US business-to-business (B2B) integration services provider Crossgate has entered a reseller agreement with SAP.

Under the terms of the deal, SAP will resell Crossgate’s B2B engine and associated partner profiles under the name SAP Information Interchange application by Crossgate.

SAP Information Interchange allows companies to exchange electronic purchase orders, forecasts, e-invoices, delivery notes and other documents directly from their SAP applications, eliminating the need for legacy B2B translators and electronic data interchange (EDI) mapping tools. SAP customers are now able to purchase a trading-partner-specific profile rather than building, deploying and adapting one-to-one mappings every time a new business-partner requirement surfaces.

The initial interfaces of SAP Information Interchange will be based on standard intermediate document (IDOC) technology and extended to support enterprise services. Through the use of enterprise services, all users of SAP solutions will be turned into one network and enabled for information exchange, transaction execution, and collaboration with each other.

The resulting business-ready network will help make SAP customers semantically compatible with each other and with the outside world and make internal ERP processes independent from B2B requirements of trading partners.