Development Dimensions International Signs Hosting Contract with Inflow; Uptime Critical for Company's Hiring System Design and Implementation.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2003 Today, InFlow, Inc., a leading provider of managed web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. and IT services, announced the addition of new customer Development Dimensions International (DDI ddI and ddC: see AZT. ), a global human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a . For Manu Brahmam, manager of MIS for DDI, the decision to outsource to Inflow was the culmination of many months of research and discussions with Inflow's sales team. "We were most happy with Inflow's people, technical expertise and especially its method and process focus by which it does business," said Brahmam. "Inflow was a big fish in a small pond, and ultimately the fish we wanted." "We were thrilled to win DDI's business," said Patrick Bixel, general manager for Inflow in Pittsburgh. "Inflow's process focus and unparalleled technical capability was the right solution to support DDI's base of thousands of users." DDI provides many Fortune 500 companies with end-to-end e-recruiting services that help them select, assess and hire the best candidates. DDI's customer base, which includes Texaco, Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , Sanofi-Synthelabo, and Boeing International, relies on them for online screening and assessment tools that are accessible 24/7 in a highly secure environment. Mike Broeker, DDI director, E-Systems, said traffic on DDI's system often reaches hundreds of thousands of hits per day. "Our product requires a very high degree of availability, as there are surges of traffic to the job assessments at certain times -- especially on Sundays after applicants read our clients' job openings," Broeker added. "Uptime and redundancy are critical to our success." Brahmam had been encouraging his company to consider moving their in-house servers to an outsourced provider since early 2001. The need for an outsourced provider became more prevalent as DDI began experiencing problems with power, Telco, liability possibilities, and lack of processes as it grew. In August of last year, DDI started looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a provider that was nationally known yet local, and offered superior technical capability, overall infrastructure reliability, and financial stability. The company signed on with Inflow in October to host one application, and is currently migrating its production environment into Inflow's Pittsburgh facility. "Inflow was the only game in town worth looking at, and ironically, after reviewing other national providers not located in Pittsburgh, Inflow ended up being our first choice," said Brahmam. DDI's manager of network services, Maurice Gordon commented on Inflow's customer-oriented focus. "Inflow's customer service is fantastic. The staff is always helpful and clear; I do not hesitate to discuss with Inflow any needs that I have." "Inflow remains phenomenal," said Brahmam. "We're even more happy with Inflow today than when we first chose them." In February, DDI also purchased Inflow's NOC (Network Operations Center) A central or regional location for monitoring a large network. Also called a "network management center" (NMC), "service management center" (SMC) or "network control center" (NCC), a NOC may be used to manage a large enterprise network, Co-Sourcing services, which offers the company the benefit of utilizing Inflow's processes, people and monitoring systems in its Global NOC to serve as an off-shift help desk. About DDI International For more than three decades, Development Dimensions International, has worked with some of the world's most successful organizations to achieve superior business results by building engaged, high-performing workforces. DDI excels in two major areas -- designing and implementing selection systems that enable you to hire better people faster and identifying and developing exceptional leadership talent crucial to creating a workforce that drives business results. The outcome? You bring the best people onboard, who get up to speed faster, contribute more and stay longer -- giving you the ultimate competitive advantage. About Inflow Inflow provides facilities-based IT solutions to companies with critical business and network applications. Founded in 1997, Inflow opened its first Internet Data Center (IDC) in June 1998 and currently serves more than 700 customers from its IDCs in 12 markets throughout the U.S. The Company offers customers a cost-effective outsourced alternative that is secure, redundant and fully managed. Core services The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. include Application Hosting and Management, Business Continuity Services, Enterprise Datacenter Management (EDM (Engineering Data Management) An information system that maintains the details of all engineering data while the product is in the design and concept phase. This includes geometry and changes to geometry. See PLM. EDM - Electronic Data Management ) Services, Managed Security Services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the , and InflowNet(TM) -- a proprietary Internet access service that guarantees 100% availability. Additional services include Intelligent Routing for Internet access, content distribution, load balancing and remote datacenter management and monitoring. In June 2002, Inflow completed an equity financing Equity Financing The act of raising money for company activities by selling common or preferred stock to individual or institutional investors. In return for the money paid, shareholders receive ownership interests in the corporation. of $35 million, bringing total capital raised to more than $300 million. Investors include Meritage Private Equity Funds, Centennial Ventures, Telecom Partners, Spire Capital Partners, The Halyard hal·yard also hal·liard n. Nautical A rope used to raise or lower a sail, flag, or yard. [Alteration (influenced by yard1) of Middle English halier, from Capital Fund, GE Capital and PNC PNC Purdue University North Central (Westville, Indiana) PnC Point 'n Click PNC Police National Computer PNC People's National Congress (Guyana) PNC People's National Congress Equity. For additional information and IDC locations, please visit www.inflow.com, or call 877/321-2464. To call the Pittsburgh IDC or to speak with Pat Bixel, please call 412/594-2030. |
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