SHANGHAI, China and FOSTER CITY, Ca., Dec. 22 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Augmentum, a value-added software development outsourcing services provider,
today announced that they had won the Buyer’s Choice Risk Management award
at the 2006 China Outsourcing Summit. This award is particularly significant
because it is decided by a vote of the over 120 invited CIOs and IT
department managers who attended the December 13-15 event in Shenzhen, China.
“The Risk Management award recognizes operational excellence, and the
ability to mitigate the key types of risk in IT outsourcing; operational
disruption risk, data risk, quality risk, and reputation risk,” said Frank
Yu, Augmentum President and COO. “Augmentum, from our founding, has always
put the protection of our customers’ operations and their IP security as a
top priority in our culture. We believe this award recognizes our efforts,
and the culture that has led Augmentum customers such as Microsoft, Intel,
and Motorola to entrust us with high level, critical, full life cycle
software development work.”
The China Outsourcing Summit is produced by Vision Events(R), a Gartner,
Inc. (NYSE: IT) company.
About Augmentum
Augmentum offers value-added offshore software development services to
its customers worldwide. Augmentum engineers augment their clients’ teams
as an extension, utilizing leading edge development tools and technologies,
as well as proven processes, to create commercial-quality software. The
management team has decades of collective experience outsourcing commercial
software and solutions. Augmentum, Inc. is headquartered in Shanghai and
Beijing in China and in Foster City, California. The company has grown to
800 people in China out of 850 worldwide in three years since its founding
and won the inaugural Red Herring Asia Top 100 award in 2005. For more
information, please visit http://www.augmentum.com or call +1-650-578-9221.
About Vision Events
Vision Events, a Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) company, is a leading producer
of highly focused business events that bring Resellers and End Users together
with leading and emerging Vendors in Private Boardroom Appointments to form
strategic partnerships and secure new business in the technology sector.
Additional information about Vision Events can be found at
http://www.visionevents.com .
About Gartner
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the leading provider of research and analysis
on the global information technology industry. Gartner serves more than
9,000 clients, including CIOs and other senior IT executives in corporations
and government agencies, as well as technology companies and the investment
community. The Company focuses on delivering objective, in-depth analysis
and actionable advice to enable clients to make more informed business and
technology decisions. The Company’s businesses consist of Gartner Research
and Events for IT professionals; Gartner Executive Programs, membership
programs and peer networking services; and Gartner Consulting, customized
engagements with a specific emphasis on outsourcing and IT management.
Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, and has
over 3,900 associates, including more than 1,200 research analysts and
consultants in more than 75 countries worldwide. For more information, visit
http://www.gartner.com .
For more information, please contact:
Lisa Carnochan (USA)
Augmentum
Tel: +1-650-578-9221 x104
Email: lisa.carnochan@augmentum.com
Belinda Qin (China)
Tel: +86-21-5131-4277 x431
Email: belinda.qin@augmentum.com