Return on Intelligence Merges With Exigen Solutions

Return on Intelligence, Inc., an IT management consulting firm announces its merger with Exigen Services, a technology service company specializing in enterprise technology solutions, commercial software development and application outsourcing.

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

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

Brooks, who has more than 30 years of IT services and software experience with companies including Oracle, Cambridge Technology Partners, Breakaway Solutions and Symphony Services, is the CEO of the merged companies.

 "We are living in an exciting time when companies must be responsive to the pervasive impact of so many business-altering and disruptive technologies," says Allan Frank, president of management consulting and CTO. "The merger gives us a more global reach, resources, partnerships and intellectual property— all of which translate into actionable, bottom-line value to our clients."

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

 "The insurance industry is going through monumental change having to deal with the changing needs and expectations of consumers and businesses, fierce pressure on the bottom line, new technologies that are disruptive to the status quo and a legacy infrastructure that is costly to adapt," says Jonathon Kalman, president of the global insurance division. "Exigen Services has a long and successful history working with insurance clients in the U.S. and internationally, and through this merger we will deepen our ability to provide compelling solutions quickly and affordably to market."

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