Sterling Software, Inc. - SSW- Profile

Sterling Software, Inc. is a worldwide developer and supplier of enterprise-scale application development, information management and systems management software products and services. The company also provides specialized IT services for certain sectors of the federal government. Major customers include the U.S. Department of Defense, the military services, the intelligence agencies, the FAA and NASA and various other industries that include banking, insurance, manufacturing and telecommunications. The main product families of the company are "COOL", "VISION", "SAMS", "VM" and "SOLVE". The company acquired Cayenne Software Inc., Interlink Computer Sciences Inc., CoreData Inc., Information Advantage Inc. and the distributed systems storage software business of Spectra Logic Corporation in fiscal 1999. Application management accounted for 44% of fiscal 1999 revenues; systems management, 36% and federal systems, 20%.