We are told time and again, you know, we do total, complete soup to nuts IT solutions, but through our skullduggery, interviewing the customers, the companies that they deal with, their partners, their vendors, partners and also the analysts that cover these guys, we're able to ferret out as much of what they really do in the IT services realm. No, they don't. We all do strategy consulting, IT technology implementation and content marketing branding. Now, you also break things down by top 10, by revenue growth. We break things down in a variety of ways.
Revenue growth is the key one.
That's how we rank the 500 service providers in North America that rise to become the largest, but we also take a look at it in other slices. We look at the top ten fastest growing companies, we look at the companies that have vaulted onto the list for the first time, we measure a variety of ways. What I like to see is both the newcomers, like the Razorfishes, like the Scients, IXLs of this world, but I also like to see the companies that have reinvented their business models. Two that come to mind, Lante out of Chicago, and Sapient. These are traditional old line client server companies that could have gone the way of many dinosaurs.