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Stratapult receives second consecutive award

(Winston-Salem, NC) – Stratapult, a leading provider of Web-enabled business solutions announced today its second consecutive Grand Prize award in the Winter Corporation's TopTen Program. The TopTen Program identifies the world's largest and most heavily used databases.   The primary objective of the program is to recognize the database practitioners whose achievements have advanced the boundaries of database size and power.  The program also discloses the products, platforms and architectures that support the leading implementations. The categories include database size, normalized data volume (the volume of data originally fed into the database system), number of rows, records or objects, and peak workload activity.

Stratapult achieved Grand Prize Winner status in the peak workload activity category in a Windows environment for a decision support system. Peak workload measures the maximum number of concurrent, inflight queries achieved by the database system.  In other words, how many users, at any given time, can tap into the database to attain data to answer business questions. Stratapult's Grand Prize marks the second consecutive award for the company in this category. The number recorded for Stratapult to achieve this prestigious status is 167 concurrent queries processed by the database system database at one time.
 
"The 2003 TopTen Program brings well-deserved recognition to Stratapult database professionals. Much of the success of Stratapult's IT organization is due to the ground-breaking work and dedication of its database team," said Richard Winter, president of Winter Corporation. "In securing its second consecutive Grand Prize award, Stratapult demonstrates it is keeping pace with the scalability demands of its business requirements and is well deserving of its reputation as a promotional management solutions leader."

Alinea® is the system through which the leading results were achieved. Alinea® is an online promotional management portal that provides consumer packaged goods manufacturer clients a complete promotional program history. Over 2,500 users across 600 companies have registered to access the Alinea® portal. Stratapult developed, hosts and supports this system for its sister company CMS, the leading provider of innovative promotional management solutions designed to deliver the maximum impact from every promotional dollar.  Alinea® was first launched in 2000 and has been enhanced several times since.   Alinea® utilizes Microsoft SQL Server database management system, IBM servers and Hitachi storage solutions.

"Alinea® is a true mission-critical enterprise portal application to CMS clients as they manage their CPG promotional investments.  Its ease of use, cost-effective architecture, and strong and consistent database performance have provided extraordinary customer satisfaction day in and day out, " said Doug Bordner, chief technology officer at Stratapult. "We are happy to continue to improve this system built for CMS and ecstatic that we have achieved consecutive Grand Prize Winner status in the TopTen Program."

Stratapult also provides system development services, hosting and support to its other sister companies, Carolina Services (a leading provider of business process outsourcing and information management services) and Carolina Logistic Services (a third-party logistics outsourcing company specializing in returned goods management).

For complete standings in the Peak Workload category please click here and select the parameters category = peak workload, platform = windows and usage = DSS. Stratapult also attained Top Ten Winner status in the Peak Workload category for all platforms. For more information about the Winter Corporation TopTen Program, click here.

About Stratapult

Stratapult, Inc., a subsidiary of Inmar Inc., is a leading provider of web-enabled business solutions. For more than 20 years, Stratapult has been providing technology solutions to its manufacturer and retail clients. While specializing in deep analytics, retail promotions management, custom portal development and remote systems management, Stratapult has developed a broad array of capabilities that range from strategy, business consulting and creative design services to application development, business analytics and IT operations.  Stratapult provides creative business solutions and Application Service Provider (ASP) services for over 1000 organizations in a variety of industries including, retail, consumer packaged goods, insurance, apparel, furniture and healthcare. For more information on Stratapult visit http://www.stratapult.com.

About Winter Corporation

Winter Corporation is a leading center of expertise in database scalability for 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. Winter Corporation focuses on database technology near, at and beyond the frontier of scalability. 

For more information, contact Winter Corp. by e-mail at winter-info@wintercorp.com, on the Internet at http://www.wintercorp.com, or call 617-695-1800.

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