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KELLY FLYNN, ANALYST, CREDIT SUISSE: Hi, everyone. We're going to get started with our presentation from Gartner. We really appreciate your coming, guys. Both CEO, Gene Hall, as well CFO, Chris Lafond will speak. And if we have a few moments at the end, we'll take some questions and then we will have a breakout session in Salon G (inaudible).
With that, I'll turn it over to Gene. Thank you.
EUGENE HALL, CEO, GARTNER, INC.: Great. Thanks. If I can get the slides going here. So the slides are not moving. There we go, okay. So, Chris, and I'll give you an overview of Gartner. The first thing I'd like to talk about is just what we do, which is in essence, we provide help for clients to determine where and how to use IT and supply chain management to accomplish their business objectives. And both IT is central to just about every institution in the world today and for about half of the institution supply chain has the same level of importance.
So why invest in Gartner? Well, first, we have a very strong value proposition with our clients. Secondly, we have a very large market opportunity. In fact, one of the things that I think is most difficult to understand about Gartner is we have this vast market opportunity and a truly undeveloped market. Thirdly, we have a winning strategy, we've been on this strategy for the last five or six years, and the strategy has been working very effectively, we'll talk more about that.
And finally, we have an [acceptable] business model. The business model provides great cash flow, great incremental profitability as you'll see in a minute. And by executing on these four areas, we've had long-term sustained double-digit growth across all key metrics including revenue, EPS and cash flow growth, and we're going to talk about each of these in a little bit more detail.
So, value proposition. So at the heart of Gartner is our research organization, which delivers insight on these two areas, on IT and on supply chain management. That insight is then delivered through three businesses, we have a Research business, which is about 70% of our revenues, our Consulting business, which is about...