Sterling Commerce
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| Type | Holding of AT&T |
| Founded | 1975 |
| Headquarters | Columbus, Ohio |
| Key people | Bob Irwin, President and CEO |
| Industry | Process integration and multi-channel selling and fulfillment solutions for communications, financial services, logistics, U.S. government, manufacturing, retail, and other industries |
| Revenue | US $545.9M (2006) |
| Employees | 2,600 (Estimated) |
| Parent | AT&T |
| Website | www.sterlingcommerce.com |
Sterling Commerce is a company that provides business process integration and multi-channel selling and fulfillment solutions to organizations in various industries, including communications, financial services, logistics, the U.S. government, manufacturing, and retail. Formerly a subsidiary of Sterling Software, Sterling Commerce became a separate company in 1996. Headquartered in the American city of Columbus, Ohio, Sterling Commerce has offices in 19 countries.
SBC Communications Inc. purchased Sterling Commerce in 2000.[1] With the merger of AT&T Corp. and SBC Communications Inc. in November 2005, Sterling Commerce became an AT&T company.
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[edit] Recent acquisitions
Since 2005, Sterling Commerce has moved to extend its range of selling and fulfillment solutions through a series of acquisitions:
- In 2005, Sterling Commerce acquired Yantra Corporation, a provider of distributed order management and supply chain fulfillment solutions.[2]
- In 2006, Sterling Commerce acquired Nistevo, a leading provider of on-demand transportation management solutions.[3]
- In early 2007, Sterling Commerce acquired Comergent Technologies Inc., a Redwood City, California developer of e-business software, including an application suite that simplifies and improves selling and distributed order management processes for complex products.[4]
[edit] See also
- Electronic commerce
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Enterprise Application Integration
- Managed file transfer
- Supply Chain Management
- Value-added network
[edit] References
- ^ SBC e-commerce buy signals new ambitions | CNET News.com
- ^ Sterling Commerce: Yantra acquisition adds supply chain capability - Computer Business Review
- ^ Sterling Commerce to acquire Nistevo
- ^ Acquisition Of Comergent Moves Sterling Commerce A Step Closer To The Perfect Order by R "Ray" Wang, Tamara Mendelsohn - Forrester Research
