A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP "SAP and IBM Lotus are strategic partners to The Coca-Cola Company. Our IT goal is to help our people to be more responsive, productive and effective, and SAP and IBM Lotus have helped us to get closer to that goal." Jean Michel-Ares CIO,The Coca-Cola Company Source: SAP press release, 2008

For companies facing today's economic challenges, enabling business users throughout the organisation to become more productive and capable of better decision making is not simply an attractive option. It is also a necessity.

But to become more productive, your business users require easy, consistent access to people, processes and information. This means that you need to provide them with better, more efficient ways of sharing information across established business processes – without requiring extensive training, software customisation or IT expenditures.

So, how can you boost productivity across your organisation? And, how can you do it by leveraging IT investments which you have already made?

Enter Alloy

Alloy software is a groundbreaking product jointly developed and supported by two industry leaders – SAP and IBM – and provides the game-changing answer to both questions.

For business users, Alloy simplifies interaction with people, processes and information by providing intuitive access to SAP software and information from the familiar IBM Lotus Notes environment. Alloy enables your business users to work in a familiar environment, reducing training time and enabling you to gain more productive business users faster.

For organisations endeavouring to minimise IT expenses, Alloy software fully leverages existing investments in SAP and IBM Lotus Notes applications – eliminating the need to build and maintain expensive new custom programs or interfaces. Plus, Alloy allows in-house developers and system integrators to customise and extend its functionality to better serve the unique needs of your business users.

Put simply, Alloy is a win-win for everybody in your organisation.

About the Partnership

For more than 37 years, IBM and SAP have collaborated to bring cutting-edge solutions to their mutual customers – improving business efficiency at more than 13,000 customer sites and for millions of users.

Alloy – a jointly developed, marketed, sold and supported product – marks a new level of partnership which offers companies a new level of advantage in the marketplace.