Sterling Commerce Names Donna Angiulo, Nolan Rosen and Tom Bertrand to Senior Management Team.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Business integration leader expands executive, sales, and technical roster to further market momentum in data synchronization, value-added networking and multi-enterprise integration

Sterling Commerce, a business integration leader, announced today that it has named Donna Angiulo chief financial officer, Nolan Rosen chief marketing officer, and Tom Bertrand vice president of Consulting. Part of the strategic management team, these senior executives will help set the direction of Sterling Commerce's business integration products to help the company grow its portfolio of offerings and customer base across key vertical industries such as financial services and retail.

Angiulo has 20 years of global financial management and operational experience in public and pre-IPO technology companies and in public accounting. Her executive leadership assignments include chief financial officer for Baan, Americas and CODA Plc.; chief operating officer of a business unit at Baan, as well as vice president of International Business Development and vice president of Product Development for Banyan Systems Inc. Most recently, she was senior vice president of Finance and Operations at webMethods.

Rosen has more than 15 years of technology marketing experience including a position in 2000-2001 with Sterling Commerce as its vice president of Marketing for Europe, Middle East and Africa. His most recent position was LANDesk Software's vice president of Worldwide Marketing, as well as two years in the same role with Vignette Corporation. He also held senior marketing management positions at Novell, including director of Europe, Middle East and Africa Marketing.

Bertrand joins Sterling Commerce from Hitachi Data Systems where he led the consulting organization. Prior to Hitachi, Tom developed and ran the consulting organization at BEA through a period of exceptional growth. He also brings a significant background in support and business development during stints with BEA, Ceridian and Recognition International.

In addition to these executive appointments, Sterling Commerce expanded its sales and technical organizations with the addition of Larry Boyle, vice president and controller, Global Accounting; Dave Thonn, vice president of Account Management; Mike Rarer, vice president of Sales, Eastern Region; and Randy Vescelius, vice president of Solutions Engineering.

With more than 35 years of combined experience in finance, business planning, strategic marketing, business development, sales and engineering, this team is uniquely positioned to help the company further its industry lead in data synchronization and value-added networking while capturing first mover advantage in the emerging market of multi-enterprise business integration. Multi-enterprise integration is critical for improving data exchange within and outside the corporate firewall and among trading partner communities.

"As Sterling Commerce prepares for growth in key vertical markets such as financial services and retail in the second half of 2004, I am delighted to have on board such a distinguished group of industry professionals," said Sam Starr, president and CEO, Sterling Commerce. "Sterling Commerce has a terrific opportunity to leverage its leadership in business integration, data synchronization and value-added networking to serve enterprise needs not only within the firewall, but also outside."

Starr added, "With our flexible software and hosted integration offerings, and the strength of our value added network, we are a critical partner to any enterprise that needs to integrate its operations and realize operational efficiencies with multiple enterprises." Sterling Commerce provides customers with business integration solutions that best fit their needs and budget, while enabling them to evolve as their trading partner collaboration needs grow.

In the last year, Sterling Commerce achieved dramatic success in the areas of asset acquisition, customer acquisition, and product development. With its purchase of TR2, Sterling Commerce solidified its leading market share and most complete solution portfolio for data synchronization. Sterling Commerce is a UCC-certified Solution Partner and recognized by UCCnet Services(TM) as a Top Performing Solution Partner.

During this time, Sterling Commerce continued to cultivate its world-class customer base, adding names that include: Wegmans Food Markets, Lamson Home Products, The Kroger Co., The Home Depot, Murray, Inc., Family Dollar, Sargento Foods Inc., Harley-Davidson, and Railinc. These organizations join an impressive list of existing Sterling Commerce customers such as International Dairy Queen, Lucent Technologies, Dream Works, L.L.C., Ford Motor Company, GE Capital Commercial Finance, General Mills, Inc., Raytheon Systems Company and 25,000 others worldwide including 274 of the Fortune 500.

Sterling Commerce also works with 90 percent of the Fortune 500 financial institutions and more than 700 banks worldwide. With a proven track record in financial services globally, Sterling Commerce provides a wide array of business integration and secure file transfer solutions. The company is listed in the leader quadrant position in both the META Group Electronic File Transfer market study and the Gartner Group Integration Broker market study.

In addition, Sterling Commerce demonstrated market momentum for its value added network:

--Maintaining 75 of the top 100 retailers as customers;

--Investing $30 million in infrastructure improvements in the last three years, allowing for tremendous increases in transaction volume, while alleviating the concern of communications disruptions;

--Increasing transaction volumes through its value-added network to more than a billion characters per month; and,

--Increasing shipping document exchange by 145 percent and purchase and financial document exchange by 138 percent.

About Sterling Commerce

Sterling Commerce, a wholly owned subsidiary of SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC), is one of the world's largest providers of business integration solutions. For more than 25 years, thousands of companies have depended on Sterling Commerce expertise to optimize collaborative relationships through the integration of applications, external partners, suppliers and customers. With more than 25,000 customers worldwide, Sterling Commerce is the dominant business integration solutions provider in retail, consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, financial services and telecommunications. For detailed, up-to-date information on Sterling Commerce and our solutions, visit www.sterlingcommerce.com and sign up for our e-business newsletter, e-biz buzz.

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