For insurance providers offering a variety of products, the enterprise-wide solutions allow commission payments to be allotted to every person involved in a sale, including call center and Web site representatives, agents, brokers, branch tellers and others. All of these capabilities are offered through the Trilogy Distribution Channel Management solution, a part of the Trilogy MultiChannel Commerce suite. Trilogy's proven distribution channel management solution, combined with IBM hardware, software, services and consulting, offers a total solution to customers looking to stay ahead in a rapidly changing industry. Automotive and Heavy Machinery IBM offerings and Trilogy applications help automakers and heavy machinery manufacturers use the Internet to establish direct relationships with their customers and work with their dealer networks more effectively. These enhanced electronic commerce solutions enable automakers and dealers to benefit from lowered inventory and transaction costs, more precise information on customer buying decisions and optimized vehicle production and distribution.
Customers benefit from faster and more convenient services.
The alliance will also offer similar Internet-based solutions to heavy equipment manufacturers. This alliance will assist IBM in providing our automotive customers with the powerful and innovative applications and services to help them speed their e-business transformation. Under the terms of the worldwide agreement, the two companies will jointly market and sell the Trilogy MultiChannel Commerce suite running on IBM zSeries and pSeries eServers. The MultiChannel Commerce suite is available on the IBM AIX operating system, and integrates with IBM's WebSphere application server and DB2 Universal database. We are dedicated to delivering value to our customers in the form of increased customer and business partner loyalty, rapid time to market, and increased sales.