Renaissance Worldwide Year 2000 Service Provides Unique Career Development Opportunities for IT Consultants and Boosts Flexible Staffing Options for Clients.

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 1998--

Innovative Year 2000 Solution Available Immediately

for New-England-Based Companies

Renaissance Worldwide Inc., (NASDAQ: REGI), the leading integrated business and technology consulting firm for the knowledge era, today announced a unique staffing solution designed to address the critical need for qualified COBOL programmers sought by New-England-based companies facing the looming Year 2000 problem. Renaissance's Year 2000 Staffing Solution addresses the key issue of recruiting, selecting, and retaining qualified trained technical resources to meet the growing demand for skilled professionals.

"As the deadline for implementing successful solutions to the Year 2000 problem rapidly approaches, many companies are finding it difficult to maintain their focus on other business-critical IT projects," said Mark Biscoe, Northeast Vice President of Renaissance's Services Group. "The Renaissance Year 2000 Staffing Solution enables clients to keep their internal IT resources focused on ongoing issues while deploying skilled experts on the Year 2000 problem. For IT consultants, the Renaissance Year 2000 Staffing Solution provides quality training and support that can accelerate their career development and open new windows of opportunity that will exist well beyond January 1, 2000. Our Year 2000 initiative is one more example of the continuous innovation that has set Renaissance apart in the IT consulting arena."

The Renaissance Year 2000 Staffing Solution service begins with a comprehensive screening and selection process of qualified candidates whose profile may include a recent college graduate with a technical degree, a technical expert who is changing careers or one who is re-entering the technical workforce. Prior to their first project assignment as a Renaissance consultant, Year 2000 consultants participate in an intensive eight-week structured training program conducted by Boston University Career Education Center that provides hands-on experience in designing, writing and debugging COBOL programs. Renaissance consultants learn the specific skills to address how to scope the Year 2000 problem and how to provide various solutions.

At the completion of training, Renaissance consultants are fully prepared to modify, fix and test Year 2000 or other business applications either as individual consultants or on project teams. Renaissance consultants' technical skills and training includes: IBM 3090, MVS, COBOL II, Microfocus COBOL, JCL, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, PANVALET and CICS experience.

As part of the Year 2000 Staffing Solution program, Renaissance provides consultants with a Technical Mentor or Professional Development Manager. Renaissance Mentors serve as technical "experts" responsible for consultants' ongoing career training and technical development. They also assist consultants at client sites to ensure customer satisfaction through consultant performance, productivity, and project deliverables. This allows Renaissance clients to manage their own projects while Renaissance assumes the responsibility for providing project support to the team.

The selection process is underway to qualify and hire consultants to participate in the April 20th Year 2000 class sponsored by Renaissance. Additional classes will be scheduled on a 10-week cycle throughout 1998 and 1999. For more on Renaissance Worldwide's Year 2000 Staffing Solution, please contact David Marshall, Director of Strategic Resource Development at 888-377-9119.

About Renaissance Worldwide, Inc.

Renaissance Worldwide is a leading provider of integrated business and technology consulting in the areas of strategy, solutions and professional services. From its 84 U.S. and international locations, Renaissance Worldwide is committed to providing a seamless approach to business, technology and professional services by combining excellence in execution with continuous innovation to help its clients effectively compete in the knowledge era.

Renaissance is in the business of helping organizations boost performance: devising new business strategies enabled by technology to deliver new products and services, streamlining business processes, building powerful knowledge management systems to support knowledge workers, developing critical applications, and providing access to 5,000 professionals with world-class business experience and technical expertise, including business strategists, knowledge management consultants, application development experts and best-in-class technologists. Additional information is available at www.rens.com.

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