The study identified the Extended EAI sector as one with potential for high-growth between now and 2006 and identified the leading vendors in the French market. The report revealed how EAI solution offerings have evolved toward services that deliver business process management (BPM), service-oriented architectures (SOA) and standards support; all technologies that were identified by PAC as driving new momentum in EAI projects by medium and large enterprises.
The PAC report highlighted Sterling Commerce as one of the vendors to consider and recognised the company’s ability to provide extended EAI through its solutions, which covers all business integration needs from batch file transfer to real-time and event-driven information management. The solutions were identified as enabling customers to implement tactical projects while maintaining a strategic vision.
Mathieu Poujol, consultant and author of the PAC report, explained: "Sterling Commerce is capitalising on its EDI and file-transfer expertise, combined with its EAI solutions, in order to gain prominence in the market. Sterling Commerce is therefore one of the market players able to provide a holistic solution inclusive of consultancy, licensing, integration and maintenance services."
Olivier Ferhat, Sterling Commerce’s Sales Manager, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and French-speaking Switzerland, said: "This recognition from PAC confirms Sterling Commerce’s ability to provide solutions that support both tactical and strategic projects. This is particularly strong in the financial services, retail and manufacturing industries."
(1) According to the PAC analyst who wrote the report, ‘Extended EAI’ relates to EAI that extends to and includes EAI, file transfer protocol (FTP), business process management (BPM) and electronic data interchange (EDI).
