XCEND Group Joins SageCreek Partners Portfolio

Monday, June 29, 2009 6:00AM

- Knowledge, experience, and complete understanding of IT lifecycle
management space among reasons for selecting SageCreek Partners -

SALT LAKE CITY – June
29, 2009 – XCEND Group, an IT
lifecycle management company and National Symantec Partner in Brighton, MI.,
has engaged with SageCreek Partners, a
consulting company that provides “mentor
capital” for technology businesses. SageCreek will facilitate XCEND Group’s
growth as a solution provider and help the company achieve its next goal of
becoming strongly established in the data visualization and performance
management space.

XCEND Group’s first product offering, MetriX, collects
data from Altiris
and other popular IT management platforms and consolidates Key Performance
Indicators (KPIs) into a single Real-Time Dashboard. The Real-Time Dashboard delivers the information that IT
departments require in order to align IT Operational KPIs with core business initiatives.

“We have excellent technology, and we’re extremely pleased
to have the SageCreek team assist us in bringing it to the global market,” said
Ron Schoenherr, Vice President of Business and Strategy for XCEND. “What could
take us 3-4 years to execute on our own can now be accelerated to 1-1½ years
with the help of SageCreek.”

XCEND Group joins a growing roster of SageCreek clients in
the U.S., EMEA and Latin America.

“Our goal is to
leverage the experience of our team to help companies succeed and gain market
share faster and more effectively,” said Greg Butterfield, Managing Partner for
SageCreek. “XCEND Group’s strong technology foundation, innovation, and
exceptional reputation with their current customers makes them an especially
good fit for alignment with the SageCreek team, and we look forward to working
closely with this outstanding management team.”

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About The XCEND Group

The XCEND Group (www.xcendgroup.com),
an award-winning Altiris partner, offers IT lifecycle management products and
proven consulting services to organizations that rely on technology to run
their businesses. XCEND Group transforms organizations by aligning IT processes
with business goals. The XCEND Group has worked with more than 250 clients in
designing and implementing IT Lifecycle Management systems. Thirty-five of XCEND’s
clients are in the Fortune 1000.

About SageCreek
Partners

SageCreek Partners (www.sagecreekpartners.com) is creating
and driving a new category of service: Mentor Capital. Working as a companion
to technology companies and their investment partners and boards, SageCreek
Partners is comprised of seasoned executives in the U.S., EMEA and Latin America: Greg Butterfield, Dwain Kinghorn, Steve Erickson, Tracy Tolbert, Mark Bonham, Volker Wiora, Srinivasa “Venky” Venkataraman and Russ Warner, who have led multiple technology
companies from launch to industry leadership to successful exit. Instead of
money, SageCreek provides strategic guidance, mentoring, and direct connections
(to funding, key hires and merger and acquisition partners) to help emerging
and growth companies succeed. For the price of a single executive hire,
SageCreek Partners becomes the collective strategy resource for a company’s
entire executive team.

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