IBM and SugarCRM have a global strategic alliance to provide comprehensive CRM solutions. Their solutions are targeted towards industries like retail, banking, manufacturing, and healthcare. They integrate SugarCRM's open social CRM platform with IBM technologies like Cognos, SPSS, Connections, and WebSphere to offer capabilities around smarter commerce, social business, and cloud deployment. An example of their integration is providing social collaboration features between SugarCRM and IBM Connections.