Societe Generale And Euroclear Buy Sterling Commerce for SWIFT Net Migration

Sterling Commerce says Societe Generale and Euroclear have bought its Connect Express Unix solution for their migration to the IP based SWIFTNet from its traditional FIN X.25 based network. These two new partnership announcements follow the decision last year by

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Sterling Commerce says Societe Generale and Euroclear have bought its Connect:Express Unix solution for their migration to the IP-based SWIFTNet from its traditional FIN X.25-based network.

These two new partnership announcements follow the decision last year by BRED, a subsidiary of Banque Populaire, to deploy Connect:Express Unix for SWIFTNet to integrate its central financial system with the new SWIFTAlliance Gateway.

Sterling Commerce has had a partnership agreement with SWIFT since 2002, when the industry-owned cooperative requested that all its members migrate to the new IP-based SWIFTNet.

Societe Generale is a long-time user of the PeSIT Connect:Express file transfer solution and has now chosen Sterling Commerce’s Connect:Express for SWIFTNet Unix solution to rationalise its use of SWIFT interfaces and integrate file exchanges. The Socit Gnrale previously had only 60 SWIFT interfaces and the aim of this new SWIFTNet migration is to establish a global platform for all file transfers.

“The existing partnership between Sterling Commerce and SWIFT was a guarantee of success for us,” says Alain Huet, co-director of the project at Socit Gnrale. “We have full confidence in Sterling Commerce who, as a proactive and flexible partner, has managed to develop a solution that is perfectly adapted to our needs.”

Euroclear France provides securities services to major financial institutions located in more than 80 countries and has also selected Connect:Express for SWIFTNet Unix for its migration project. The objective of the SWIFT migration is to create new and additional client communication networks. Euroclear France now benefits from four file exchange channels (MQ Series, PeSit, FTP and SWIFTNet), which support the diversity of its clients disparate IT systems.

The Societe Generale and Euroclear France have worked in partnership to establish file transfer capability based on the SWIFTNet FileAct service and the project is now in its operational phase. Implementation of the Connect:Express for SWIFTNet solution was realised in tight collaboration with Sterling Commerce’s Paris consulting team.

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