Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc company, and Infosys Technologies Ltd have announced an expansion of their global alliance to target customers in the financial services and retail industries. Through the deal, the companies will seek to drive efficiencies and business results for clients through collaboration between business communities, processes, people and technology.

The new global partnership expands a relationship between the two companies that has existed for more than a decade. Sterling Commerce and Infosys have transformed its customers’ business processes in order to improve flexibility and effectiveness. Infosys’ large-scale implementation expertise and world-class global delivery capabilities have led to highly successful Sterling Commerce solution implementations. Sterling Commerce provides solutions for enterprise integration, multi-enterprise integration, payments management, selling, and fulfillment that help companies achieve higher levels of performance by optimizing their business communities, processes, and technologies.