Cambridge, MA, August 10, 2005 — Cambridge Technology Enterprises (CTE), a system integrator; which focuses on building and integrating business applications for broad transformation needs of global enterprises across various industry verticals, announced the appointment of Brian Courtney, as Vice President to lead CTE’s Service Oriented Architecture Initiative. Brian would be based in CTE’s Cambridge, Massachusetts office located in MIT campus.

Speaking about the key factor that drew him to CTE, Brian said, “Many CMMi Level 5 organizations are simply focused on technology and aren’t concerned with solving the true business need. I was drawn to CTE because of their commitment to providing customers with the best possible business solution. They treat technology simply as the enabling tool. I believe their approach of aligning business, user, stakeholder and technology through a workshop led discovery phase is the right way to provide customers with true business value.”

Brian Courtney will be responsible for the commercialization of CTE’s Service Oriented Architecture initiative. Brian joins CTE after completing an MBA in the Sloan Fellows Program at MIT. Prior to that Brian was the Senior Architect at Smith & Nephew, where he led the Digital Operating Room initiative including video integration, central device control and medical informatics.

Brian also worked as an Architect at PTC for the ‘Windchill’ product line where he led the EAI integration efforts. Brian has experience working in software development, marketing, strategy and sales. He founded C&C Consulting Inc. in 1991, which provided IT services to the legal industry. Besides an MBA Brian holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and was an adjunct faculty member at Daniel Webster College.

CTE’s SOA offering is targeted towards the, organizations that have been working hard towards reducing the cost of IT - the data centers, networks, IT planning, architecture, and software tools that support businesses. In some cases there have been efforts to consolidate, standardize, and streamline assets, technologies, and processes, which delivered major savings. Yet even the most effective cost-cutting program eventually hits a wall due to the complexity of the infrastructure, architecture, and planning challenges.

CTE’s SOA Competency Center’s goal is to make the IT infrastructure, architecture and planning simple, flexible and cost efficient. Effective planning makes it possible to group thousands of applications and databases dispersed across the architecture, into logical blocks with minimum interconnections and reduce the cost of maintenance. CTE has developed the A2IT (Affordable and Adaptable IT) framework to to deliver this service to its clients.

“Brian’s entrepreneurial approach with end-to-end architecting experience in integration of disparate products and applications would help CTE accelerate the commercialization of of our SOA A2IT framework” said Bhaskar Panigrahi, CEO, Cambridge Technology Enterprises.

About Cambridge Technology Enterprises Inc.
Cambridge Technology Enterprises (CTE), a CMMI Level-5 next-generation business lifecycle solutions provider, has a focus on building and integrating business applications. CTE’s core competency lies in its collaborative delivery model, a solution delivery approach that aligns business, technical, and user stakeholders; includes partner technologies and services as necessary; and delivers end-to-end solutions on a fixed price and fixed time frame basis.

CTE’s business model is based on a global delivery model foundation, which stays close to the customer and yet optimizes the value of the solution offered.

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