Crowley Maritime Corporation Implements Sterling Commerce Gentran Integration Suite for Newer, More Complete B2B Integration Platform

Logistics Insight Asia - Technology & Market Trends, 10/3/2008

Solution provides flexibility, visibility and security to Crowley for enterprise and multi-enterprise integration.

Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), announced that Crowley Maritime Corporation has successfully implemented Sterling Commerce Gentran Integration Suite (GIS) as its business-to-business (B2B) integration platform. Crowley is a leading provider of diversified transportation, logistics and emergency response services both domestically and internationally. Using Sterling Commerce solutions, Crowley is now able to build, deploy and manage B2B solutions more easily and quickly across diverse business partner communities.

Sterling Gentran Integration Suite has enabled Crowley to:

· Reduce operating cost across the board and eliminate mainframe dependence
· Improve flexibility to meet individual customer communication requirements
· Tie together applications, processes, data and people, both within and outside of their enterprise
· On-board new partners and documents faster and more efficiently
· Improve customer satisfaction through increased processing reliability, responsiveness to customer issues and self-service capabilities
· Retain a higher number of customers and increase new customer wins through more expansive service offerings and flexibility

With recognized industry leadership, financial viability and more than 1,000 Gentran Integration Suite customers, Sterling Commerce has demonstrated that it can manage critical processes, transactions and relationships within and outside the enterprise. GIS enables the evolution of existing systems environments to integrate past, present and future technologies and practices. It powers business process orchestrations, high-volume electronic message exchange, complex routing, translation and flexible interaction with multiple internal systems and external business partners.

Crowley Maritime Corporation, www.crowley.com.
Sterling Commerce, www.sterlingcommerce.com