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Phoenix Information Technology - Subcontractor with multi-year contracts

June 2005

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  • Epic Code:
  • PNX
  • Price:
  • 290p
 Phoenix (290p; PNX) is a UK-based IT infrastructure services business and is highly successful with great long term prospects. Unusually, in a hype-driven world, it keeps a relatively low profile which may explain the comparatively modest rating. One of the reasons for this low rating is the fact that Phoenix's business model is not to sell its service directly to end users but to work almost exclusively as a subcontractor for BT, Accenture, as well as eight of the top ten IT service companies including IBM and LogicaCMG. One of the advantages of this model is that the partners can focus on what they do best and outsource non core elements of infrastructure management to a specialist like Phoenix in the knowledge that Phoeni ...

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