Sterling Commerce

Sterling Commerce shines when it comes to improving business processes. The company's software optimizes business collaboration networks, helping companies communicate and collaborate with customers, partners, and suppliers. Its products include applications for business process integration, multichannel selling, payment management, secure file transfers, and supply chain fulfillment. Sterling Commerce serves customers worldwide, including many of the largest industrial corporations and banks in the US. It also serves the government, health care, life sciences, logistics, retail, and telecommunications markets. In 2010 IBM acquired the company from AT&T for about $1.4 billion in cash.