IBM software · Supply chain and B2B
Orders kept across every channel, data in any format.* Your price in one business day.
For the teams who fill orders and trade data with partners: IBM Sterling Order Management and Transformation Extender, sized by our engineering team and priced before you commit.
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The IBM support dates for Sterling, as IBM states them.
Sterling B2B Integrator 6.1 moved to extended support on April 30, 2026; IBM’s extended availability for it completes April 30, 2028.
Planning the move to version 6.2.1 or newer, on Java 17, as IBM encourages? We map your partners, maps and licenses first, so you know the number before you order.
IBM: extended support after April 30, 2026 is Usage and Known Defect Support only.
Source: IBM product lifecycle: IBM Sterling B2B Integrator 6.1.X, modified February 13, 2026, opened October 24, 2026.
Sterling Transformation Extender 10.1.x moved to extended support on April 30, 2026.
Still on 10.1.x? We count your licenses and Industry Packs for the move to version 11 first, so the bill is known before you order.
IBM lists the date with letter AD25-0880 and notes that end of support dates are subject to change.
Source: IBM Passport Advantage: end of support announcement letters, opened October 24, 2026.
Plan. We look at what you run today and agree the order of work with you. Our engineering team, with IBM Expert Labs (formerly IBM Lab Services).
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Your next order system can promise from live inventory.
- It shows real-time inventory across stores and warehouses before an order is promised.
- It fulfills by ship from store, curbside pickup and buy online, pick up in store.
- With Industry Packs, it transforms X12, EDIFACT, HL7 and SWIFT data without complex coding.
The order and partner systems you run today may be serving you well. This is what the next ones add.
We size it with you. You see your price first, within one business day.
Orders and partner data, two products.
Orders, across channels.
IBM says Sterling Order Management keeps customer promises across every channel, with real-time inventory and warehouse management, ship from store, curbside pickup and buy online, pick up in store.
Any format to any format.
IBM says Sterling Transformation Extender automates the transformation and validation of structured, unstructured, industry-standard and custom data without complex coding, on premises or in hybrid cloud.
Adapters and APIs.
It connects through adapters for AWS, MongoDB, HDFS and Kafka, and RESTful APIs. IBM Transformation Extender Advanced adds enveloping and de-enveloping for bundled data.
Source: IBM’s Sterling Order Management page, opened October 24, 2026.
Three of IBM’s own counts.
Four Industry Packs.
Financial Payments, Healthcare, Supply Chain EDI and SAP Applications, for Sterling Transformation Extender.*
Five supply chain standards.
X12, EDIFACT, RAILINC EDI, EAN and UPC, in the Supply Chain EDI Industry Pack.
Four cloud adapters named.
AWS, MongoDB, HDFS and Kafka, so data moves where it lives, on premises or in the cloud.
* IBM’s words and counts, from its Sterling Transformation Extender page, read October 24, 2026. “Any format” stands for IBM’s own line: Transformation Extender automates the transformation and validation of any structured, unstructured, industry standard or custom data formats. “Orders kept across every channel” stands for IBM’s line on its Sterling Order Management page: keep customer promises with order fulfillment management and execution across every channel. The counts are of what IBM lists; they are not test results, and IBM states no conditions for them.
Source: IBM’s Sterling Order Management page, opened October 24, 2026.
Count the order lines first.
IBM counts Sterling Order Management by order line: per line monthly for the Essentials and Standard editions, delivered as SaaS; per line for Professional and Enterprise, on containers. We work out your order lines with you before you order.
Transformation Extender, your way.
IBM offers Sterling Transformation Extender with perpetual or subscription licensing, on premises or in the cloud. We match the edition and the Industry Packs to the formats you exchange. Where there is a cheaper route, we name it.
Source: IBM’s Sterling Order Management page, opened October 24, 2026.
What you get.
If you run fulfillment and stores.
You get one view of inventory across stores and warehouses, with ship from store, curbside pickup and buy online, pick up in store. Our engineering team sets it up with you, channel by channel.
If you run the partner integrations.
You get any-to-any transformation, Industry Packs for X12, EDIFACT, HL7 and SWIFT, adapters for AWS, MongoDB, HDFS and Kafka, and RESTful APIs. Our engineering team works beside yours.
If you are the CIO.
You get one plan for orders and partner data: order lines counted, editions chosen, and Sterling B2B Integrator 6.1’s April 30, 2028 date in view. Pay only for what you need. See your price first, within one business day.
You have real choices. Here is each one, plainly.
Keep the systems you have.
Nothing to buy. Nothing to move. What Sterling adds will still be here when you are ready.
Buy from IBM itself.
IBM sells directly to fewer than about 100 companies and organizations in the United States. Everyone else buys through an IBM Business Partner. So the real choice is which partner.
Buy through another IBM Business Partner.
Same IBM software. Same IBM programs. Ask three things: who counts your order lines, how soon you see the price, and who stays with you through go-live.
Choose a different order or EDI platform.
Right when your team already runs it everywhere. Compare three things: real-time inventory across stores and warehouses, Industry Packs for the standards you exchange, and SaaS or containers, edition by edition.
Use your commerce platform’s order tools.
Right when you sell through one channel and ship from one warehouse. Not when stores, warehouses and trading partners all have to see the same order.
Buy it through us.
You get the same IBM software. And you get our engineering team: we count your order lines and formats with you, show you your price first, and stay with you through setup and support.
IBM builds Sterling. We size it with you.
You see your price first.
Tell us what you’re after. One business day later you have a price, sized to fit, with nothing in it you don’t need.
Our engineering team owns it.
The engineers who size it set it up and stay through support. IBM Business Partner since 2008, 29 of 29 IBM proficiencies, one team the whole way.
It is our pleasure to meet you.
230 briefing centers in 113 cities. Pick one; one of our engineers brings the coffee. Or meet us online.
Our engineering team maps your channels, fulfillment locations and partner formats, counts the order lines, picks the editions and Industry Packs, gets the licensing right, then sets it up and supports it.
It would be our pleasure to size yours.
How our engineering team delivers
Get it running.
Our engineering team, with IBM Expert Labs (formerly IBM Lab Services)
Plan.
We look at what you run today and agree the order of work with you. Delivered remotely.
Build.
We design it, install it and move your workloads across, then hand it over working. Delivered remotely.
Stay connected.
After go-live, IBM’s specialists stay on call beside our IBM engineers.
One statement of work and one invoice, from us.
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The proof.
IBM’s published results
Source: IBM’s Sterling Order Management page, opened October 24, 2026.
Our trusted and valued customers are shown on our home page. It is our privilege to work for them. See our customers
We would rather tell you now. Sterling is not the fit if you sell through one channel and ship from one warehouse, or if what you need is to connect applications and APIs rather than route orders and transform partner data. For that, ask us about IBM App Connect. See IBM Integration and MQ
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