Gartner Consulting, Inc. provides fact-based consulting services to help clients use and manage IT to enable business performance. The company offers market independence, benchmarking, and research services. Its consulting services include business consulting, comparative analytics, program management, architecture and critical technologies, and sourcing. The company’s benchmarking solutions include IT key metrics data, which provides detailed spending and staffing metrics; IT executive benchmarks, which supports periodic events, such as a performance review, strategy planning, and the annual budgeting cycle; and IT custom benchmarks, which are individually configured, project-specific benchmarks that support mergers and acquisitions, the implementation of packaged software, or the support of major outsourcing contract evaluation, and includes on-site data collection and presentation of findings. Its cost optimization services include software infrastructure, including security, development tools, integration and middleware, database, enterprise management, and operating systems; business applications, such as business intelligence and data warehousing, CRM, ERP, SCM, personal productivity, and knowledge support; vertical applications for finance, retail, healthcare, engineering, manufacturing, services sectors; communications equipment and services, including voice, LAN, WAN, wireless, and mobile; IT services and hosting, including maintenance, development, and implementation; and hardware services, such as mainframe, desktop, servers, and storage. The company serves public sectors, banking/financial services, healthcare, telecom and media sectors. It operates in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Japan. Gartner consulting was founded in 1985 and is based in United States. Gartner Consulting, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Gartner, Inc.