Colton Consulting, Inc. Announces New Change Management Service; New Change Management Service Enables Companies to Enhance Enterprise Lifecycle Management.

Business and High Tech Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2001

Colton Consulting, Inc is pleased to announce their recent acquisition and launch of an innovative Change Management Practice. Colton's Change Management Practice (CCMP) initiative gives Colton a new competitive advantage to provide management-consulting services to their clients. Colton will now provide end-to-end solutions to meet companies' objectives through Change Management to go along with their established recruiting service.

Colton Consulting now provides the framework necessary to successfully manage changes to applications, infrastructure and content. Colton's total solution is designed to help deliver the consistency, reliability and quality that are necessary to meet customer expectations.

Some of the added key benefits that Colton Consulting customers will experience are:

    --  Increased speed to market

    --  Improved service availability

    --  Enhanced responsiveness and adaptability to changing business
        needs

    --  Decreased software development and operations costs

A large degree of (CCMP)'s success will be attributed to Joe Prudente, who was named Director of the Change Management Practice. Mr. Prudente brings 15+ years of Change Management/ Quality Assurance and Project Management experience to Colton Consulting.

"Our closed-loop, four-part solution, begins and ends with the customer," says Prudente, explaining the processes of CCMP. "It starts with customer service requirements, which tie into change requests. Changes are then fed into development, which in turn are tied to deployment. Subsequent to deployment, the original customer issues/requirements are closed out. This completes the 360-degree view of how technology changes need to be managed in a fast-paced world."

Colton has also recently partnered up with Mediasurface, a leading provider of advanced content management software and related services, offering customers a scalable, applications-based solution for managing change over information within business. Mediasurface software helps customers to rapidly publish and effectively manage content across their organizations for both internal and external use.

CCMP thus far has provided the following services to their diverse clientele:

    --  Major International Bank - Remedy Development Support

    --  Major Brokerage House - QA Support

    --  Major Broker-Dealer - Change Requirement Management Processing

    --  Major E-retailer - Configuration Management, Process
        Definition and Tools Evaluation

Founded in 1997, Colton Consulting Inc., is one of the top staffing agencies in the Wall Street area. We are a privately held company and provider of expert Consulting and Change Management Solutions for the Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Media, Software, Insurance, Healthcare, and Telecommunications industries.