Cambridge Technology Partners Launches CTP West; Fastest Growing Client/Server Systems Integrator Announces Aggressive Western Region Strategy.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 1995 -- Cambridge Technology Partners (NASDAQ: CATP), the fastest growing major client/server systems integrator, today announced a strategic thrust into four major western markets with establishment of an integrated network of regional offices called CTP West. This initiative is aimed at accelerating CTP's rapid growth on the west coast and strengthening the company's competitive advantage in securing high-level client/server projects in key regional markets.

Nearly tripling in revenue growth over the past two years, CTP West is made up of offices in Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Dallas and a new Seattle office due to open in early 1996, managed by Allen Shaheen, Vice President, for CTP West. They add to CTP's growing global presence, which includes 17 offices throughout the United States and Europe.

"We expect to expand to full service offices by 1997 and become a major regional presence in the western U.S.," said Shaheen. "The pillars of CTP's success, including our fixed-time/fixed-price client relationship and our unique consensus-based development methodology, have proven highly successful among customers on the west coast and southwest. The strong presence of CTP West will enable us to offer broader resources to clients in the western regions of the country." A number of major systems integrators have established west coast offices, but none with an exclusive client/server focus and none with the strong growth rate of CTP. The west coast systems integration market is made up primarily of smaller start-up companies and hardware and software OEMs. In the past three years, CTP has attracted the highest-profile new business in these regions by offering the sophisticated implementation expertise that is needed in these markets.

"A key to CTP's success on the west coast is our ability to integrate business problem solving and strategy with an innovative approach to developing and implementing technology," said Jim Huser, recently appointed client partner for Cambridge Technology Partners in Los Angeles and former CIO of the Disney Consumer Products Businesses. "It's important for us to continue to hire the same caliber of people to maintain the high energy, enthusiasm and drive to be a major force in driving CTP's industry leadership across the region."

CTP West's key market focus will remain on west coast-oriented industries, such as high technology, aerospace, financial services, and the entertainment industry. In 1992, CTP opened satellite California offices to serve regional "anchor" clients, such as Hughes, Lockheed, and Union Pacific Resources Company. CTP later signed on new projects with Microsoft, Allied-Signal, Charles Schwab, and several other Fortune 500 organizations in a range of industries. "We have already established a great name for CTP on the west coast through successful project performance delivered to major clients in this region," Shaheen said. "CTP West actually pioneered some of CTP's most innovative and timely solutions, including the company's first package evaluation, first rapid process assimilation process and first prototype/scoping engagement."

"CTP has proven to be a key strategic partner in the deployment of our Electronic Storefront Ordering and Inventory System," said Paul Hoedeman, Vice President and CIO of AlliedSignal Aerospace, a $4.6 billion aerospace company based in Torrance, CA. "Through CTP's rapid consensus methodology and team building approach, we were able to move this large complex project from design to implementation in only seven months. In its Rapid Solutions Workshop, CTP brought together 150 people from different cities, many of whom had never even met before. They drove to consensus on the business case and created a road map to follow for success."

CTP West offices will be located at: 2361 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 370, El Segundo, CA, 90245, [phone]; 654 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, [phone]; 3710 Rawlins, Suite 1100, Dallas, TX, 75219, [phone].

CTP's expansion efforts were strengthened in August with the acquisition of Miami-based Systems Consulting Group, a custom client/server and package application implementation company, thus establishing CTP in the southeastern U.S. and providing a gateway to Latin American markets.

Founded in 1991, Cambridge Technology Partners is one of the fastest growing companies in the systems integration industry, with a proven track record of developing and deploying client/server distributed applications to more than 400 organizations worldwide. Working within a unique fixed time/fixed price model, CTP's revenue has grown at an average of 78 percent per year, has expanded to 17 offices globally and approximately 1,000 employees today.

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