Sterling InFlight Data Management Mobile, the industry's first business-to-business integration as-a-Service visibility offering for mobile devices, has been introduced by Sterling Commerce (News - Alert), an AT&T Inc company.

The company's mobile application portfolio, which includes Sterling Integrator Mobile and Sterling Control Center Mobile, is broadened by the application.  These two, were announced in February and extend the company's market-leading business integration solutions to the mobile environment.

The business users, with the help of Sterling InFlight Data Management Mobile are provided with up-to-the-minute visibility into their B2B transactions.

Customers of Sterling B2B integration solutions delivered as-a-Service, through Sterling InFlight Data Management Mobile are enabled to better manage the electronic document exchange supporting business-critical processes such as purchase orders, remittances, and other supply chain operations.

With the help of the application, the customers are able to determine the status of a transaction; monitor and take action on errant transactions; and review the actions that trading partners have taken. Owing to this, the customers can improve employee productivity, business responsiveness to B2B document processing issues, and trading partner satisfaction.

67 percent of US companies, according to a 2010 Vanson Bourne OmniBoss survey on strategies for B2B integration, say they predict effectiveness and productivity enhancements as a result of mobile devices increasing visibility of their B2B data.

Sterling InFlight Data Management Mobile, for companies that look to third-party support for management of their critical B2B data, such as Sterling B2B integration as-a-Service customers, provides those businesses with the visibility to ensure smooth operations from anywhere, anytime.

"Our customers are exchanging time-sensitive and confidential business-critical documents with their trading partners 24 by 7 and need to be confident that the processes on which those documents rely are running securely and effectively," Ken Ramoutar, vice president, Product and Industry Marketing, at Sterling Commerce, said. "By delivering these capabilities on smartphones, Sterling Commerce extends visibility and ability to manage, govern and respond to critical B2B processes without being tethered to a desk. With increased use of mobile devices by business users, Sterling InFlight Data Management Mobile provides a more convenient choice in accessing critical B2B information."

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