What a Groupon Deal: $12,500 IT Consulting Discount

03.03.2011
Most people know Groupon for its steep discounts on everything from spa packages and restaurants to sporting events and dry cleaning. One thing most Groupon customers aren't used to seeing: a $12,500 discount on IT consulting.

On Tuesday, IT consulting firm Ajilitee, which specializes in analytics and cloud computing, through Groupon Stores that offers buyers 50 percent off strategic business intelligence and cloud computing consulting services.

, which launched in December 2010, is a platform that lets businesses create and launch their own deals whenever they want and as frequently as they want, without waiting several months to be featured as the deal of the day.

"As far as we know, Ajilitee is the first to offer an IT consulting deal on Groupon," according to Ajilitee CEO Terrence Ryan. Groupon has also confirmed that it is the priciest deal it has offered to date.

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, which is available until March 7 on Groupon's site, had yet to attract any buyers at the time of publishing.