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DMR Consulting Creates 'BI Center of Excellence'

In a move designed to extend its leading business intelligence (BI) practice and meet the rapidly growing global demand for BI services, DMR Consulting has created a Business Intelligence Center of Excellence. The Center will service and support the company's BI teams in offices across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

The new BI Center of Excellence grows out of a six year-old dedicated Business Intelligence practice at DMR Consulting, and is built on more than 30 years of industry-leading IT integration project and management consulting experience. The Center brings together DMR Consulting BI experts from across the globe, unifying a team with unprecedented depth of specialized business intelligence expertise and track record of implementation success.

BI is swiftly becoming a key business driver for corporations of all sizes as they seek to leverage the data within their organization and generate competitive advantage through its performance analysis. The market expected to be worth more than $20 billion this year in North America alone. It is growing at a rate of 20% annually, and represents 10-15% of all IT spending.

"DMR Consulting views Business Intelligence as a strategic approach to meeting crucial corporate marketplace challenges. For us, BI is comprised of numerous technology tools such as data warehousing, data mining and other forms of analytics, teamed with proven methodology processes that leverage the best of an organization's structure," said Brad Culp, senior vice president, US Commercial Service, DMR Consulting. "BI brings a higher level of analytical intelligence to many of today's critical technologies, such as Customer Relationship Management, Supply-Chain Management and eCommerce."

"Businesses need to mine their intelligence to remain competitive in these tough economic times," said Wayne Eckerson, Director of Education and Research at The Data Warehousing Institute. "The tools, techniques and strategies involved in BI are quickly evolving and new practices must be brought to market more quickly to maintain a competitive advantage. This new initiative by DMR Consulting demonstrates their commitment to the continued growth and development of the BI industry and their customers."

DMR Consulting's Business Intelligence practice is recognized for its ability to lead end-to-end business intelligence integration projects for large- and smaller-scale projects. DMR Consulting has more than 400 business intelligence practitioners and has driven implementations across a broad range of public and private industry sectors in North America, and dozens more throughout the world. DMR Consulting has developed, implemented and maintained BI systems for financial, energy, government and telecom clients, among others.

"A well-executed BI project provides a tremendous and immediate competitive advantage to an organization," said Bernard Sevigny, vice president Business Intelligence, DMR Consulting. "The new BI-COE more strongly links our unmatched in-house BI experience and expertise, with our strong network of partners to provide our clients with the resources and solutions they need to succeed."

While DMR Consulting is vendor neutral, it maintains preferential relationships with all of the industry's leading BI vendors, including Cognos, SAS, Informatica, Ascential, Business Objects, Microsoft and Oracle, among others.

About DMR Consulting

DMR Consulting is a leading global provider of consulting services and technology-based business solutions to the Fortune 1,000, government and mid-sized organizations. DMR consultants design, build and operate high-impact business-to-business solutions, including CRM, enterprise technology and value chain. DMR Consulting also has deep industry-specific expertise in the areas of telecommunications, financial services, and manufacturing. A Fujitsu company, DMR Consulting, employs 8,000 professionals in 62 offices worldwide. For more information, visit DMR on the Web at www.dmr.com.

For more information contact Geoffrey Morgan, ITPR, 416-642-6355, geoffrey@itpr.com.