Services and software companies IBM and SAP, longtime technology partners, will bring out their first joint software product in the fourth quarter of this year, the two companies said.

The product, codenamed Atlantic, will allow users to access SAP's Business Suite applications for workflows, reporting and analytics through IBM's Lotus Notes desktop software.

US-based IBM and Germany's SAP, which was founded by five former IBM employees, have collaborated for 35 years.

IBM is the world's largest integrator of SAP's business-management software, SAP software is certified for IBM servers and SAP's favoured development database is an IBM one.

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