About RampRate
About RampRate: Overview
Since 2001, Fortune 1000 clients have relied upon RampRate’s data-driven strategic IT outsourcing advisory services to improve IT outsourcing service levels while reducing the time it takes to identify and select IT outsourcing infrastructure providers. RampRate’s IT outsourcing advisory services list of satisfied clients include some of the most respected brands in media, finance, technology, communications, publishing, Internet services, and e-commerce. Some notable clients include Microsoft, Sony, CBS, News Corp, Fox, Intel, JP Morgan, and Level3.
RampRate’s SPY Index coverage includes the following IT services markets:
- IP transit. 69,000 quotes worldwide at commits ranging from 1 Mbps to 10 Gbps+
- Network services and telecom. 42,000 point-to-point and MPLS quotes worldwide
- Managed services and remote infrastructure management. 10,000 quotes in US, EU, and Asia Pacific
- Data centers, enterprise hosting, co-location. 9,000 quotes and 2,783 profiled locations worldwide
- Content delivery (CDN) services. 2,000 quotes for core delivery and value-added services
- Desktop outsource & support. 1,200 onshore and offshore quotes
- Cloud and utility. 1,000 quotes for on-demand storage and processing power
Proven Success
Rated as a top specialist by the Black Book of Outsourcing, the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP), and Forrester, RampRate has worked with industry leaders such as Audible.com, Blizzard Entertainment (makers of World of Warcraft), CBS, Fox, JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft, Sony, Viacom, and more than 60 others, while profiling and establishing a streamlined buying channel with more than 350 vendors. RampRate’s research division has worked to develop strategies for investment in IT services and rich media offerings for clients such as AT&T, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Level 3, Microsoft, Sony, Thomas Weisel, and Yahoo!
Built on the foundation of data compiled from hundreds of real-world IT outsourcing transactions, customer interviews, reference checks, and third party research from leading analyst and research providers, RampRate’s clients make informed decisions:
- Risk Reduction. 98% of negotiated contracts using SPY Index survive to expiration
- Cost Containment. Buyers save an average of 20% compared to existing baselines
- Global Expansion. More than 137,000 quotes from 74 countries around the world
- Time & Resource. Clients shrink decision times and avoid adding full-time staff
- Expanded Ecosystem. Access to profiles of more than 300 vendors across dozens of specialties and 2,783 data centers
- Remove Bias. Removes political agendas and exposes true costs
- Budget Management. Predict expenses with 80%-95% accuracy
RampRate’s research and client advisory teams come from respect industry leaders like Exodus, Netli, Speedera, Terremark, Aberdeen Group, HP, PWC and Harvard, supported by advisors from Accenture, Microsoft, Technorati, and Broadcom. Over 300 suppliers, including leaders: IBM, Akamai, AT&T, Singtel Digital Realty Trust, Savvis, Level3, and others participate in RampRate’s partner program.
Summary
RampRate is a customer-centric, IT outsourcing advisory firm that transforms the way businesses select providers through proprietary methodologies that leverage RampRate’s benchmarking data models to offer clients optimized service level agreements and improved price performance for data centers, content delivery networks (CDN), managed services, colocation, bandwidth/hosting and cloud computing. At the center of RampRate’s client value is the Spy Index™, and extensive sourcing market repository that maps supplier-client relationships against more than 100,000 recent data points for near real-time intelligence on more than 350 vendors, in 80 countries and 200 metro regions. For more information, visit ramprate.com or call 1-310-802-3702.
