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Benefits The demands are growing daily manual intervention in data delivery,
• Improve productivity Organizations have never seen a greater improving the productivity of your
• Gain unprecedented scalability need for reliable and secure file transfer. people and the reliability of your business
File transfer provides the near real-time processes.
• Count on reliable file delivery
integration needed for applications
• Ensure security and compliance Gain unprecedented scalability
as diverse as convergence billing in
• Leverage existing infrastructure telecommunications, synchronization Event-based architecture enables high
• Move files with confidence of central and disaster-recovery sites, volumes and large files—with no product-
secure transfer of check image files, and defined limits on file sizes. Scalability
consolidation of credit card transactions. ensures that you can handle peak demand
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Secure file movement must also ensure and keep pace as your business volumes
• Sterling Control Center
data delivery to the right destination grow, whether you operate mainframes or
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within the right time window, so the distributed/clustered servers.
• Sterling File Gateway receiving application can process and
act upon it consistently—day after day, Count on reliable file delivery
and year after year. The problem is, An acid test for any file transfer system is
“Sterling Commerce Connect products
many existing file transfer “solutions” how it responds when there is a failure.
are the standard for moving financial
built on FTP do not have the necessary Connect:Direct, which also supports
data. For companies that need to move
mechanisms for management, various clustering technologies and IBM
large volumes of data with a high level of
monitoring, or advanced security. Sysplex on the mainframe, provides built-
reliability, there is no better solution on
in automation and checkpoint restart to
the market today.”
Connect:Direct from Sterling Commerce
® ensure lights-out operations.
Greg Pridgen
Director of Operations Support, is the leading solution for secure, point-to-
TSYS
point file transfers. It has been optimized Move files with confidence
for high-volume, assured data delivery The proprietary and secure
of files within and between enterprises, Connect:Direct protocol has never
and provides script-based automation, been breached. Our solutions help
scheduling and alert notifications for customers satisfy regulatory and industry
24x7 unattended operations. A key requirements within their file transfer
component of the Sterling Managed operations, including compliance with
File Transfer solution, Connect:Direct Sarbanes-Oxley, FIPS-140-2, Payment
allows organizations to automate the Card Industry (PCI) and healthcare (HIPAA)
data exchange between mission-critical requirements. Today, Sterling Commerce
applications regardless of platform. is the world’s most trusted collaboration
partner and the leader in secure file
Unlike FTP implementations, transfer.
Connect:Direct eliminates the need for
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