COLUMBUS, OH--(Marketwire - September 29, 2008) -
Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc.
(
NYSE:
T) company, today announced a new alliance strategy designed to help
companies innovate in global commerce by productively collaborating inside
and outside their enterprise. As part of that strategy, the company has
extended its relationships with leading systems integrators in which each
firm will incorporate Sterling Commerce solutions in their portfolio
offerings and Sterling Commerce will leverage the firms' world-class
systems integration and consulting services to enable companies to address
key
vertical
industry challenges.
"Sterling Commerce solutions help our customers connect, communicate, and
collaborate with their customers, partners and suppliers better than anyone
else," said
Joel Reed, senior vice president, Corporate Marketing and Strategic
Alliances at Sterling Commerce. "In today's global commerce environment no
company is successful alone. With our alliance strategy, we're delivering
a powerful solutions and services combination that will enable companies to
work within their business communities in a productive, secure and
effective manner that drives positive business results for all involved."
With its new alliance strategy, Sterling Commerce has undertaken
strengthening its relationships with market-leading companies to enable
Sterling Commerce to extend its reach as well as deliver new value to
customers. This strategy will benefit customers by providing a streamlined
relationship between Sterling Commerce and its alliance partners to
deliver:
-- More relevant and complete solutions (products and services) that
address key vertical industry challenges, and
-- Enhanced capacity to serve and execute globally, to meet the demands
of global, multi-national companies.
According to Gartner Group, "Business trends, such as outsourcing,
globalization, SaaS and IT trends (such as application modernization, SOA
and the proliferation of B2B) standards -- such as AS2, RosettaNet, Web
services, SWIFT and so on), are driving companies to more frequently link
and share internal business processes and application data with external
business partners." ("Key Issues for Multienterprise B2B Integration,
2008" by Benoit J. Lheureux, Paolo Malinverno, L. Frank Kenney, 11 March
2008, ID Number: G00155781).
Sterling Commerce provides solutions that enable integration of key
business processes and applications that transform the way companies do
business. Under the alliance strategy, Sterling Commerce is embedding
these market-leading solutions in each firm's solution framework to drive
added value for customers in their inquiry-to-cash,
multi-channel
commerce, supply chain
management, and enterprise payments processes. The company also is
leveraging its alliance partners' deep industry knowledge and systems
integration and consulting services with Sterling Commerce solutions for
enterprise integration, multi-enterprise integration, payments management,
and multi-channel selling and fulfillment to enable companies to achieve
higher levels of performance by optimizing their business communities,
processes and technologies.
More information about the Sterling Commerce alliance strategy and the
company's work with these industry leaders can be found at:
http://www.sterlingcommerce.com/About/Partners/Alliance_Partners/
About Sterling Commerce
Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. (
NYSE:
T) company, helps customers thrive
in a global economy by connecting their business communities, processes,
people, and technology. More than 30,000 customers worldwide -- including
82 percent of the Fortune 500 -- use Sterling Commerce solutions for
business
process integration,
multi-channel
selling, and
supply chain
fulfillment to improve profitability inside and outside their company
walls. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Sterling Commerce has offices in
19 countries and most major cities around the world. More information on
the company can be found at
www.sterlingcommerce.com.
Contact Information: For more information, contact:
Julie Redard
Sterling Commerce
(978) 513-6386
Jamie Leicht
Fleishman-Hillard
(619) 237-7711