Amentra Continues Momentum with BPM, Legacy Modernization and Open Source

RICHMOND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amentra, an industry leading business and technology consulting firm, today announced that they have been listed as a sample vendor for Legacy Application Modernization Services and Business Process Management (BPM) in Gartner Inc.'s recently released "Hype Cycle for Consulting and Systems Integration, 2008¹ report.” Amentra was also listed in the Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software, 2008.ⁱⁱ

According to the Gartner report on consulting and systems integration, “Legacy modernization services are the [consulting and system integrator (C&SI)] services that organizations use to help them gain higher levels of efficiency and effectiveness. Legacy modernization is influenced by external drivers, business dynamics, and new technology and standards. When the market hypes legacy modernization, there is usually a catalyst for bringing the message to the fore, and legacy modernization becomes linked with the catalyst.”

“We are very pleased to be listed by Gartner as a sample vendor for Legacy Modernization, BPM and Open Source,” said Mike Lambert, CMO and executive vice president, Sales at Amentra. “As Gartner recommends in the report, ‘Look for consultants who will "teach you to fish" so you can master BPM as a discipline,’ I believe Amentra’s unique mentoring and project-based approach is an excellent fit for this recommendation. This allows us to continue driving significant partnerships with our client base. Amentra continually strives to find more strategic ways to develop revolutionary approaches to allow our client-partners to transform their process, technology and people in order to achieve the most significant bottom-line impact for their businesses. I believe this listing by Gartner provides further affirmation that we are exceeding these goals.”

For more information about Amentra, visit www.amentra.com.

About Amentra, Inc.

Amentra, Inc., a Red Hat company, offers a distinctively different approach to business and IT consulting. By helping clients deploy mission critical business systems utilizing a formal, experience proven mentoring and software development program, Amentra has earned industry accolades for combining two areas that have historically been separate service offerings into a single solution: deliverable-based project solutions integrated with IT mentoring. Amentra has been recognized as a leader in SOA, BPM, distributed component architecture, and Open Source Solutions by industry leaders throughout its history. Amentra provides expertise in the retail, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, finance, and government sectors, among others. Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, Amentra also has regional offices in Washington, DC, Charlotte, NC, Tampa, FL and Philadelphia, PA.

Amentra's web address is www.amentra.com.

About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 50 satellite offices spanning the globe. CIOs have ranked Red Hat first for value in Enterprise Software for four consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide.

Learn more: www.redhat.com.

LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT® and JBOSS® are registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. and its subsidiaries in the US and other countries.

¹ Gartner, Inc. “Hype Cycle for Consulting and Systems Integration, 2008” July 9, 2008B by Michelle Cantara, Lorrie Scardino and Frances Karamouzis et al Ii Gartner, Inc. "Hype Cycle for Open Source Software, 2008" by Bob Igou et al, July 7, 2008