of solutions for Cloud services integration.
·
Google App Engine Comes Closer to Enterprise
Adoption – May 4th,
2009
Appresso (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 2 – April 14th, 2010
(G00175718) à We
evaluate more providers of solutions for Cloud services integration.
Ariba (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Ariba
Enters Into an Agreement to Acquire Quadrem – December, 2011 (G00209631)
à What
impact will Ariba’s acquisition of Quadrem have on the B2B market?
·
Ariba and
Hubspan Partner to Scale Up Integration in the Cloud – August
18th, 2010 (G00205763) à Impact
analysis of the Ariba / Hubspan alliance on users and market
ASG (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
·
MarketScope
for Managed File Transfer Suites, 4Q04 — 10 November 2004
Atos Origin (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
Axway and Atos Origin Unite
to Offer B2B Integration Services – January 18, 2008
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
Axeda (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Cool
Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerage, 2011 – April, 2011 (G00212316) à A closer
look at some early adopters of the cloud services brokerage role.
Axway (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration Projects –
November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à Definitions
and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
Axway and Atos Origin Unite
to Offer B2B Integration Services – January 18, 2008
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
Spider Diagram Ratings Highlight
Strengths and Challenges of Vendors in the B2B Infrastructure Market – July 23, 2007
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
·
European
B2B Vendors Deliver Mature Products – 3 August 2005
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 2Q05 – 15 April 2005
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
·
MarketScope
for Managed File Transfer Suites, 4Q04 — 10 November 2004
BEA (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Deal With
StrikeIron Extends BEA's Data Services Platform –
September 26, 2006
Besol (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
BetweenMarkets (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Cool Vendors in Application
Integration, 2005 —
30 March 2005
BlinkHR (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Bluewolf (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
Seeding
the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption – October
1, 2008
·
SaaS
Integration: How to Choose the Best Approach – October 1, 2008
Boomi (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Cloud Service Brokerages
Create a New Role for Integration Service Providers –
November 1st, 2010 (G00208700) à EDI VANs became Integration Service Providers;
Now – CSBs
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 1 – April 19th,
2009
·
Seeding
the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption – October
1, 2008
·
SaaS
Integration: How to Choose the Best Approach – October 1, 2008
·
Boomi's
SaaS Integration Services Strategy Gets a Boost – July 8,
2008
·
Microsoft,
Verizon and Other Vendors Drive IaaS Maturity – September 10, 2007
BT (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
BT Launches Innovative
SOA-Based Managed Integration Service – 3 May 2006
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
·
BT to
Drive Business-to-Business Web Services Adoption 30 April
2003
Capgemini
Immediate (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Cast Iron Systems à Acquired by IBM in May, 2010 (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Cloud Service Brokerages
Create a New Role for Integration Service Providers –
November 1st, 2010 (G00208700) à EDI VANs became Integration Service Providers;
Now – CSBs
·
IBM Adds
Comprehensive Cloud Service Integration to WebSphere via Cast Iron Acquisition – May
25th, 2010 (G00200793) à What
impact will this have on IBM’s Cloud strategy?
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
Google App Engine Comes Closer to Enterprise
Adoption – May 4th,
2009
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 1 – April 19th,
2009
·
Seeding
the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption – October
1, 2008
·
SaaS
Integration: How to Choose the Best Approach – October 1, 2008
Celigo (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 2 – April 14th, 2010
(G00175718) à We
evaluate more providers of solutions for Cloud services integration.
Comarch (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
CommerceQuest (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
·
MarketScope
for Managed File Transfer Suites, 4Q04 — 10 November 2004
CommonIT (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Computer Associates (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
·
MarketScope
for Managed File Transfer Suites, 4Q04 — 10 November 2004
Cordys (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Covast (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Microsoft,
GXS and Covast Will Automate E-Commerce Integration – 9 June
2006
·
European
B2B Vendors Deliver Mature Products – 3 August 2005
Covisint (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
crossgate
(formerly known as “indatex”) (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
Crossgate
Challenges B2B Market With Tight Alliance With SAP – October 11, 2007
·
Crossgate
Acquires B&N Software to Ride European B2B Growth – November 14, 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
CSC (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Dell (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Dell Must
Take Decisive Action to Fully Leverage the Boomi Acquisition – November 9th,
2010 (G00208939) à Boomi is
a Cloud integration specialist and CSB; How will Dell use it?
E2open (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Oracle and
E2open Deploy BPN to Simplify B2B for Global Transport Processes –
November 25, 2009 (G00172716) à Alliance to deliver pre-built e-logistics
business process network
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
The Four
Styles of Process Execution in Multienterprise Scenarios – August
14, 2008
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 4Q04 11 November 2004
·
Vendor
Rating: E2open Will Make Ends Meet 4 March 2004
EasyLink (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top) à Merged with ICC
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
Magic Quadrant for Integration
Service Providers – May 28, 2008
·
Microsoft,
Verizon and Other Vendors Drive IaaS Maturity – September 10, 2007
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 4Q04 11 November 2004
eBuilder (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
eBridge Software (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Additional
Vendors in Supply Chain Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – July
20, 2006
ECGridOS (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Cool
Vendors in Multienterprise B2B, 2010 – April 12th, 2010 (G00175294) à We
evaluate some “cool” IT vendors with diverse, innovative approaches to B2B
integration problems
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
EDS (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
Elemica (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
Exostar (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
Extol (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
eZCom Software (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Supply Chain
Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – July 20, 2006
First4Farming (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Cool
Vendors in Multienterprise B2B, 2010 – April 12th, 2010 (G00175294) à We
evaluate some “cool” IT vendors with diverse, innovative approaches to B2B
integration problems
GCommerce (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Generix (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
Genpact (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Globalscape (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
Google (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Google App Engine Comes Closer to Enterprise
Adoption – May 4th,
2009
Gravitant (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Grand Central (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Grand
Central's Demise Does Not Indict B2B Web Services – 30
November 2005
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 4Q04 11 November 2004
·
Grand
Central Sets a New Standard for B2B Self-Provisioning 19 April
2004
·
Grand
Central: The First WSN-Managed Service Provider — 24
July, 2002
GXS (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
GXS Gets Social With
RollStream Acquisition – April, 2011 (G00212381) à Our
analysis of the impact of this acquisition on GXS, its customers and the B2B
ecommerce market.
·
Cloud Service Brokerages
Create a New Role for Integration Service Providers –
November 1st, 2010 (G00208700) à EDI VANs became Integration Service Providers;
Now – CSBs
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
GXS/Inovis
Merger Is Likely Precursor to an Initial Public Offering –
February 2nd, 2010 (G00174106) à Love ‘em or hate ‘em, what GXS does matters to
the B2B market
·
GXS/Inovis
Merger Will Change the B2B Landscape – December 15th, 2009 (G00173515) à How will
the GXS / Inovis impact the highly evolving B2B integration market segment?
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
Microsoft,
Verizon and Other Vendors Drive IaaS Maturity – September 10, 2007
·
Outages
Tarnish Reputation of GXS's Trading Grid – July 25, 2007
·
Spider Diagram Ratings Highlight
Strengths and Challenges of Vendors in the B2B Infrastructure Market – July 23, 2007
·
GXS's Udex Adds Product Data
Quality to Supply Chain Services – November 27, 2006
·
Microsoft,
GXS and Covast Will Automate E-Commerce Integration – 9 June
2006
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
Vendor
Rating – GXS – 17 October 2005
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
·
GXS’ Leaky Roof Exposes the
Importance of High Availability – 13 May 2005
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 2Q05 – 15 April 2005
·
GXS and webMethods'
Partnership Acknowledges Hybrid B2B Projects 16 March 2005
·
Magic Quadrant for Integration
Service Providers, 4Q04 11 November 2004
Hubspan (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Ariba and
Hubspan Partner to Scale Up Integration in the Cloud – August
18th, 2010 (G00205763) à Impact
analysis of the Ariba / Hubspan alliance on users and market
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
IBM and
Hubspan Deploy IaaS-Based Platform for B2B Project Outsourcing – May
20th, 2009 (G00168096) à Analysis
of new joint IBM / Hubspan Webspan offering
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
·
Who's Who in Supply Chain
Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – July 20, 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 4Q04 11 November 2004
IBM (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
IBM Makes
a Big B2B Play With Strategic Potential as It Acquires Sterling Commerce – July
12th, 2010 (G00205106) à We assess
the impact of this on IT users and the B2B market
·
IBM Adds
Comprehensive Cloud Service Integration to WebSphere via Cast Iron Acquisition – May
25th, 2010 (G00200793) à What
impact will this have on IBM’s Cloud strategy?
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
Evaluating
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Application Infrastructure Strategies for
Integration Projects – July 31st, 2009 (G00169490) à Analysis
of their A2A & B2B strategies
·
IBM and
Hubspan Deploy IaaS-Based Platform for B2B Project Outsourcing – May
20th, 2009 (G00168096) à Analysis
of new joint IBM / Hubspan Webspan offering
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
IBM's
Viacore Acquisition Will Incrementally Benefit Outsourcing Customers – 3 March
2006
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 2Q05 – 15 April 2005
·
Magic Quadrant for Integration
Service Providers, 4Q04 11 November 2004
ICC (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top) à Merged with Easylink
·
Microsoft,
Verizon and Other Vendors Drive IaaS Maturity – September 10, 2007
·
Who's Who in Supply Chain
Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – July 20, 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 4Q04 11 November 2004
Informatica
(Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 1 – April 19th,
2009
·
Seeding
the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption – October
1, 2008
·
SaaS
Integration: How to Choose the Best Approach – October 1, 2008
Infoteria (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 2 – April 14th, 2010
(G00175718) à We
evaluate more providers of solutions for Cloud services integration.
Ingram Micro (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services Brokerage – November 21st, 2011
(G00217530) à Examples
of providers that do some combination of CSB aggregation, integration or
customization role
Inovis (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
GXS/Inovis
Merger Is Likely Precursor to an Initial Public Offering –
February 2nd, 2010 (G00174106) à Love ‘em or hate ‘em, what GXS does matters to
the B2B market
·
GXS/Inovis
Merger Will Change the B2B Landscape – December 15th, 2009 (G00173515) à How will
the GXS / Inovis impact the highly evolving B2B integration market segment?
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
The Four
Styles of Process Execution in Multienterprise Scenarios – August
14, 2008
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
·
Inovis
Expands Its Portfolio of Multienterprise Applications –
November 6, 2007
·
Inovis
Stakes a Claim in B2B Market – August
10, 2007
·
Microsoft,
Verizon and Other Vendors Drive IaaS Maturity – September 10, 2007
·
Spider Diagram Ratings Highlight
Strengths and Challenges of Vendors in the B2B Infrastructure Market – July 23, 2007
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 2Q05 – 15 April 2005
·
Magic Quadrant for Integration
Service Providers, 4Q04 11 November 2004
Ipswitch (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Ipswitch
Buys MessageWay to Expand Beyond MFT Solutions – June
18th, 2010 (G00201680) à What does
this acquisition mean to users and the B2B market?
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
·
MarketScope
for Managed File Transfer Suites, 4Q04 — 10 November 2004
ITW (Acquired
Click Commerce (Acquired bTrade)) (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
In the following research the ITW BGS offering is covered under “Click
Commerce”:
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 2Q05 – 15 April 2005
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
·
MarketScope
for Managed File Transfer Suites, 4Q04 — 10 November 2004
iWay (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 2 – April 14th, 2010
(G00175718) à We
evaluate more providers of solutions for Cloud services integration.
·
SaaS
Integration: How to Choose the Best Approach – October 1, 2008
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 2Q05 – 15 April 2005
·
Adapter
Suites Bridge Gaps in Integration Projects 7 January 2005
Jamcracker (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Cool
Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerage, 2011 – April, 2011 (G00212316) à A closer
look at some early adopters of the cloud services brokerage role.
Jitterbit (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 2 – April 14th, 2010
(G00175718) à We
evaluate more providers of solutions for Cloud services integration.
Kewill (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
Layer 7 (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Liaison Technologies (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Case
Study: Mohawk Fine Papers Uses a CSB to Ease Adoption of Cloud Computing – July,
2011 (G00214537) à Mohawk
outsources ALL integration; focuses on process innovation
·
Liaison
Technologies Continues to Widen Its B2B Portfolio With nuBridges Acquisition – April,
2011 (G00212650) à Liaison
continues to add B2B functionality and grow its network
·
Liaison
Buys Advanced Data Exchange to Expand B2B Portfolio – January
14th, 2010 (G00173904) à Is this a
trivial commercial transaction, or part of a larger strategy?
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
Liaison
Deal Drives A2A and B2B Project Convergence – March 24th, 2009
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
LTech (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Cool
Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerage, 2011 – April, 2011 (G00212316) à A closer
look at some early adopters of the cloud services brokerage role.
Mashery (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Maventa (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Cool
Vendors in Multienterprise B2B, 2010 – April 12th, 2010 (G00175294) à We
evaluate some “cool” IT vendors with diverse, innovative approaches to B2B
integration problems
Microsoft (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 2 – April 14th, 2010
(G00175718) à We
evaluate more providers of solutions for Cloud services integration.
·
Evaluating
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Application Infrastructure Strategies for
Integration Projects – July 31st, 2009 (G00169490) à Analysis
of their A2A & B2B strategies
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
Microsoft,
Verizon and Other Vendors Drive IaaS Maturity – September 10, 2007
·
Microsoft,
GXS and Covast Will Automate E-Commerce Integration – 9 June
2006
·
Magic Quadrant
for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
·
Microsoft
Abandons MBN: A Wise Strategy With Near-Term Challenges – 13 June
2005
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 2Q05 – 15 April 2005
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 4Q04 11 November 2004
·
Microsoft
Wants Businesses to Agree With BizTalk — 9 August 1999
NetManage (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Adapter
Suites Bridge Gaps in Integration Projects 7 January 2005
nuBridges (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top) à Acquired by Liaison
·
Liaison
Technologies Continues to Widen Its B2B Portfolio With nuBridges Acquisition – April,
2011 (G00212650) à Liaison
continues to add B2B functionality and grow its network
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
·
nuBridges Could Give Many AS2
Users a Second Chance – 31 May 2006
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 2Q05 – 15 April 2005
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
·
MarketScope
for Managed File Transfer Suites, 4Q04 — 10 November 2004
Object Innovation (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Cool
Vendors in B2B Integration and Managed File Transfer, 2006 – 16
March 2006
Okta (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Cool
Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerage, 2011 – April, 2011 (G00212316) à A closer
look at some early adopters of the cloud services brokerage role.
OmPrompt (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Cool
Vendors in Multienterprise B2B, 2010 – April 12th, 2010 (G00175294) à We
evaluate some “cool” IT vendors with diverse, innovative approaches to B2B
integration problems
Oracle (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Oracle and
E2open Deploy BPN to Simplify B2B for Global Transport Processes –
November 25, 2009 (G00172716) à
·
Evaluating
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Application Infrastructure Strategies for
Integration Projects – July 31st, 2009 (G00169490) à Analysis
of their A2A & B2B strategies
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 2Q05 – 15 April 2005
OS33 (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Oxygen Cloud (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Cool
Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerage, 2011 – April, 2011 (G00212316) à A closer
look at some early adopters of the cloud services brokerage role.
Parallels (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Pervasive Software (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
Case
Study: Fulcrum Biometrics Thrives on Packaged Integration for salesforce.com
and QuickBooks – May 29th, 2009 (G00168352) à Cloud
computing / SaaS integration example
·
Who's Who
in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 1 – April 19th,
2009
·
Seeding
the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption – October
1, 2008
·
SaaS
Integration: How to Choose the Best Approach – October 1, 2008
·
Adapter
Suites Bridge Gaps in Integration Projects 7 January 2005
Primeur (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
Proginet (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
·
MarketScope
for Managed File Transfer Suites, 4Q04 — 10 November 2004
psHEALTH (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Progress
Software (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
Quadrem (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
Radianz (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
RevX (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
RedTail Solutions (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Supply Chain
Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – July 20, 2006
RollStream (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top) à Acquired by GXS
·
GXS Gets Social With
RollStream Acquisition – April, 2011 (G00212381) à Our
analysis of the impact of this acquisition on GXS, its customers and the B2B
ecommerce market.
·
Cool
Vendors in Platform and Integration Middleware, 2009 – March
17th, 2009
Salesforce.com (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Case
Study: Fulcrum Biometrics Thrives on Packaged Integration for salesforce.com
and QuickBooks – May 29th, 2009 (G00168352) à Cloud
computing / SaaS integration example
·
Seeding
the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption – October
1, 2008
·
Strategies
for Successful Multienterprise SaaS Integration – August 31, 2007
SAP (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
Evaluating
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Application Infrastructure Strategies for
Integration Projects – July 31st, 2009 (G00169490) à Analysis
of their A2A & B2B strategies
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
Crossgate
Challenges B2B Market With Tight Alliance With SAP – October 11, 2007
SeeBurger (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
Spider Diagram Ratings Highlight
Strengths and Challenges of Vendors in the B2B Infrastructure Market – July 23, 2007
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
European
B2B Vendors Deliver Mature Products – 3 August 2005
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 2Q05 – 15 April 2005
SigmaTrak (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Additional
Vendors in Supply Chain Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – July
20, 2006
Skyvva (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
SnapLogic (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
Software Assist (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Cool
Vendors in B2B Integration and Managed File Transfer, 2006 – 16
March 2006
Software
AG (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
Software
AG Aims for SOA Leadership With webMethods Deal – April
9, 2007
SPS Commerce (acquired Owens Direct) (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
SPS
Commerce Will Wield Its IPO Like a Sword, But Not Lethally, in the Battle for
B2B – February 19th, 2010 (G00174477) à Will SPS’ move be incremental – or disruptive?
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
·
Who's Who in Supply Chain
Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – July 20, 2006
·
SPS
Commerce Consolidates SMB-Focused Hosted Integration – 3 March
2006
Sterling Commerce (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Cloud Service Brokerages
Create a New Role for Integration Service Providers –
November 1st, 2010 (G00208700) à EDI VANs became Integration Service Providers;
Now – CSBs
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
IBM Makes
a Big B2B Play With Strategic Potential as It Acquires Sterling Commerce – July
12th, 2010 (G00205106) à We assess
the impact of this on IT users and the B2B market
·
Application
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March
22nd, 2010 (G00175138) à
Definitions and vendors for all middleware delivered as Cloud services
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
Spider Diagram Ratings Highlight
Strengths and Challenges of Vendors in the B2B Infrastructure Market – July 23, 2007
·
Think Twice About Migrating From
Sterling Commerce's Gentran:Server to Gentran Integration Suite – June 26
·
Sterling
Adds Comergent E-Business Functions to Its Portfolio –
November 29, 2006
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
·
Answer Three Questions Before Undertaking a Migration From
Connect:Direct – 15 September 2005
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 2Q05 – 15 April 2005
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 4Q04 11 November 2004
·
MarketScope
for Managed File Transfer Suites, 4Q04 — 10 November 2004
StrikeIron (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services Brokerage –
November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
·
Case
Study: Men's Wearhouse Finds StrikeIron's CSB Suits Its Customers – June,
2011 (G00213896) à Providers
in cloud services brokerage role can simplify cloud computing
·
Cool
Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerage, 2011 – April, 2011 (G00212316) à A closer
look at some early adopters of the cloud services brokerage role.
·
Deal With
StrikeIron Extends BEA's Data Services Platform –
September 26, 2006
·
Cool
Vendors in B2B Integration and Managed File Transfer, 2006 – 16
March 2006
Sun Microsystems (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
Magic Quadrant
for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 2Q05 – 15 April 2005
SupplyOn (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
SWIFT (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
Synnex (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
T-Systems (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
Taleo (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Seeding
the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption – October
1, 2008
TCS (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
TekSouth (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
Telecom Italia (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
Tibco (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration
Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) à MQ vendor ratings on both A2A and B2B integration
·
Tibco
Software's Purchase of Foresight Provides Opportunity to Strengthen B2B
Integration Offerings – March 26th, 2010 (G00174125)
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 2Q05 – 15 April 2005
Tieto (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009 (G00172249) à Annual
refresh of the Magic Quadrant for providers of IaaS and B2B integration
outsourcing
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May 28, 2008
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007
·
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
·
Cool Vendors in Application
Integration, 2005 —
30 March 2005
Traxian (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Additional
Vendors in Supply Chain Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – July
20, 2006
TrustWeaver (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Tumbleweed (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Managed
File Transfer Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005
·
MarketScope
for Managed File Transfer Suites, 4Q04 — 10 November 2004
Verecloud (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Verizon (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Microsoft,
Verizon and Other Vendors Drive IaaS Maturity – September 10, 2007
webMethods (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Software
AG Aims for SOA Leadership With webMethods Deal – April
9, 2007
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006
·
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005
·
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 2Q05 – 15 April 2005
·
GXS and webMethods'
Partnership Acknowledges Hybrid B2B Projects 16 March 2005
·
webMethods
Bets on Internet-Based Application Integration — 12
February 1999
Workday (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Seeding the
Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption – October 1, 2008
Xignite (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Zimory (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Who's Who in Cloud Services
Brokerage – November 21st, 2011 (G00217530) à Examples of providers that do some combination of
CSB aggregation, integration or customization role
Zuora (Back to Vendor List, Back to Top)
·
Seeding
the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption – October
1, 2008
The
following descriptions are organized by publication date, with the most recent on
top.
Essential Provider Selection Criteria to Use When Outsourcing the CSB
Role – January 30th, 2012 (G00230681) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: As cloud services brokerage proliferates, IT
leaders planning to use cloud services must assess and compare offerings from
different providers. This analysis provides evaluation criteria to help you
identify a suitable provider of CSB capabilities. Informal Description:
While Gartner research has previously been published on specific CSB critieria
(e.g., see Toolkit: RFP Template for Integration Brokerage) and on overall multi-sourcing integrator role (see Essential Provider Selection Criteria When
Outsourcing the Multisourcing Services Integrator Role.), in this research
we publish evaluation criteria specifically for helping you to select a
suitable provider of CSB capabilities. (8 pages with evaluation criteria table,
by Benoit Lheureux and Jim Longwood)
Cloud Services Brokerage
Proliferates – December 7th, 2011 (G00226656) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: As cloud computing adoption proliferates, so too
does the need for consumption assistance. In this research, we refresh our CSB
definition, explore its impact on the IT services provider landscape, highlight
some emerging CSB use case scenarios, and help users decide when to use CSB. Informal
Description: This is our so-called “Article Top View”, which is a brief
introduction and links to all of the CSB related research included in the 2011
Cloud Services Brokerage Special Report. (1 page, by Benoit Lheureux and Daryl
Plummer)
Emerging Services Analysis:
Communications Service Providers as Cloud Services Brokers – November 30th,
2011 (G00217464) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: As cloud services brokers, communications
service providers can establish a unique value-added market position in the
cloud ecosystem. Informal Description: This research explores the
opportunity for Telco’s to exploit new cloud services brokerage offerings in
conjunction with traditional communication services. (12 pages + 1 figure, by Alex
Winogradoff, Gregor Petri, and Benoit Lheureux)
Cloud
Services Brokerage Is Dominated by Three Primary Roles – November 23rd,
2011 (G00226509) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Cloud services brokerage is growing in
importance to IT services providers. The three roles that are most critical to
cloud brokerage success are aggregator, integrator and customizer. Informal
Description: This research updates and further refines our definition
of CSB, emphasizing the primary three CSB roles: aggregration, integration and
customization brokerage. (5 pages + 1 figure, by Daryl Plummer, Benoit Lheureux,
Michele Cantara, Tiffani Bova)
Predicts 2012:
Cloud Services Brokerage Will Bring New Benefits and Planning Challenges – November 22nd, 2011 (G00227370) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: As the market for cloud services brokerage
offerings continues to expand, end-user companies and cloud services providers
will need help strategizing their use. CSBs will make governance in the cloud
the most common way of consuming governance functionality. Informal
Description: Our first annual Predicts report on cloud services
brokerage. Includes predictions on CSB adoption, role of CSB in VAR channels,
role of “internal” CSB role, cost of CSB integration and role of BPMS in CSB
related projects. (5 pages, by Daryl C. Plummer, Benoit J. Lheureux, Michele
Cantara, Tiffani Bova)
Who's Who in
Cloud Services Brokerage – November 21st, 2011
(G00217530) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Many IT service providers have begun to offer
cloud services brokerage. Here, we provide an overview, including the roles and
products, as well as the strengths and challenges of some of the more prominent
vendors in this market. Informal Description: In this research we
provided examples of how the three primary cloud services brokerage roles are
leveraged across a wide range of cloud and cloud-enabled IT services. (32 pages,
by Benoit Lheureux, Daryl C. Plummer, Tiffani Bova, Michele Cantara, Eric
Knipp, Paolo Malinverno)
How to Determine
When to Use a Cloud Services Brokerage – November 17th, 2011 (G00226112) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: As cloud services brokerage proliferates,
companies must assess the best way to manage their cloud ecosystems and the
consumption of cloud services. Gartner provides a framework to help you decide
when to use a CSB. Informal Description: This research provides a
high level decision framework to help companies choose when (or not) to
consider cloud services brokerage to facilitate consumption of cloud services. (5
pages + 1 figure, by Benoit J. Lheureux, Daryl C. Plummer, Tiffani Bova, Michele
Cantara, Timothy Weaver, Jim Longwood)
How to Evaluate Process Agility and Visibility in Cloud Business
Process Services – November 15th,
2011 (G00219693) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Business process management is key to enabling
agility and visibility in cloud business process services. This research
provides criteria to help organizations evaluate the BPM capabilities in
business-process-as-a-service and cloud services brokerage offerings. Informal
Description: Not every project requires BPM discipline and technology,
but many can benefit from them. In this research we assess the role of BPM in
IT projects involving cloud services brokerage and cloud-enabled business
process services. (6 pages + 2 figures, by Michele Cantara and Benoit Lheureux)
Predicts
2012: Application Integration Will Increase in Scope and Complexity – November 10th,
2011 (G00226113) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: As organizations' application portfolios become
ever more diversified and distributed, corresponding integration projects will
also increase in scope and complexity. We predict how companies will address
some emerging integration challenges during the next few years. Informal
Description: Our annual application integration Predicts report. Includes
predictions on: convergence of application and data integration; the increasing
scope of integration projects (spanning A2A, B2B ecommerce and Cloud); the cost
of integration relative to applications, the adoption of iPaaS relative to
integration software; and API governance. (8 pages, by Benoit J. Lheureux, Jess
Thompson, Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Paolo Malinverno, Timothy Weaver, Ted
Friedman)
The Role of CSB
in the Cloud Services Value Chain – October 4th, 2011 (G00218960) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Cloud services brokerage is a role that
providers are adopting as part of their cloud services value chain strategy.
Cloud services providers can use this research, a part of the Cloud Services
Value Chain research series, to benefit from future opportunities associated
with this market trend. Informal Description: What is the impact
of Cloud computing on the $850m+ IT services industry? One consequence is that
most service providers will leverage some combination of the CSB aggregation,
integration and customization roles in conjunction with their service
offerings. This research outlines how that IT scenario is likely to play out.
(22 pages + 2 figures, by Benoit J. Lheureux, Daryl C. Plummer, Tiffani Bova, Timothy
Weaver, Michele Cantara, Linda R. Cohen, Robert H. Brown)
Toolkit: RFP Template for Integration Brokerage – August 18th, 2011 (G00215981) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: This Toolkit sample template is designed to help
application managers create RFPs to evaluate providers of integration brokerage
services (also known as managed services) for application-to-application, B2B
and cloud integration projects. Informal Description: Companies
that are implementing EDI, B2B and Cloud integration projects can outsource
project implementation and management via integration brokerage (aka “managed
services”). This toolkit helps companies create RFPs and select suitable
providers of integration brokerage for their own projects. (25 pages including
WORD RFP Template and EXCEL RFP Vendor Evaluation toolkit, by Benoit Lheureux
and Paolo Malinverno)
Case Study: Mohawk Fine Papers Uses a CSB to Ease Adoption of Cloud
Computing – July, 2011 (G00214537) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: This Case Study examines how paper manufacturer
Mohawk Fine Papers uses cloud services brokerage Liaison Technologies' service
to help access trading partners and simplify the adoption of cloud computing.
The research provides useful lessons for combining traditional e-commerce with
cloud computing. Informal Description: Mohawk Fine Papers wanted
to focus on multi-enterprise process innovation and improvement across
applications, trading partners and the cloud – not on application integration
technical issues. This research explores Mohawk’s approach, its results and
lessons learned. (5 pages + 2 figures, by Benoit Lheureux)
Mobile and Context-Aware
Branches Grow From Public Web APIs – June, 2011 (G00213866) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Web APIs have emerged from the domain of
Internet companies to become key components of mobile enablement and
multichannel customer engagement. When planning your mobile, social, and
consumer-oriented e-commerce and application development strategies, build a
Web API first. Informal Description: Successful Web API
strategies require a strategy that combines commercial and technical
go-to-market approaches. (5 pages, by Eric Knipp and Benoit Lheureux)
Case Study: Men's
Wearhouse Finds StrikeIron's CSB Suits Its Customers – June, 2011 (G00213896)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: This Case Study examines how the retailer Men's
Wearhouse uses StrikeIron's cloud-based contact verification to improve
customer master data quality and customer satisfaction. This research offers
lessons for organizations considering using a cloud services brokerage. Informal
Description: Cloud computing consumption requires non-trivial
commercial and technical resources – increasingly, IT providers act as
intermediaries in the cloud services brokerage role to help companies consume
cloud services. (4 pages + Fig, by Benoit Lheureux)
How a Canonical
Messaging Approach Can Help You Simplify and Reduce Interface Assets – May,
2011 (G00213216) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Organizations are seeking best practices as they
switch from point-to-point interfaces to address development and management
challenges. We provide the what, why, when and how of canonical messages, a
best practice that streamlines application integration and service development
activities. Informal Description: Canonical form is often
touted as a highly differentiated and valuable skill for integration; we agree,
explain why, and when you’re reap the greatest benefits. (5 pages + Fig, by Jess
Thompson and Benoit Lheureux)
Liaison
Technologies Continues to Widen Its B2B Portfolio With nuBridges Acquisition – April, 2011 (G00212650)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The nuBridges acquisition gives Liaison
Technologies expanded B2B network and technology capabilities. Liaison's
emphasis on security and managed file transfer solutions to enhance its
integration product and services portfolio underscores the importance of hybrid
solutions. Informal Description: Liaison acquires new
capabilities for its B2B network and continues its tenacious, incremental
consolidation of the ecommerce market. (4 pages, by Benoit Lheureux, Thomas
Skybakmoen, Paolo Malinverno and John Pescatore)
Cool Vendors in
Cloud Services Brokerage, 2011 – April,
2011 (G00212316) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Cloud services brokerages help companies that
want to consume cloud services, but lack the technology, resources or desire to
do so themselves. We focus on five Cool Vendors that highlight some of the many
ways in which IT providers deliver cloud services brokerage capabilities. Informal
Description: A closer look at some early adopters of the cloud services
brokerage role. (5 pages, by Benoit Lheureux and Daryl Plummer)
GXS Gets Social
With RollStream Acquisition – April,
2011 (G00212381) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: GXS has acquired RollStream to add its social-networking-style
approach to community management to its offerings. We believe community
management is a high-value capability for users and a key differentiator for
providers. Informal Description: Our analysis of the
impact of this acquisition on GXS, its users and the B2B ecommerce market
segment. (4 pages, by Benoit Lheureux, Paolo Malinverno, Deborah R Wilson and Dennis
Gaughan)
Taxonomy, Definitions and the Vendor Landscape for Application Integration
Solutions, 2011 – March, 2011 (G00211539)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The need to automate and improve business
processes and their associated business information drives IT user investment
and vendor innovation in application integration. Our taxonomy, definitions and
lists of vendors will help you understand application integration. Informal
Description: This research enumerates, defines and lists vendors for
every application integration solution covered by Gartner spanning A2A, B2B,
Cloud – and everything inbetween. (40 pages, by Benoit Lheureux, Thomas Skybakmoen, Jess Thompson,
Paolo Malinverno, Fabrizio Biscotti, Deborah R Wilson, Roy Schulte, Mark A. Beyer, Eric Knipp, and Massimo
Pezzini)
The Pros and Cons of Seeking a Single Source for Your Application
Integration Solutions – March, 2011 (G00211608)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Organizations are increasingly moving to a
single source for their application integration products. This research
explains why this trend is emerging, and provides our view on the advantages
and disadvantages of moving to a single source. Informal
Description: Trying to decide on whether to implement one – or several
– application integration solutions? If so, we’ll help you walk through key
decision criteria. (7 pages, by Jess Thompson and Benoit Lheureux)
Gartner 2011 Research
Outlook for Application Integration – March, 2011 (G00211158) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Application integration is aligned with and
depends on technologies and strategies that include data integration, business
process management, cloud computing and platforms, application-to-application
integration, B2B integration and integration brokerage. Informal
Description: An overview of our 2011 A2A and B2B application
integration research agenda. (6 pages, by Jess Thompson, Thomas Skybakmoen,
Ross Altman and Benoit Lheureux)
Integration
Platform as a Service: Moving Integration to the Cloud – March, 2011 (G00210747 ) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Integration platform as a service enables
implementation of application, process, service and data integration, and the
relevant governance, "in the cloud." Coexistence and federation of
iPaaS offerings with on-premises integration and governance platforms will be
the norm for large organizations. Informal Description: This
research redefines “integration as a service” as “integration platform as a
service”, taking into consideration the impact of cloud computing and other
innovations, e.g., governance technologies. (10 pages, by Massimo Pezzini and Benoit
Lheureux)
Market Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide,
2010-2015, 1Q11 Update – February, 2011
(G00210355) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Spending on multienterprise/business-to-business
infrastructure technologies is poised to grow at a healthy pace during the next
five years. Growth will be driven by the trend toward the provision of various
B2B technologies via a software-as-a-service model, as well as via outsourcing
services. Informal Description: This research is our
five-year forecast for various B2B integration solutions, including iPaaS –
think: “integration as a service v2” – and integration brokerage – think: “B2B
Integration Outsourcing v2” or “EDI managed services v2” – but also for MFT,
MFTaaS and other solutions. (10 pages, by Fabrizio Biscotti, Paolo Malinverno, Benoit
J. Lheureux and Thomas Skybakmoen)
Integration Brokerage
Provides Facilitated Intermediation for B2B E-Commerce and Cloud Services
Brokerage – January, 2011 (G00210460)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The "brokerage" in "integration
brokerage" emphasizes IT services to help companies integrate B2B
e-commerce and cloud services. We expand on our definition in this research. Informal
Description: We’ve covered B2B / EDI managed services for many years –
in this research we formally introduce and define integration brokerage, an
evolved form of managed services that addresses both traditional ecommerce and
Cloud services integration. (5 pages, by Benoit Lheureux, Daryl Plummer and Paolo Malinverno)
Ariba Enters Into an
Agreement to Acquire Quadrem – December, 2011 (G00209631) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: On 18 November 2010, Ariba announced plans to
acquire Quadrem, signaling a change of strategy as Ariba eyes a new
marketplace. Informal Description: The acquisition of
Quadrem expands Ariba’s network reach and helps it further expand beyond MRO. (3
pages, by Mickey North Rizza, Deborah R Wilson, Chad Eschinger, Benoit J.
Lheureux, and Paolo Malinverno)
Examining the Embedded
Multienterprise Integration Market – November, 2011 (G00207471) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Buyers, sellers and business partners can
proactively manage increasingly complex B2B integration solution portfolios,
including embedded multienterprise integration, by understanding market
dynamics and key solution differentiators. Informal Description:
As users increasingly seek more holistic solutions to problems they will
increasingly be able to acquire packaged applications with embedded solutions
to integration. This research forecasts the five year growth prospects for the
embedded integration market. (10 pages, by Deborah R Wilson, Chad Eschinger, Benoit
J. Lheureux, Fabrizio Biscotti, C. Dwight Klappich, Tim Payne, Andrew White, Nigel
Rayner, Paolo Malinverno, Thomas Skybakmoen)
Predicts 2011: Application
Integration: A Nimble Veteran of IT – November, 2011 (G002091657) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Application integration problems are
proliferating as rapidly as the adoption of cloud computing, open-source
software and e-invoicing. Fortunately, solutions to these new application
integration problems are proliferating too. Informal Description:
This is our annual roll-up of predicts regarding A2A, B2B, MFT and
Cloud-related application integration. (5 pages, by Benoit J. Lheureux, Jess
Thompson, Thomas Skybakmoen, Deborah R Wilson)
Dell Must Take
Decisive Action to Fully Leverage the Boomi Acquisition – November 9th, 2010 (G00208939) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom Line: Dell's purchase of pure-play cloud integration specialist Boomi has plenty of potential. But Dell must quickly choose the best way to use its Boomi assets, including possibly by becoming a cloud services brokerage. Informal Description: Dell acquired Boomi, a Cloud services integration specialist and type of Cloud services brokerage. Here we explore the potential ramifications of this acquisition, including how Dell may leverage Boomi as a stand-alone offering, as a ‘bolt on’ to its infrastructure as a service offering, and as a key component in a potential future Dell CSB offering. (2 pages, by Benoit J. Lheureux, Adrian O'Connell, Daryl C. Plummer, Drue Reeves, Paolo Malinverno)
Cloud Services Brokerages: The Dawn of the Next Intermediation Age – November 5th,
2010 (G00208731) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Without a
model for intermediation to enhance and enrich cloud services adoption, many
customers will struggle. We explain the relevance of the cloud services
brokerage as an intermediation model for cloud computing. Informal Description:
In this research we enumerate and introduce the ten research notes for the
Cloud services brokerage Special Report (2 pages, by Benoit Lheureux, Daryl
Plummer)
The Delicate Side
of Cloud Services Brokerages: Governance – November 4th,
2010 (G00208451) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Future
offerings combining governance services (on a service-oriented architecture
model), use of application functionality "in the cloud" and B2B
services are bound to offer interesting cloud opportunities for IT users and
technology and service providers. Informal
Description: In this research we evaluate the role of governance
technologies in Cloud services brokerage (4 pages, by Paolo Malinverno)
Key Issues
for Cloud Services Brokerages, 2011 – November 3rd,
2010 (G00208712) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: loud
services brokerages will have a profound impact on cloud computing, the IT
service and software industries, and IT consumers. Gartner's CSB coverage helps
IT providers and consumers more effectively deliver and consume cloud services. Informal Description:
This research note outlines Gartner’s research agenda around the topic of Cloud
services brokerage (2 pages, by Benoit Lheureux, Daryl Plummer)
Cloud Service
Brokerages Create a New Role for Integration Service Providers – November 1st, 2010 (G00208700) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Cloud
service brokerages are new intermediaries that enrich cloud service consumption
for IT consumers. Many integration service providers, by leveraging their
strengths as intermediaries for traditional e-commerce B2B, will likely evolve
into cloud service brokerages. Informal
Description: TBD (X pages, by Benoit Lheureux, …)
Cloud
Services Brokerages Will Enable Business Process Utilities to Deliver
Off-the-Shelf Processes – October, 27th,
2010 (G00208045) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Business
process utilities automate and reduce the cost of outsourced processes. Cloud
services brokerages will help reduce risk and drive the future aggregation,
management and proliferation of BPU offerings. Informal Description: This research explores
the symbiotic relationship between Cloud services brokerage and Business
process utilities – a form of Cloud-sourced business process outsourcing (5
pages, by Robert Brown, Benoit Lheureux)
Magic Quadrant
for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration Projects – November 18th, 2010 (G00205883) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Products
that provide support for integration require a set of features that ranges from
robust messaging to support for B2B protocols. This Magic Quadrant examines
vendors whose products provide features that address the needs of systematic
A2A, B2B and cloud-based application integration projects. Informal Description:
In this research we evaluate vendors on their ability to execute and
completeness of vision for addressing the market of users implementing
systematic application integration for both internal (A2A) and external (B2B)
integration projects (20 pages, by Jess Thompson, Benoit J. Lheureux, Paolo
Malinverno, Massimo Pezzini, Daniel Sholler, Yefim V. Natis, Kimihiko Iijima)
A Logical
Reference Model for Cloud Services Brokerage – October 13th, 2010 (G00206188) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Cloud
services brokerage can aggregate, enrich and deliver cloud services in many
ways. We examine the relationship of CSB enablers to the business of brokerage. Informal Description:
A taxonomy of the enabling technology, functional capabilities and types of Cloud
services brokerage offerings (5 pages, by Daryl Plummer, Benoit Lheureux)
Defining Cloud
Services Brokerage: Taking Intermediation to the Next Level – October, 8th,
2010 (G00206187) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Cloud
services benefit from some form of intermediation to protect the end customer.
We introduce a service provider category -- cloud services brokerage -- as a
critical success factor in the use of cloud services. Informal Description: In this research we
formal define “Cloud services brokerage” (6 pages, by Daryl C. Plummer, Benoit
J. Lheureux, Frances Karamouzis)
Cloud
Interoperability Can Be Brokered – October 8th, 2010 (G00206169) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Cloud
interoperability is a desirable goal that can be achieved by hiring someone who
can intermediate among cloud services. We examine what it means to broker
interoperability. Informal
Description: This research explores the challenges of Cloud services
interoperability, and the potential for addressing that role via Cloud services
brokerage (4 pages, by Daryl Plummer)
Context and the Cloud: How to Create Context Brokers Using the Cloud
Services Brokerage Framework – September 9th,
2010 (G00205897) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Context
brokers and cloud services brokerages will be new areas of investment for
enterprises during 2010 to 2015. We explore the relationship between them. Informal Description:
In this research we explore how context aware computing can be enabled by Cloud
services brokerage and how Cloud services brokerage can be used to help enable
context aware computing (4 pages, by William Clark, Benoit J. Lheureux)
Ariba and Hubspan Partner to Scale Up Integration in the Cloud – August 18th,
2010 (G00205763) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Ariba and
Hubspan are jointly delivering a new, cloud-based integration service that will
make it easier for organizations to integrate the Ariba Network with their ERP
and other back-end systems. We examine the partnership in more detail. Informal Description:
We provide analysis on the impact of the Ariba / Hubspan partnership on users
and the B2B market (3 pages, by Benoit Lheureux, Debbie Wilson)
Market Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide,
2009-2014 – July 14th,
2010 (G00200571) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Spending
on multienterprise/business-to-business infrastructure technologies is poised
to grow at a healthy pace during the next five years. Growth will be driven by
the trend toward the provision of various B2B technologies via a
software-as-a-service model, as well as via outsourcing services. Informal Description:
In this research we forecast world-wide IT end user spend on nine discrete B2B
integration products and services (10 pages, by Fabrizio Biscotti, Benoit J.
Lheureux, Paolo Malinverno, Thomas Skybakmoen)
IBM Makes a Big B2B Play
With Strategic Potential as It Acquires Sterling Commerce – July 12th, 2010 (G00205106) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: IBM's
acquisition of Sterling Commerce makes IBM a much more significant purveyor of
B2B solutions, with the inclusion of managed services. The acquisition also
expands IBM's WebSphere portfolio of multienterprise applications and
application infrastructures. Informal
Description: What will be the impact of IBM’s acquisition of Sterling
Commerce on IT users, the B2B market overall, individual B2B products and IBM’s
long term role in multi-enterprise applications? (9 pages, by Benoit Lheureux, Jeff
Woods, Gene Alvarez, Thomas Skybakmoen, Paolo Malinverno, Dennis Gaughan, Dwight
Klappich, Jess Thompson, Fabrizio Biscotti, Jessica O'Brien, Tim Payne, Jim
Sinur)
Ipswitch Buys MessageWay
to Expand Beyond MFT Solutions – June 18th, 2010 (G00201680) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: MessageWay
Solutions adds advanced analytics, governance and B2B technology to Ipswitch's
portfolio of managed file transfer solutions. It also improves the company's
electronic data interchange capabilities.
Informal Description: Gartner’s analysis of the impact
to the B2B market and IT users of Ipswitch’s acquisition of MessageWay. (2
pages, by Thomas Skybakmoen, Benoit J. Lheureux)
Gartner 2010 Research
Outlook on Managed File Transfer – June 11th, 2010 (G00175726) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Our MFT
research agenda covers topics such as the use of MFT in governance, data
integration, e-mail and business process management. During 2010, we'll examine
the importance of MFT solutions in combination with application-to-application
and cloud services/multienterprise B2B integration efforts. Informal Description:
Gartner defines its 2010 research plan for managed file transfer (MFT). (4
pages, by Thomas Skybakmoen, Benoit J. Lheureux)
Forecast: Public Cloud
Services, Worldwide and Regions, Industry Sectors, 2009-2014 – June 2nd, 2010 (G00200833) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: This
report contains market size and forecast analysis of public cloud services
delivered by commercial cloud services providers. It provides worldwide and
regional data and also worldwide industry sector adoption. Informal Description:
Ben Pring’s annual refresh of the Cloud services five-year forecast. This
includes our five-year forecast of integration as a service (IaaS) for Cloud
services integration projects. (13 pages, by Ben Pring, Benoit Lheureux, and
many others)
IBM Adds Comprehensive
Cloud Service Integration to WebSphere via Cast Iron Acquisition – May 25th, 2010 (G00200793) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The acquisition
of Cast Iron Systems makes IBM the largest provider of appliances for
application infrastructure and middleware. It also gives IBM a credible and
differentiated cloud service integration offering to complement its WebSphere
portfolio of integration solutions and for potential use in cloud offerings.
However, this addition to IBM's many integration solutions will make it more
challenging in some cases for users to choose the right integration product
from IBM, and there's still no detail on its use in cloud offerings. Informal Description:
IBM acquired Cast Iron – this research addresses the obvious appliance angle
but looks well beyond that to the impact this acquisition will have on IBM’s
Cloud strategy overall, and Cloud services integration and Cloud services
brokerage in particular. (7 pages, by Benoit J. Lheureux, Daryl C. Plummer, W.
Roy Schulte, Daniel Sholler, Yefim V. Natis, Jess Thompson)
Gartner 2010 Research Outlook on A2A Integration – May 17th, 2010 (G00175691) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Application-to-application
integration is affected by technologies, vendors, trends and strategies used to
implement different integration styles. Our planned 2010 research aligns with
topics such as data integration, business process management and cloud
services/multienterprise B2B integration.
Informal Description: This is a formal definition of
our A2A integration research topic for 2010 – it’s a drill down on A2A from the
higher-level view in Key Issues for Application Integration, 2010 and addresses how the A2A and B2B worlds increasingly are intermingled.
(4 pages, by Jess Thompson, Benoit
Lheureux and Thomas Skybakmoen)
SWOT: Axway,
Application Infrastructure and Middleware, Worldwide – April 23rd,
2010 (G00173114) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Axway is
one of the major worldwide vendors in the application infrastructure and
middleware software market. This document analyzes Axway's strengths and
opportunities and how they balance with its weaknesses and threats. Informal Description:
Our team’s SWOT analysis of Axway. (11 pages, by Fabrizio Biscotti, Paolo Malinverno
and Benoit J. Lheureux)
Who's Who in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 2 – April
14th, 2010 (G00175718)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: This
research provides a brief analysis of seven providers of solutions for
cloud-computing/software-as-a-service integration scenarios. It also offers
advice on when to consider engaging with each vendor. Informal Description: 2nd
installment of analysis on providers of Cloud services integration – for 1st
installment see Who's Who in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 1. This time we evaluated providers Appirio, Appresso, Celigo,
Infoteria, iWay Software, Jitterbit and Microsoft. (7 pages, by Benoit
Lheureux, Eric Knipp, Jess Thompson and Kimihiko Iijima)
Cool
Vendors in Multienterprise B2B, 2010 – April 12th,
2010 (G00175294) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: As the
notion that electronic transactions enable efficiency and save money becomes
widespread, and B2B projects proliferate, some nascent vendors are offering interesting,
low-cost-of-entry opportunities, especially for small and midsize businesses,
for reducing the costs of electronic trading. Informal Description: This research
introduces and provides analysis on several vendors, including First4Farming,
Loren Data, Maventa, and OmPrompt. These providers offer highly diverse,
innovative approaches to solving various B2B integration problems. Also see Cool Vendors in Platform and Integration
Middleware, 2009. (3 pages, by Paolo Malinverno and Benoit
Lheureux).
Tibco Software's
Purchase of Foresight Provides Opportunity to Strengthen B2B Integration
Offerings – March 26th, 2010
(G00174125) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The
acquisition of Foresight gives Tibco Software instant credibility in healthcare
integration and a powerful addition to its BusinessConnect products. However,
the vendor has some work to do to rationalize the feature set, and it must
ensure that it does not lose focus. Informal
Description: Analysis on Tibco’s acquisition of Foresight, and the
impact this has on Tibco’s B2B integration strategy. (3 pages, by Jess
Thompson, Wes Rishel and Benoit Lheureux).
Key Issues for Application Integration, 2010 – March 22nd,
2010 (G00175506) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Application
integration has traditionally been applied to discrete IT projects, such as internal
applications, B2B e-commerce and file movement. But this approach is changing
because users want more-holistic or embedded solutions for all types of
integration. Informal
Description: A half dozen analysts corroborated this year to define the
key issues facing clients relative to all forms of application integration that
will be addressed in 2010 via Gartner research including A2A, B2B, MFT, Cloud,
and regarding application integration consolidation, composite applications and
Mashups, packaged integration and the application integration solution vendor
landscape. (4 pages, by Benoit Lheureux, Jess Thompson, Thomas Skybakmoen,
Paolo Malinverno,
Application Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: A Growing Market, 2010 – March 22nd, 2010 (G00175138) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Application
infrastructure (middleware) is an essential enabling technology for business
applications, whether deployed on- or off-premises. This research looks at the
emerging trends in application infrastructure for cloud computing, also known
as application platform as a service. Informal
Description: Yefim led this corroboration of a dozen analysts to
enumerate, define and reveal the vendor landscape for application
infrastructure (middleware) delivered as Cloud services – includes integration
as a service. (11 pages, by Yefim Natis and a dozen other analysts across
Gartner).
SPS
Commerce Will Wield Its IPO Like a Sword, But Not Lethally, in the Battle for
B2B – February 19th, 2010 (G00174477) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Integration
service provider SPS Commerce has plans to issue an initial public offering. We
believe this has the potential to strengthen its competitive stance, and
examine how this is likely to drive more-intense competition in the B2B
integration services market. Informal
Description: Our analysis on SPS Commerce’s recent IPO filing including
our positions regarding the likely impact of this IPO on the B2B integration
services market, IT end-users and SPS Commerce itself. Note the timely and
thematic tie-in to GXS’ recent acquisition of Inovis and its own near-term IPO
aspirations: GXS/Inovis Merger Is Likely Precursor to an
Initial Public Offering (5 pages, By Benoit J. Lheureux, John Rizzuto,
Timothy Weaver and Paolo Malinverno).
GXS/Inovis
Merger Is Likely Precursor to an Initial Public Offering – February 2nd,
2010 (G00174106) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The merger
of leading B2B solution providers GXS and Inovis makes the largest B2B vendor
even larger as it prepares for a potential future IPO. We look at the
implications for GXS, Inovis, their customers and the B2B market. Informal Description:
This is a follow-up to GXS/Inovis Merger Will Change the B2B Landscape, with a more detailed analysis of the GXS / Inovis integration
challenges and potential impact of a future GXS IPO on customer and the B2B
market. Note the timely and thematic tie-in to SPS Commerce’ recent IPO filing:
SPS Commerce Will Wield Its IPO Like a Sword, But Not Lethally, in the
Battle for B2B (5 pages, By Benoit Lheureux, John Rizzuto, Paolo
Malinverno and
Liaison Buys
Advanced Data Exchange to Expand B2B Portfolio – January 14th,
2010 (G00173904) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Liaison
Technologies' purchase of Advanced Data Exchange further strengthens its
portfolio of business-to-business offerings. It will also allay customer
concerns about the long-term viability of Advanced Data Exchange. Informal Description:
Although the ADX acquisition itself is not a high-impact commercial
transaction, this research considers that event in the larger context of
Liaison’s persistent effort via organic and M&A endeavors to expand and
diversify its B2B business and market share. (1 page, by Benoit Lheureux).
Knitting Clouds Together: How
Integration as a Service Enables B2B Integration Outsourcing – January 4th, 2010 (G00173186) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Organizations
demand new integration/outsourcing services to integrate cloud-computing and
software-as-a service functionality with each other and with on-premises
applications and data. CIOs and application managers need to get the most from
these services. Informal
Description: This research explores the role that integration as a
service (IaaS) plays in B2B integration and project outsourcing – it’s a great
example of how Cloud computing enriches outsourcing. (4 pages, By Benoit
Lheureux and Paolo Malinverno).
GXS/Inovis Merger
Will Change the B2B Landscape – December 15th,
2009 (G00173515) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The merger
of leading business-to-business solution providers GXS and Inovis will
fundamentally alter the landscape in the B2B market. But the larger entity
faces a large debt burden and product rationalization challenges. Informal Description:
We analyze the impact of the GXS / Inovis merge on the B2B integration market
segment. (2 pages, By Benoit Lheureux, John Rizzuto and Paolo Malinverno). Also
see the more detailed follow-up research: GXS/Inovis Merger Is Likely Precursor to an
Initial Public Offering.
Predicts
2010: Application Infrastructure for Cloud Computing – November 30, 2009
(G00172072) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Application
infrastructure technologies, such as database, security and event processing,
are following integration and application server offerings to the cloud. The
established vendors look for ways to innovate, while preserving their
established business. The newcomers just innovate. Informal Description: Various predictions on
how Application Infrastructure (Middleware) will evolve in 2010 and beyond.
Includes my predictions regarding the increasing adoption of packaged
integration, integration as a service (IaaS) and Cloud Service Brokerages. (6 pages,
By Yefim Natis, Benoit Lheureux, Eric, Knipp, Daryl Plummer and others).
Oracle and E2open Deploy BPN to Simplify B2B for Global Transport
Processes – November 25, 2009
(G00172716) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Oracle and
E2open are collaborating to offer a business process network solution that
simplifies B2B and provides Oracle Transportation Management users preonboard
integration. But the partnership will have to prove itself by building a
long-term community. Informal
Description: This industry event is a good reflection of an overall
trend regarding the consumption of integration services – companies
increasingly want that delivered as an industry or process-specific solution,
not as horizontal technology; in this case for e-logistics. (2 pages, By Benoit
Lheureux and Dwight Klappich).
Magic Quadrant
for Integration Service Providers – November 20th, 2009
(G00172249) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The bar is
raised: Expanding globalization, larger communities, e-invoicing,
service-oriented architecture, more-sophisticated processes, cloud computing
and improved service-level agreements are driving integration service providers
to new levels of maturity. Informal
Description: Annual update to the Magic Quadrant for Integration
Service Providers, rating 17 providers of integration as a service (IaaS) and
of B2B integration and project outsourcing. (20 pages including MQ graphic, By
Benoit Lheureux and Paolo Malinverno).
Predicts 2010: Business Process
Management Will Expand Beyond Traditional Boundaries – November 19th, 2009 (G00172856) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: BPM
projects are moving beyond optimizing structured processes into broader,
cross-boundary process domains. Such projects challenge long-held ideas about
solution development, stakeholder concerns, and business and IT roles and
relationships. Informal
Description: Various predictions on how BPM will evolve in 2010 and
beyond. Includes my prediction regarding the increasing adoption of business
process networks (BPN’s). (6 pages, By Janelle Hil, Benoit Lheureux and others).
Business Process Networks Offer Solutions for Collaborative
Multienterprise Process Integration – September
21st, 2009 (G00171214)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: BPNs are
emerging in the area of multienterprise process integration. CIOs and
application managers should look beyond simplistic technological approaches to
integration. Informal
Description: This research updates Gartner’s definition of Business
Process Networks (BPNs) from a technology and business point of view, including
why they matter. (4 pages, By Benoit Lheureux).
Search
Analytics Trends: B2B Integration – August 26th,
2009 (G00169874) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: This
document presents search data from Gartner's website on B2B-related topics,
providing insight into end-user interests. Clients' B2B search behavior has
remained constant during the past two years, supporting the fact that
multienterprise B2B integration is a key IT enabler. Informal Description: Fabrizio Biscotti leads
our analysis of how Gartner clients search for B2B integration topics on
Gartner.com. (3 pages, By Fabrizio Biscotti, Benoit Lheureux and Paolo
Malinverno).
Five
Key Questions to Ask Your Integration Service Provider to Help Manage Risk – September 3rd, 2009 (G00170783) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: When
issuing an RFP for integration services, many users miss the opportunity to ask
questions on five important topics: pricing, service-level agreements, disaster
recovery, intellectual property and staffing skill levels. Informal Description:
Are you about to sign a contract with an integration service provider (e.g., Cast
Iron, GXS) to help you implement a B2B integration project for ecommerce or
Cloud computing / SaaS integration? Stop! Before you sign, first ask these five
questions. (5 pages, By Benoit Lheureux and Paolo Malinverno).
Integration
Service Providers Magic Quadrant Evaluation Criteria – August 7th,
2009 (G00170067) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Because of
vendor and product diversity, selecting an integration service provider is a
challenging, time-consuming activity. Use Gartner's rating criteria as a
starting point to evaluate potential service providers. Informal Description: This research
enumerates the criteria you should consider when choosing an integration
service provider for your B2B integration project. (7 pages, By Benoit Lheureux
and Paolo Malinverno).
Hype Cycle
for Governance, Risk and Compliance Technologies, 2009 – July 17th,
2009 (G00168610) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Although
regulatory compliance continues to drive product sales, organizations are
looking for automation solutions that can help them more reliably and
comprehensively manage multiple forms of risk. Informal Description: This Hype Cycle for
Governance, Risk and Compliance Technologies includes a TP on Cloud Services
Governance, relative to Gartner’s emerging line of research on Cloud services
brokerage (25 pages, Hype Cycle by Jay Heiser; Technology Profile on Cloud
Services Governance by Frank Kenney; Daryl Plummer; Benoit Lheureux).
GXS
and RollStream Will Help Lower the Cost of Running Large B2B Communities – July 31st, 2009 (G00169590) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: GXS is
modernizing its B2B Trading Grid network with collaborative community
management capabilities from RollStream. This will make it easier and less
expensive for GXS and its customers to run large B2B projects. Informal Description:
We assess the merits of applying workflow, social networking and other forms of
Web 2.0-style collaboration to integration services for large B2B projects. (3 pages,
By Benoit Lheureux and Paolo Malinverno). Also see RollStream write-up in Cool Vendors in Platform and Integration Middleware, 2009.
Evaluating
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Application Infrastructure Strategies for
Integration Projects – July 31st,
2009 (G00169490) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Application
infrastructure is the combined middleware capabilities to develop, deploy, run
and integrate applications. While there's a lot of similarity, IT users should
be aware of remaining differences among application infrastructure strategies
of IT megavendors IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. Informal Description: This research uses the
criteria defined in How to Evaluate Your Vendors'
Application Infrastructure Strategy to rate the
back-end integration and multienterprise / B2B strategies of IBM, Microsoft,
Oracle and SAP. (8 pages, By Benoit Lheureux, Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Jess
Thompson, Paolo Malinverno, Daniel Sholler).
How to Evaluate Your Vendors' Application Infrastructure Strategy – June 1st, 2009 (G00168377) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Application
infrastructure is the overlapping combination of middleware capabilities to
develop, deploy, run, and integrate applications. In this research, we define
the criteria used to rate an IT vendor's application infrastructure strategy. Informal Description:
This research defines the rating criteria for assessing a vendor’s application
infrastructure strategy for New SOA applications, SOA composite applications,
back-end integration and multienterprise / B2B integration projects. (6 pages,
By Benoit Lheureux, Yefim V. Natis, Paolo Malinverno, Jess Thompson, Massimo
Pezzini, Daniel Sholler). Also see Evaluating IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP
Application Infrastructure Strategies for Integration Projects, where the criteria are put to work to evaluate the four IT
mega-vendors internal and B2B integration strategies.
Case
Study: Fulcrum Biometrics Thrives on Packaged Integration for salesforce.com
and QuickBooks – May 29th,
2009 (G00168352) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom Line: Fulcrum Biometrics has
discovered that packaged integration -- akin to packaged applications -- can
solve a complex integration problem with little to no development effort. Informal Description:
My analysis of the value of packaged integration applied by Fulcrum Biometrics
to the Cloud computing / SaaS integration problem involving Salesforce.com and
Quickbooks. (4 pages, By Benoit Lheureux).
IBM and
Hubspan Deploy IaaS-Based Platform for B2B Project Outsourcing – May 20th,
2009 (G00168096) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: IBM and
Hubspan announced a joint offering of packaged integration-as-a-service and B2B
services for WebSphere called WebSpan. This gives IBM customers a viable
service-based alternative to in-house B2B projects based on WebSphere. Informal Description:
Our analysis of the impact of the new joint IBM / Hubspan WebSpan offering. (3 pages,
By Benoit Lheureux and Paolo Malinverno).
Three Types of
Cloud Brokerages Will Enhance Cloud Services – May 11th,
2009 (G00164265) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Cloud computing requires governance.
We examine how cloud service brokerages will exist to fill the gap between the
service consumer and the service provider. Informal Description:
Gartner’s enumeration and formal definition for three emerging types of Cloud
services brokerage. (4 pages, By Daryl Plummer, Frank Kenney).
Google
App Engine Comes Closer to Enterprise Adoption – May 4th, 2009 (G00167581) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom Line: At its one-year anniversary,
Google App Engine has attained limited success in the enterprise sector.
Enhancements such as Java and Secure Data Connector support will make it more
appealing for business applications, but don't yet close the functionality gap
with GAE's competition. Informal
Description: Several analysts and assess the “enterprise-readiness” of
Google’s recently enhanced Google App Engine (GAE) from different points of
view. (5 pages, By Benoit Lheureux, Ray Valdes, Yefim Natis, Eric Knipp, David
Smith and Tom Austin).
Who's
Who in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 1 – April 19th, 2009 (G00167032) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom Line: This research provides four
examples of providers that offer solutions for
cloud-computing/software-as-a-service integration scenarios. It also offers
advice on when to consider engaging with each vendor. Informal Description: This is the first installment
of analysis on four providers that have established a beachhead in the Cloud
Computing / SaaS Integration market segment, Boomi, Cast Iron, Informatica and
Pervasive Software. Includes a brief overview,
plus strengths and challenges for each. 20100416: Also see Who's Who in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 2 (3 pages, By Benoit Lheureux).
Liaison
Deal Drives A2A and B2B Project Convergence – March 24th, 2009 (G00166861) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Liaison's
purchase of First Thought strengthens its blended approach to
application-to-application and business-to-business integration. But Liaison's
modest size will remain a challenge in
Taxonomy and
Definitions for the Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market – March 18th, 2009 (G00166095) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The need
to automate multienterprise business processes and information sharing
continues to drive end-user investment and vendor innovation in the
multienterprise/business-to-business infrastructure market. Informal Description:
This research categorizes, defines, and provides a substantial representative
sample of vendors of various multi-enterprise (B2B) software and services including
B2B gateway software, EDI translation software, managed file transfer (MFT)
software and services, integration as a service (IaaS), B2B project outsourcing
services, SOA governance technologies and services, and SaaS Integration
software and services. (10 pages, By Benoit Lheureux, Paolo Malinverno, Frank
Kenney, and Fabrizio Biscotti).
Forecast:
Sizing the Cloud; Understanding the Opportunities in Cloud Services – March 18th, 2009 (G00166525) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Gartner
estimates the current market for cloud services is $46.4 billion. By 2013, the
market will reach $150.1 billion. Informal
Description: This research presents Gartner's sizing of the current
market for cloud services and a forecast for its growth during the next five
years and includes an updated market forecast for integration as a service
(IaaS), including SaaS Integration services from providers such as Boomi or
Cast Iron (10 pages, By Ben Pring | Robert H. Brown | Andrew Frank | Simon
Hayward | Lydia Leong with contributions from Benoit Lheureux and others).
Cool
Vendors in Platform and Integration Middleware, 2009 – March 17th,
2009 (G00165952) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Innovative
middleware and collaborative solutions from three IT vendors are having a
material impact on how applications are deployed and integrated in cloud-computing
scenarios. Informal
Description: This research introduces and provides analysis on several
vendors, including Amalto Technologies and RollStream, which will appeal to any
IT end users or B2B or SaaS or IaaS service providers that wish to reduce the
time and effort of collaborating with customers and suppliers on large-scale
B2B projects. (4 pages; By Benoit Lheureux, Paolo Malinverno, and Massimo
Pezzini). Also see write-up for RollStream alliance with GXS in GXS and RollStream Will Help Lower the Cost of Running Large B2B
Communities. 20100416:
Also see Cool Vendors in Multienterprise B2B, 2010
Key Issues
for Cloud-Enabled Application Infrastructure, 2009 – March 17th, 2009 (G00165920) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Application
infrastructure enables the execution of business applications. In the emerging
era of cloud computing, cloud-enabled application infrastructure is a technical
enabling foundation for "in the cloud" applications. Informal Description:
This defines Gartner’s research agenda for Application Infrastructure (aka
Middleware) as a Service, such as integration as a service (IaaS) or
application platform as a service (APaaS). (5 pages, By Yefim V. Natis, Benoit
J. Lheureux, Michele Cantara, Massimo Pezzini, David Gootzit, David W. Cearley,
L. Frank Kenney, Donald Feinberg, Ted Friedman, Joseph Feiman).
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B Integration, 2009 – February 4th,
2009 (G00165369) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The
multienterprise B2B integration research area covers diverse B2B integration
trends and technologies, which will be increasingly important as B2B projects
proliferate on the "edge" of internal IT projects, service-oriented
architecture and cloud computing. Informal
Description: This is our annual update of the Gartner B2B
Multienterprise Integration research agenda, describing its definition and
scope (3 pages, By Benoit Lheureux, Paolo Malinverno and Frank Kenney).
What's
Between You and the Cloud? – January 22,
2009 (G00163985) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: As companies increase their
reliance on cloud-based services, the technologies and services that broker and
manage the trust between consumers and providers will emerge and grow in
importance and availability. Informal Description:
Gartner’s seminal piece of research on Cloud services brokerage. (Four pages;
By Frank Kenney, Daryl Plummer, Jess Thompson)
Findings:
A 'Rule of Thumb' Decision Framework for Sourcing IT Solutions for B2B Projects – January 20, 2009 (G00164726)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Discussions
with many companies about their sourcing choices for implementing B2B projects
have revealed a simple sourcing rule of thumb that is based simply on project
size. Informal
Description: This research provides two “Rule of Thumb” observations
to help companies determine whether to
implement B2B projects using B2B software or B2B services. (One page; By Benoit
Lheureux)
Predicts
2009: Platforms and Integration Middleware Move Into the Cloud – December 23, 2008 (G00164557)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The
platform and integration middleware market will be dramatically affected by
trends like cloud computing, multienterprise integration and XTP. Complicating
these trends is the confluence of application infrastructure products and the
piecewise integration of the disciplines using these products. Informal Description:
This research offers four platform and integration middleware predictions
including one on the growth rate of multienterprise (B2B) traffic; it also
provides our assessment of an “on target” and a “missed” prediction that we
made several years ago. (Seven pages; By Massimo Pezzini, Yefim Natis, Paolo
Malinverno, Benoit J. Lheureux, Jess Thompson)
Q&A:
Hot Questions for Multienterprise (B2B) Integration – December 18, 2008 (G00163904)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Companies
frequently ask specific questions about the implementation of multienterprise
projects to support e-commerce, service-oriented architecture, business process
management and software as a service. Here, we address these issues. Informal Description:
In this research I answer the most frequently asked – and increasingly pressing
– questions about B2B, ranging from traditional questions about EDI to emerging
issues like SaaS Integration. This is also a handy index because the research
refers to nearly all important recently published research on B2B. (Three
pages; By Benoit Lheureux)
Hot
Questions About SOA From Asia – November 19, 2008 (G00161363)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: In
speaking with companies in Asia, Gartner has determined that service-oriented
architecture adoption is gaining acceptance and momentum, although
Seeding
the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption – October, 1, 2008 (G00161363)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Flexible
business-to-business offerings, rather than any B2B standards, are lowering the
barriers to software-as-a-service integration. We compare several SaaS vendors'
integration strategies. Informal
Description: This research looks at how SaaS vendors solve the
challenge of integrating their SaaS (cloud-based software) functionality with
their customer’s internal applications. Includes analysis of the SaaS
integration approach of four SaaS vendors including Salesforce.com, Taleo,
Workday and Zuora. (Four pages; By Benoit Lheureux) Also see SaaS Integration: How to Choose the Best Approach and Strategies for Successful
Multienterprise SaaS Integration.
SaaS
Integration: How to Choose the Best Approach – October, 1, 2008 (G00161672)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Software-as-a-service
customers have to choose among four basic approaches to SaaS integration. We
contrast the strengths and challenges and suggest when it's best to consider a
particular approach. Informal
Description: This research looks at SaaS integration through the eyes
of the SaaS customer and provides a decision framework for help SaaS customers
choose which approach to SaaS integration is best for their requirements. (Four
pages; By Benoit Lheureux) Also see Seeding the Cloud: B2B
Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption and Strategies for Successful Multienterprise SaaS Integration.
Toolkit:
Request for Proposal for B2B Gateway Software – August 26, 2008 (G00154852)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: This
Toolkit sample template is designed to help application managers create their
own RFPs to evaluate business-to-business gateway software vendors and their
products. Informal Description:
This RFP toolkit (available only under the Gartner Application IT for Leaders
portal) is an Excel-based B2B Gateway Software evaluation tool that allows you
to rate vendors on dozens of adjustable, weighted business and technical
metrics; it produces a simple graphical report that compares solutions. (Extensive
WORD and EXCEL-based RFP Template; By Benoit Lheureux and Paolo Malinverno)
The Four
Styles of Process Execution in Multienterprise Scenarios – August 14,
2008 (G00160468) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: There are
four distinct styles for implementing multienterprise (B2B) process execution.
Modern styles leverage business activity monitoring and explicit business
process management technologies to drive multienterprise business process
improvement. Informal
Description: This research is a tutorial on how business processes are
integrated in B2B integration projects, ranging from using EDI to BPM
technology. (6 pages + 5 figures; By Benoit Lheureux)
Boomi's
SaaS Integration Services Strategy Gets a Boost – July 8, 2008 (G00159646)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Boomi will
use new funding to market its integration-as-a-service offering. It is the
first vendor to target software-as-a-service vendors as its sales channel for
this technology, but there will be others soon. Informal Description: This First Take takes a
look at how Boomi is attacking the IaaS market – via SaaS providers. (1 page;
By Benoit Lheureux)
Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers – June 3, 2008 (G00157460)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: SOA, cloud
computing, international ecommerce, proliferating B2B projects, changing user
requirements are driving new vendor innovation and consolidation in the B2B
Gateway Software (BGS) market segment.
Informal Description: This research updates our
ratings for 14 vendors in the B2B Gateway Software (think: evolving EDI
software) market segment. This research is an update to Magic
Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06 and a companion to Market Update for B2B Gateway Software Vendors (15 pages + Magic Quadrant graphic; By Benoit Lheureux and Paolo
Malinverno)
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers – May
28, 2008 (G00157093) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Increasing
automation, international e-commerce, business-to-business service-oriented
architecture, cloud computing and vendor innovation are driving new offerings,
infrastructure improvements and consolidation in the integration-as-a-service
and B2B project outsourcing market segments. Informal Description: This research updates
our ratings for 14 vendors in the integration service provider (think: evolving
EDI VAN) market segment. This research is an update to Magic
Quadrant for Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 and a companion to Market Update for Integration Service Providers (15 pages + Magic Quadrant graphic; By Benoit Lheureux and Paolo
Malinverno)
Market Update for Business-to-Business Gateway Software Vendors – May 15, 2008 (G00157971) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Most
midsize-to-large companies will implement some sort of business-to-business
gateway software. This means that they should be aware of the highly evolving
BGS solutions and vendors prior to making any selections. Informal Description:
This is a crisp overview and analysis of the wide range of factors driving
change within the B2B Gateway Software market segment. This research is a
companion to Magic Quadrant
for B2B Gateway Software Vendors. (3 pages, By
Benoit Lheureux and Paolo Malinverno)
Market
Update for Integration Service Providers – May 15, 2008 (G00157970) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Companies
implementing business-to-business projects should be aware that integration
service providers continue to evolve. This creates more opportunities for
companies to outsource B2B projects, even when they involve innovations, such
as B2B service-oriented architecture and Web services. Informal Description: This is a crisp
overview and analysis of the wide range of factors driving change within the
integration service provider market segment. This research is a companion to Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers. (3 pages, By Benoit Lheureux and Paolo Malinverno)
Key Issues
for Cloud-Enabled Application Infrastructure, 2008 – April 12, 2008 (G00155751) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Application
infrastructure enables the execution of business applications. In the emerging
era of cloud computing, cloud-enabled application infrastructure is a technical
enabling foundation for "in-the-cloud" applications. Informal Description:
This is the description for a new, exciting research agenda on the role of
middleware (e.g., including but not limited to application servers, integration
suites, enterprise service buses, etc.) in cloud computing and software as a
service (SaaS) scenarios, focused on middleware services ‘in the cloud’ and as
well related enabling technologies. (3 pages, By Yefim Natis, Benoit Lheureux,
Frank Kenney, Michele Cantara, Ted Friedman and Daryl Plummer).
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B Integration, 2008 – March 11, 2008 (G00155781) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom Line: The business-to-business
multienterprise integration research area covers a range of multienterprise B2B
integration and interoperability trends and technology, which are increasingly
important as multienterprise projects proliferate on the "edge" of
internal integration projects. Informal
Description: This is our annual update of the Gartner B2B
Multienterprise Integration research agenda, describing the definition and
scope of this research agenda (3 pages, By Benoit Lheureux, Paolo Malinverno
and Frank Kenney)
Market
Trends: Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market, Worldwide, 2008 – March
10, 2008 (G00155787) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Spending
on multienterprise/business-to-business infrastructure technologies is poised
to grow at a healthy pace during the next five years. Growth will be driven by
emerging segments, such as service-oriented architecture governance software
for B2B and B2B project outsourcing. Informal
Description: This research forecasts the IT spend for the next five
years (to 2013) on 7 categories of B2B software and services, including EDI
translators, managed file transfer, B2B gateway software (stand-alone and
embedded), SOA governance technologies, integration as a service and B2B
project outsourcing (7 pages + 5 figures, By Fabrizio Biscotti, Benoit J.
Lheureux, Paolo Malinverno, and Frank Kenney)
Findings: Ownership of
Processes Distinguishes Internal BPP From Multienterprise BPP – February 8,
2008 (G00155017) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: A business
process platform is a discipline for how enterprises govern their business
application assets. Multienterprise BPPs are emerging and can be distinguished
from enterprise BPPs in various ways, but the primary difference is ownership
of the deployed processes. Informal
Description: This brief piece of research answers a deceptively tricky question:
what distinguishes an internal Business Process Platform (BPP) from a
Multienterprise BPP? This is a follow-up to the research which defines the
concept of a Multienterprise BPP in The Emergence of the Multienterprise Business Process Platform. (1 page, By Benoit Lheureux, Yvonne Genovese and Andrew White).
Axway and Atos Origin
Unite to Offer B2B Integration Services – January 18, 2008 (G00154808) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Axway and
Atos Origin have announced an alliance to jointly offer outsourced
business-to-business integration services. The deal has potential, but will
require staff retraining and greater focus outside
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H07 – December 14, 2007 (G00153457) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Economic forces are making European companies
much more open to international trade. This trend mainly affects European users
and multienterprise, business-to-business infrastructure vendors, but it also
has multienterprise project implications and commercial consequences worldwide.
Informal Description: Paolo’s refresh of his assessment of
the B2B infrastructure market in
The Emergence of the
Multienterprise Business Process Platform – November 27, 2007 (G00153346) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: As business becomes more complex, companies
need to manage multienterprise business processes more effectively and in one
place. Some companies are forming multienterprise business process platforms to
meet this need. Informal Description: This research
introduces the “multienterprise business process platform”, a multienterprise
version of “business process platform” well-established in other Gartner
research. This research further defines the scenario for implementation of
multienterprise applications first introduced in Defining
a Multienterprise Application Architecture for Supply Chain Management. (5 pages + 3 figures, By Andrew White, Debbie Wilson and Benoit
Lheureux)
Hot Questions for
Multienterprise (B2B) Integration – November 21, 2007 (G00153341) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The answers to these hot questions are
important to all companies doing multienterprise (business-to-business)
integration in support of electronic commerce initiatives. Informal
Description: In this research I answer the top five most frequently
asked questions about multienterprise integration. This research also provides
useful links into most of our recent essential research on B2B. (3 pages, By
Benoit Lheureux) Also see Key Issues for Multienterprise B2B, 2007.
Inovis
Expands Its Portfolio of Multienterprise Applications – November 6, 2007 (G00153217) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Acquiring BetweenMarkets expands Inovis'
supply chain-related multienterprise application portfolio. The deal adds
compliance management and strengthens Inovis' multienterprise data quality
management capabilities. Informal Description: This is our
initial analysis of the relevance of Inovis’ acquisition of BetweenMarkets,
Inc., another move by a provider of integration as a service to implement more
multienterprise applications. (1 page, By Benoit Lheureux) Also see Inovis Stakes a Claim in B2B Market.
Crossgate Challenges
B2B Market With Tight Alliance With SAP
– October 11, 2007 (G00152525) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Crossgate has announced an alliance with SAP
that has the potential to change the vendor dynamics in the
business-to-business infrastructure market. But crossgate will need to grow
rapidly to ensure market success. Informal Description: This
First Take gives our initial analysis of the relevance and impact of the
Crossgate / SAP alliance on the multienterprise market segment. (1 page, By
Paolo Malinverno)
Cape Clear
Updates ESB to Enable Integration as a Service – October 5, 2007 (G00152256) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: A new version of
Key Issues
for Multienterprise B2B, 2007 – September
14, 2007 (G00145159) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The multienterprise B2B research area covers
a range of multienterprise (business-to-business) integration and
interoperability trends and technology. Informal Description:
This research defines the Gartner
multienterprise B2B research topic, explaining its scope, providing the
research topic story line, and
putting the multienterprise topic in context with other Gartner research. (2
pages) Also see Hot Questions for
Multienterprise (B2B) Integration.
Microsoft,
Verizon and Other Vendors Drive IaaS Maturity – September 10, 2007 (G00149976) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Boomi,
GXS, ICC, Inovis, Microsoft and Verizon -- vendors with diverse roles in IT and
go-to-market strategies -- have initiated events that collectively will help
modernize and mature the integration-as-a-service market segment. Informal
Description: This research provides analysis on five diverse events in
the integration as a service market segment, looking at these events each on
their own merit as well as what they mean collectively to IaaS overall. (4
pages)
Strategies
for Successful Multienterprise SaaS Integration – August 31, 2007 (G00151164) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Multienterprise software-as-a-service
integration is complex. SaaS projects are more likely to succeed if SaaS
vendors and SaaS customers use a portfolio approach to multienterprise integration.
Informal Description: This research outlines the problems SaaS
customers and SaaS vendors will have integrating their applications and the
solutions to this problem for both SaaS customers and vendors. Also suggests a
few questions about SaaS multi-enterprise integration that SaaS customers
should ask of their potential SaaS vendor(s). (3 pages). This research references
the “portfolio approach” to multi-enterprise integration that I initially
defined in Take a Portfolio
Approach to Your Multienterprise Integration Strategy. Also see Seeding the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS
Adoption,
SaaS Integration:
How to Choose the Best Approach and SaaS
Delivery Challenges On-Premise Software.
Inovis Stakes a Claim
in B2B Market – August 10, 2007 (G00150967) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Inovis is making new business-to-business
investments in
Outages Tarnish
Reputation of GXS's Trading Grid – July
25, 2007 (G00150581) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: GXS suffered an outage on one of its legacy
platforms. Outages on its legacy infrastructure have had limited impact, but
they tarnish the reputation of the company and its newer, more highly
available, Trading Grid. Informal Description: Brief analysis
of the impact of GXS’ recent network outages on B2B customers (1 page). Also
see GXS’ Leaky Roof Exposes the Importance of High
Availability.
Spider
Diagram Ratings Highlight Strengths and Challenges of Vendors in the B2B
Infrastructure Market – July 23, 2007
(G00149906) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The business-to-business infrastructure
spider diagram can be used to rate a vendor's ability to serve the emerging
multienterprise infrastructure market. We rate Axway, GXS, Inovis, Seeburger
and
Hype
Cycle Plots for Multi-Enterprise (B2B) Integration – 2007 (Back to Top)
Informal
Description: Gartner assesses the rate of adoption for
various technologies and trends in its well-known “Hype Cycle” reports. Though
we do not publish a dedicated Hype Cycle report just for multi-enterprise
integration, we have published predictions for the rate of adoption of ½ dozen
technologies and trends related to B2B integration including:
·
B2B Gateway Software
·
Integration Service Providers
·
B2B Web Services
·
Business Process Networks
·
B2B Project Outsourcing
·
Packaged Integration (applies to both internal and B2B integration)
Hype Cycle
adoption rate predictions (aka “Hype Cycle plots”) for these B2B topics – as
well as many other related B2B and non-B2B plots – appear in the following seven
Gartner Hype Cycle reports:
·
Hype Cycle for
Supply Chain Management and Procurement, 2007 (G00149865) à includes
plot for Business Process Networks
·
Hype Cycle for
the Telecommunications Industry, 2007 (G00148672) à includes plot
for Integration Service Providers
·
Hype Cycle for
Hype Cycle for Application Infrastructure Middleware, Platforms and
Architecture, 2007 (G00149380) à includes plots for B2B
Project Outsourcing, Packaged Integration, B2B Gateway Software,
B2B Web Services & Integration Service Providers
·
Hype Cycle for
Web and User Interaction Technologies, 2007 (G00148212) à includes
plot B2B Web Services
·
Hype Cycle for
Software as a Service, 2007 (G00148002) à includes
plot Integration Service Providers
·
Hype Cycle for
B2B CRM Technologies, 2007 (G00149172) à includes plots
for B2B Project Outsourcing, Business Process Networks, and Integration
Service Providers
·
Hype Cycle for IT
Outsourcing, 2007 (G00148658) à includes plot B2B Project Outsourcing
Think Twice
About Migrating From Sterling Commerce's Gentran:Server to Gentran Integration
Suite – June 26, 2007 (G00149357) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Most of
Taxonomy and
Definitions for the Multienterprise/B2B Infrastructure Market – April 9, 2007 (G00138878) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: In the mid-1990s, companies worldwide began
investing to modernize their internal integration infrastructure. Now,
companies are finally investing similarly to modernize their
multienterprise/business-to-business infrastructure. Informal
Description: This research categorizes, defines, and provides a
substantial representative sample of vendors of various multi-enterprise (B2B)
software and services (12 pages; By Benoit Lheureux, Fabrizio Biscotti, Paolo
Malinverno, Andrew White and Frank Kenney). Also see Multienterprise
Integration Projects Will Proliferate and Innovate.
Software AG
Aims for SOA Leadership With webMethods Deal – April 9, 2007 (G00147972) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: With webMethods, Software AG will gain a
stronger position in
Sterling
Adds Comergent E-Business Functions to Its Portfolio – November 29, 2006 (G00145006) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Comergent Technologies will become part of
the
Multienterprise
Integration Projects Will Proliferate and Innovate – November 28, 2006 (G00143694) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Companies have spent years integrating
internal applications, increasingly with Web services. Their focus is expanding
into external integration, which will cause business-to-business projects and
Web services to proliferate. Informal Description: This
research includes three specific strategic planning assumptions (predictions)
on the increase in the numbers of mult-enterprise (B2B) projects, the increase
in B2B transaction and message traffic, and the increase in adoption of Web
services in multi-enterprise projects from 2006 to 2011 (3 pages). Also see Take a Portfolio Approach to Your Multienterprise Integration Strategy.
GXS's Udex Adds Product
Data Quality to Supply Chain Services – November 27, 2006 (G00144967) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The data
quality services gained in the Udex acquisition will enhance GXS's global data
synchronization services for its retailer clients. But selling these services
beyond retail will be a challenge in the long term. Informal
Description: This is our “first take” analysis of the relevance of GXS’
acquisition of Udex (1 page; By Andrew White and Benoit Lheureux). Also see GXS.
Crossgate
Acquires B&N Software to Ride European B2B Growth – November 14, 2006 (G00144821) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Crossgate's purchase of a majority stake in
B&N Software will create one of the largest business-to-business providers
in
Predicts 2007: Software
as a Service Provides a Viable Delivery Model – November 13, 2006 (G00144023) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Adopt SaaS first using a modular and incremental
approach. SaaS predictions provide overall guidance for SaaS delivery adoption
and specific market outlooks for human capital management, e-commerce and
integration as a service. Informal Description: This research
includes various predictions about software as a service (SaaS), including one
specific prediction regarding revenue growth in the integration as a service
(IaaS) market segment (4 pages; multiple authors). Also see SaaS Delivery Challenges On-Premise Software.
Deal With
StrikeIron Extends BEA's Data Services Platform – September 26, 2006 (G00143595) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The agreement between BEA and StrikeIron will
enhance BEA's AquaLogic Data Services Platform and StrikeIron's business
services channel. But, by itself, this will not drive big revenue gains for
either company. Informal Description: This is our “first
take” analysis on the relevance of the BEA / StrikeIron announcement. (2 pages;
Benoit Lheureux and Yefim Natis). Also see BEA and StrikeIron.
SaaS Delivery
Challenges On-Premise Software – September 26, 2006 (G00143160) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Software as a service represented about 5% of
business software spending in 2005, a trend that will accelerate. The use of
SaaS for automating end-to-end business processes, such as order to cash for
large enterprises, will lag compared with the adoption rates for SaaS in
departmental initiatives. Informal Description: This research
provides one specific prediction about the end-user adoption rate of software
as a service (SaaS) in general, including observations about the adoption rate
of integration as a service (IaaS) in particular. (2 pages; multiple authors).
Also see Predicts 2007: Software as a Service Provides a Viable Delivery Model.
Take a
Portfolio Approach to Your Multienterprise Integration Strategy – September
6, 2006 (G00143199) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: To meet diverse business requirements and
lower the cost and risk of doing multienterprise integration, companies should
adopt a portfolio approach to multienterprise integration, arrest the
proliferation of uncoordinated B2B projects, consolidate multienterprise
projects onto one shared B2B infrastructure and incorporate a multienterprise
integration strategy as a new, additional component of current integration competency
centers. Informal Description: In this research note I outline
a viable strategy that companies should adopt to guide their multi-enterprise
integration projects, making a strong case for why they should support multiple
approaches to B2B (7 pages). Also see Multi-enterprise Integration Projects Will
Proliferate and Innovate.
Additional
Vendors in Supply Chain Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – August 9, 2006 (G00142247) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Part of our "Who's Who" series,
this report provides three examples of service providers for companies
outsourcing their supply chain integration. It also offers advice on when to
engage each vendor. Informal Description: In this research I
review the supply chain integration outsourcing offerings of three additional
IT vendors, eBridge Software, SigmaTrak and Traxian (3 pages). Also see Who's Who in Supply Chain Integration Outsourcing,
2Q06
Who's Who in Supply
Chain Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06 – July 20, 2006 (G00142036) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: This report briefly defines supply chain
integration outsourcing and gives five examples of providers of such services.
It also offers advice on when to consider engaging each vendor. Informal
Description: In this research I formally define an important emerging
trend in multi-enterprise application and process integration: supply chain
integration outsourcing. I also review the supply chain integration
outsourcing offerings of five IT vendors, eZCom Software, Hubspan, ICC, RedTail
Solutions and SPS Commerce (5 pages). Also see Additional Vendors in Supply
Chain Integration Outsourcing, 2Q06.
Hype Cycle for
Application Integration and Platform Middleware, 2006 – July 13, 2006 (G00141124) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The software infrastructure that provides the
foundation for modern business applications is undergoing a transformation that
directly affects architects, application developers and middleware
technologists, and indirectly affects all layers of IT management and
line-of-business management. Informal Description: This
research plots the state of adoption for a wide range of integration and
middleware technology and trends on the Gartner Hype Cycle. In particular, I predict
the rate of adoption for integration service providers, B2B gateway software,
business process networks, and packaged integration. (25 pages, I join many co-authors)
Hype Cycle for Web
Technologies, 2006 – July 7, 2006 (G00141111) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Web technologies have provided broad access
to information resources for years. With the maturation of Web services and
Web-based portals, and the advent of Web 2.0, the Web has taken on an even more
important role in IT strategies. Informal Description: This
research plots the state of adoption for a wide range of Web services related
technology and trends on the Gartner Hype Cycle. In particular, I predict the rate
of adoption for B2B Web services and business process networks. (25 pages, I am
one of many co-authors)
Microsoft, GXS and
Covast Will Automate E-Commerce Integration – 9 June 2006 (G00140104) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The Microsoft and GXS agreement only incrementally
simplifies multienterprise integration projects, but it lays a foundation for
future fully automated e-commerce integration. Informal Description:
Here I explore the impact of the Microsoft and GXS alliance on the B2 Gateway
software and integration service provider market segments. (3 pages, I am lead
author; Paolo Malinverno and Jess Thompson are co-authors). Also see Covast, GXS and Microsoft.
nuBridges Could Give
Many AS2 Users a Second Chance – 31 May 2006 (G00141072) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: nuBridges' acquisition of iSoft fills out its
business-to-business (B2B) solution portfolio and enables it to access a large
base of AS2 users. Many of those users will seek an upgrade path as they expand
their B2B projects. Informal Description: The research
explores the impact of nuBridge’s acquisition of iSoft on the B2B Gateway
software and integration service provider market segement (1 page). Also see nuBridges.
BT Launches Innovative
SOA-Based Managed Integration Service – 3 May 2006 (G00139823) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: BT Integrate innovatively combines appliances
and managed service-oriented-architecture services. Success will depend on BT's
execution and effective, client-focused systems integration skills. Informal
Description: This research provides our “first take” analysis of BT’s
new “BT Integrate”, which makes BT an integration service provider, though it
is more focused on SOA-oriented integration as a service (1 page, Paolo
Malinverno is lead author, I am co-author). Also see BT.
Defining a
Multienterprise Application Architecture for Supply Chain Management – 26 April 2006 (G00139668) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Business to business is evolving to support
multienterprise business processes. However, these processes are not simply the
addition of two or more ERP systems or business processes. Determine what
architectural style best suits your environment to achieve efficiency and
flexibility. Informal Description: This research defines and
contrasts different types of multi-enterprise process integration, i.e., “
Evaluating
Software-as-a-Service Providers: Questions to Ask Potential SaaS Providers
– 18 April 2006 (G00138777) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Although choosing a software-as-a-service
solution involves many criteria that are similar to choosing licensed software
(such as application functionality, configurability and performance), other
criteria (such as pricing, risk management and service-level agreements) are
substantially different. Ensure that you address these SaaS issues prior to
making an SaaS solution purchase decision. Informal Description:
This research enumerates and describes what essential questions and issues you
should take up with your potential SaaS vendor – before you sign a contract. (3
pages, co-authored with Robert DeSisto and Michael Moaz)
Cool Vendors
in B2B Integration and Managed File Transfer, 2006 – 16 March 2006 (G00138129) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Emerging approaches and revitalized
traditional approaches to multienterprise integration give users more choices
for business-to-business projects. A few cool vendors have emerged to
re-energize the multienterprise integration market and provide consumers with
solutions that help drive revenue. Informal Description:
Research on three “cool vendors”, Object Innovation, Software Assist, and
StrikeIron, each with innovative approaches to solving multi-enterprise
integration challenges. (Analysis by Benoit Lheureux and Frank Kenney; 4 pages).
Also see Object Innovation, Software Assist and StrikeIron.
A Tectonic Shift in the
Business Process Center of Gravity – 13 March 2006 (G00137925) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Look for opportunities to use the trading
grid to accelerate outsourcing projects and more quickly shift commoditized
business processes' visibility and execution outside your organization. Doing
so enables you to more quickly leverage the economy of scale and other benefits
of external, commoditized business processes, letting you focus internal
resources on more-differentiated activities. Informal Description:
This research conveys how technical innovation (e.g., application service
providers, integration service providers and business process networks) are
lowering barriers to application-based business process execution. (5 pages
including 3 figures)
IBM's
Viacore Acquisition Will Incrementally Benefit Outsourcing Customers – 3
March 2006 (G00137875) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: IBM's acquisition of Viacore is a net positive for outsourcing
customers at both companies. IBM is likely to gain some incremental economy of
scale and improve the overall quality of its supply chain automation and
procurement business process outsourcing practices by using Viacore's
multitenant IT infrastructure and domain expertise. If IBM leverages Viacore to
support supply chain automation projects involving non-IBM business-to-business
software, customers should ensure that these capabilities are generally
available and proven in the field. Informal Description: This
research offers an analysis of the impact of IBM’s acquisition on the
integration service provider and supply chain automation outsourcing markets.
(2 pages) Also see IBM.
SPS Commerce
Consolidates SMB-Focused Hosted Integration – 3 March 2006 (G00138266) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: With its purchase of Owens Direct, SPS Commerce moves to make itself a
bigger player in supply chain automation outsourcing for small and midsize
businesses (SMBs). Informal
Description: This research assesses the impact of SPS Commerce’
acquisition on the integration service provider and supply chain automation
outsourcing market segments. (1 page)
Magic Quadrant for B2B
Gateway Providers, 1Q06 – 22 February 2006 (G00137372) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: When it becomes difficult to differentiate
the technological capabilities of business-to-business (B2B) gateway provider
offerings, base some of your decisions on the "intangibles" that
aren't recognized in the criteria provided for this Magic Quadrant. These
include established relationships (that is, it isn't unusual for a company to
find that it already has some of the vendor's offerings in production) and a
company's current skill sets and resource availability. Informal Description:
This research updates ratings for vendors in the B2B gateway software market
segment. It also provides an update on and describes how the market segment is
evolving. (10 pages including Magic Quadrant and vendor analysis; Analysis by
Frank Kenney)
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 1Q06 – 19 January 2006 (G00131160) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Integration service providers continue to innovate and consolidate as
users expand and increase the sophistication of their business-to-business
(B2B) projects. New challengers and leaders indicate that the market is
incrementally maturing; however, even the leaders have more work to do to
solidify recent growth, complete modernization projects and secure the
long-term retention of their market share. Informal Description: This
research updates ratings for vendors in the integration service provider (evolving
VAN) market segment. It also provides an update on and describes how the market
segment is evolving. (15 pages including Magic Quadrant and vendor analysis)
Grand
Central's Demise Does Not Indict B2B Web Services – 30 November 2005 (G00136448) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Grand Central Communications' demise is not an indictment of
business-to-business Web services. Although we believe that established protocols,
such as FTP and AS2, will continue to have a significant role in many B2B
projects, it is inevitable that there will be an increasing role for Web
services in B2B projects as well. Informal
Description: This brief research note explores the reasons for Grand
Central’s demise (lack of customer traction) and as well addresses the
relevance (or not) of its demise on the adoption of Web services and its impact
(or not) on the overall integration service provider market segment. (1 page)
Also see Grand Central.
Questions to
Ask Your Integration Service Provider – 21 November 2005 (G00136188) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Companies commonly focus most of their attention on hosted integration
functionality, industry-specific solutions and price when evaluating potential
providers of integration as a service. They should evaluate other vendor
evaluation criteria — such as service-level agreements, disaster recovery and
intellectual property — with equal scrutiny. Informal
Description: This brief research discusses five essential questions you
should ask your potential integration service provider before you sign: “Are
your fees simple, predictable and fair?”, “What are your service-level
agreements (SLAs)?”, “What is your disaster recovery plan?”, “Who owns the B2B
integration project intellectual property?”, and “How skilled are my account
executive and support contacts?” (2 pages)
Predicts
2006: The Evolution of Integration Products Will Continue to Affect How
Integration Is Pursued – 7 November 2005 (G00131234) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The use of
integration products and features is expected to increase. However, challenges
will accompany this growth, particularly regarding metadata management. Informal
Description: I contributed to this jointly published research that offers
several important predictions regarding the evolution of integration projects
including a prediction on the adoption of business activity monitoring (BAM) in
B2B integration projects. (2 pages)
Predicts
2006: Web Services Continue to Mature – 7 November 2005 (G00132976) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Web
services are evolving, and enterprises are seeing the opportunities they
present with increasing clarity. Informal Description: I
contributed to this jointly published research that offers a handful of Web
services predictions including a prediction on the rate of adoption of Web
services in B2B integration projects. (2 pages)
Vendor Rating: GXS
– 17 October 2005 (G00131271) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Three
years after its divestiture from GE, GXS has embarked on an ambitious modernization
plan and is likely to re-establish a healthy core business around supply chain
integration services. It is challenged by persistent revenue declines and large
debts. Informal Description: GXS is the world’s largest
integration service provider – this research takes a close look at how GXS has
(finally) responded to changing user requirements and the impact this is having
on the VAN market. (7 pages) Also see GXS.
The Status
of B2B in Europe, 2H05 – 14 October 2005 (G00130790) (Back to Top)
Bottome Line: European companies having to address business-to-business
requirements must assess carefully whether B2B vendors have sufficient
resources and domain expertise to meet diverse, country-specific B2B project
scope requirements that are likely to expand in the future. B2B software and
B2B service providers have good growth opportunities in addressing an open
market, if they manage to fit in their offerings the diversity the market
demands. Informal Description: This is an overview of the
European B2B gateway software and integration service provider (evolving EDI
VAN) market overall, including some commentary on how the market is changing,
including analysis on the vendors themselves. (Analysis by Paolo Malinverno, 3
pages)
Answer Three
Questions Before Undertaking a Migration From Connect:Direct – 15 September
2005 (G00130097) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Companies using
European B2B Vendors
Deliver Mature Products – 3 August 2005 (G00127650) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Accustomed to dealing with the diversity that
is a condition of survival in their home market, European business-to-business
vendors are offering increasingly competitive, multinational products for the
global market. Companies worldwide (and especially in
Microsoft Abandons MBN:
A Wise Strategy With Near-Term Challenges – 13 June 2005 (G00128087) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Microsoft has a strategic commitment to embed
Web services standards and technology in its applications as an alternative to
its fledgling Web-services-based hosted integration service, Microsoft Business
Network. Web services are a good long-term strategy but not a complete
near-term solution. Informal Description: Microsoft quietly
introduced – then shutdown after only 2 years – its Microsoft Business Network.
This research outlines our understanding of the problem they were solving and
the wisdom – and short-comings – of using only Web services technology to
address B2B requirements for its packaged applications. (2 pages) Also see Microsoft.
GXS’ Leaky Roof Exposes
the Importance of High Availability – 13 May 2005 (G00127183) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: GXS's recent network outage disrupted many
integration service provider customers. Although it moved quickly to upgrade
its platform configuration, the event underscored the importance of
availability and service-level agreements for business-to-business projects.
Informal Description: This research responds to GXS’ network
failure event in part from GXS customer’s point of view, potential impact, and
actions. Importantly it also addresses the event from an industry-wide point of
view, i.e., how should all users of hosted integration services address their
service level agreements. (3 pages) Also see GXS.
When to Use (or Not to Use) an Integration Service Provider – 15 April 2005 (G00126263) (Back to Top)
Published
Bottom Line: Integration service providers offer IT organizations
an alternative to do-it-yourself business-to-business projects using licensed
software. This decision framework will help you choose between these approaches. Informal Description: With the availability of mature
solutions for B2B projects for both B2B software and B2B services clients have
increasingly been asking how to decide whether to use one of the other – this
decision framework offers a quick way to quickly assess your best option. (4
pages including decision framework table)
Magic Quadrant for B2B
Gateway Providers, 2Q05 – 15 April 2005 (G00126935) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom Line: The Magic Quadrant for business-to-business
gateway providers gives a general indication of each vendor's market presence
and its product's efficacy. Companies are advised to use this device as part of
a larger, more-detailed assessment process that weights the selection criteria
in the context of the particular business requirements of the companies. Informal Description: This research rates vendors in the B2B gateway software
market segment. It also provides an update on and describes how the market
segment is evolving. (Analysis by Frank Kenney; 5 pages including Magic
Quadrant and vendor analysis)
Managed File Transfer
Suites: Technology Overview — 8 April 2005 (G00127191) (Back to Top)
Published
Bottom Line: Managed File Transfer Suites address more than just
security and are often confused with secured file transfer. Although files of
any size can be managed using MFT, the solution is optimized for the movement
of large volumes of data. This MFT Overview offers vendor and product insight. Informal Description: This research expands Gartner’s definition of managed file
transfer suites and provides brief analysis of 14 MFT vendors. (5 pages;
analysis by Kim Underwood, Frank Kenney, James Lennard and Jermaine Lennard)
Cool Vendors in
Application Integration, 2005 — 30 March 2005 (G00126493) (Back to Top)
Published
Bottom Line: IT integration projects and solutions are maturing
and converging. Nevertheless, innovation continues to flourish among both
emerging and well-established vendors. Informal
Description: This
research covers a number of “cool” integration vendors, including
BetweenMarkets and TietoEnator (two vendors relevant to this B2B research
index), as well as other integration vendors (not relevant to this B2B research
index). (3 pages; by Benoit Lheureux and Paolo Malinverno and other analysts)
GXS and webMethods'
Partnership Acknowledges Hybrid Business-to-Business Projects — 16 March
2005 (G00126219) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Global eXchange Services' emphasis has been
on integration services; webMethods' focus is integration software. Their
combined solutions are functionally strong, but questions about their joint
marketing strategy remain. Informal Description: This
research focuses both on the GXS / webMethods agreement itself as well as on
the implications to the IT industry that two former direct competitors with
highly differentiated approaches to B2B integration have begun to work together.
(4 pages) Also see GXS.
Adapter Suites Bridge
Gaps in Integration Projects — 7 January 2005 (G00125201) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Adapter suites effectively support simple
integration projects or complement other integration middleware. Although this
is a small market segment, it is well-served by a handful of innovative IT
vendors. Informal Description: This research enumerates and describes
different categories of adapters as well as the most typical uses for adapters.
Includes advice on when to use adapters and brief descriptions of vendors
offering general-purpose adapter suites. (5 pages, including vendor write-ups)
Also see iWay, NetManage and Pervasive.
Magic Quadrant for
Integration Service Providers, 4Q04 — 11 November 2004 (G00124247 à Archived) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Traditional electronic data interchange
services are evolving into general-purpose hosted integration services. Many
vendors offer hosted integration, but few are leaders and few are fully
committed to this market. Informal Description: This research
provides Gartner’s 4Q2004 “Magic Quadrant” ratings for selected vendors in the
integration service provider (evolving VAN) market segment. See companion
research, Integration
Service Provider Magic Quadrant Criteria and Integration as a Service: Evolving VANs Focus on
Processes. (5 pages including Magic Quadrant and vendor
descriptions and analysis)
Integration Service
Provider Magic Quadrant Criteria — 11 November 2004 (G00123757 à Archived) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Because of vendor and product diversity,
selecting an integration service provider is a challenging, time-consuming
activity. Use Gartner's rating criteria as a starting point to evaluate
potential service providers. Informal Description: This
research enumerates the criteria you should consider when choosing an
integration service provider (evolving VAN) to outsource your B2B integration
project. These criteria are also used by Gartner to determine ratings for
vendors in the Magic Quadrant
for Integration Service Providers, 4Q04. Also see
companion research, Integration
as a Service: Evolving VANs Focus on Processes. (4 pages)
MarketScope
for Managed File Transfer Suites, 4Q04 — 10 November 2004 (G00123901 à Archived) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Make your managed file transfer deployments
an integral portion of your overall integration projects and strategies,
ensuring tight integration within the enterprise nervous system. Informal
Description: This research defines “managed file transfer suites” and
rates 11 vendors. (Four pages including Marketscope rating; analysis by Frank
Kenney)
Packaged
Composite Applications: Applications That Integrate — 23 September 2004 (G00123607) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Packaged composite applications are licensed
software for new business functionality that integrates with legacy and
packaged applications. Using PCAs can accelerate IT projects and reduce risks.
Informal Description: This research formally defines, illustrates
and provides examples of packaged composite applications – one of two kinds of
packaged integration in addition to packaged integration processes, see Packaged Integrating Processes Raise Bar for Integration. (5 pages including 2 figures; co-authored with Massimo Pezzini)
Grand Central Sets a
New Standard for B2B Self-Provisioning -- 19 April 2004 (T-22-3414) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Grand Central has empowered enterprises to provision
their business-to-business network connections, transformations and processes.
Its challenge is a (profitable) proliferation of B2B service providers and
consumers. Informal Description: This research outlines Grand
Central’s unique approach to B2B application integration – giving users full
control over the B2B processes to be run in their data center. (2 pages) Also
see Grand Central.
Integration as a Service:
Evolving VANs Focus on Processes — 1 April 2004 (COM-22-4755) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Value-added network providers are evolving
into integration service providers and, eventually, business process networks.
The latter will deliver business process fusion in a business-to-business
context. Informal Description: This research outlines the
evolution of the value-added network (VAN) industry, explaining how traditional
EDI VANs are evolving into integration service providers (“new age VANs”) and
business process networks (hybrid VAN / application service provider). Also see
Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers,
4Q04. (4 pages with figure)
Vendor
Rating: E2open Will Make Ends Meet -- 4 March 2004 (VDR-22-1856 à Archived) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: E2open is building a sound business in
high-tech manufacturing by combining hosted B2B integration and application
services. Although poised for growth, its challenge is winning customers
outside its own investor base. Informal Description: This vendor
rating research note offers a comprehensive overview of the E2open company, its
products and business strategy. (3 pages including 1 figure) Also see E2open.
Business Strategy
Drives B2B Connectivity Choices — 7 August 2003 (DF-20-5135 à Archived) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Before undertaking business-to-business IT
connectivity projects, enterprises need to analyze the business strategies and
trading attributes that drive trading-partner relationships to avoid bad
decisions and wasted budgets. Informal Description: This
research enumerates the key characteristics that uniquely distinguish business
relationships and provides a way to productively categorize these to simplify
B2B integration projects. (4 pages including decision framework table)
Packaged Integrating
Processes Accelerate Integration — 14 October 2003 (T-20-8315) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Packaged integrating processes will
accelerate certain integration projects for commonly occurring business
processes between packaged applications, both internally and between trading partners.
Informal Description: This research explains the value of and
when to use packaged integrating processes (PIPs). It also provides a list of
vendors that offer PIP solutions. See companion research, Packaged Integrating Processes Raise Bar for
Integration and Packaged Composite Applications: Applications That Integrate. (4 pages including vendor analysis; co-authored with Roy Schulte and
Jess Thompson)
Packaged Integrating
Processes Raise Bar for Integration — 7 October 2003 (TU-20-8316) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Off-the-shelf packaged integrating processes are
emerging as alternatives to do-it-yourself integration solutions. They raise
enterprises' expectations of their integration solution technology vendors.
Informal Description: This research formally defines and provides
a litmus test for recognizing packaged integrating processes (PIPs). It also
describes what they do. See companion research, Packaged Integrating Processes Accelerate Integration and Packaged
Composite Applications: Applications That Integrate. (5 pages including 2 figures; co-authored with Roy Schulte and Jess
Thompson)
B2B
Application Integration Is Typically Event-Oriented — 8 July 2003 (SPA-20-2734 à Archived) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Service-oriented architecture is increasingly
used for internal IT projects, but, in business-to-business scenarios, the
separated logical unit of work and one-way trading-partner interactions usually
favor event-driven design. Informal Description: This
research examines the importance of event-driven applications and
service-oriented architecture (SOA) in a B2B integration project context. (3
pages)
B2B Web Services Will
Drive New VAN Traffic — 19 May 2003 (R-20-0891 à Archived) (Back
to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Some enterprises will manage their own
business-to-business Web services, but trading-partner management is complex,
so others will outsource the task to Web services networks and
Web-services-enabled value-added networks. Informal Description:
This research provides a cost model for estimating the cost of initial
development of and annual costs to run a B2B integration hub (think: private
VAN). You can apply the cost model to your own project, estimating whether your
project costs are lower or higher than average. (10 pages, including tables;
co-authored with Frank Kenney)
BT to Drive
Business-to-Business Web Services Adoption -- 30 April 2003 (CS-19-7665 à Archived) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: BT is the first major managed network service
provider to offer, along with traditional services (such as electronic data
interchange), new value-added network products based on Web services. Other
major managed NSPs will follow. Informal Description: This
research explores BT’s early experiment with a Web services-based hosted
integration service, highlighting likely scenarios where such a service is most
likely to be used. Note that in the last 18 months I have been unable to get
an update from BT on the status of this project, therefore I cannot verify
whether or not the service has achieved any significant traction or is even
available anymore. (3 pages)
B2B
Application Integration: In-House or Outsourced? — 26 February 2003 (DF-18-7617) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Consider these issues when choosing between
using licensed software to operate your enterprise's own private
business-to-business exchange and relying on a value-added-network managed service
provider. Informal Description: This research enumerates the
various choices available to implement B2B application integration projects, identifying
and describing the various major categories of B2B and integration service
providers (evolving VANs) – and some advice on choosing between them. (3 pages;
co-authored with Frank Kenney).
Enterprise-to-Enterprise
Architecture for Virtual Enterprises — 31 July, 2002 (COM-17-3617 à Archived) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The enterprise nervous system and its
associated technology, systems and metadata architecture are increasingly
extended via the grid to enterprise-to-enterprise scenarios. Informal
Description: This research offers guidance on three aspects of B2B
projects: the virtual extension of your internal IT infrastructure to external
business partners, the distinction between control of standards for internal
and B2B projects, and when to use – or not use – canonical form in defining
internal and B2B standards. (4 pages, including 3 figures) Also see Grand Central.
Grand
Central: The First WSN-Managed Service Provider — 24 July, 2002 (P-17-3863 à Archived) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: I While most
enterprises are only experimenting with Web services, Grand Central
Communications, the first pure-play Web services network provider, is
supporting safe, reliable business-to-business Web services exchanges. Informal Description: This is a product-specific research
note on the Grand Central Web Services Network. (5 pages, including 1 figure)
Also see Grand Central.
How Adapters Can Help
Integrate Applications — 13 May 2002 (TU-15-5491) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: In application integration, adapters bridge
the gap between application systems and the common infrastructure of an
enterprise nervous system. Enterprises seeking integration solutions should
closely examine their associated adapters. Informal Description:
This research enumerates in detail what adapters do, i.e., the different
logical functions executed by adapters. (5 pages)
Digital Dial Tone Will
Carry XML Messaging and XML RPC — 9 February 2000 (T-10-0112 à Archived) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The digital dial tone will be used to support
collaborations using both XML messaging and XML RPC. Trading groups or other
organizations that do not manage or dictate technology on both sides of digital
dial tone collaborations, especially for integrating existing applications,
should use XML messaging to lower the inhibitors to adoption. ISVs, market
makers or other organizations that manage or dictate software on both sides of
digital dial tone collaborations, especially for new applications, should use XML
RPC to simplify development after the technology becomes generally available by
year-end 2000 in mainstream integrated development environments (0.7
probability). Informal Description: This research defines the
role that XML will have in multi-enterprise integration projects,
metaphorically comparing XML-based business-to-business application integration
to the telephone dial-tone. (3 pages)
Web + XML = E-Business'
Digital Dial Tone — 3 December 1999 (T-09-6678 à Archived)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: The combination of the Web and XML — the
digital dial tone — will be widely associated with communications to support
machine-to-machine B2B collaborations. While the approach suffers from
adolescence, enterprises should consider taking advantage of the digital dial
tone for exchanging business data and integrating applications with business
partners, particularly for low-throughput applications with many collaborators.
Informal Description: This research was the first from Gartner to
explore XML’s impact on multi-enterprise application integration. (4 pages)
Microsoft
Wants Businesses to Agree With BizTalk — 9 August 1999 (TG-08-4325 à Archived) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: Microsoft's BizTalk Framework will support
e-commerce solutions based on a loosely coupled approach to BTB application
integration that uses XML and HTTP, which will in turn fuel a proliferation of
XML schema and set an industry precedent for XML schema that must be ported to
different vendors' XML technology. Informal Description: This
research explores how companies will use XML and Microsoft’s BizTalk Server to
integrate applications. (3 pages) Also see Microsoft.
webMethods
Bets on Internet-Based Application Integration — 12 February 1999 (C-06-9961 à Archived) (Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: WebMethods is an emerging vendor in a
leadership position with its XML-based Web integration server. With
consideration for its limited number of integration adapters, webMethods should
be considered by Type A (leading edge) enterprises planning opportunistic,
small-to-medium scale projects for real-time application integration with
business partners over the Internet. Informal Description:
This research explores webMethod’s early entry into the nascent B2B Gateway
software market segment. (4 pages) Also see webMethods.
XML Takes an
Active Role in Middleware — 2 February 1999 (TG-07-2431 à Archived)
(Back to Top)
Published Bottom
Line: While other relevant specifications will soon
follow, XML and DOM are the first XML specifications to be widely leveraged in
middleware for Web enablement, application hosting and integration. Enterprises
with middleware projects should learn about these specifications now to better
understand and potentially benefit from new XML-related technologies. Informal
Description: Gartner’s first research to explore the impact of XML on
application integration. (3 pages)
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