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IBM Sterling B2B Integration

10Judge labels

3First choices

0Negative labels

6 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. IBM Sterling B2B Integration was named 3 times in EDI, where TrueCommerce EDI led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market23 of 93

under the label threshold

Enterprise4 of 70

under the label threshold

In edi · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named IBM Sterling B2B Integration for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
EDI platforms	Data platform	0%	23 of 93	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by TrueCommerce EDI at 32%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for IBM Sterling B2B Integration yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated IBM Sterling B2B Integration across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase5 labels3

Comparative4 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“choose Cleo or IBM Sterling/OpenText for governed, high-volume, multi-ERP supply chain EDI with deep visibility” Muse Glimmer 30B · EDI · comparative prompt · first choice

“Large enterprise with massive volumes and hybrid needs → IBM Sterling” DeepSeek V4 Flash · EDI · comparative prompt · alternative

“Large enterprise with complex needs → IBM Sterling” MiniMax M2.5 · EDI · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as IBM Sterling B2B Integration, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM Sterling B2B Integration was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cleo Integration Cloud9 of 102Not among the top eight

OpenText Trading Grid7 of 100Not among the top eight

Boomi B2B/EDI Management6 of 100Not among the top eight

TrueCommerce EDI6 of 100Not among the top eight

SPS Commerce4 of 100Not among the top eight

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform3 of 100Not among the top eight

Orderful3 of 100Not among the top eight

Axway B2Bi1 of 100Not among the top eight

Boomi EDI Management1 of 100Not among the top eight

Boomi Integration1 of 100Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named IBM Sterling B2B Integration. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 9 of the 10 answers that named IBM Sterling B2B Integration and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cleo.com6

g2.com6

worldmetrics.org5

jitterbit.com4

ibm.comYour site3

opentext.com3

orderful.com3

sftptogo.com3

truecommerce.com3

astera.com2

Thirty-five of the thirty-eight domain citations in answers naming IBM Sterling B2B Integration came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cleo.com/blog/best-edi-software-providers5

g2.com/categories/electronic-data-interchange-edi4

jitterbit.com/blog/best-edi-platforms4

worldmetrics.org/best/electronic-data-interchange-software4

cleo.com/best-enterprise-edi-solutions3

cleo.com/blog/best-edi-solution-providers3

sftptogo.com/blog/our-6-top-edi-providers-of-20243

truecommerce.com/products/edi-software3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where IBM Sterling B2B Integration stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 40 a month (“ibm sterling b2b integration”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 29 a month
Its own site: It sits on IBM's site (ibm.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 23 of 93 in EDI

Segment leader

32%

TrueCommerce EDI

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 10 answers
Its own site cited: in 9 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as IBM Sterling B2B Integration

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as IBM Sterling B2B Integration; a claim can dispute any of them.

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The company

IBM is the company behind IBM Sterling B2B Integration.

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On record

Company records

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Reliable, purpose-built solutions for optimizing your e-commerce order fulfillment and your B2B Data Exchange with customers and suppliers
ibm.com/products/sterling
For: organizations
ibm.com/products/sterling
Price stated: Starting at USD 200.00* for 2000 Kilo characters/month ibm.com/products/b2b-integration-van
Starting price: USD 200.00* ibm.com/products/b2b-integration-van
Free plan or trial: Try it for free ibm.com/products/b2b-integration-saas
Integrations claimed: 3100000 ibm.com/products/b2b-integration-van
Customers named: DHL International GmbHHudson Bay/Saks Fifth AvenuePandoraEileen FisherNetsHendrickson USALi & Fung
Not stated on the pages read: Certifications, hosting

What IBM Sterling B2B Integration's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: ibm.com/products/sterling, developer.ibm.com/components/sterling, ibm.com/products/b2b-integration-van, ibm.com/products/b2b-integration-saas, ibm.com/products/b2b-integration-suite. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for IBM Sterling B2B Integration by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where IBM Sterling B2B Integration is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name IBM Sterling B2B Integration, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.