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Published Date: Dec. 11, 1998
Company Name: Giga Information Group
Address: One Kendall Square, Building 1400W
Cambridge, MA 02139
Main Telephone
Number: 1.781.982.9500
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL): www.gigaweb.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Gideon I. Gartner
Chief Financial
Officer: Daniel M. Clarke
Investor Relations
Contact: Vicky Lynch
Business number: 1.781.792.2539
Public Relations
Contact: David Kitchen
Business number: 1.781.792.2606
Trading Symbol/
Exchange: GIGX/NASDAQ
Industry: IT Advisory Services
Market Makers: Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., Inc.; Prudential
Securities Incorporated; Mayer & Schweitzer, Inc.; Knight Securities
L.P.; Sherwood Securities Corp.; Troster Singer Corp.; Gruntal & Co.
Incorporated; Herzog, Heine, Geduld, Inc.
Company description: Giga Information Group, founded by industry icon Gideon Gideon (gĭd`ēən), or Jerubbaal (jērŭb`āəl, –rəbā`əl) I. Gartner (Gartner, Inc., Stamford, CT, www.gartner.com) The largest information technology consulting firm that specializes in research and analysis. Founded in 1979 by Gideon Gartner, it has grown through acquisitions, including Dataquest in 1995 and Techrepublic in 2000. , delivers knowledge and strategic technology and management advice to IT decision makers via innovative research processes and a leading-edge Web interface. Giga's dominant research focus is on helping companies integrate their businesses with the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the ; it also covers trends in the computing computing - computer , telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. and related industries. The world's fastest-growing authority on IT, Giga began providing its services in April 1996, and today its global client base exceeds 900 organizations comprising over 13,000 individual users, including IT vendors, IT users and institutional investors Institutional Investor A non-bank person or organization that trades securities in large enough share quantities or dollar amounts that they qualify for preferential treatment and lower commissions. . Giga Information Group reported annual sales of $19.7 million in 1997, with a net loss of $21.8 million. For the first nine months of 1998, Giga reported sales of $26.4 million with a net loss of $15.1 million. Selected Giga Information Group offerings include: Giga Advisory - A single, unified research resource, in which users have barrier-free barrier-free adjective Pertaining or referring to structural or architectural design that does not impede use by individuals with special physical needs. See American with Disabilities Act, Architectural barrier, Barrier. access to all research content and all Giga analysts. Includes access to ExperNet, Giga's exclusive online network of independent IT practitioners which complements the strategic-level advice provided by Giga's analyst community. IT Practices - A group of services targeting specific IT job functions, combining focused studies documenting IT "best practices" with on-site on-site adj. Done or located at the site, as of a particular activity: on-site monitoring of a production run; an on-site film shoot. , practitioner-level counsel from senior Giga advisors. Events - A series of IT conferences in the US and Europe including GigaWorld IT Forum, Business OnLine, Business Process & Knowledge Management, The Emerging Technology Scene, Middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a Choices and others. The Company's Web site can be accessed at http://www.gigaweb.com. Giga Information Group is a trademark of Giga Information Group Inc. |
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