RampRate Technology Advisors Partners With Aberdeen Group

RAMPRATE TECHNOLOGY ADVISORS ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH ABERDEEN GROUP, EXPANDING RESEARCH CAPABILITIES IN STREAMING AND CDN ARENAS

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (PRWEB) March 27, 2003 -- In an effort to further augment its next generation IT sourcing model, RampRate LLC, a trusted technology advisor and purchasing index for IT sourcing services, today announced a strategic partnership with the Aberdeen Group, a leading Boston-based IT research and consulting firm. RampRate and Aberdeen will work together to decipher an IT services market that has become exceedingly complex, focusing their cooperative efforts on streaming media and content delivery networks (CDNs).    

Aberdeen Group brings a wealth of experience on IT consulting to RampRates data-driven sourcing model, adding a new level of depth to the companys purchasing index for IT.

RampRate and Aberdeen Group are a natural fit," said Michael Hoch, Research Director, Internet Infrastructure, Aberdeen Group. "Enterprises and technology providers look to Aberdeen for in-depth research and advice to aid their technology strategies and purchase decisions. RampRate complements this core research with a comprehensive sourcing matrix that expedites the purchasing decision around streaming services while removing layers of cost and complexity."

In partnering with Aberdeen, were continuing to enhance our ability to turn quality data into 'actionable knowledge, and in turn advance our methodology of helping companies make business-critical outsourcing decisions in half the time," said Tony Greenberg, CEO, RampRate. Because of this relationship, were strengthening our position as trusted, objective and information-based, particularly in streaming, VOD and CDNs."

RampRate has pursued partnerships with research firms that enhance its ability to provide IT buyers with the right mix of vendors, at the right price and at the right time. RampRate assists companies with IT sourcing, primarily in the areas of core IP and infrastructure services. These services include total IT outsourcing, managed hosting and co-location, content delivery, streaming media, bandwidth, content and asset management, and quality of service (QoS) tools, among others.

Within the last decade, Aberdeen Group has become the source that IT professionals - both supplier and end-user - turn to when they need to understand the value proposition and relative market positioning of new product offerings and enterprise-level, production-quality applications. Aberdeen's analysts, steeped in technology and armed with field research, work one-on-one with clients to assist in accelerating the widespread acceptance of both new technologies and the qualified suppliers that provide them as part of their product and service offerings.

In teaming with RampRate, Aberdeen analysts gain access to RampRates proprietary Service Provider Intelligence Index (SPY), a multi-dimensional tool that analyzes the options for procuring Internet services and ensure objective matching of client needs to provider capabilities. The SPY Index weighs more than 35 business and technology factors associated with Internet and hosting services: infrastructure, technical/operational capabilities, financial viability, marketing resources, client resources and brand strength, among others.

Complementing the SPY Index is the Client Infrastructure Audit (CIA), which provides clients with a cost-benefit analysis of their IT package in the context of current market conditions, as a potent way of ensuring a profitable IT solution.

RampRate compresses a process that ordinarily requires up to a year to, on average, four weeks -- saving clients up to 70 percent of whatever they may be spending on technology services acquisition and improving such ROI metrics as uptime and partner capability.

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ABOUT RAMPRATE

Based in Santa Monica, Calif. and with offices in San Francisco and New York, RampRate (www.ramprate.com) is a trusted technology advisor and purchasing index for IT sourcing services, managing negotiations for hosting and co-location, content delivery, streaming media, managed and professional services, content asset management, peer to peer, bandwidth, telco and quality of service (QoS) tools. More than 125 best-of-breed service providers (companies like IBM, Speedera, Totality and AT&T) accelerate their sales channels in partnership with RampRate, to help clients (like Microsoft, Miramax, iFilm, Sony, the NHL, CBSnews.com and Virgin) make intelligent data-driven sourcing decisions.