| 2006 Award Winners | ||
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Spoke Software San Mateo, CA | |
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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. www.spoke.com MofE Profile Frank Vaculin, CEO |
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Health Market Science King of Prussia, PA | |
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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. www.hmsonline.com MofE Profile Mark Brosso, President & CEO | ||
 | DealerTrack Inc. Lake Success, NY | |
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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. www.dealertrack.com MofE Profile Mark F. O'Neil, Chairman & CEO | ||
 | OpenTable San Francisco, CA | |
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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. www.opentable.com MofE Profile Thomas Layton, CEO | ||
 | Alacra Inc. New York, NY | |
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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. www.alacra.com MofE Profile Steve Goldstein, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO | ||
 | ShopWiki New York, NY | |
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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.
www.shopwiki.com MofE Profile Kevin Ryan, CEO & Co-Founder | ||
 | Thomson West Eagan, MN | |
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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. www.thomson.com MofE Profile Peter Warwick, President & CEO | ||
 | CVM Solutions, Inc. Oakbrook Terrace, IL | |
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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. www.cvmsolutions.com MofE Profile Mike Anguiano, President, Data Solutions | ||
 | Dealix Corporation Redwood City, CA | |
| 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. www.dealix.com MofE Profile Greg Baszucki, Co-Founder & General Manager | ||
 | Healthline Networks Inc. San Francisco, CA | |
| 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. www.healthline.com MofE Profile West Shell III, Chairman & CEO | ||
 | BuyerZone.com Networks Inc. Watertown, MA |
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| 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. www.buyerzone.com MofE Profile Sam Zales, President & CEO | ||
 | Inrix Kirkland, WA | |
| 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. www.inrix.com MofE Profile Brian Mistele, President & CEO | ||
 | Conducive Technologies Inc. Portland, OR | |
| 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. www.conducivetech.com MofE Profile Jeff Kennedy, CEO, Director | ||
 | Zillow Inc. Seattle, WA | |
| 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." www.zillow.com MofE Profile Rich Barton, CoFounder & CEO; Lloyd Frink, Co-Founder & President | ||