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2006 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.

2006 Award Winners
	Spoke Software San Mateo, CA	www.spoke.com MofE Profile Frank Vaculin, CEO
Spoke offers users a potent suite of business prospecting tools, built around a database of over 30 million people at over 900,000 companies – an average of 33 contacts per company, which gives you a sense of Spoke’s deep coverage.
	Health Market Science King of Prussia, PA	www.hmsonline.com MofE Profile Mark Brosso, President & CEO
HMS licenses access to one of the largest and most accurate national master files of healthcare providers. Currently, the HMS Provider Master File™ tracks 4.5MM providers and 1.0MM healthcare organizations. HMS also offers various enterprise integration and data quality services that dramatically improve internal provider database quality.
	DealerTrack Inc. Lake Success, NY	www.dealertrack.com MofE Profile Mark F. O'Neil, Chairman & CEO
The DealerTrack Aftermarket Network is a true network, providing a single, seamless front-end to hundreds of automotive aftermarket and financial products providers. An auto dealer enters customer information just once, and with a few clicks can get real-time pricing and terms from selected suppliers, and can then order online.
	OpenTable San Francisco, CA	www.opentable.com MofE Profile Thomas Layton, CEO
OpenTable helps restaurants automate a critical business process – accepting and managing reservations. It provides them with sophisticated computer hardware and software which seamlessly integrates with the OpenTable.com website. Since its founding in 1998, OpenTable has grown to cover more than 5,300 restaurants throughout most of the U.S., as well as Canada, the UK, Japan, Mexico, Singapore and Hong Kong, and has seated more than 25 million diners through online reservations.
	Alacra Inc. New York, NY	www.alacra.com MofE Profile Steve Goldstein, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO
With Alacra Compliance, Alacra has created an innovative productivity tool that cleverly marries federated search technology with a set of workflow applications. This application helps professionals overcome the challenges associated with isolating and extracting relevant data, applying the right search technology and creating the necessary documentation that properly captures their findings, by combining all three into a single well-integrated package.
	ShopWiki New York, NY	www.shopwiki.com MofE Profile Kevin Ryan, CEO & Co-Founder
ShopWiki brings together both vertical search and wiki technology in one product : a specialized comparative shopping search engine that has collected product level information from over 120,000 online retailers, using a sophisticated web crawling technology that gathers 100% of its content from crawling, as opposed to data feeds from online merchants.
	Thomson West Eagan, MN	www.thomson.com MofE Profile Peter Warwick, President & CEO
PeerMonitor is a product for law firms that allows them to compare different financial performance metrics at a very detailed level, while also providing revenue and expense benchmarks from comparable firms. Data for PeerMonitor are collected on a monthly basis, and distributed back to subscriber law firms almost immediately after it is received and normalized.
	CVM Solutions, Inc. Oakbrook Terrace, IL	www.cvmsolutions.com MofE Profile Mike Anguiano, President, Data Solutions
Using proprietary software, DiversityQuest Advantage can examine a client’s existing supplier database to identify all minority and women-owned suppliers, while accurately classifying them for reporting purposes. It also provides an integrated portal site through which new minority and women-owned suppliers can register to do business with client companies, and will qualify and classify each applicant on behalf of its clients.
	Dealix Corporation Redwood City, CA	www.dealix.com MofE Profile Greg Baszucki, Co-Founder & General Manager
Dealix generates consumer sales leads for automobile dealers. These leads are primarily sourced from its own automotive portal InvoiceDealers.com, but in an interesting twist, Dealix also aggregates sales leads from a number of other automotive portals as well.
	Healthline Networks Inc. San Francisco, CA	www.healthline.com MofE Profile West Shell III, Chairman & CEO
Healthline is one of the strongest implementations we have seen to date of vertical search. Rather than simply throwing an index over selected third party content, Healthline has gone to remarkable lengths to organize this information, with the goal of making it more accessible and understandable to users.
	BuyerZone.com Networks Inc. Watertown, MA	www.buyerzone.com MofE Profile Sam Zales, President & CEO
The Buyerzone.com business model is pure pay per lead. Its basic business is simplicity itself: a buyer comes to the site, fills out a short survey relative to the item they want to buy, and BuyerZone delivers the information as a sales lead to a limited number of qualified sellers, who then make direct contact with the buyer.
	Inrix Kirkland, WA	www.inrix.com MofE Profile Brian Mistele, President & CEO
Inrix, a Microsoft spin-off company, aggregates every piece of objective information it can find on the movement of traffic throughout the United States. Its primary data sources are Department of Transportation sensors located along highways, but it also obtains data on the movement of over 500,000 commercial vehicles with two-way communications capabilities.
	Conducive Technologies Inc. Portland, OR	www.conducivetech.com MofE Profile Jeff Kennedy, CEO, Director
Pathfinder is an online data service that aggregates air cargo and truck schedules, real-time flight status information, airport status and weather conditions into a single product, designed and delivered expressly for tight customer workflow integration.But rather than merely displaying data, Pathfinder helps its users do their job better and faster.
	Zillow Inc. Seattle, WA	www.zillow.com MofE Profile Rich Barton, CoFounder & CEO; Lloyd Frink, Co-Founder & President
Zillow is a site that allows anyone to get an estimate of their home’s value simply by entering the address into a simple Google-style search interface. Zillow is based on a national aggregation of property tax assessment and home sale data. But rather than simply spit out a list of recent nearby home sales, leaving the user with just a series of data points, Zillow takes the user all the way to an answer, providing the user with a single estimated value for the specified address, called a “Zestimate.”