Alliance Best Practice Ltd (ABP) is a reserach and benchmarking consultancy based in the UK and specializing in business to business strategic alliances. We have been benchmarking the effectiveness and efficiency of alliances since 2002. In that time we have built up a unique database of observations of alliances in action. This database contains over 300,000 entries and allows us to advise our clients on the practicalities of developing and deploying alliance best practice programs.