Comdisco, Inc. Announces Relationship With GartnerGroup To Deliver Expanded TCO Analysis to Clients.

ROSEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 28, 1998--Comdisco, Inc. today announced its participation in Gartner Group Inc.'s Software Partner Program. The relationship with GartnerGroup will enable Comdisco to bring added value to its Asset Management customers through the pairing of Comdisco's Asset Management Services and GartnerGroup's TCO Manager software.

As a Silver Charter Member of the GartnerGroup program, Comdisco will begin offering TCO Manager as a strategic "leave-behind" within its Asset Management Assessment, or more focused TCO Analysis, solutions.

The impetus for the company's participation in the program came from customer demand for a leave-behind software solution. By procuring TCO Manager from Comdisco, clients can do their own "what-if" TCO modeling using the findings from Comdisco's assessment of their asset environment, as well as identified best practices from Comdisco's experience base. TCO Manager marries the data with GartnerGroup's industry standard TCO chart of accounts, as well as their industry average benchmarks, to fuel smart IT and business decision making.

As part of its modular suite of Asset Management Services, Comdisco's Assessment/TCO solutions analyze business and IT goals, lifecycle processes, hardware/software usage, vendor/supplier contracts, service levels and other aspects of managing technology assets. In addition, the company's expertise in Portfolio Management enables us to make specific recommendations on areas such as asset turnover and how it makes a difference on TCO, or how a technology refresh cycle may actually provide improved return on investment.

"The synergy is obvious; pairing TCO Manager's financial model with Comdisco's ability to interpret the results for business gain and IT advantage gives customers a competitive edge ... and a justification for their technology lifecycle management plan," said John Kresovsky, vice president and general manager, Comdisco. "This full lifecycle, full analysis approach represents our vision for how technology - and its costs -- should be managed."

"Our goal for this partner program is to help GartnerGroup software partners such as Comdisco succeed by offering best-of-breed methodologies and tools for use with their own clients," said Manny Fernandez, chairman and chief executive officer, GartnerGroup.

Comdisco helps companies maximize the business impact -- and manage the cost -- of their technology infrastructure by offering a variety of flexible Asset Management services. Using Comdisco's SelectSourcing(R) approach, customers define their needs and the scope of the engagement by choosing from among these lifecycle service modules: Physical Inventory, Assessment/TCO Analysis, Asset Management (Tracking and Inventory), Technology Infrastructure Assessment, Technology Financing, Procurement, Configuration Management, Technology Refresh, Installation/De-Installation, Moves/Adds/Changes, Break/Fix, Help Desk, and Disposal.

In addition, clients may employ Comdisco's leading CLASS(R) asset management repository software, an internet-driven application that enables sophisticated tracking of hardware and software assets to more accurately, more strategically manage their technology assets.

Comdisco, (NYSE:CDO), a technology services company, is one of the world's leading providers of solutions that help organizations reduce technology cost and risk. These services include asset management, business continuity, network services and equipment leasing and remarketing. For more information, visit Comdisco's web site at http://www.comdisco.com.

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