1999 Press Releases
Glovia in the news
Glovia International Partners With Sterling Commerce to Streamline Its Customers' Business Processes.
Enhanced solution to integrate worldwide ERP and e-commerce initiatives
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - July 26, 1999 - Glovia International, Inc. today announced a reseller agreement with Sterling Commerce, Inc. (NYSE: SE). Under the terms of the partnership, Glovia will resell and implement Sterling Commerce's GENTRAN software as part of its manufacturing and services solution, glovia.com. This packaged solution will streamline business processes for discrete manufacturers, their customers and members of the supply chain.
Glovia will embed GENTRAN business process integration software into its manufacturing and services solution, enabling discrete manufacturers to extend their internal applications and processes to suppliers, customers, banks, governments and transportation companies via the Internet. The integration of these products will allow discrete manufacturers to execute business-critical functions, such as materials purchasing and order processing. As a result, Glovia will provide an integrated solution to expedite order fulfillment, increasing accuracy of orders and minimizing manual intervention. The solution will also reduce errors and allow manufacturers to link more easily to customers and suppliers.
"This relationship provides Sterling Commerce with an alternative channel to reach additional customers," said J. Brad Sharp, COO, Sterling Commerce. "As discrete manufacturers continue to automate their supply chains, we are helping them bridge the gap to integrate and extend their internal business applications to their commerce communities, regardless of technologies and standards being deployed."
"As a leading provider of manufacturing and services software for discrete manufacturers, Glovia> is focused on supplying our customers with advanced functionality and customer support," said Bill Engel, president, Glovia International. "By partnering with Sterling Commerce, we are integrating a proven solution with our advanced enterprise software that is implemented worldwide."
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About Sterling Commerce
Sterling Commerce is recognized as the worldwide leader in providing
Internet E-commerce solutions for the Global 5000 and their commerce communities.
The company is one of 40 companies included in the Dow Jones Internet
Services Index. The company is focused on providing E-commerce solutions
through its COMMERCE, CONNECT and GENTRAN product families to address
Extranet Management, Business Process Integration, Community Management,
Infrastructure and Outsourcing. Sterling Commerce has been providing E-commerce
solutions for 25 years, and has 2,500 employees, 37 office locations and
more than 40 distributors worldwide. With more than 45,000 customers worldwide,
the company had 1998 revenues of more than $490 million.
For more information, visit the Sterling Commerce Web site at www.sterlingcommerce.com.
About glovia.com
glovia.com goes beyond traditional ERP systems to address critical
manufacturing trends such as outsourcing, projects & contract management,
managing value-added services and globalization support. glovia.com is
100 percent Web-enabled, supporting industry standard browsers and Microsoft
Windows clients with application and database servers that operate on
both UNIX and NT.
