Aberdeen Expands IT Professional Services Practice; Includes Integrated Coverage of m-Commerce, PSA, CRM, and ASP Solutions.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2000 Aberdeen Group, a leading provider of technology market consulting and research, today announced the expansion of its Professional Services practice, which researches and analyzes the trends in the Information Technology (IT) professional services market. Aberdeen's expanded Professional Services practice is conducting research on the impact of emerging technologies -- such as mobile electronic commerce (m-Commerce), e-Marketplaces, and custom application service providers (ASPs) -- on the IT services industry. "Enterprise clients no longer believe pure-play Internet consulting firms' promises of overnight business transformation through stand-alone Web initiatives," says Jim Graves, Managing Director of Aberdeen's Professional Services practice. "Successful firms need skills in both Web technology, as well as traditional systems integration, to connect all of the parts of the enterprise." "Another trend is the blurring of IT consulting, outsourcing, and ASP models, which is challenging professional services firms to design, build, and manage integrated IT solutions," says Graves. A critical component of Aberdeen's Professional Services group is its industry-leading coverage of the $4.8 billion Professional Services Automation See PSA. (PSA (Professional Services Automation) An information system designed to organize, track and manage all opportunities, work, resources, costs, revenues and invoices to improve the productivity and efficiency of the workforce. ) market. PSA is a new class of packaged applications used by professional services organizations to become more productive and profitable. A partial list of the professional services firms Aberdeen covers includes Augeo; Agency.com; Andersen Consulting; AnswerThink Consulting; Arthur Andersen; Berkeley Enterprise Partners; Bluewater; Breakaway Solutions; Cambridge Technology Partners; Capita Solutions; C-Bridge; Cigital; Compaq; Context Integration; CrossTier.com; CSC; CyberPlex; Deloitte Consulting; DiamondCluster; EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. ; eForce; eLoyalty; Emerald Solutions; Entex; Ernst & Young/Cap Gemini; Extraprise; Getronics; Groundswell; Headstrong; Hewlett-Packard; IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. ; Intellicorp; iXL; KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen ; LavaStorm; Logica PLC; marchFirst; Marconi Services; Naviant; NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers ; Nervewire; Netnumina Solutions; Nexgenix; Novo; Osprey; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Proxicom; Razorfish; RedSky; Revere Group; SAI; Sapient; Scient; Siemens Business Services; Sierra Atlantic; Stonebridge Technologies; Tanning Solutions; Tata Consultancy Services Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS Limited company) is one of the world’s largest providers of information technology, consulting, services and business-process outsourcing which commenced operations in 1968. As of 2007, it is Asia's largest And India's No. ; Techmar Solutions; TenFold; Viant; Wipro; XOR (eXclusive OR) A Boolean logic operation that is widely used in cryptography as well as in generating parity bits for error checking and fault tolerance. XOR compares two input bits and generates one output bit. The logic is simple. If the bits are the same, the result is 0. ; Xoriant; and Zefer. Aberdeen's Professional Services Automation practice, part of the Professional Services practice, covers Account4.com; Augeo; AXS-One, Inc.; Azamba; Big Dog Software; BST (convention) BST - British Summer Time. The name for daylight-saving time in the UK GMT time zone. ; Business Engine Software; Chainlink Technologies; Changepoint Corporation; Databasic; Deltek; Elite.com; Encentris; Evolve Software; Foundation Systems; Horizon Technology; InfoDream Corporation; InfoWave; Loon Technologies; Maconomy; Microsoft Corporation; Niku Corporation; Novient, Inc.; OpenAir; Optimize Solutions; Opus360 Corporation; Oracle Corporation; Paradigm; PeopleSoft; PlanView, Inc.; Portera; QuickArrow; SAP; Skill Set Software; and Vivant! For more information about Aberdeen's Professional Services practice, visit www.aberdeen.com or contact Jim Graves at (617) 854-5213. About Aberdeen Aberdeen Group is a leading provider of technology market consulting and research. Steeped in technology and armed with end-user field research, Aberdeen answers clients' critical business and technology questions in the context of the Internet economy and across the product life cycle. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and has research centers in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. ; Ft. Collins, Colorado; and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Aberdeen is located on the Web at www.aberdeen.com. |
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