Lontra launches online store with IT Financial Management workshop and toolkit offerings.

New York, NY, USA. December 3, 2008 -- Lontra, a leading provider of IT Financial Management education and consulting services, today launched The Lontra Store - Running IT Like A Business -- an online portal specializing in IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Financial Management (ITFM) education products.

The first products in Lontra's store are a Service Costing Online Workshop and Service Costing Best Practices Toolkit. Lontra plans to expand its offerings in the near future to include more ITSM and ITFM educational products.

The Lontra Store is the latest in a series of initiatives Lontra has undertaken to expand its education offerings and help IT organizations around the world deal with today's difficult economic conditions. “It is our goal to provide quality ITSM and ITFM products at accessible prices,” said Lontra President Boris Pevzner. “We offer practical documents and hands-on workshops that will yield immediate results for our customers. We decided to start with service costing offerings because that is something on the minds of many IT executives today, but this is only the beginning.”

The Online Workshop is a four-hour customized hands-on interactive session targeted at IT organizations looking to achieve cost transparency around their service offerings and to slash their IT spend. Lontra has scheduled four initial dates for this limited capacity workshop, and will offer additional dates based on customer demand.

“What makes Lontra's service costing workshops unique is the fact that each workshop is customized to its attendees,” said Lontra consultant Lev Pevzner. “Before each workshop, we invite all registrants to email us with suggestions for relevant topics to cover and specific services to use as examples, and we tailor each workshop individually based on those suggestions. You won't find this level of personalization anywhere else.”

The Lontra Service Costing Best Practices Toolkit is a collection of some templates, worksheets, examples, and best-practice documents used by Lontra consultants during their service costing customer engagements. Lontra offers two versions of this toolkit -- the Standard and the Premium -- at two different price points.

Lontra is a leading provider of IT Service and Financial Management education and consulting services. Lontra consultants have worked with some of the world's largest IT and shared services organizations to define services, determine true unit cost, better plan future demand, optimize the IT budget, and improve service delivery. For more information about Lontra, send an email to info@lontra.com or visit www.lontra.com.