Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP) was founded by John J. Donovan in 1991 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA as a division of Cambridge Technology Group, is a leading consulting firm with focus on solving complex business problems with technology based solutions.

Today, the headquarters are based in Nyon in Switzerland, with more than 210 employees in Nyon and Zurich. In addition, they also have a Global Delivery Centre in Budapest and a strategic partnership in India.

History

In 1991, Cambridge Technology Partners was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) by John J. Donovan, pioneering fixed time/fixed price consulting services and RAD Methodology.

In May 1993 CTP went public at $5 a share.

In 1996, the company established its Swiss Office, originally in Geneva (CH) and established itself as one of the major Consulting firms on the Swiss market.

In 1998, Cambridge Technology Partners set up an office to focus on the Swiss German market and provide access to the German and Austrian markets. The company became an established leader in CRM and New Economy.

In 2001, Cambridge Technology Partners was acquired by Novell Inc.

Novell

Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise...

 to become the eServices division of Novell Inc.

Novell

Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise...

In 2008, Cambridge Technology Partners, under the leadership of Vijay Srinivasan, decided to spin off from the Novell Inc.

Novell

Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise...

 business in order to set up an independent company, offering a complete portfolio of solutions on Management Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing to the European market.

Services

The services offered by Cambridge Technology Partners are divided into three main areas:

Business Consulting Services:

• Corporate Performance Management
  Performance management
  Performance management includes activities that ensure that goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner. Performance management can focus on the performance of an organization, a department, employee, or even the processes to build a product or service, as well as many...
  
   (CPM),
• Business Service Management
  Business Service Management
  Business service management is an approach used to manage business-aligned IT services. A BSM philosophy promotes a customer-centric and business-focused approach to Service Management, aligning business objectives and priorities with IT or ICT from strategy through to operations and continual...
  
   (BSM),
• Business Process Improvement
  Business Process Improvement
  Business Process Improvement is a systematic approach to help an organization optimize its underlying processes to achieve more efficient results. The methodology was first documented in H. James Harrington’s 1991 book Business Process Improvement. It is the methodology that both Process...
  
   (BPI),
• IT Strategic Alignment
  Business/IT alignment
  Business-IT alignment is a dynamic state in which a business organization is able to use information technology effectively to achieve business objectives - typically improved financial performance or marketplace competitiveness...
  
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• Project Portfolio Management
  Project Portfolio Management
  Project portfolio management is a term used by project managers and project management organizations, , to describe methods for analyzing and collectively managing a group of current or proposed projects based on numerous key characteristics...
  
   (PPM),
• Security and Compliance Management
  Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance
  Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance or GRC is the umbrella term covering an organization's approach across these three areas. Being closely related concerns, governance, risk and compliance activities are increasingly being integrated and aligned to some extent in order to avoid conflicts,...
  
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Technology Solutions:

• Enterprise Solutions
  Enterprise architecture
  An enterprise architecture is a rigorous description of the structure of an enterprise, which comprises enterprise components , the externally visible properties of those components, and the relationships between them...
  
  
• System Integration & Technology (SI&T)
• Advisory Services

Outsourcing Solutions:

• Maintenance & Support Services
• Testing Services
  Software testing outsourcing
  Software testing outsourcing provides for software testing carried out by the forces of an additionally engaged company or a group of people not directly involved in the process of software development...