Overview

With the level of capabilities that only industry leaders can offer, Sterling Commerce (a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&T) and AT&T provide companies of all sizes with one of the most powerful, advanced, and reliable networks in the world. Combined with market-leading integration solutions and business applications that help companies work more effectively, Sterling Commerce integration solutions address a company's most complex commerce challenges.

Sterling Commerce provides companies with the ability to rapidly and securely move business-critical information within the enterprise, and between the enterprise and its trading partners. Sterling Commerce also helps customers grow and streamline their business through multi-channel selling and fulfillment solutions. AT&T and Sterling Commerce are uniquely positioned to help companies work more efficiently across their business communities by delivering applications and networking to support these integrated processes. By combining their expertise in B2B integration applications and global networking, AT&T and Sterling Commerce can enable and enhance your long-term business success.

AT&T and Sterling Commerce Advantage

Together, AT&T and Sterling Commerce are combining their expertise to provide collaborative solutions for companies of all sizes. With AT&T's extensive portfolio of IP-based communications services for business, combined with the integration products and business applications of Sterling Commerce, communities of business associates will grow increasingly adept at sharing processes, data, and decision-making in real time. Collectively, the talent, resources and vision of AT&T and Sterling Commerce will create a lasting impact on the way companies interact and compete in the global marketplaces of the future.

Business Solution:

Sterling Commerce delivers solutions that connect companies with their customers, partners and suppliers to help them achieve higher levels of performance. Our integration solutions enable you to rapidly and securely move business-critical information within your enterprise, or between your enterprise and your trading partners. And our robust suite of Business Applications handles the most complex selling and fulfillment problems.

Specifically, the Sterling Commerce roster of market leading integration solutions includes the Sterling Collaboration Network, Sterling Multi-Enterprise Integration and our Managed File Transfer solutions. And, the Sterling Commerce Selling and Fulfillment Suite manages the end-to-end order lifecycle across demand and supply chains by extending existing enterprise applications to simplify multi-channel sales and streamline supply chain execution.

All Sterling Commerce products can be delivered as software packages or as an outsourced hosted solution or managed service.

Benefits:

• Optimizing B2B integration with associates, suppliers and customers for competitive advantage
• Meeting the evolving needs of customers through flexible service-oriented architecture, applications, and business-process modeling
• Providing near real-time, end-to-end visibility and event management over shared business processes
• Proactively protecting the enterprise from vulnerabilities and outside threats
• Extending existing enterprise systems, facilitating selling, fulfillment and logistics in complex, multi-channel, multi-player environments