Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company has joined forces with data service provider HP Enterprise in a bid to improve the company’s collaboration with external partners.

HP will manage Lilly’s employee workplace computing and messaging environment across its global operations, following the deal, providing services including hosted messaging, service desk and site support services. It will also offer web hosting services and provide identity management services.

“At Lilly, our goal is to discover and develop innovative new medicines that produce improved outcomes for individual patients,” said Mike Heim, senior vice president and chief information officer, Eli Lilly and Company.

“This agreement with HP enables us to access cost-effective, market-based, global infrastructure services, allowing our internal resources to focus on value-added capabilities more directly aligned to our core business.”