Bluewolf Named ''Cool Vendor'' in Gartner's 2008 Sourcing and IT Services Report

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Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:19pm EDT

NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
Bluewolf (www.bluewolf.com), a leading software as a service
(SaaS) consulting firm, today announced that it was named a Gartner
"Cool Vendor" for Sourcing and IT Services, 2008. 1

   The Gartner report on Sourcing and IT Services looked at five
vendors. The report stated, "All of these vendors are innovating in
the IT services marketplace and are bringing new energy, creativity
and leading-edge visions of how to deliver value to their customers."
The report continued, "Software as a service (SaaS) is one of the
major trends in the IT industry at present; a number of the vendors in
this year's IT Services and Sourcing Cool Vendors report are either
directly or indirectly leveraging this trend as either a way to
deliver their services or a trend to consult and advise about....the
vendors in this year's report are doing something exceptional:
challenging and changing long-established norms and providing examples
of potential ways of doing things better."

   "We're honored to be named a "Cool Vendor" by Gartner, and I
believe this is recognition of our significant impact, innovation and
success in the SaaS marketplace," said Eric Berridge, Bluewolf's
co-founder and Bluewolf.

   Bluewolf has implemented SaaS solutions for more than 1,000
organizations, with clients including Bank of America, NBC, GE and
Vail Resorts.

   About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process

   Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of
vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to
highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and
services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with
respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability
or fitness of a particular purpose.

   Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers
technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do
things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have,
business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology);
Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in
approximately the past six months.

   About Bluewolf

   Founded in 2000, Bluewolf is the leading on-demand strategic
Software as a Service consulting company that specializes in the
deployment of enterprise software applications. Through its Customer
Success Guarantee, Bluewolf is reinventing the concept of traditional
consulting, one that is tailor made for the on-demand world.
Bluewolf's model focuses on Business Process Blueprint, Total User
Adoption, Integration and Customer Success. Bluewolf's practices
incorporate three main areas: On Demand Consulting, IT Resourcing and
On Demand Remote Services.

   With offices across North America, Canada and Europe, Bluewolf has
successfully implemented more than 1000 SaaS solutions with customers
including Royal Bank of Scotland, RBS Lynk, Bank of America, ADP,
General Electric and First Citizens Bank. Visit www.bluewolf.com.

   1) Gartner, Inc. "Cool Vendors in Sourcing and IT Services, 2008"
by Ben Pring et al, April 3, 2008

LCH Communications for Bluewolf
Lisa Hendrickson, 516-767-8390
516-643-1642 (cell)
lisa@lchcommunications.com

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