Certification for Recently-enhanced Sterling Integrator Helps Both Financial
Services Organisations and Their Corporate Clients Optimise and Transform
their Global Financial Management Processes
Columbus, Ohio – July 7, 2009 – Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc (NYSE:T)
company, today announced that Sterling Integrator 5.0 has been awarded the
2009 SWIFTReady label for Financial EAI (enterprise application integration).
Announced in April 2009, Sterling Integrator 5.0 enables secure end-to-end
management on a single platform of financial data exchange across business
processes within an enterprise and among an enterprise and its business
partners. Sterling Integrator is part of Sterling Business Integration Suite, a
comprehensive set of solutions for all integration needs, inside and outside the
enterprise.
This is the fourth consecutive year Sterling Integrator has received this annual
certification, demonstrating Sterling Commerce’s commitment to supporting the
rigorous standards established by SWIFT for the global financial services market.
SWIFT supplies standardised and secure messaging services to more than
8,300 financial institutions in 208 countries and territories. The SWIFTReady
certification evaluates products based on their ability to provide SWIFT users
with the technology and functionality required to manage financial data and fully
integrate with the SWIFT community. In this year’s certification, Sterling
Integrator’s superior capabilities in detecting and correctly defining validation
errors were seen as significant in enabling improved straight-through processing
levels, an important criterion in global financial management.
“Sterling Commerce continues to demonstrate its dedication to the global
financial services community by meeting our evaluation criteria,” said Eric
Meirlaen, Solutions and Markets manager, SWIFT Partner Management.
“Completing the certification so quickly illustrates the flexibility and ease-of-use of
Sterling Integrator as well as the commitment from Sterling Commerce to this
certification as a way to ensure the company meets the needs of its global
customers.”
“As organisations look to streamline the processing of financial transactions,
support for global standards such as SWIFT is increasing in importance for both
financial services organisations and their corporate clients,” said Jim Gahagan,
global industry executive, Financial Services for Sterling Commerce. “This trend
has led to increased demand for a secure and reliable communications platform
such as Sterling Integrator that can provide increased visibility into global
financial data transmissions by centralising control of all transmissions across
multiple standards and protocols.”
Financial services organisations are transforming their global inter-bank
transactions with Sterling Integrator by reducing complexity and enabling real-
time visibility over the high volumes of data transfers that many SWIFT member
organisations execute each day. Sterling Integrator allows financial
communities to transmit and share financial data in a secure, accurate, efficient
and highly cost-effective way across diverse business processes, protocols and
standards, on a single platform.
Corporations also are benefiting from the robust and flexible integration
capabilities of Sterling Integrator. As more corporations expand globally to
improve their financial position, they need to optimise and better manage their
treasury operations across multiple financial institutions and in multiple countries.
Sterling Integrator is helping these corporate customers to transform their
treasury operations and fragmented IT environments into integrated, cost-
effective solutions that drive operational efficiency.
Sterling Integrator 5.0 includes several new capabilities designed to help
companies ensure their business processes are automated, streamlined,
integrated and coordinated with those of their business partners. It adds Sterling
Community Manager, a new capability that reduces the cost, resources and time
involved in on-boarding and managing large and diverse trading partner
communities. Sterling Community Manager helps companies reliably on-board,
expand and manage their partner communities more quickly and accurately, and
with fewer resources. In addition, new communications and security capabilities
have been added to ensure companies can support the various requirements of
their partners.
About Sterling Commerce
Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc (NYSE:T) company, helps companies optimise 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. More information can be found at www.sterlingcommerce.com.
For more information, contact:
Julie Redard, Sterling Commerce, (978) 513-6386, Julie_Redard@stercomm.com
Jamie Leicht, Fleishman-Hillard, (619) 237-7711, jamiemarie.leicht@fleishman.com