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Columbus, OH — June 11, 2008 — Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. subsidiary, has announced the expansion of Sterling Collaboration Network (SCN), the company's hosted service that provides secure connectivity and collaboration between businesses, into Japan, Australia and China.

With this solution, more companies are expected to be able to securely and reliably exchange business documents, making it simpler to automate the processes they share with customers, partners and suppliers and, therefore, increase their competitiveness and productivity.

"These are fast-growing markets driven by new trends in B2B infrastructure, modernization, community management/on boarding, multi-enterprise applications, Web services and service oriented architectures (SOA)," noted Phil Smith, vice president, global products and marketing, Sterling Collaboration Network, Sterling Commerce. "Now, with the Sterling Collaboration Network in Japan, Australia and China, we're providing these markets with a better choice for a B2B network solution that will meet their diverse B2B communications needs now and in the future."

Sterling Commerce said it has expanded its network presence significantly in the past year including a 700 percent increase in contracted spend from European customers.

Sterling said its Collaboration Network is designed to simplify trading partner relationships by eliminating all paper-based transactions and providing end-to-end visibility and control over the business processes shared with outside companies. Today it manages as many as 4.5 million B2B documents per day with more than 99.9 percent reliability. Sterling Collaboration Network suite includes such services as the Sterling Information Broker, Community Services, Translation Services, Visibility and Hosted Application Services.

As Sterling Commerce launches in new countries, the company said it will focus support in regional centers that will ensure local language and time zone support as well as appropriate integration resources.