Are you optimising your alliance relationships? As an alliance professional, you are working in an increasingly complex world of: rapidly changing business models, lack of direct control, multiple stakeholder agendas, global communication requirements and possible misunderstanding of your role from your own colleagues! In addition you are trying to secure incremental value for your organisation without substantial support, no tools or methodologies, or access to 'best practice' thinking whilst enduring travel restrictions. In short an impossible job!

The Alliance Collaboration Exchange (ACE) has been developed to help you with many of these problems. It exists as a 'portal' or 'gateway' into a rich store of practical alliance best practice material developed by practioners like you. But it is more than that. It is also a user friendly interactive site to save you time on non value added activities and allow you to focus on partner-related deals utilising 'virtual' online meetings and interactions. ACE helps you to access the key stakeholders in the industry's best partnering organisations and gives you access to the materials and tools you need to interact with them effectively in a fraction of the time it normally takes.

Who supports ACE?

ACE Founding members: IBM, AMD, Lenovo, Dell, Intel, Cisco, NEC Computers, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Business Objects, Salesforce.com, Cognos, Computer Associates, Symantec, McAfee, Novell, Experian, Intuit, IBM GBS, Bearing Point, Atos Origin, Fujitsu Services, Capgemini, Unisys, Nokia, FT Orange, Motorola, Sprint, Juniper Networks, Vodafone, Philips, Disney, Global Hotel Alliance, and Green 2020.