ATLANTA - March 24, 2004 -- 2003 has been a big year for the Atlanta-based high-tech financial advisor, NPI. After taking home the Best Solution award at the Gartner Enterprise Summit in Austin back in September 2003, many sizable corporations around the country have retained NPI for their cost cutting services.
The secret to their success lies in their business model as well as their drawer full of proprietary tools and methodologies. Relying on their in-house fair market value database, NPI conducts assessments of their client's current IT spending then provides guidance on ways to curb those expenditures "NPI brings invaluable market intelligence and works hand-in-hand with my procurement department", offers longtime NPI customer, Bob Keefe, CIO at Russell Athletic.
But it's not just the innovative tools that get their customers excited; it's the results. Backing up their claims with a money-back guarantee, NPI ensures that each client sees a double return on their investment within the engagement. "In today's economic climate, few IT shops can afford to take on projects that don't return at least 100% ROI. Our value proposition is strong enough to deliver those returns consistently," says Todd Wolff, Executive VP at NPI.
Amazingly, little time is required on the client side to engage NPI. Recent surveys show that the average time spent by a client for its role during the NPI engagement is less than one hour per week.
With such strong results coupled with their excellent tools (and not to mention the guaranteed returns), it's no small wonder why NPI has been grabbing up buzz in the marketplace.
NPI returns to the much larger Spring 2004 Enterprise Summit in Nashville this April hoping to garner more and more of the spotlight. "We have a number of relatively new customers from the September 2003 show that have already realized dramatic savings. We're hoping their experiences will circulate around the Spring Summit crowd and we will have standing room only in our boardroom," beams Todd Wolff. "We want to be known as the trusted advisor for CIO's who are committed to cutting costs and are willing to try an innovative approach in doing so."
NPI is a privately-held company that provides assistance for its customers in implementing rigorous processes for making sound spend management decisions. Using a combination of market experts and proprietary methodologies, NPI provides assessments of a variety of traditionally difficult spend management categories – information technology, telecommunications and transportation – to ensure that expenditures and operating expenses are in-line with current market conditions. NPI leads this emerging best practice, offering procurement expertise, a fair market value database and experience from both sides of the table with quality and integrity. For more information, please visit www.npifinancial.com.
