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By ASPnews.com Staff June 11, 2002 It's been an eventful month for companies on the ASPnews top providers and enablers lists. Several have consolidated their positions through acquisitions and mergers, while others have strengthened their standing with customer wins or renewed analyst acclaim. The net result of all this jostling for position has been lots of activity, but no departures from either list this month. However, we do have a new name on the list as the result from a merger.
Welcome then to Exigen Group, which on Monday announced its acquisition of professional services application (PSA) provider Portera (see Portera Acquired by Exigen Group. Exigen now takes Portera's place in the Top 20 providers list. Exigen's existing business — as a business process outsourcer (BPO) serving certain vertical markets — makes a good fit with Portera, a company that brings Web services technology and skills that Exigen will be applying across its other divisions. The result should be an expansion in the combined company's operations as a Web services-based provider.
USi Emerges, Then Merges Interpath has always been an up-and-coming contender for inclusion in the Top 20, so this merger brings together two of the industry's strongest names. Will the merged company decide to adopt a fresh name once it has completed the mechanics of the merger? We believe that's a strong possibility.
A third merger last month has strengthened the claims of Avasta to its Top 30 Enablers ranking. Avasta, who joined our listing in April when we expanded the providers list from 20 names to 30, acquired SiteROCK, another close contender for inclusion (see Avasta and SiteROCK Announce Merger). We believe the merger puts Avasta clearly out in front as the world's largest pureplay MSP (unless, of course, someone can convince us any different). Good news on customers came for several participants, including Telecomputing's private-label spinoff Apptix and provisioning software vendor Abridean. NetLedger announced enhancements to its alliance with Yahoo!, while billing software vendor MetraTech just yesterday teamed up with prominent Web services pioneer Cape Clear. There was good news from analysts too, with WebSideStory named once more as the leader in the hosted Web analytics market (see Web Analytics ASPs Set to Soar), while IDC confirmed the successes of Web-native providers such as Salesforce.com, UpShot and WebEx (see Web-Native Architecture Pays Off for ASPs).
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