InfoCommerce Group Recognizes Innovative Online Databases, Directories; Internet Publishing Experts Name 15 Products As 'Models of Excellence'

Business Wire, Sept 2, 2004

PHILADELPHIA -- Fifteen more online database and directory products have made InfoCommerce Group's list of 2004 "Models of Excellence." InfoCommerce Group, Inc. (www.infocommercegroup.com), a leading provider of research, consulting and experience-based insight to publishers of commercial databases and directories, creates the annual list to highlight innovative, exemplary World Wide Web-based products.

Russell Perkins, CEO, InfoCommerce Group, said his company's Models of Excellence program highlights examples of how business publishers are using the Web in new ways to expand services and increase revenues.

InfoCommerce Group covers all "Models of Excellence" winners on its Web site and in its publications and periodically surveys the companies behind the products as industry bellwethers on key areas of interest to database and directory publishers. The company publishes results and analysis in InfoCommerce Report, its influential monthly newsletter.

InfoCommerce Group will invite nine of the honored companies to demonstrate their winning products at the InfoCommerce 2004 Conference, to take place September 26-28 in Philadelphia. The conference also offers an opportunity for executives to collaborate with other publishers and technology providers on new ways of doing business.

The latest products to be recognized as 2004 Models of Excellence are:

--1-800-Doctors, published by 1-800-Doctors Inc. (www.1800doctors.com), a physician referral service that leverages the power of the web with features such as an online appointment capability.

--Andale Market Research Pack, published by Andale, Inc. (www.andale.com), an innovative, highly specialized sales intelligence database for those who sell products on eBay.

--Bankrate.com, published by Bankrate, Inc. (Nasdaq: RATE) (www.bankrate.com), an aggregator of information on more than 100 financial products including mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, and money market accounts.

--ClickDataDirect Auto Program, published by ClickData.com, Inc. (www.clickdata.com), an infocommerce application for auto dealers that combines a bankruptcy database with print-on-demand direct-mail marketing.

--FactSet, published by FactSet Research Systems Inc. (NYSE: FDS) (www.factset.com), a combination of more than 200 databases into a single online system for investment analysis.

--Impact, published by Planalytics, Inc. (www.planalytics.com), a Web-based application that presents sophisticated weather-related consumer demand intelligence for retailers.

--LinkedIn, published by LinkedIn, Ltd. (www.linkedin.com), a social networking service built on a volunteer database that imposes and enforces data quality standards.

--Lawyers.com, published by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell (www.layers.com), a consumer-oriented Web site designed for individuals and small businesses that acts as a client-development service for lawyers.

--Plaxo, published by Plaxo, Inc. (www.plaxo.com), a service that helps users automatically maintain their personal contact databases through innovative technology and a unique peer-to-peer database maintenance concept.

--Recruitment Activity Monitor, published by Wanted Technologies, Inc. (www.wantedtech.com), a competitive intelligence and business development tool for recruiters.

--Sales Intelligence, published by TrueAdvantage, Inc. (www.trueadvantage.com), a database that helps sales and marketing professionals identify prospects that are likely to buy products and services.

--SRDS Media Planning System, published by SRDS Inc. (www.srds.com), an application that lets media buyers streamline virtually every aspect of the media planning and buying process -- from campaign scheduling to insertion order generation.

--StarCite, published by StarCite, Inc. (www.starcite.com), a site dedicated to streamlining and simplifying meeting planning by allowing planners to search for venues, identify suppliers and handle event registration.

--StarMine Investor, published by StarMine Corp. (www.starmine.com), a system that compares the earnings predictions of stock analysts to actual company results and then assigns simple star ratings based on their accuracy.

--Thomson Legal Record, published by The Thomson Corporation's (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) FindLaw (www.findlaw.com), a service that seamlessly integrates data from various databases to provide a detailed picture of an attorney's actual expertise in a specific area of law.

ABOUT INFOCOMMERCE GROUP INC.

InfoCommerce Group provides consulting and research to its clients -- publishers of commercial databases from nearly 30 companies in seven countries. InfoCommerce Group also publishes InfoCommerce Report, produces the annual InfoCommerce Conference and the Models of Excellence list and identifies opportunities and coordinates investments in early-stage database content companies. For more information please visit http://www.infocommercegroup.com, or call 610-649-1200, ext. 252.