Media Coverage

	Avoid the Perfect Storm and Deliver the Perfect Order September 2009 There is a ‘perfect storm’ of complexities facing logistics companies including customer demand, global supply chains and internal operations.  When the internet has broken down walls and made ordering goods totally independent of customer location, how do you deliver the perfect order?
	Feeling Pressure to be Strategic? Let Automation Help. July 2009 EDI is far from dead.  Although it is evolved from mere communication and translation to include business processing. Read more about incentives vs. mandates and best practices for EDI.
	Visy Automates Communications with Sterling Commerce, 21 May 2009 With industry mandates changing communications standards, Visy required a single solution to support secure AS2 data communications across different lines of business to manage the exchange of data more efficiently with customers and suppliers.
	Sterling Commerce Partners Mondial Assistance Australia 18 May 2009 Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) company, today announced that Mondial Assistance Australia, a leading insurance and assistance provider, has selected Sterling Integrator (formally Gentran Integration Suite™) to streamline revenue collection and reporting processes across its business.
	Insurance group selects Sterling to improve revenue collection 18 May 2009 Mondial is to deploy Sterling Integrator (formally Gentran Integration Suite) which the company says follows rapid growth achieved over the past five years, leading to the need to scale for its future systems requirements.
	Sterling Commerce Partners Mondial Assistance Australia 18 January 2009 AS physical supply chains have grown longer and more complicated due to globalisation, manufacturers have responded by applying new technologies to achieve a more collaborative and automated approach.
	The ECN Group Expands B2B Operations with Sterling Commerce Ondemand Trading Network 11 May 2009 – Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc (NYSE:T) company, today announced that The ECN Group, Australasia’s leading outsourced business-to-business (B2B) messaging solution provider and a wholly-owned subsidiary of New Zealand Post, has selected the Sterling Collaboration Network (SCN) as its international value added network (VAN) connection.
	ECN Group expands B2B operations 11 May 2009 The ECN Group, one of Australasia’s largest outsourced business-to-business (B2B) messaging service providers and a wholly-owned subsidiary of New Zealand Post, has installed the Sterling Collaboration Network (SCN) as its international value added network (VAN) connection.
	Sterling Commerce selected by ECN Group 11 May 2009 Australasian outsourced B2B messaging solution provider, the ECN Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of New Zealand Post, has selected Sterling Commerce’s collaboration network (SCN) as its international value added network (VAN) connection.
	Insurance group selects Sterling to improve revenue collection Mondial is to deploy Sterling Integrator (formally Gentran Integration Suite) which the company says follows rapid growth achieved over the past five years, leading to the need to scale for its future systems requirements.
	B2B Integration Platforms To Take Centre Stage in 2009, 15 January 2009 AS physical supply chains have grown longer and more complicated due to globalisation, manufacturers have responded by applying new technologies to achieve a more collaborative and automated approach.
	Sterling Winners, 18 December 2008 Sterling Commerce has announced that DP World, L’Oréal Australia, New South Wales Department of Health and True Alliance have been named Sterling Commerce 2008 customer award winners for 2008.
	NSW Department of Health Deploys Sterling Commerce e-Procurement Solution, 15 December 2008 Sterling Commerce will supply a standards-based e-procurement hub solution to the New South Wales Department of Health.
	NSW Health Heads Down E-Procurement Path, 15 December 2008 The NSW Department of Health will implement a new e-procurement hub to standardise its purchasing processes.
	Sterling Speeds Up Long Distance File Delivery, 4 December 2008 Sterling File Accelerator (SFA) combines the power of the company’s Connect:Direct point-to-point file transfer software - optimised for high-volume, secure, assured delivery of files - with a new UDP Data Transfer-based file transport (UDT) -an application-level data transport protocol that overcomes the latency issues associated with transmission control protocol (TCP)-based transmissions.
	True Alliance Signs e-commerce contract with Sterling Commerce November, 2008 Footwear and apparel brands distributor True Alliance has selected Sterling Commerce (Australia) Pty Ltd, an AT&T subsidiary, in conjunction with HCL, to supply Sterling’s Multi-Channel Selling Solution
	True Alliance To Automate Its Supply Chain October 30, 2008 True Alliance, one of the largest distributors of footwear and apparel brands in Australia, selected Sterling Commerce and HCL as its strategic partners in a move to enhance supply chain efficiency and supplier relationships, while reducing its carbon footprint by cutting company travel and reliance on paper-based transactions.
	Distributor Eyes Carbon Savings with New Sales Tool October 27, 2008 True Alliance, a distributor for leading brands including Reebok, Rockport, Ben Sherman and Speedo, has awarded Sterling Commerce a contract to supply its multi-channel selling solution to automate and improve the efficiency of its sales order capture processes.
	SOA Goes Global October, 2008 Multi-enterprise SOA is changing the way companies do business.  Rodney Gorham explains how.
	Increase Your Margins with E-Commerce September/October 2008 Companies make significant investments in B2B software and connectivity to automate business transactions with their partners.  With most, the primary focus is to drive efficiencies with large trading partners leaving smaller trading partners unchanged – and a lot of money on the table.
	What are the drivers fuelling uptake of AIM software in the local market, September 15, 2008 At Gartner’s recent Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit, there was talk of the mushrooming application infrastructure and middleware (AIM) software market.  Michael Vulcan, Managing Director, AN/Z, Sterling Commerce provides a response.
	Winning in Supply Chain Physics, August 8, 2008 Winning in business, like football, is not about playing “hunches” or going by “gut feel”. You cannot even look at metrics such as on-time delivery or defect rates or fill rates and hope to have a good understanding of your supply chain, much less to achieve the “perfect” order.
	Cargo Cult: The Demand for Data, August 2008 As regulation of imports increases, so does pressure on CFOs to supply more information..  Several private software suppliers, such as Sterling Commerce, are releasing comprehensive new software systems, designed to facilitate extensive and rapid data exchange between thousands of different companies.
	Sterling Role for Arbuthnot, August 4, 2008 B2B specialist Sterling Commerce has appointed Marcail Arbuthnot as its client relationship manager.
	Sterling Commerce Positioned in the "Leaders" Quadrant in The Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, June 19, 2008 Sterling Commerce today announced that the company has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leader’s quadrant in the “Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers” report. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner.
	Sterling Commerce Named A Leader, June 19, 2008 Sterling Commerce has been positioned as a “leader” in the “Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers” report recently published by Gartner.
	Network a Sterling Idea, June 17, 2008 Australian businesses can trade online cheaper and faster than before, writes Beverley Head. Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of US telecommunications giant AT&T, last week rolled out a business-to-business electronic trading network in Australia that connects 280,000 trading entities worldwide.
	Network a Sterling Idea, June 17, 2008 Australian businesses can trade online cheaper and faster than before, writes Beverley Head. Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of US telecommunications giant AT&T, last week rolled out a business-to-business electronic trading network in Australia that connects 280,000 trading entities worldwide.
	Network a Sterling Idea, June 17, 2008 With the price of oil nudging $150 a barrel, anything that might streamline international supply chains generates interest.  Against this backdrop, Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of US telecommunications giant AT&T, last week rolled out a business-to-business electronic trading network in Australia that connects 280,000 trading entities worldwide.
	Collaboration Network Automates Australian Processes, June 13, 2008 Sterling Commerce has launched a business-to-business (B2B) collaboration network in Australia, said to enhance process automation and cooperation, which allows companies access to more than 280,000 trading entities internationally and automates the flow of information across organisational and geo-political boundaries.
	Hosted Trading Network to Boost B2Business, June 12, 2008 Sterling Collaboration Network, an on demand business-to-business (B2B) network that makes it easier for companies to securely integrate trading processes and enhance B2B process automation and orchestration among their trading communities, has arrived in Australia.
	Sterling Commerce Launches Hosted Trading Network in Australia, June 12, 2008 Announcement of the Sterling Commerce Hosted Trading Network in Australia.
	XML not an integration panacea, says Orica IT manager, June 12, 2008 Senior B2B systems engineer for Orica's IT shared services talks about how XML is not an integration panacea, and how he uses Sterling’s Collaboration Network and Gentran Integration Suite to streamline Multiple ordering channels and the sales process.
	Sterling Commerce Launches Hosted Trading Network Offering Australian Companies Enhanced Supply Chain Performance, June 12, 2008 Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) subsidiary, today launched the availability in Australia of its Sterling Collaboration Network, an on demand business-to-business (B2B) network which makes it easier for companies to securely integrate trading processes and enhance B2B process automation and orchestration among their trading communities.
	Sterling Commerce Launches Hosted Trading Network Offering Australian Companies Enhanced Supply Chain Performance, June 12, 2008 Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) subsidiary, today launched the availability in Australia of its Sterling Collaboration Network, an on demand business-to-business (B2B) network which makes it easier for companies to securely integrate trading processes and enhance B2B process automation and orchestration among their trading communities.
	Sterling Commerce Launches Hosted Trading Network in Australia. June 12, 2008 Sterling Commerce today launched the availability in Australia of its Sterling Collaboration Network, an on demand business-to-business (B2B) network which makes it easier for companies to securely integrate trading processes and enhance B2B process automation and orchestration among their trading communities.
	Sterling Order Management for Borders, June 3, 2008 Borders® has implemented Sterling Order Management from Sterling Commerce as the order fulfilment foundation for its recently launched Borders.com By providing market-leading order management capabilities that enable and support complex cross-channel selling and fulfilment, Sterling Commerce is helping Borders deliver a superior shopping experience for its customers.
	Sterling Commerce Delivers New Solutions for Secure Internet-Based File Transfers, April 8, 2008 Sterling Commerce  today announced the availability of Sterling Secure Proxy, a security solution for managed file transfer (MFT) that sits outside a company’s firewall to protect file transfers with advanced security features such as multifactor authentication. By enforcing tighter security controls, Sterling Secure Proxy protects companies against theft or compromise of sensitive customer data as well as proprietary, financial data and intellectual property as it moves across the Internet into an organisation’s enterprise systems.
	Forrester names Sterling Commerce, March 27, 2008 Sterling Commerce has been named a Strong Performer by Forrester Research in its January 2008 report, The Forrester Wave™: Transportation Management Solutions, Q1 2008. In placing Sterling Commerce as a strong performer, the report states, “Sterling Commerce leads in strategy as a result of its recent R&D investments, seamless upgrades, and quick return on investment (ROI).”
	Supply chain optimisation, March 7, 2008 Sterling Commerce has announced the availability of Sterling Inventory Replenishment, a new product in the Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Suite. The new product enables companies to create a truly collaborative replenishment process with their customers and suppliers, which is a critical component of lean-inventory strategies.
	Business Process Networks: what have you automated in your supply chain?, March 7, 2008 Michael Vulcan discusses recommendation for manufactures to enable effective collaboration with their trading community of suppliers and customers.
	Just What Is Slotting?, February 15, 2008 New slotting engine helps companies more intelligently manage resources in the warehouse. Sterling Commerce has released a new slotting engine with Sterling Warehouse Management. Designed to automate and optimise inventory slotting activities, the engine identifies the most efficient placement for items in the warehouse, enabling companies to more intelligently manage both personnel and physical resources in the warehouse.
	Slotting engine for management software, February 15, 2008 Sterling Commerce has released a new slotting engine for its management software to automate and optimise inventory slotting activities, streamlining warehouse activities.  Sterling Warehouse Management Software (WMS)’s new engine is said to identify the most efficient placement for items in a warehouse, so companies can intelligently manage personnel and physical resources.
	Sterling Commerce Adds Slotting Capabilities, February 15, 2008 Sterling Commerce has added a slotting engine with its Sterling Warehouse Management in a partnership with Optricity, a leader in slotting solutions. Designed to automate and optimise inventory slotting activities, the engine identifies the most efficient placement for items in the warehouse.
	Mother of Invention, February 13, 2008 Editor Anna Game-Lopata reports interviews leading IT supply chain software suppliers in Australia on the role of IT in the supply chain, and how it can reduce costs by automating manu­al processes.
	Integrated B2C strategy, February 2, 2008 Sterling Commerce has unveiled a new business-to-consumer (B2C) strategy that will change the way retailers, manufacturers and telecommunications companies interact with their customers. This B2C strategy leverages the company’s advanced cross-channel selling and fulfillment applications to deliver the industry’s only truly integrated B2C offering.
	Sterling Commerce Delivers New Multi-Channel Selling Capabilities That Drive Greater Customer Loyalty and Sales, October 30, 2007 Sterling Commerce announced the availability of new merchandising and marketing capabilities, which will drive profitable growth for businesses while optimising the consumer experience. The new capabilities are part of the Sterling Multi-Channel Selling solution. The power of each channel —Web, call centre and store — has been expanded with these new capabilities to help companies improve customer loyalty and increase share of wallet.
	Sterling Commerce Closes Bank-to-Corporate Communications Gap as Global SWIFTNet Service Provider, October 5, 2007 Sterling Commerce announces it has been approved as a SWIFT Service Bureau.  The relationship enables the company to offer a new SWIFTNet Service Bureau to corporations, which will provide Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) member banks with direct access to the 19,000-member Sterling Collaboration Network (SCN) community.
	Process complexities eliminated, August 23, 2008 Rheem® Manufacturing has successfully implemented its Gentran Integration Suite™ (GIS) and Sterling Collaboration Network (SCN) as its multi-enterprise integration platform. As a result, Rheem can securely expose dynamic order information from key customers to internal decision-makers and external partners across its value chain without IT involvement.
	Sterling Commerce Gentran Integration Suite Earns Global Security Certification, July 18, 2007 Sterling’s Gentran Integration Suite (GIS) has been awarded Common Criteria (CC) certification. Defined by the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CCITSE), the certification is a globally accepted standard for evaluating the security features and capabilities of information technology (IT) products. GIS enables cost-effective creation and management of flexible business processes that span internal and external organisational boundaries.
	Global Sourcing – why planning is no longer the best plan, June 25, 2007 Sterling’s Steve Poplowski discusses how today’s most savvy retailers have learned to navigate the global supply chain with alternatives beyond simply adding safety stock. This requires a shift in focus from planning and forecasting to execution and the agility to respond to change – especially as inventory gets closest to the customer.
	Business Without Borders for Sterling Commerce at Smart Supply Chain Technology Show 2007, June 18, 2007 Sterling Commerce will host visitors to a journey through the supply chain at Smart 2007, Australia’s leading supply chain conference being staged at Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia from 20-21 June 2007.  Solutions on the stand include Distributed Order Management, Warehouse Management and Supply Chain Visibility applications.
	Sterling Commerce chases retail with partners, June 6, 2007 Australia's top 20 retailers are in the sights of US software vendor, Sterling Commerce. The vendor specialises in business process software covering e-sales, supply chain execution, payment processing and business-to-business integration.  With the appointment of its US executive, Josh Brammer, as its Melbourne-based client manager of retail and supply chain business, the vendor was making a concerted effort to crack the local market, managing director, Michael Vulcan, said.
	Sterling Commerce deployed to manage pharmaceutical network, May 28, 2007 Sterling Commerce says it will deploy its Gentran Integration Suite in support of the Health Supply Network electronic commerce service, the long-running net-based supply chain network serving the pharmaceutical industry. The Sterling Commerce supply chain implementation follows a three-year agreement signed earlier this year by Wollongong-based 4Solutions Enterprises with Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (API), Sigma Company Limited and Symbion Pharmacy Services, to manage Health Supply Network.
	Australia's Health Supply Network Improves Operational Efficiency with Sterling Commerce, May 15, 2007 Sterling Commerce announces the deployment of its Gentran Integration Suite™ in support of the Health Supply Network electronic commerce service, Australia’s longest running and most successful Internet-based supply chain network serving the pharmaceutical industry.
	Borders Selects Sterling Order Management for New Borders.com E-Commerce Site, May 15, 2007 Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP), has selected Sterling Order Management as the order fulfillment foundation for its upcoming Borders.com e-commerce site, set to launch in early 2008.  The new site will replace the current Borders.com teamed with Amazon.com e-commerce site, and will require best-of-breed order fulfilment capabilities.
	Files rank as problem for government, May 1, 2007 Governments are struggling to achieve large file transfers that are secure, reliable and auditable - and departments are concerned that their customers are discovering transfer errors before they do.  Sterling Commerce vice-president Michael Coyle said governments and companies were increasingly using the internet to transfer files, and the files themselves were becoming larger, creating huge security problems. "Security is the top subject," Mr Coyle said.
	New strategic alliances director for Asia Pacific, February 27, 2007 Paula Matthews is Sterling Commerce's new strategic alliances director for Asia Pacific, based in Melbourne. Matthews is the company's former marketing and alliances manager, and has more than 12 years' experience in IT. She will oversee alliance partner development in Australia, New Zealand and Japan initially. Before joining Sterling Commerce, Matthews managed her own marketing and event management firm and is also a past Asia Pacific marketing manager for Vignette Corporation.
	Sterling Commerce appoints new marketing head for ANZ, February 21, 2007 Sterling Commerce has Julie Christie as Head of Marketing, Australia and New Zealand, based in Melbourne. Christie joins Sterling Commerce with over 20 years of marketing and sales experience gained from within IT vendors and IT publishing companies both in Australia and the US. Previously, she was Marketing Director for Sybase covering the A/NZ region and based in Sydney.
	Sterling Commerce appoints strategic alliances director: Matthews promoted to help strengthen partnerships, February 16, 2007 Sterling Commerce has promoted Paula Matthews to the newly created role of Asia-Pacific strategic alliances director. She was previously the company's marketing and alliances manager.  Her first focus on is analysing its global alliance relationships with IBM, Accenture and Infosys and aligning them with local market.
	Hitting the Holiday E-Commerce Jackpot, November 25, 2005 John Stelzer, Director of Industry Development, Sterling Commerce, touts the benefits of Sterling Commerce business integration software that targets the retail industry.
	Analysis: VANs, Visibility and the Changing Supply Chain, October 25, 2005 Supply chain process automation and document interchange have been a work in progress for more than 20 years. Companies such as Sterling Commerce are evolving to offer a blend of software, services and hosting.
	Sterling App Makes B2B More Visible, October 24, 2005 Sterling Commerce announced at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando , Fla. , last week the first fruits of its Multi-Enterprise Services Architecture that takes on supply chain functionality.
	Sterling Draws Upon Yantra Acquisition To Create First Supply Chain Application, October 18, 2005 Sterling Commerce today unveiled Visibility Manager as its first supply chain application available within its newly architected business process network, the Sterling Collaboration Network.
	E-Com Gets Integration Help, September 5, 2005 At the Automotive Industry Action Group's AutoTech conference in Detroit this week, QAD Inc. and Sterling Commerce Inc. will announce an enhanced partnership that provides a new set of software and services to help manufacturers more consistently integrate with partners, customers and suppliers.
	Solutions for Supply Chain Woes, September 1, 2005 Does your supply chain performance need a shot of adrenaline? Business performance management software can be a big help.
	Sterling Commerce Debuts Order, Warehouse Management Apps, August 8, 2005 B2B connectivity specialist Sterling Commerce has released applications for order management and warehouse management, offering solutions intended to help companies accelerate revenue growth in multi-channel distribution environments.
	Sterling Banks on Yantra SOA, August 1, 2005 Sam Starr, Sterling Commerce's president and CEO, sat down with eWEEK Editor in Chief Eric Lundquist to talk about the upcoming introductions of service-oriented applications for commerce and the future of electronic commerce.
	Sterling Finishes First Phase of Yantra Integration, August 1, 2005 With the first phase of its integration with supply chain software developer Yantra Corp. under its belt, electronic data interchange stalwart Sterling Commerce is focusing on its composite application strategy.
	Moving Beyond Information Visibility, June 12, 2005 John Stelzer, Director of Industry Development, Sterling Commerce, provides examples of Multi-Enterprise Collaboration.
	Sterling Unveils New Retail Solution with Acquired Yantra Applications, May 25, 2005 Sterling Commerce unveils an end-to-end solution designed to holistically manage the entire retail fulfillment process – from source to sale.
	SOA Platform, May 19, 2005 Businesses depend on software to collaborate and perform supply-chain functions with their suppliers and customers, and a services-oriented architecture simplifies those processes for business partners by eliminating problems created when different or proprietary technologies are used.
	Sterling Releases B2B Packages for Gentran Suite 4.0, May 16, 2005 Sterling Commerce introduces Gentran Integration Suite 4.0 packaged specifically for SAP, Oracle, Siebel and other major ERP and CRM systems.
	Furla boosts collaboration with US retailers, May 11, 2005 Sterling Commerce solutions for order management and supply chain fulfillment
	Best Practices and Strategies: How Collaboration Leads to Sustainable Competitive Advantage, May 15, 2005 The shift to growth-oriented initiatives is causing companies to reach outside the enterprise to collaborate with others in their supply ecosystem.