Booz Tops in Tech Consulting for Second Consecutive Year, Says New Vault Guide.

NEW YORK -- Career publisher Vault Inc. (www.vault.com) is about to release the Vault Guide to the Top 25 Technology Consulting Firms, and Booz Allen Hamilton ranks first overall in prestige for the second consecutive year.

Over 700 practicing technology consultants were asked to rank tech consulting firms on a scale of 1-10 based on prestige, with 10 being the most prestigious. (Consultants were unable to rate their own firms, and they were asked only to rate firms with which they were familiar.) Vault averaged the prestige scores for each firm and ranked the top 25 in order.

The Vault Guide to the Top 25 Technology Consulting Firms features profiles that give readers an insider view of each ranked firm. These profiles include information on practice areas, revenues, uppers and downers of working for the firm, employment contacts and "The Buzz," direct quotes from people on the inside.

The top 10 firms as ranked in the Vault Guide to the Top 25 Technology Consulting Firms are as follows:

 1.  Booz Allen Hamilton                  McLean, VA 2.  Deloitte Consulting LLP              New York, NY 3.  IBM Global Services                  Armonk, NY 4.  Cisco Systems, Inc.                  San Jose, CA 5.  Accenture                            New York, NY 6.  Lockheed Martin Corporation          Bethesda, MD 7.  Oracle Consulting                    Redwood Shores, CA 8.  Capgemini                            New York, NY 9.  HP Services                          Palo Alto, CA 10. BearingPoint                         McLean, VA 

The Vault Guide to the Top 25 Technology Consulting Firms is the essential guide for people interested or currently working in technology consulting. It is available at bookstores nationwide or by ordering through www.Vault.com.

About Vault Inc.

Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Vault Inc. is the leading media company focused on careers. Vault offers over 100 nationally distributed books, from the Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms to the Vault Guide to Schmoozing. Vault is celebrated for its online resource, www.vault.com -- which offers surveys and "insider" information on more than 4,500 employers, 4,000 colleges and universities, and hundreds of industries and occupations -- as well as the much-praised Electronic WaterCooler(TM), the Internet's first-ever network of message boards for professionals with nearly 2,000,000 searchable posts. Vault was founded in 1996 by Hussam Hamadeh, Samer Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman.