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Connectria Launches St. Louis' First Information Technology Utility; Services Proven to Reduce IT Expenses for St. Louis Companies by 20 - 50% or More.


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ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 2003

Connectria, an award-winning Adj. 1. award-winning - having received awards; "this award-winning bridge spans a distance of five miles"  information technology (IT) outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management.  provider, today announced St. Louis' first IT Utility. Connectria's IT Utility leverages its world-class St. Louis data center and IT infrastructure with a variety of high-speed broadband broadband

Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies).
 and fiber networks. Combined, Connectria's IT Utility delivers a complete range of IT outsourcing and disaster recovery services at lower costs and higher service levels than companies can typically provide themselves.

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. Waidmann, President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Connectria. "Today, most companies run their own data centers, networks, servers and databases that use the same underlying technologies and require the same skills as every other company. Like electricity, these functions are essential for companies but provide no economic benefit for their business," according to according to
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 Waidmann. "By leveraging Connectria's world-class facilities and staff over our large customer base, Connectria's IT Utility gains significant economies of scale to deliver higher service levels at significant cost savings," Waidmann noted.

Unlike traditional IT outsourcing providers, Connectria's IT Utility delivers outsourced IT services on a flexible, pay-as-you-go model, allowing companies to gracefully grace·ful  
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Showing grace of movement, form, or proportion: "Capoeira is a graceful ballet of power and control, artists kicking and jumping in synchronized movement" Alisa Valdes.
 outsource their IT infrastructure without having to outsource everything at once. Today, over 200 companies worldwide use Connectria's IT Utility.

For more information on Connectria's IT Utility, please visit www.connectria.com or contact Connectria toll-free at 1-800-781-7820.

About Connectria

Connectria is a profitable, privately held IT outsourcing provider with over 200 large and mid-sized clients worldwide. Connectria's core competency A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
  1. It provides customer benefits
  2. It is hard for competitors to imitate
  3. It can be leveraged widely to many products and markets.
 is implementing and managing IT infrastructure technologies common to all businesses. Connectria's services allow its clients to reduce IT expenses by 20-50% or more while improving their service levels substantially. More information is available at www.connectria.com or by calling Connectria toll-free at 1-800-781-7820 or locally at 314-587-7000.

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