LifeMinders, Inmar Technology Announced as
Category Leaders
WALTHAM, Mass. (Feb.12, 2001) — Winter Corporation announced today that two Microsoft Corporation customers have won Grand Prizes in Database Scalability Program 2001. Among the winners are LifeMinders, Inc., an online direct marketing firm based in Herndon, Va., and Inmar Technology Solutions, Inc., an e-business solutions provider headquartered in Winston-Salem, N.C. LifeMinders, which utilizes Microsoft’s SQL Server for DBMS, a Dell Corporation server and an EMC Corporation storage solution, led all NT-based decision support systems in number of rows/records. Inmar, which partners with Microsoft for SQL Server DBMS and IBM for server and storage support, led all NT-based decision support systems in peak workload.
Database Scalability Program 2001 analyzes the characteristics of the world's largest databases and examines databases supporting the world's largest workloads. These vast data repositories anchor e-commerce, business intelligence, supply-chain management, customer relationship management, resource management, and other business-critical applications.
Winter Corporation, which administers the program, is a leading center of expertise in database scalability for e-business, enterprise applications and business intelligence. The company provides research, consulting, and education services that help users and vendors define their database solutions, architect their implementations, and manage their scalability issues. The company focuses on database technology near, at, and beyond the frontier of scalability.
Microsoft Corporation is the leading provider of software products that process information from anywhere at any time, with devices ranging from large central servers down to tiny handheld computers. Microsoft's SQL Server technology supports the most demanding power and scalability needs in major corporations around the world.
"Our scalable data warehouse currently analyzes more than 225 million e-mails a month that are targeted to our opt-in membership base of 20 million,“ said Quochung Do, LifeMinders’ manager, data warehouse. “As our online and offline partnerships increase, the analysis derived from our data warehouse is essential to the continued success of LifeMinders as a leader in online direct marketing."
"Winning this award is a confidence builder and confirmation of our Database Administration and project teams,” added Kevin Goode, technical architect at Inmar Technology Solutions. “Using SQL Server in its beta stage required something of a learning curve, but the team worked intelligently and had great support from Microsoft. This award justifies and commends the team’s efforts to produce an award-winning system solution for our clients."
Database Scalability Program 2001 is sponsored by EMC Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, Informix Software, Microsoft Corporation, NCR Corporation, NetGenesis Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Sybase, Inc.
In announcing the leading entrants, Richard Winter, president of Winter Corporation, noted that every year, business success depends on managing larger data volumes, users populations, and database workloads. "By using the architectures, products, and practices best suited to their needs," he said, "Database Scalability Program winners are leading us into a new era of scalable business solutions. Our program applauds both the users and the vendors responsible for these ground-breaking implementations."
Looking ahead to the 2002 program, Winter added:
"We'll investigate Web-based services such as application service providers, and offer a way to measure the return on investment of these projects. As businesses seek to turn knowledge of customers' Web behavior into competitive advantage," he continued, "we'll explore CRM [customer relationship management] and e-CRM more thoroughly." Data collection for the 2002 program is scheduled to begin in the fall.
Additional information on all program winners will be released at an awards presentation in March. For more information, contact Winter Corporation by e-mail at info@wintercorp.com, on the World Wide Web at at www.wintercorp.com or call 617-695-1800.
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