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Renesys Internet Intelligence Integrated into RampRate SPY Index
Media and Gaming IT Outsourcing Leader Turns to Renesys for Enhanced Delivery Functionality and Increased IT Services and Production Management Capabilities
Manchester, NH, April 24, 2007 — Renesys® Corporation, a leading provider of next-generation, award-winning Internet intelligence solutions, today announced that they have been chosen by RampRate, Inc., the leader in Information Technology outsourcing services, for integration into RampRate’s proprietary SPY Index™. The partnership will provide an in-depth service provider insight into both IT services benchmarking and real-time network intelligence, ensuring an optimum solution for network based infrastructure solutions.
RampRate is the leading data-driven IT services sourcing advisor to the Global 2000, providing a market changing collaborative, data-driven approach to making outsourcing decision on digital content and IT services. Dedicated to speed, transparency, and cost/risk reduction, RampRate has built on an extensive data set in its Service Provider Intelligence Index (the SPY Index) and a proven process methodology (Deal Acceleration Engine) to create best-fit matches for many types of relationships — with typical transaction costs and risks. RampRate has worked with dozens of major media & entertainment, financial services, and technology providers and affected more than $2 billion in IT spend. RampRate’s clients turn to the company for market intelligence and sourcing advice with regards to services such as colocation, content delivery, desktop outsource, networking, and managed applications.
“Renesys Market Intelligence, Routing Intelligence, XML Connection capabilities and Professional Services have added a critical real-time decision criteria component to our SPY Index.” said Tony Greenberg, RampRate’s CEO. “While our historical transaction and reference data sets a highly accurate baseline, the Renesys services allow us to monitor ongoing network health to deliver on our commitment to help clients make great decisions fast and optimize provider relationships before problems arise,” continued Greenberg. “This one of a kind market data supplies us with instant, detailed information that informs our IT services recommendations and helps us reduce risks and costs for our clients.”
“We’re excited to offer our services to RampRate, and their extended network of leading media and gaming companies such as National Public Radio (NPR) and NHL.com,” said Andy T. Ogielski, President, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Renesys. “We’re confident that our complete solution suite, including Market Intelligence, Routing Intelligence, XML Connectivity and Professional Services will provide them and their customers with the most up-to-date strategic information available to help them increase opportunity and retain their competitive advantage. The marriage of the SPY Index and the Internet intelligence data services is truly revolutionary.”
RampRate’s SPY Index provides buyers of third-party IT services with clarity, speed, and value in a confused and disparate marketplace. By leveraging the SPY Index RampRate enables its clients to:
- Accelerate IT infrastructure decision cycles from months to weeks.
- Provide clarity into service providers’ true capabilities and establish actionable service levels to ensure performance by leveraging over 12,000 data points from actual transaction data gained through managing over $3 billion in IT services secured on the behalf of its clients.
- Reduce and restructure service contracts to reduce IT services cost exposure on an average of 30%.
Renesys Internet Intelligence services allow organizations across all industries (including media, gaming, telecomm, government and global 2000 organizations) to gain insight into operational and competitive intelligence as it relates to the global Internet. The complete Internet intelligence suite includes:
- Routing Intelligence - provides network engineers with detailed, real-time monitoring and analysis of Internet traffic.
- Market Intelligence - provides sales and marketing professionals with the first set of service provider reference tools for monitoring and evaluating the Internet’s competitive landscape.
- XML Connection - provides a comprehensive set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that make it simple for developers to publish various types of information and reports from Renesys’ monitoring and analysis tools to Web-based applications or other monitoring and analysis applications.
- Renesys Professional Services - enhances the value of Renesys Internet intelligence services by putting the expertise of Renesys engineers and research analysts to work on key business initiatives and operational challenges.
About Renesys Corporation
Renesys offers the industry’s first Internet performance monitoring and analysis solution that provides Internet intelligence for competitive advantage. The company gives service providers, government agencies and Global 2000 organizations, a real-time view into the Global Internet as it affects their business. Only with Renesys can customers have a new level of speed and agility in managing the Internet climate outside the four walls of the organization, resulting in minimal downtime between customers, partners and other stakeholders. Renesys was founded in 2000 and is based in Manchester, NH. For more information, visit www.renesys.com.
About RampRate
RampRate is the leading data-driven IT services sourcing advisor to the Global 2000, providing a market changing collaborative, data-driven approach to making outsourcing decision on digital content and IT services. Dedicated to speed, transparency, and cost/risk reduction, RampRate has built on an extensive data set in its Service Provider Intelligence Index (the SPY Index™) and a proven process methodology (Deal Acceleration Engine) to create best-fit matches for many types of relationships – with typical transaction costs and risks. As a result, RampRate reduces the decision making time from months to weeks saving businesses on average 30+ percent. RampRate's customers include CBS, Microsoft, Sony, Knight Ridder, Primedia and iFilm and dozens market leaders. Privately held, RampRate was founded in 2001 and is based in Santa Monica, Calif. with offices in Boston, Chicago, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco/Mountain View, and Seattle. For more information, visit www.ramprate.com.
Contacts:
Bob Fletcher
Senior Director Sales and Marketing
617-306-2399
sales@renesys.com
Michael Friedlander
RampRate, Inc.
773.525.7400
Mfriedlander@ramprate.com