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2003 Models of Excellence Award Winners

These exemplars are announced to the media and showcased at the annual InfoCommerce conference, the event where the most talented and dynamic infocommerce publishers from around the world meet to collaborate on new ways of doing business. It is a distinct honor to be selected as a Model of Excellence, and here are the best of the best in database information publishing.

2003 Award Winners
	Business Wire San Francisco, CA	www.businesswire.com MofE Profile Lorry Lokey, Chairman & CEO
In a Web-based world, there are many more options for free and easy distribution of news, which is why BusinessWire is offering a variety of new features and capabilities and, while also partnering with other content providers to preserve its core value proposition. Its level of innovation and creativity is impressive.
	CharterX Boston, MA	www.charterx.com MofE Profile Kim Betylon, CEO and Chairman
What’s noteworthy about CharterX is that it not only has successfully combined software and data, but it has made the small company that developed it, Air Charter Guide, into the Sabre or Worldspan of the air charter business. With CharterX, users can not only locate an air charter company, they can book a plane as well.
	LexisNexis Miamisburg, OH	www.lexisnexis.com MofE Profile Andrew Prozes, CEO, LexisNexis Group
The LexisNexis Company Dossier product is notable not only because it is well on its way to becoming the largest company database in existence, but also because it is essentially virtual, consisting of both structured and textual data assembled from other LexisNexis data sources as well as licensed third-party data.
	Zoom Information (formerly Eliyon Inc.) Waltham, MA	www.zoominfo.com MofE Profile Jonathan Stern, CEO
Zoom Information (formerly Eliyon) represents a revolutionary approach to commercial database publishing, because its directory product was created and is maintained on a 100% automated basis. The underlying compilation technology is truly groundbreaking.
	GlobalSpec, Inc. Troy, NY	www.globalspec.com MofE Profile Jeffrey Killeen, Chairman & CEO
GlobalSpec is an impressive industry innovator, marrying one of the most robust example of vertical search with a parametric, product-level parts database and a business model based around hard sales leads.
	KnowledgeStorm, Inc. Alpharetta, GA	www.knowledgestorm.com MofE Profile Kelly Gay, Chairman, President & CEO
KnowledgeStorm focuses on the very large and very Web-oriented information technology (IT) market, and has done a very intelligent and sophisticated job of translating the traditional print buying guide to an online environment, coupled with the delivery of hard sales leads to its advertisers.
	D&B Corporation Short Hills, NJ	www.dnb.com MofE Profile Steven Alesio, CEO
D&B has moved from a very conservative stance regarding Web distribution of its database content, to a very progressive posture, as evidenced in its Microcosm product offering. The twist is that the data is bundled with a powerful and customized search engine.
	Microsoft Inc. Redmond, WA	www.microsoft.com MofE Profile Steven Ballmer, CEO
The Microsoft Office Research Task Pane is a remarkable and audacious new capability within the Microsoft Office® product suite that provides users seamless access to external data sources. While the technology allows users access to databases to which they have pre-subscribed, there is also a capability to purchase data on an a la carte basis.
	Thomson PDR Montvale, NJ	www.pdr.com MofE Profile Robert Cullen, CEO, Thomson Scientific & Healthcare