I am proud to share that Axway has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business-to-Business Middleware 2024 Vendor Assessment.¹ To us, this represents validation of our vision to seamlessly unify traditional and modern integration flows, empowering customers to manage partner networks of any complexity while ensuring industry and market compliance.
For over 20 years, we have enabled seamless EDI and API flows for multinational corporations, processing billions of dollars in transactions annually.
In this new world of symbiotic business ecosystems and hyper-connectivity, Axway B2B Integration equips companies to scale, adapt, and innovate for the next decade of business challenges.
Navigating the future of B2B integration
As the B2B integration landscape evolves, businesses need solutions that can keep pace with modern demands. Shifting consumer expectations, the rise of AI, and a renewed focus on sustainability are reshaping how companies operate.
Consider, for a moment, the sheer number of suppliers and other partners that large enterprises are working with: some are connecting to more than 100,000 other companies in a year, with that number growing by 10% or more year over year.
Then, there’s the fact that B2B cloud integration has reached a tipping point: last year, cloud overtook non-cloud market share, according to the IDC Worldwide Business-to-Business Middleware Software Forecast, 2024–2028, July 2024, Doc #US52445124.
As analysts confirm what we have witnessed for ourselves, we’ve designed our B2B integration roadmap to match pace with this growth and support our customers as they continue to shift to the cloud.
It’s why we have invested more in containerization, for example, to allow customers to implement and manage our solution in the cloud more easily and in a more scalable way.
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“Organizations need greater flexibility and capability to exchange the right partner data from key systems in their business applications regardless of where those systems are deployed,” says Shari Lava, Senior Director, AI and Automation at IDC.
“As industry verticalization increases, regulatory requirements shift, and data formats evolve, companies need to work with a solution that can meet multiple integration needs. The time is now to evaluate whether an organization’s investments in B2B solutions can deliver better value today – and in the future.”
Read more: The need for B2B modernization is becoming critical
Simplifying complexity with flexible solutions
We believe that the future of B2B integration will require the tools to reinforce EDI business while capturing new cloud and API opportunities. But merging the old with the new is no simple feat.
Seamlessly unifying traditional and modern integration flows is where Axway excels. We support all integration patterns — EDI, API, File Transfer, VAN, protocols — with watertight security.
As analysts highlight in Axway’s profile for the IDC MarketScape: Business-to-Business Middleware 2024 Vendor Assessment:
“In addition to extensive format support, Axway B2Bi can also execute any-to-any translation. This any-to-any capability allows users to more easily communicate between organizations that use different data formats, improving overall efficiency.” ¹
“Axway B2B’s mission is to power the transactional lifeblood of the world’s largest trading ecosystems,” says JB Bentz, VP and General Manager of the B2B Integration product line at Axway.
“Our customers’ critical reliance on Axway integration solutions is at the heart of this drive.”
“In a world where integration vendors face major security concerns and seem to lack clear direction,” concludes Bentz, “we maintain a laser focus on security for B2B integration while investing in modernization strategies that fit the needs of your business.”
Axway helps enterprises grow and deploy their way. With flexible and reversible deployment options across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments, we ensure a consistent technology stack.
Containers and multi-clustering enable zero-downtime maintenance and maximum operational efficiency.
With Axway, enterprises enjoy end-to-end visibility with stringent security and SLA-backed performance.
A trusted partner for long-term success
Earlier this year, Axway’s Technical Customer Support Director highlighted some fascinating insights into enterprises’ frustrations as they attempted to modernize their B2B ecosystem.
EDI providers would show them a great demo but couldn’t follow through on implementation. They would promise cloud flexibility, but deployment proved a challenge. Or, APIs weren’t sufficiently integrated with their B2B/EDI flows.
Leadership requires more than just a vision: execution is key.
At Axway, we’re more than just a product provider — we’re a partner in your long-term success. Our deep expertise and supportive community ensure transparency, innovation, and growth.
B2B integration is a first-class citizen at Axway. We continue to invest in traditional EDI technology, new API-driven integration, modern cloud computing, and market and industry compliance all over the world. This means we’re able to tackle integration use cases of any complexity.
The IDC analysts put it best in their vendor assessment:
“Consider Axway B2Bi if your organization needs a tested B2B middleware solution with a track record of broad coverage of B2B middleware capabilities with the ability to scale from small use cases to more expansive B2B ecosystem support, particularly with on-premises needs or hybrid deployment needs.”¹
As artificial intelligence continues to revolutionize the way we work, we’ll keep modernizing with the help of our R&D AI task force and AI Center of Excellence.
With Axway, companies can confidently scale for the next decade and beyond.
Access an excerpt of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business-to-Business Middleware 2024 Vendor Assessment report today.
About IDC MarketScape: IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.