Hillside

What Hillside does

DWID Business Integration GmbH (DBA: DWID) is a privately held Austrian limited company headquartered at Willroiderstrasse 3, 9500 Villach, Austria (VAT ATU74871418). The company sells and operates an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) platform that routes, translates, and transmits business documents between trading partners. The solution supports all major EDI standards — UN/EDIFACT, ANSI X.12, Tradacoms, XML, and CSV — and a broad protocol stack including AS2, OFTP2, FTP/S, SFTP, HTTP/S, SOAP, and REST web services. It is designed to integrate with common ERP environments, with SAP explicitly named, and provides real-time monitoring, message tracking, and operational reporting across the EDI workflow.

The product is delivered as a single unified EDI offering, supplemented by two attached services: Consulting (needs analysis, solution design, planning, deployment) and IT Support (ongoing technical assistance, monitoring, issue resolution, software updates). DWID runs a sales-led, consultative go-to-market with direct customer engagement via the corporate website (published in German, English, and Italian) and personal account relationships. The firm positions itself as a boutique, multilingual DACH-focused provider, and the named CEO is Mag. Klaus Jaritz. Revenue mechanics combine recurring subscription-style charges for software and support with project-based professional services revenue from EDI implementations.

The source data carries a notable firmographic mismatch: the headline profile labels the company "Hillside" (founded 2004, Morsano al Tagliamento, Italy, ITIL service management), while all substantive product, legal-entity, location, leadership, and website evidence describes DWID Business Integration GmbH in Villach, Austria. The analytical content above is anchored to the first-party DWID evidence given the depth, specificity, and direct correspondence with the dwid.at website content.

Name

Hillside

Legal name

DWID Business Integration GmbH

Website

https://hillside.at

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

DWID Business Integration GmbH is an Austrian EDI software vendor that sells standards-based electronic data interchange, ERP/SAP integration, and attached consulting and IT support services to enterprises exchanging business documents with trading partners across the DACH region and Italian-speaking markets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

B2B/EDI & Supply Chain Process Automation Platforms (HDAEAHAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

B2B/EDI & Partner Integration (BPAMAOAJ)

Keywords

• Electronic data interchange
• EDI software solutions
• Business document exchange
• ERP system integration
• Trading partner connectivity

Headquarters

HQ city

Morsano Al Tagliamento

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. EDI Software Solutions: EDI solutions enabling seamless, automated exchange of business documents between companies and trading partners. Revenue generated from software licensing, implementation, and ongoing support services.
2. Consulting Services: Consultants act as trusted advisors guiding clients through EDI implementation process including analysis, solution design, planning, deployment and ongoing improvements
3. IT Support: Dedicated IT support team providing ongoing technical assistance to keep EDI connections running smoothly including system monitoring, issue resolution, and software updates

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Hillside provides a comprehensive Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) solution that reliably routes, processes, and converts business documents according to industry standards, supporting all major EDI formats (UN/EDIFACT, ANSI X.12, Tradacoms, XML, CSV) and communication protocols (AS2, OFTP2, FTP/S, SFTP, HTTP/S, SOAP, REST). The offering covers the full classic EDI process — data input, translation, secure transmission, partner system integration, and real-time monitoring — and is delivered together with consulting services for implementation and ongoing IT support.

Product overview

The company's offering is a single unified EDI product that provides end-to-end electronic data interchange capabilities. The core EDI Solution serves as the primary product, supporting all major standards and communication protocols for data routing, processing, and conversion. The offering includes associated consulting services for implementation guidance and IT support for ongoing technical assistance. The solution integrates with ERP systems including SAP and other business applications to enable seamless process automation between trading partners.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• EDI Solution
• EDI Consulting Services Consulting service in which the company's consultants act as trusted advisors, guiding clients through the entire EDI implementation process: analyzing unique business needs, designing tailored solutions, aligning EDI processes with overall business goals, and supporting planning, deployment, and ongoing improvements. Aimed at companies implementing or optimizing EDI in their organization.
• EDI IT Support Ongoing IT support service provided by a dedicated team that monitors EDI system performance, resolves issues quickly, and manages software updates to ensure stability and security. Covers troubleshooting connections, customer team guidance, and implementation of upgrades, designed to minimize downtime and maximize efficiency for customers running the EDI solution.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature5 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• DiCentral: DiCentral offers EDI and supply chain integration solutions with strong retail, manufacturing, and distribution vertical coverage, plus ERP connectors (including SAP). It competes head-to-head with DWID for trading-partner-driven B2B document automation deals.
• SPS Commerce: SPS Commerce is a large, public EDI network focused on retail supply chains with a vast pre-built trading-partner map. While more retail-tilted, its product model and recurring-revenue EDI-as-a-service approach are structurally similar to DWID's.
• TrueCommerce: TrueCommerce is a leading global provider of EDI and B2B integration solutions for SMB and mid-market, offering a comparable product portfolio spanning EDI translation, ERP integration, and trading-partner onboarding—directly overlapping with DWID's core offering.
• Cleo (Cleopatra): Cleo provides cloud-based EDI and API integration software for supply chain ecosystems, with similar protocol coverage (AS2, SFTP, etc.) and ERP connectivity. It targets the same mid-market and enterprise EDI buyer that DWID serves.
• Crossfire Cloud EDI: Crossfire is a smaller, NZ-based EDI provider serving SMBs and mid-market with a managed EDI service model very similar to DWID's consultative, partner-onboarding-driven approach. Comparable in scale and target customer profile.

Emerging players

• Orderful: Orderful offers an API-first EDI network modernizing traditional EDI with developer-friendly integration patterns. While more API-centric, it targets the same supply-chain EDI use cases and competes for the same mid-market buyer.
• Babelway (Liaison/EDICOM): Babelway is a cloud-native EDI platform focused on simplifying partner onboarding and integration, with a feature set and target customer (mid-market) closely aligned with DWID. It represents a more modern, cloud-born competitor in the same niche.

Broad incumbents

• OpenText (GXS Trading Grid / Business Network): OpenText, via its GXS/Business Network heritage, is one of the largest global EDI operators serving thousands of trading partners. It competes broadly with DWID in EDI, though as part of a much larger information management portfolio.
• IBM Sterling B2B Integration: IBM Sterling is a long-established enterprise EDI and B2B integration suite, used by large multinationals for partner onboarding, translation, and managed file transfer. It represents a scaled incumbent competing for the same enterprise EDI wallet.

Peers

• SAP Business Network / Integration Suite:

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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