Return on Intelligence, Inc., an IT management consulting firmannounces its merger with Exigen Services, a technology servicecompany specializing in enterprise technology solutions, commercialsoftware development and application outsourcing.

"The merger enables us to provide our customers with complete,robust and innovative transformation solutions," says GordonBrooks, president and CEO of Return on Intelligence. "The skillsand expertise found in each organization are a natural complementto one another."

Return on Intelligence specializes in the business vision anddesign of transformational solutions around I-SMAC(Internet-of-Everything, Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud), andExigen Services specializes in the implementation and management oflarge-scale IT transformation solutions.

Brooks, who has more than 30 years of IT services and softwareexperience with companies including Oracle, Cambridge TechnologyPartners, Breakaway Solutions and Symphony Services, is the CEO ofthe merged companies.

 "We are living in an exciting time when companies mustbe responsive to the pervasive impact of so many business-alteringand disruptive technologies," says Allan Frank, president ofmanagement consulting and CTO. "The merger gives us a more globalreach, resources, partnerships and intellectual property— all ofwhich translate into actionable, bottom-line value to ourclients."

Frank, a 30-year technology veteran, was a member of the boardand partner-in-charge of Enabling Technologies consulting and wasCTO for KPMG Peat Marwick. He was also the first CTO of the City ofPhiladelphia, and a founder, president and CTO of Answerthink /TheHackett Group.

 "The insurance industry is going through monumentalchange having to deal with the changing needs and expectations ofconsumers and businesses, fierce pressure on the bottom line, newtechnologies that are disruptive to the status quo and a legacyinfrastructure that is costly to adapt," says Jonathon Kalman,president of the global insurance division. "Exigen Services has along and successful history working with insurance clients in theU.S. and internationally, and through this merger we will deepenour ability to provide compelling solutions quickly and affordablyto market."

 "Over the next few months, we will be changing thename of most of our global subsidiaries from Exigen Services toReturn on Intelligence," says Brooks. "It is critically importantfor us to keep the name of 'Return on Intelligence' because we aredeeply aware that all core systems transformation initiatives mustleverage enterprise intelligence in order to drive the deepest andmost sustainable benefits for our clients."