RampRate Sourcing Advisors, Strategic Research

About RampRate: Overview

RampRate is a decision hub for the IT services industry. It is globally transforming how buyers, sellers, influencers, and intermediaries approach each deal with an objective, data-driven path to evaluating transactions for:

• Managed services
• Data Centers, Enterprise Hosting / Co-location
• Content delivery / CDN Services
• IP Transit
• Desktop outsource
• Network Services and Telecom

RampRate's proprietary Service Provider Intelligence Index (SPY Index™) rates supplier/client relationships on a holistic basis, weighting client needs and preferences against supplier capabilities, best practices contracts, and market conditions.

Built on the foundation of data compiled from hundreds of real-world transactions, customer interviews, reference checks, and third party research from leading analyst and research providers, the SPY Index™ ensures that:

• More than 98% of relationships facilitated by RampRate make it to
  contract expiration
• Costs of an average service are reduced by 20% or more
• Each contract is augmented with 20-500 detailed terms and SLA conditions based on industry best practices
• Procurement timelines are shortened from months to weeks.

RampRate has successfully deployed its methodology and data in leading organizations of many industries including:

• Media & Entertainment
• Multiplayer Gaming
• Financial Services
• Online Retail and Ecommerce
• High-Tech growth firms
• Telecommunications

RampRate has relationships with more than 50 top-brand clients including Blizzard Entertainment, CBS, Intel, JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, MySpace, Scholastic, Sony, and Vodafone. RampRate's business planning practice leverages the same strong data foundation combined with custom primary and secondary research to help IT service providers, global technology suppliers, and investors orient themselves in rapidly evolving markets and accurately forecast revenues, costs, and market impact of
new offerings.

RampRate's team comes from places like Gartner, Exodus, Qwest, AT&T, IDC, Aberdeen Group, EDS, 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 IT Supplier partner program.

Part advisor, part analyst, part purchasing index, RampRate has carved a unique new space in this chaotic marketplace with a value proposition that reduces costs, reduces sales commissions, increases efficiencies and saves time for service providers and clients.

RampRate's Data-Driven Methodology

RampRate uses concrete, up-to-date market data in Services Benchmarks and Infrastructure Audits. To provide its core services, RampRate applies the following data sources:

• RampRate's historical transactions with similar environments and independent interviews with firms currently leveraging outsourced services.
• RampRate's proprietary SPY Index™ database of pricing and SLA information accumulated from similar transactions.
• Information obtained through the primary research and project-specific due diligence collected from the applicable suppliers within the RampRate Supplier Portfolio.
• Third party opinions and research from leading IT services market and financial analysts.

These data sources provide RampRate with today's market levels for pricing, service level, and contract terms. This unique insight allows RampRate to accurately benchmark specific services needs, objectives of realignments, and provide guidance on improving position with suppliers.