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Article: PEREGRINE LOOKS TO INFANT 'IRP' MARKET.
- Article from:
- Computergram International
- Article date:
- November 13, 1998
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Steve Gardner, CEO and President of Peregrine Systems Inc, wants to be in at the birth of a new market - what he calls "infrastructure resource planning" (IRP). Great, you may think, just what the IT sector needs, a new acronym, but Gardner claims that a convergence of technologies has led to the emergence of a new sector. He boasts that the San-Diego-based company is the dominant player in an "infant market" but says that the sector has enormous potential in a "infrastructure addicted" world. The core of Peregrine's IRP offerings is its long-standing ServiceCenter helpdesk software, along with the AssetCenter asset management software and the SpanFM technology the firm ...