The need for a highly automated contract management solution has become more critical as hospitals look for ways to optimize contract performance and compliance across the complex network of vendors, insurance providers and government. This partnership represents a true collaboration between two industry leaders who recognize the unique challenges healthcare organizations face.

IT directors and administrators need to look for a comprehensive, all-around solution to data management to bring about corporate governance, compliance and efficient storage management.

This opens up not only our online solution, but also our entire partner services group solution, to other management groups, so they can use it across their organizations.

Our joint solution with Sun is a trusted end-to-end identity management solution that helps customers meet both voluntary and mandatory regulations, and ensures the integrity of digital transactions. By providing each user with a consolidated identity and the means to secure it, our joint solution delivers an innovative way for businesses to assure the authenticity of employees, customers, partners or suppliers, as well as control what information they can access and what transactions they can perform.

Customers view enterprise single sign-on as a key requirement of a complete enterprise identity management solution. Integrating and delivering our market-leading enterprise sign-on solution with IBM's Identity Management portfolio will help customers in all markets advance their identity management, strong authentication and compliance projects.

Solutions configuration is a giant step forward in the field because it enables users to handle the most complex sales transactions containing a vast array of products and services. This new advancement in constraint-based technology creates entirely new avenues for our customers to drive efficiencies, accelerate sales and respond to the varied requirements of their respective markets.