The products include lifecycle management, data back-up and data recovery features.
Tivoli Management Solution for mySAP.com - SAP's Web-based service - offers performance and availability, security, storage and change management features. The product will let users integrate their mySAP.com applications through certified interfaces.
Tivoli Manager for R/3 2.2 comes with availability and performance monitoring features that enable event management, SAP R/3 deployment and management of R/3 as a distributed application.
Tivoli Data Protection for IBM Enterprise Storage Server for R/3 offers back-up tools for SAP R/3 applications, using Enterprise Storage Server's FlashCopy tool to make automated back-up copies of production data. The application also integrates with R/3's SAP DBA database administrator tool for managing Oracle databases.
"These new solutions add near 24x7 availability of e-business applications and enhanced management of database and application content," said Robert LeBlanc, Tivoli's general manager.
The partnership marks the third recent alliance between IBM and SAP. On 9 November, the two companies announced Global Language Support functionality for mySAP.com solutions on IBM's eServer iSeries solutions. The new features include support for both single and double-byte languages.
IBM and SAP also announced the limited availability of Windows 2000 application server support for IBM DB2 Universal Database for iSeries.
