CrossWorlds Software

Name

CrossWorlds Software

Website

https://crossworlds.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

CrossWorlds Software, founded in 1996 in Burlingame, California, is a private company historically providing business integration software designed to unite and extend business processes; its primary web domain is currently parked and listed for sale.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Application Integration Middleware

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise Integration, iPaaS & Middleware Services (API/EDI) (BPAEAGAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Enterprise Work Management & Collaborative Workflow Platforms (HDAEAHAI)

Keywords

• Business integration software
• Enterprise application integration
• Process integration middleware
• B2B integration platform
• Business process unification

Headquarters

HQ city

Burlingame

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

CrossWorlds Software provides business integration software that unites and extends business processes across enterprise systems. The software targets organizations seeking to connect and coordinate disparate business applications and workflows.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Emerging players

• Workato: Workato is a modern iPaaS/workflow-automation vendor addressing the same enterprise-integration use cases that CrossWorlds targeted, representing the contemporary peer set for category positioning.
• MuleSoft (Salesforce): MuleSoft is the modern cloud-native leader in the integration-platform category that CrossWorlds helped define; it is the most relevant next-generation peer for any revival thesis.
• Informatica: Informatica expanded from data integration into application and process integration, overlapping with the CrossWorlds value proposition of 'uniting and extending business processes' across enterprise systems.

Direct peers

• SeeBeyond (acquired by Sun Microsystems): SeeBeyond was a direct EAI competitor to CrossWorlds, focused on application and B2B integration; it was acquired by Sun and is now part of Oracle — making Oracle a relevant successor peer.
• webMethods (Software AG): webMethods was a flagship EAI platform that competed head-to-head with CrossWorlds in the late-1990s/early-2000s enterprise integration market; now part of Software AG, it remains a comparable integration-suite peer.
• TIBCO Software: TIBCO was a leading EAI/middleware vendor in the same 1990s–2000s cohort as CrossWorlds, providing enterprise application integration, BPM, and messaging infrastructure — a direct functional and category peer.
• Vitria Technology: Vitria was a contemporaneous EAI/integration-platform vendor in the same 1990s cohort, offering process automation and integration tools targeting the same enterprise customer base.

Broad incumbents

• SAP (Process Integration / BTP Integration Suite): SAP's XI/PI and current BTP Integration Suite are direct successors to the late-1990s EAI category that CrossWorlds addressed, targeting enterprise customers integrating ERP and adjacent systems.
• IBM (WebSphere): IBM acquired CrossWorlds in the 2000s and folded the technology into WebSphere; IBM remains the most directly related incumbent owner of the CrossWorlds technology lineage.
• BEA Systems: BEA's WebLogic Integration product competed directly with CrossWorlds in the EAI category; BEA was acquired by Oracle, which remains a broad incumbent in middleware and integration.

Market position

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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