SunGard, one of the world's leading software and IT services companies, announced that it will sponsor PGA Tour golfer Jim Furyk.
Jim Furyk is ranked fourth in career earnings on the PGA Tour and currently ranks fifth in the Official World Golf Rating. Mr. Furyk will display the SunGard logo on his right and left sleeves.
"I look forward to sharing many successes with SunGard, a company that has an impressive reputation among the business community," said Mr. Furyk.
Brian Robins, chief marketing officer of SunGard, commented: "We see great potential to improve SunGard's brand awareness and visibility as a global IT company through this sponsorship. We are pleased to align the SunGard brand with this golf leader."
About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world's leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries.
SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.
With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 435 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented six times. For more information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.
*January 2009 Technology Vendors Financial Database Tracker http://www.datamonitor.com
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Suzanne DeFruscio
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