IBM Sterling
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDI platforms | Data platform | 0% | 75 of 93 | 50% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by TrueCommerce EDI at 32% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated IBM Sterling across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“IBM Sterling (praised for reliability, broad capabilities, good support)” Grok 4.1 Fast · EDI · negative prompt · first choice
“Consider it where enterprise requirements and existing IBM or legacy infrastructure are important” GPT-6 Luna · EDI · comparative prompt · alternative
“Global enterprise with high security requirements | IBM Sterling” Kimi K2 · 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.
“IBM Sterling offers reliable VAN-based connectivity but has slower onboarding and older architecture that can limit flexibility” Claude Haiku 4.5 · EDI · comparative prompt · soft negative
“notoriously complex and expensive to implement/maintain. It's often overkill for smaller providers.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · EDI · negative prompt · soft negative
“expensive with a steep implementation curve” GLM 4.7 FlashX · EDI · comparative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as IBM Sterling, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM Sterling was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 28 of the 30 answers that named IBM Sterling and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
118 of the 118 domain citations in answers naming IBM Sterling came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where IBM Sterling stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 590 a month (“ibm sterling”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 157 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- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 30 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 28 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.
Follow IBM Sterling
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
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The company
IBM is the company behind IBM Sterling.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company recordsIn 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
- For
- retailers
- Customers named
- DHL International GmbHHudson Bay/Saks Fifth AvenuePandoraEileen FisherNetsSaint-Gobain
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What IBM Sterling's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: ibm.com/products/sterling, ibm.com/case-studies/sterling-oms-instana, ibm.com/case-studies/saint-gobain-sterling-supply-chain, developer.ibm.com/blogs/learning-about-ibm-sterling-offerings, developer.ibm.com/articles/ibm-sterling-migrating-from-giv-to-iv. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when IBM Sterling's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as IBM Sterling, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for IBM Sterling by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where IBM Sterling 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, 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.