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Predictive Systems, Inc.
contact: Steve Henry, jobs@predictive.com
Founded: February, 1995
Headquarters: 417 Fifth AvenueNew York, NY 10016(212) 659-3400(212) 659-3499 (fax)www.predictive.com
Key Management: Ron Pettengill, co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive OfficerRobert Belau
Predictive Systems (NASDAQ: PRDS) is a leading network infrastructure consulting firm focused on building fast, reliable, secure networks for service providers and global enterprises. Predictive Systems’ unique BusinessFirstTM approach helps IT clients in the Fortune 1000 map network solutions to business objectives.Predictive Systems specializes in solving multifaceted, complex network problems, and maintains strategic relationships with all major networking and systems vendors. The recent acquisitions of Global Integrity Corporation, a leading information security consulting firm, as well as infrastructure management specialists Synet Service Corporation, have further strengthened Predictive Systems’ offerings.Predictive Systems uses two complementary avenues of approach to network solutions. Our Consulting Services division gives clients a comprehensive range of offerings that deliver both breadth and depth of expertise in six key practices. In addition, the company delivers world-class managed security services to clients through its Global Integrity™ Managed Services division.
Consulting Services Division: Internetwork Design and EngineeringOur Internetwork consultants work with global enterprises and service providers to build next-generation networks that support strategic business initiatives. Services include the design and implementation of high-speed network backbones, sophisticated campus environments, remote access solutions, e-business support networks, wireless elements, and converged networks.Network and Systems ManagementThis business unit specializes in designing and implementing large-scale management systems and operations centers. It encompasses the services, applications, systems, servers, and network elements within a company’s network infrastructure. Our consultants employ a variety of tools, technologies, and sophisticated techniques, including event correlation, root-cause analysis, behavior modeling, process engineering, and agent automation, to architect and implement scalable and adaptable operational management centers.Integrated Customer ServiceOur Integrated Customer Service consultants help organizations build proactive, customer-focused service centers that handle all types of customer inquiries and drive service management. This business unit is focused on customer advocacy and is responsible for relationship management and service reporting. Our solutions integrate management disciplines, including problem and fulfillment management, knowledge management, asset management, and service-level management. Services range from strategy and architecture development to process design and systems integration.Performance ManagementThe Performance Management business unit focuses on developing solutions to gauge the trajectory of networks, systems, and services. Our consultants provide real-world solutions that enable proactive performance management services, including real-time performance monitoring, forward-looking capacity planning, health analysis, simulation modeling, network baselining, service-level management, and network usage-based billing.Global Integrity Information SecurityProtecting critical information assets against attack is the goal of our Global Integrity Information Security practice. Predictive Systems’ approach translates the technical, social, and political complexities of Information Security into business terms of risks, costs, and benefits. Our service offerings cover the complete spectrum of information security, providing comprehensive solutions based on a realistic approach to risk management. We are vendor-neutral and will provide industry-best solutions to meet your specific needs.Business Integration ServicesThe Business Integration Services unit provides a range of business-based services to ensure a successful functional outcome from complex technology-based project initiatives. The business unit is charged with achieving successful integration of technology projects into the client's business. Services include program and project management, business process analysis and design, business continuity planning, quantitative business analysis, and technical documentation. All of these are essential to the business success of technology projects, and are delivered as overlays to stand-alone client projects or in conjunction with projects conducted by other Predictive Systems business units.
Global Integrity Managed Services Division: This division offers a full range of e-business security monitoring, incident response, consulting, engineering, and information-sharing services to Fortune and Global 100 corporations. Global Integrity Managed Services is also responsible for such groundbreaking initiatives as the Financial Services Security Lab and Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs). Our ISAC databases allow businesses across an industry, such as financial services, to share information about the latest threats and vulnerabilities. This secure sharing of knowledge helps protect individual ISAC members, as well as the industry as a whole, from attack. As more and more businesses engage in electronic commerce around the world, this business unit provides 24X7 “watchdog” vigilance over any aspect of a client’s network.
BusinessFirst Approach: Predictive Systems’ BusinessFirst approach is the core value that underpins everything we do, motivating our consultants to understand each client’s business and to design and build networks that support and enhance that business. We employ our BusinessFirst approach on all engagements in order to ensure that all network technology solutions that we develop not only meet our clients’ business objectives, but also bring tangible business benefits. BusinessFirst reflects our inherent belief that a client’s network is a mission-critical asset.
Locations: New York, NY Bedford, MA Florham Park, NJ
Los Angeles, CA Santa Cruz, CA Pleasanton, CA
San Jose, CA Denver, CO Herndon, VA
Atlanta, GA Dallas, TX Charlotte, NC
Tampa, FL Minneapolis, MN London, U.K.
Veenendaal, NL Chicago, IL Tokyo, Japan
Frankfurt, Germany