Today, the success of a company in a great measure is determined by its ability to develop significant competitive advantages over other companies that operate in the same market. These advantages may include low prices, high quality customer services, excellent public relations strategies, tools, etc. Trying to develop those advantages, many companies face the challenge of integrating their communications and relationships with their employees, partners, suppliers, retailers, investors and other stakeholders. Such firms as Magnet Communications or Sterling commerce provide companies with the information and special tools, including software and business integration solutions, helping them gain those competitive advantages and real time control over their business performances.

Sterling commerce was founded over thirty years ago. It is fully owned by SBC Communications Inc., the world's leading provider of multi-enterprise collaboration solutions. Sterling commerce mainly works with Fortune 500 companies. Every four out of five companies find their business solutions from Sterling commerce. Presently, this firm has around twenty nine thousand clients worldwide. This company has pioneered the market with an electronic data interchange and a secure file transfer technology. Sterling commerce has developed tools that allow companies to make their businesses visible, since most of the interactions and relations inside and between multi-enterprise collaboration companies are hard to control and influence and they remain unseen. Sterling commerce makes those relations visible and helps companies gain control over them, make positive changes that greatly affect businesses and permit to reduce some expenditures and to increase profits. Sterling commerce presents tools and solutions that assist managing relations and processes in retailing, consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare and telecommunications industries.

Sterling commerce also has created a b2b platform. This platform permits companies to merge business integration, intelligence, process management and business applications. It is available as software and guarantees companies valid competitive advantages together with possibilities to come up with lower costs, to find new sales channels, which eventually will resolve in the improved productivity and much higher level of responsiveness to customers.

The strategies, developed by Sterling commerce, make it possible for their clients to calculate their ROI (returns on investments), even before they ever make those investments. Sterling commerce technologies provide companies of all sizes that operate in different markets with the ability to come up with the best strategies for their businesses and to introduce innovations that will improve their performances and stakeholder relations. Sterling commerce is a company, which solutions and products become the news makers in the e-business industry.