PHOENIX, Apr 22, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) --Axway (AXW) , a market leader in governing the flow of data, today announced it has again been named a Leader in Gartner’s MagicQuadrant for Application Services Governance, based on its ability to execute and completeness of vision. Axway has held this position since the inception of the Application Services Governance Magic Quadrant in 2013.
Axway, with the acquisition of leading Application Programming Interface (API) management vendor, Vordel, in 2012, started a wave of API management market consolidation as APIs have become fundamental enabling technologies for digital business. Axway5 Suite, which features Axway API Management as a foundational element, has been implemented by thousands of companies across a broad range of digital business initiatives and features integrated APIManagement, B2B/EDI, and MFT capabilities.
According to Gartner analyst Paolo Malinverno, “Digital business will disrupt all industries, and, therefore, it will drive radical changes in the applications that companies run to operate, stay relevant and prosper in the industries they belong to (or even across them). APIs are at the core of enabling application transformation for digital business, giving access to functionality and data in your current applications to the new digital business applications.”¹
Axway5 Suite for API Management is an enterprise-grade API management and security platform for all types of APIs. Fortune 500 enterprises and government agencies around the world rely on Axway to achieve standardized API delivery to ensure the security, performance, and high availability of their mission-critical applications. APIs increasingly play a central role as companies continue to invest in the Internetof Things (IoT), mobileapplications, big data, cloud computing and social collaboration.
“API Management is having a profound impact on the integration market, driven not only by organizations looking to enable digital business initiatives, but also as enterprises look to adopt new and innovative integration methods over more traditional approaches,” said Dean Hidalgo, executive vice president, global marketing, Axway. “In today’s digital environment, progressive enterprises understand that an API-centricapproach is essential to solving integration challenges in internal, external, mobile, IoT and cloud environments. We believe Axway is a visionary in this regard, and we feel having again been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Services Governance is a testament to our continued contribution to digital business worldwide.”
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¹Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Application Services Governance,” Paolo Malinverno, 9 April 2015
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About Axway
Axway , a market leader in governing the flow of data, is a global software company with more than 11,000 public- and private-sector customers in 100 countries.
For more than a decade, Axway has empowered leading organizations around the world with proven solutions that help manage business-critical interactions through the exchange of data flowing across the enterprise, among B2B communities, cloud and mobile devices. Our award-winning solutions span business-to-business integration, managed file transfer, operational intelligence, API and identity management, and email security– offered on premise and in the Cloud with professional and managed services.Axway is registered in France with headquarters in the United States and offices in 19 countries. www.axway.com
About Axway 5 Suite
Axway 5 Suite offers control and optimization of the flow of data through integration, visibility, policy, security and reliability to govern business-to-business interactions, communities, systems and data types – within and beyond the enterprise edge.
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The managed file transfer (MFT) industry has a players ranging from big-name tech titans to up-and-coming next-generation cloud-based vendors. Below is a list of some, but not all, players in this industry and a brief description.
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Axway
A leading competitor in the managed file transfer industry, Axway says it specializes in not only B2B (business to business) MFT, but also A2A (application to application), and ad hoc transfers. Axway is a French company that is popular in the U.S. enterprise market, priding itself on baked-in visibility and monitoring tools that provide both technical and business-oriented dashboards to track which data is being transferred. Axway recently beefed up its security policies too with its acquisition of Vordel, which specializes in API security compatibility for mobile and cloud services. This could fit in with Axway's Communities service, in which businesses can set up policies for different groups within an enterprise.
More information: Axway
Citrix ShareFile
Citrix, a trusted name in IT management tools, has its own line of file transfer products, headlined by ShareFile, which is what the company calls a 'follow-me data' tool. ShareFile allows users to store and synchronize files across multiple devices and platforms, from mobile, tablet and desktop, with optional integration with Microsoft Outlook and centralized management, such as running audit reports, conducting remote wipes and linking in with an existing active directory. It supports transfers of files up to 100GB and also features Storage Zones, which is basically a fancy way of Citrix saying data can be stored on a customer's premise, or in a Citrix cloud. Last week, the company announced a partnership with NetApp where that company's storage operating system, NetApp Data OnTap 8, will be optimized to run as the on-premise platform in ShareFile environments.
More information: Citrix ShareFile
IBM
Seen by some as the market leader in this category for enterprise MFT, IBM's product is based on the Sterling Managed File platform. Optimized for high-volume traffic within and between enterprises, IBM's MFT is a portfolio that includes additional bolt-on features. WebSphere MQ, for example, is an optional file transfer automation software, while File Gateway allows for integration with enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business process management (BPM) platforms. IBM also has a series of customizable Web-based interfaces, and a control center for IT management of the system.
More information: IBM Sterling MFT
Ipswitch File Transfer
Perhaps no company better epitomizes the transitions occurring in this broader industry better than Ipswitch. The company has a history of competing in the MFT space, but has recently launched a new, completely cloud-based version of its file transfer tool named MOVEit. It supports system-to-system, person-to-person file transfers, all with fast on-boarding and the ability to dynamically scale resources as needed through the cloud. Ipswitch has complementary tools such as MessageWay, which integrates with existing message platforms, and for customers that want an on-premise tool instead, Ipswitch sells its WS_FTP file transfer server.
More information: Ipswitch File Transfer
Tibco
Tibco's file transfer system is part of the company's broader strategy around information management. Its MFT line includes both platform and Internet servers, for on-premise or public Internet-facing MFT applications respectively, plus it includes Command Center, a centralized dashboard with reporting and auditing features. Tibco's Slingshot product is also used on-premise as an integration tool with Microsoft Outlook and other messaging platforms that provides compression and encryption for files that will be transferred.
More information: Tibco MFT
YouSendIt
YouSendIt represents the up-and-coming crop of startup competitors looking to take on the legacy names in this business. A cloud-based service, YouSendIt emphasizes easy onboarding, including a free 14-day trial, and access to YouSendIt services from desktops, tablets and mobile devices. File transfers are capped at 2MB, but the service provides for synchronization of files across devices. An enterprise-geared product named Workstream starts at $12.99 per month for up to 50 users, while a premium version of that with customized pricing includes active directly integration, single sign-on and monitoring and management tools.
More information: YouSendIt
Network World staff writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing and social collaboration. He can be reached at [email protected] and found on Twitter at @BButlerNWW.
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French-registered, US-based software developer Axway has acquired Santa Clara, Calif.-based Syncplicty.
The acquisition is the latest chapter for the enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) vendor, which the company then known as EMC acquired in 2012 and sold to global investment firm Skyview Capital in 2015.
Founded in 2007, Syncplicity counts more than 25,000 business and individual customers across a variety of verticals.
Axway, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., is a former unit of French company Sopra Steria. The Paris-based information technology services group spun off Axway in 2011 but retains a 33.52 percent interest in the company, which has more than 11,000 customers worldwide.
Terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed.
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Last year, Axway acquired Appcelerator, a Mountain View, Calif.-based mobile app development platform startup founded in 2006.
'Winning Combination'
In a statement on the company website, officials described Syncplicity and Axway as a 'winning combination.' The acquisition advances Axway’s commitment to the digital workplace by enabling workers 'to securely share, synchronize and collaborate on files anywhere, anytime, from any device,' they continued.
Axway CEO Jean-Marc Lazzari said Syncplicty compliments Axway AMPLIFY, the data integration and engagement platform the company introduced last November. AMPLIFY provides a unified, secure environment in the cloud and on-premises where digital teams can create, run and scale API-enabled services.
With Syncplicity, Axway now offers enterprises a hybrid cloud service where EFSS and Managed File Transfer (MFT) interactions can be 'leveraged seamlessly together to get more business value from their data,' he said.
Syncplicity not only strengthens the AMPLIFY platform but provides an API that will developer communities to embed EFSS services within their apps and processes, he said.
Last November, Gartner named Axway a Leader in its 2016 Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management. It was the third consecutive year it made the leaders quadrant in the report, previously known as the Application Services Governance Magic Quadrant.
Death of EFSS?
The acquisition confirms a prediction Gartner analysts Monica Basso, Karen A. Hobert and Jeffrey Mann made in the EFSS Magic Quadrant they wrote last summer. They estimated 70 percent of existing EFSS vendors will cease to exist by 2018.
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Many EFSS companies with either be acquired or go out of business, they predicted. Surviving firms will offer one of two kinds of solutions: either empowering the digital workplace or modernizing corporate infrastructures.
When asked about the prediction, Syncplicity CEO Jon Huberman told CMSWire, 'We're in the digital transformation business. We are not trying to be ECM 3.0.' Based on the company's new ownership, that appears to be true.
French-registered, US-based software developer Axway has acquired Santa Clara, Calif.-based Syncplicty.
The acquisition is the latest chapter for the enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) vendor, which the company then known as EMC acquired in 2012 and sold to global investment firm Skyview Capital in 2015.
Founded in 2007, Syncplicity counts more than 25,000 business and individual customers across a variety of verticals.
Axway, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., is a former unit of French company Sopra Steria. The Paris-based information technology services group spun off Axway in 2011 but retains a 33.52 percent interest in the company, which has more than 11,000 customers worldwide.
Terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed.
Last year, Axway acquired Appcelerator, a Mountain View, Calif.-based mobile app development platform startup founded in 2006.
'Winning Combination'
In a statement on the company website, officials described Syncplicity and Axway as a 'winning combination.' The acquisition advances Axway’s commitment to the digital workplace by enabling workers 'to securely share, synchronize and collaborate on files anywhere, anytime, from any device,' they continued.
Axway CEO Jean-Marc Lazzari said Syncplicty compliments Axway AMPLIFY, the data integration and engagement platform the company introduced last November. AMPLIFY provides a unified, secure environment in the cloud and on-premises where digital teams can create, run and scale API-enabled services.
With Syncplicity, Axway now offers enterprises a hybrid cloud service where EFSS and Managed File Transfer (MFT) interactions can be 'leveraged seamlessly together to get more business value from their data,' he said.
Syncplicity not only strengthens the AMPLIFY platform but provides an API that will developer communities to embed EFSS services within their apps and processes, he said.
Last November, Gartner named Axway a Leader in its 2016 Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management. It was the third consecutive year it made the leaders quadrant in the report, previously known as the Application Services Governance Magic Quadrant.
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Death of EFSS?
The acquisition confirms a prediction Gartner analysts Monica Basso, Karen A. Hobert and Jeffrey Mann made in the EFSS Magic Quadrant they wrote last summer. They estimated 70 percent of existing EFSS vendors will cease to exist by 2018.
Many EFSS companies with either be acquired or go out of business, they predicted. Surviving firms will offer one of two kinds of solutions: either empowering the digital workplace or modernizing corporate infrastructures.
When asked about the prediction, Syncplicity CEO Jon Huberman told CMSWire, 'We're in the digital transformation business. We are not trying to be ECM 3.0.' Based on the company's new ownership, that appears to be true.