Forrester Consulting Whitepaper: Powering Frictionless Value Chains
 Most enterprises have had B2B capability in place for many years, but most have not upgraded these systems to take advantage of two newer technologies; service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM).
Sterling Commerce recently commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a survey of the B2B world to determine the status of current B2B programs. Forrester captured information from over 250 senior global decision makers on the shortcomings of their current B2B programs and their plans for improvement. The analysis focuses on B2B pain points and discusses how comprehensive integration solutions with embedded B2B, SOA and BPM features can provide significant enhancements for B2B related efforts.
Download the Forrester Consulting Whitepaper: Powering Frictionless Value Chains to review the effectiveness of your existing B2B operations and evaluate the benefits of a single, comprehensive integration suite.
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Whitepaper: Achieving Seamless Cross-Channel Execution
 Today, the greatest challenge that retailers face are the ever-evolving and escalating expectations of the consumer. Retailers are being held accountable for delivering a seamless shopping experience as consumer expect to be able to purchase, track, receive and return an order through any combination of channels.
However, most multi-channel retailers are not able to provide a unified end-to-end consumer experience. It is critical that this gap - between multi-channel retailing and seamless cross-channel execution – is bridged to maintain competitive positioning and share of the consumer wallet.
Download the Whitepaper: Achieving Seamless Cross-Channel Execution to learn how to effectively address the execution gap between multi-channel retailing and seamless cross-channel execution.
Sterling Commerce launches Sterling Integrator Retail Edition at Extended Supply Chain Conference 2008, 3 – 4 March, London
Sterling Integrator Retail Edition is a fully-integrated, supply-facing solution that expands connectivity to suppliers, carriers, and other supply chain intermediaries. By offering a single point of visibility and management, Sterling Integrator Retail Edition ensures that supply chain issues never impact the customer.
Click here to find out more.
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B2B Automation Savings Calculator: Build a Solid Case for B2B Automation
 Complete the B2B Automation Savings Calculator and find out how much manual processing of transaction information is costing your organisation.
By providing information on your trading community, you can calculate the costs to your business of manual processing errors. Subsequently, you will receive a customized report on potential savings, based on your organisation’s number of trading partners, transactions and volumes. The report will also provide you with analyst and market data to support your B2B automation business case and a comprehensive assessment and checklist to progress your project forward.
Vanson Bourne Research: 9 out of 10 businesses have poorly integrated supply chain systems
According to a survey conducted on behalf of Sterling Commerce by independent research company Vanson Bourne, integrating external business data with internal back-end systems is the single biggest IT challenge affecting supply chain trading communications.
Click here to read more on the survey findings in Retail Systems.
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Case Study: Toshiba Europe increase their capability to trade electronically
 Toshiba Europe uses Sterling Collaboration Network to simplify partner integration by reducing the number of direct communications they have to manage.
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Andreas Rys, B2B Integration Specialist, Toshiba Europe GmbH
Toshiba Europe has also selected Sterling Commerce Gentran Integration Suite to help them build and manage an eCommunity, enabling them to automate their order and delivery processes. Click here to download the Toshiba Europe Case Study.
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Aberdeen Group Whitepaper: How On-Demand Platforms Accelerate Value and Impact TCO
 As companies strive to improve their B2B collaboration capabilities, on-demand technology platforms are playing an increasingly important role in enabling electronic communication and process collaboration.
Aberdeen Group has developed a framework that helps companies evaluate whether on-demand solutions is the ‘right solution’ for their B2B collaboration needs. Based on this framework, the whitepaper identifies business benefits and related risks and evaluates alternative solution approaches.
Download the Aberdeen Group Whitepaper : How On-Demand Platforms Accelerate Value and Impact TCO and assess whether on-demand solutions meet your B2B collaboration needs.
Sterling Commerce launches Sterling Supply Chain Visibility On Demand at Extended Supply Chain 2008 Conference, 3 - 4 March, London
Sterling Supply Chain Visibility On Demand is a new hosted solution that provides partner connectivity, process integration and real-time visibility throughout a company’s extended supply chain.
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