Crowley Maritime Corporation Implements Sterling Commerce Gentran Integration Suite for Newer, More Complete B2B Integration Platform.Solution Provides Flexibility, Visibility and Security to Crowley for Enterprise and Multi-Enterprise Integration DUBLIN, Ohio Dublin is a city in Delaware, Franklin, and Union counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 31,392 at the 2000 census. In 2006, the population was estimated to be 36,565[1], and Dublin continues to be one of the fastest-growing suburbs of Columbus. -- Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :T), announced today that Crowley Maritime Crowley Maritime Corporation, based in Oakland, CA, and founded in 1892, is primarily a family and employee-owned company that provides transportation and logistics services in U.S. Corporation has successfully implemented Sterling Commerce Gentran Integration Suite (GIS) as its business-to-business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) 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. "Since implementing Gentran Integration Suite, we have been able to establish a direct connection with U.S. Customs, eliminating reliance and failure points with outside entities and enabling a smoother transportation process," said Tom Sheridan Tom Sheridan is a Gaelic Athletic Association handball player from Ireland who represents his county Meath. Past Achievements
Sterling Gentran Integration Suite has also 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 On board usually means to be traveling on some vehicle. For example, Baby On Board. Compare with overboard. Metaphorically, the term on-board is often used to refer to some piece of technology that is integrated in a moving vehicle, for example: * 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 "Sterling Commerce designs its solutions, such as GIS, to help eliminate barriers to effective business collaboration. We've worked closely with Crowley to enable extended secure, managed process visibility beyond the edge of their enterprise," said Chris Johnson Chris Johnson may refer to: In sports:
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. About Crowley Maritime Corporation Jacksonville-based Crowley Maritime Corporation, founded in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden in 1892, is a privately held family and employee-owned company that provides diversified transportation, logistics and emergency response services in domestic and international markets by means of six operating lines of business: Puerto Rico/Caribbean Liner Services, Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. Liner Services, Logistics Services, Petroleum Services, Marine Services and Technical Services. Offered within these operating lines of business are the following services: liner container shipping, logistics, contract towing and transportation; ship assist and escort; energy support; salvage and emergency response; vessel management; vessel construction and naval architecture naval architecture, science of designing ships. A naval architect must consider especially the following factors: floatability, i.e., the ability of the ship to remain afloat while meeting the requirements of the vessel's service under normal and abnormal weather and ; government services, and petroleum and chemical transportation, distribution and sales. Additional information about Crowley its subsidiaries and business units may be found on the Internet at www.crowley.com. About Sterling Commerce Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), has more than 30 years of leadership and expertise in helping FORTUNE 500[R] customers thrive in a global economy by optimizing the performance of their business communities. With nearly 30,000 customers worldwide, the company is one of the world's largest providers of multi-enterprise collaboration solutions. Sterling Commerce has unparalleled experience in the retail, consumer packaged goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one , manufacturing, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , healthcare and telecommunications industries. For detailed, up-to-date information about Sterling Commerce and its solutions, visit www.sterlingcommerce.com. |
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