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Sterling Commerce Delivers Comprehensive Solution for Seamless and Secure Business Process Integration Inside and Outside the Enterprise
Sterling Business Integration Suite Improves Business Agility, Increases Operational Efficiency, and Drives Greater Business Performance
| Source: Sterling Commerce
SAN ANTONIO, TX--(Marketwire - April 28, 2009) - Sterling Commerce Customer Connection - Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc
company, introduced Sterling
Business Integration Suite, a comprehensive suite of industry-leading
integration solutions to provide a holistic approach to
integrating business processes inside and outside the enterprise. The
Suite is an end-to-end integration solution that enables companies to
improve business agility, increase operational efficiency, and drive
business performance. Sterling Commerce also introduced new capabilities
in the Suite that deepen its ability to integrate any partner, any system,
any where.
Addressing the critical challenges of business-to-business (B2B) integration,
managed file transfer, and enterprise integration, the Suite enables
companies to optimize their business collaboration network -- the ecosystem
of customers, partners and suppliers with whom they do business -- by
providing better interoperability and visibility with fewer tools,
therefore yielding the greatest amount of value and return on investment.
In a December 2008 study commissioned by Sterling Commerce,
Forrester Consulting found that "a more strategic approach is needed in
the form of an enterprise integration strategy that considers the full
range of integration needs and provides strategic guidance on applicable
solutions." The research also found that over 80 percent of all
enterprises are planning to enhance their internal and B2B integration
capability during the next twelve months to gain operational efficiencies
and lower costs.(1) For full details on this research, see related
release, "Research Confirms Enterprises Lack a Comprehensive Integration
Strategy to Meet Today's Business Challenges."
http://www.sterlingcommerce.com/CNXrelease/Forrester_Survey
"Sterling Business Integration Suite represents an innovative approach to
addressing the integration challenges companies face in managing their
business collaboration networks," said Scott Pulsipher, senior vice
president of Products and Marketing, Sterling Commerce. "By using the
Suite's comprehensive set of capabilities, companies can avoid complex
cross-vendor implementations, and yield the greatest amount of value and
ROI from their integration projects."
"With Sterling Business Integration Suite, we are able to move our high
volume of documents on a daily basis much quicker, cheaper, and in higher
quality. It also meets all of our information protection and compliance
requirements and does so in an easy-to-use manner for those who use the
system," said Ian Silver, senior technical analyst at Ameriprise Financial,
a leading financial planning and services company. "We now have repeatable
processes across all of our different business partners, both external and
internal, enabling us to cut connection times in half. We have driven
another 10-20 percent out of our standard integration costs through
operational efficiencies."
Sterling Business Integration Suite offers a comprehensive set of
capabilities including security, communications, partner on-boarding and management, and
process automation and visibility. Sterling Commerce continues to drive
benefits with new capabilities, including:
-- Reducing the cost and resources involved in on-boarding and managing
large and diverse communities with Sterling Community Manager. See related
release, "Sterling Commerce Delivers New Solution for Rapid On-Boarding and
Cost-Effective Management of Large and Diverse Business Communities."
http://www.sterlingcommerce.com/CNXrelease/SI5.
-- Helping customers extend B2B capabilities to their business partners,
regardless of their size and technical expertise, with Sterling Web Forms
On Demand and Sterling Fax Conversion Services. See how Huhtamaki is
using Sterling Fax Conversion Services at
http://www.sterlingcommerce.com/CNXrelease/Huhtamaki.
-- Accelerating and simplifying customer access to their financial
business partners with Sterling SWIFT Service Bureau.
-- Helping companies expedite their business processes that depend on
either moving large files or transferring files between an organization and
its many partners using different protocols, file naming conventions, and
file formats with Sterling File Accelerator and Sterling File Gateway. See how SXC
Health Solutions is using Sterling File Gateway at
http://www.sterlingcommerce.com/CNXrelease/SXC.
About Sterling Commerce
Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc (NYSE : T ) company, helps companies optimize
and transform their Business Collaboration Network to accelerate
revenues and reduce costs. More than 30,000 customers worldwide use
Sterling Commerce
applications and integration solutions to connect, communicate and
collaborate inside and outside their enterprise. Headquartered in Columbus,
Ohio, Sterling Commerce has offices in 24 countries. More information can
be found at www.sterlingcommerce.com.
(1) "The Value of a Comprehensive Integration Solution," a commissioned
study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sterling Commerce,
December 2008.