Amsterdam, 19th of February - The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, has released a list of The 2010 World’s Best Outsourcing Advisors. Quint is ranked 6th in the top 10 of leading sourcing advisors. Companies are judged on four critical characteristics: size and growth; customer references; organizational competencies; and management capabilities; evaluated by a panel of industry-recognized outsourcing leaders.According to the IAOP report Quint is among the World’s Best Outsourcing Advisors because of its demonstrated competencies: “Quint is recognized as one of the few outsourcing advisors with a true uniqueness of services, demonstrated by customer references. The uniqueness of Quint is found in its broad range of sourcing related consultancy services: not just deal making, but also sourcing strategy, mediation, benchmarking, transition, due diligence, contracting and governance consulting services makes Quint's sourcing portfolio complete. Quint's motto is "Dare to challenge": Quint challenges customers to get the best out of outsourcing and Quint is willing to implement its own strategic advice. Publications all over the world show Quint's excellent capabilities on outsourcing and sourcing governance. “Hans van Herwaarden, CEO of Quint Wellington Redwood: “This ranking makes us extremely proud as it proves once more that Quint is a unique and truly international sourcing advisor that offers more than the usual sourcing services. Quint enables worldwide IT Management Advancement, as it is experienced and appreciated every day by our customers. The appreciation of our customers derives from the fact that their actual results really matter to us. Quint is known as a true innovator of the management consulting industry, showing actual results with its customers. The IAOP ranking, especially the qualifying remarks, confirms our unique position.”About IAOPThe International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) brings together the world’s leading outsourcing customers, providers and advisors in a powerful, active and growing global association to exchange thought leadership, share best practices and network to maximize their effectiveness using outsourcing as a management tool.

Quint Wellington Redwood supports Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg, in achieving a simplified management, monitoring and rationalization of its IT systems. Based on the work done by Quint Wellington Redwood, Eurostat has improved its documentation related to its own IT infrastructure. Insight in procedures, processes and systemsEurostat has a rather complicated IT architecture due to the systematic addition of different IT systems. Because of the company’s experience in IT documentation services Quint Wellington Redwood was asked to improve the documentation of the Eurostat IT infrastructure in creating more transparency on the different IT tools. More precisely this concerned the two most important IT components within the data production lifecycle: the procedures and processes related to the reference database and the internet portal. In first instance Quint Wellington Redwood conducted in depth interviews with the ten internal involved IT system owners. Because of this, the company improved the insight in the tasks and functions of the different IT applications, used for the production and dissemination of data and metadata. As a result of the service contract, all information collected was processed into a Wiki, in which the respective processes and procedures were properly documented and where they can be updated and maintained. Quint Wellington Redwood documented the technical complex IT infrastructure with a detailed description of every level of the IT infrastructure. August Götzfried, Head of the unit responsible for reference databases and metadata : “Quint Wellington Redwood got a good insight in the underlying IT processes and procedures. Through its thorough approach, Quint Wellington Redwood added value in better documenting our complicated IT architecture. .”

The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) has incorporated Quint Wellington Redwood’s Sourcing Governance Foundation-training in its worldwide program for Certified Outsourcing Professional®. As a result, participants of IAOP’s COP program will receive 25 study points for completing the Quint training. Training is a necessityThe strong trend of outsourcing IT services puts increasing demands on all managers and professionals involved. They need to be educated on the most important principals and concepts of outsourcing and sourcing governance. Without adequate sourcing governance it proves to be hardly possible to provide the necessary IT services within the boundaries of both optimal costs and conditions as well as transparent reporting. Sourcing Governance FoundationSourcing Governance Foundation trainees learn the basic concepts of outsourcing and sourcing governance. The interactive approach, combining theory with discussion and Quint Wellington Redwood’s numerous best practices, prepares trainees for the Sourcing Governance Foundation exam. At the same time this approach guarantees practical applicability. Arno IJmker, managing partner at Quint and responsible for its sourcing practice: “This acknowledgement by IAOP reinforces our thought leadership in the sourcing consultancy and training market, but is a compliment to our sourcing professionals as well.” International Association of Outsourcing ProfessionalsThe International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) brings together the world’s leading outsourcing customers, providers and advisors in a powerful, active and growing global association to exchange thought leadership, share best practices and network to maximize their effectiveness, using outsourcing as a management tool. Linkswww.outsourcingprofessional.org/content/23/193/1706www.quintacademy.com/Sourcing/1675/

December 30th, 2009 – The global IT-management consulting and education company Quint Wellington Redwood has been accredited as an ATO (Accredited Training Organization) directly by APM Group for its ITIL and Prince2 course-suites. Hans van Herwaarden, CEO, says: “As APM Group is the highest accrediting body for both ITIL as well as Prince2, this direct accreditation will be enable us to serve our customers with education and examination/certification services even better and faster than we are today”. Quint Wellington Redwood has global operations in 22 countries, on four continents. Its mission is to achieve “Worldwide IT-management advancement” through the creation, collection and distribution of best practices in IT strategy, Sourcing and Service management.

IAOP ranks Quint Wellington Redwood as number 1 “boutique” advisorAmsterdam - IAOP, The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, has released a list of The 2009 World’s Best Outsourcing Advisors. Quint placed first among Boutique advisors and thereby belongs to the worldwide top 10 sourcing advisors. Companies were judged on four critical characteristics: size and growth; customer references; organizational competencies; and management capabilities. Quint scored highest on customer references.According to the IAOP report Quint differentiates from its competitors in the market because of its unique company profile: “Quint Wellington Redwood has, through the years, has developed a clear vision on the profession of outsourcing. As a pure independent niche player (Quint does not provide outsourcing services itself) Quint is recognized as one of the few outsourcing advisors with a truly world-wide footprint. The uniqueness of Quint is found in its broad range of sourcing related consultancy services: not just deal making, but also sourcing strategy, mediation, benchmarking, transition, due diligence, contracting and governance consultancy makes Quint's sourcing portfolio complete. Quint's motto is "Dare to challenge": Quint challenges customers to get the best out of outsourcing and Quint is willing to implement its own strategic advice. Publications all over the world show Quint's excellent capabilities on outsourcing and sourcing governance. “Hans van Herwaarden, CEO of Quint Wellington Redwood: “This ranking proves Quint belongs to the international top of worldwide sourcing advisors. This appreciation is a valuable sign, which especially derives from the fact that actual results really matter. With a unique “leveraged based consulting” model, Quint is considered within the market as being the innovator of the management consulting industry and wants to realize actual results with the customer and strengthen its thought leadership. I would like to congratulate Arno IJmker, within Quint responsible for the Sourcing Practice, on this accomplishment.” About IAOPThe International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) brings together the world’s leading outsourcing customers, providers and advisors in a powerful, active and growing global association to exchange thought leadership, share best practices and network to maximize their effectiveness using outsourcing as a management tool.