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To: Ken W who wrote (12476)	1/10/1999 1:34:00 AM
From: lostmymoney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29382

Okay Mr. Basement Off-Price Specialty Store (thrift shop) BSMT. Read this, forget the TA/FA crap. 1 trillion on-line sales by 2003 okay, e-commerce needs help. BSMT about the same moves as MCTI. The two additional IT Practices offerings not only meet Giga clients' demands for counsel in security and electronic commerce, but also underscore Giga's expertise in these hot technology areas. Giga's IT Practices service has developed a methodology for researching and analyzing corporate IT methods in a variety of industries worldwide to determine overall best practices approaches. Giga experts then advise clients on how to apply these approaches to meet their own needs. The new offerings are in addition to Giga's IT leadership and Year 2000 IT Practices. "Our new security offering is designed to help IT departments offer intuitive, consistent and secure access to information across the enterprise," said Phil Rosch, managing director of Security IT Practices at Giga Information Group. "We provide insight and coaching on how to continually reduce the gap between policy and actual practice. As a result, we not only help clients develop a more secure IT environment, but we also show them how to implement security practices in a more cost effective way." "Electronic commerce is changing the way many businesses operate, and companies are interested in knowing what works and what doesn't," said Steve Telleen, managing director of Electronic Commerce IT Practices at Giga Information Group. "We help companies take better advantage of the e-commerce revolution by showing them what works in the real world and helping them apply those lessons to their specific needs." Giga's new security and electronic commerce IT Practices are designed to: •Help clients reduce the time required to identify and implement security and electronic commerce functions. •Offer third-party validation of and credibility for IT decisions. •Provide experienced IT experts as adjunct staff members. About Giga Information Group Giga Information Group (NASDAQ: GIGX), founded by industry icon Gideon I. Gartner, delivers knowledge and strategic technology and management advice to IT decision makers via innovative research processes and a leading-edge Web interface. Giga's dominant research focus is on helping companies integrate their businesses with the Internet; it also covers trends in the computing, telecommunications and related industries. The world's fastest-growing authority on IT, Giga began providing its services in April 1996, and today its global client base exceeds 900 organizations comprising over 13,000 individual users, including IT vendors, IT users and institutional investors. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Giga also has offices in Norwell, Mass.; Santa Clara, Calif.; New York; Norwalk, Conn.; and Chicago. In Europe, Giga's offices cover Scandinavia, UK, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Italy. Giga is also represented in Israel, and its services are distributed in Spain and Portugal by Informatica El Corte Inglés.