Leading SAP® Data Migration Partner Launches European Operations

LONDON, August 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

Utopia, Inc., the global leader in enterprise data lifecycle management™ solutions, appoints Mark Whitehouse to head business operations across Europe

Utopia, Inc., an SAP partner and global leader in enterprise data lifecycle management (EDLM) solutions, is proud to announce the opening of its European operations to serve data management clients throughout the continent.

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Utopia is headquartered in the United States and operates globally with offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, and India.  The European operation, based in London, will be headed by Mark Whitehouse who recently joined Utopia as the managing director of UKI, and Northern Europe sales.  Whitehouse has a rich background in document and content management, enterprise information management (EIM), and cloud computing.

"I am excited to join a world class global team who is passionate about helping customers optimize their existing technology investments through improved decision making," said Whitehouse. "Utopia solves an age-old problem around data quality and offers perhaps one of the most robust and comprehensive solutions I have ever seen.  The uniqueness comes from combining people, process, and technology with a "lifecycle" management approach to data."

"The opening of our European operations not only establishes a local presence, but also acknowledges our growing global footprint and goal of delivering EDLM services across the world," stated Narinder J. Singh, co-founder and chief operating officer of Utopia, Inc.  "Data problems are not isolated to just one geographical region.  They exist everywhere.  It is our mission to ensure that every business has the opportunity to reconcile their data problems."

ABOUT UTOPIA, INC.

Utopia, Inc. is a global services and strategy consulting firm focused exclusively on EDLM.  Utopia's offerings range from strategic roadmap development and systems integration to data migration, data archiving, legacy decommissioning, data quality, and data governance services.  Utopia is an SAP services partner in the SAP PartnerEdge™ program and an SAP gold partner in the SAP Consulting Partner Program for North America.  Utopia was recently named the North America Services Partner of the Year 2010 granted by SAP America, Inc. and a Gartner "Cool Vendor in Application Services, 2011." (i)

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Copyright © 2011 Utopia Inc., Mundelein, Illinois, USA. All Rights Reserved. SAP, PartnerEdge and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries.  Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies.  (i) Gartner "Cool Vendors in Application Services, 2011" by Susan Tan, Matthew Goldman, Arup Roy, Helen Huntley, Partha Iyengar, Alex Soejarto, Asheesh Raina, April 7, 2011.

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