Sterling Commerce, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC), is the world's leading provider of multi-enterprise collaboration software solutions for the Global 5000. Sterling Commerce software and services help companies maximize business performance by improving visibility, collaboration and efficiency between trusted trading and business partners, across multiple supply chains and external systems. With more than 29,000 customers worldwide, Sterling Commerce builds collaborative, multi- enterprise communities for customers in the retail, consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare and 
telecommunications industries.

Organizations view their B2B and multi-enterprise collaboration strategies with trading partners as crucial to their ability to compete due to the evolution of business and technology. By utilizing the Sterling Commerce multi-enterprise collaboration B2B platform, built on the Sterling Commerce Multi-Enterprise Services Architecture, which combines business integration, business intelligence, business process management, and business delivery functions with a service- oriented architecture, customers reduce time and costs associated with other multiple, disparate B2B point products. As a result, companies can increase visibility across their supply chains, dynamically connect and better coordinate with all trading partners, ensure that B2B transactions are accurate and secure, and reduce costs and 
inefficiencies that impact business processes and revenue.