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DM Review, a SourceMedia publication and the premier source for business intelligence, analytics, integration and data warehousing, is pleased to announce the finalists in the 2005 World Class Solution Awards competition. The World Class Solution Award, a symbol of excellence within the business intelligence and data warehousing industry, originated in 1996. Entries are accepted in categories that reflect mission-critical segments of the market as determined by feedback from DM Review readers. A call for entries was made in February of 2005 and entries were accepted through May 11. The more than 100 submitted global entries were judged by the following industry experts who selected the finalists based on each entry's impact and relevance: Sid Adelman, Lou Agosta, Kent Bauer, Steve Craggs, Jonathan Geiger, Larry Goldman, Claudia Imhoff, Mike Jennings, David Loshin, David Marco, William McKnight, Sue Osterfelt, Craig Schiff, Rick Sherman, Deepak Srinivasan and Jonathan Wu. Congratulations to the finalists listed by category: Analytic Applications Implementation Site: Fairmont Hotels & Resorts with: MapInfo Implementation Site: Raytheon Inc. with: VitalSpring Technologies Business Intelligence Implementation Site: Southwest Airlines with: PolyVista, Inc. Implementation Site: Verizon Wireless with: Teradata, a division of NCR Implementation Site: Walter Reed with: Oracle Corp. Corporate Performance Management and Balanced Scorecard Implementation Site: Brigham and Women's Hospital with: SAS Implementation Site: ENECO Energie with: Cognos Implementation Site: Government and Enterprise Mobility Solutions (GEMS) Motorola, Inc. with: performancesoft, Inc. Data Acquisition and Integration Implementation Site: Citigroup - Corporate and Investment Banking, Global Transaction Services Implementation Site: Inductis, Inc. with: Oracle, Sun and Firstlogic Implementation Site: ING Americas with: Informatica Implementation Site: North Carolina Hospital Association/North Carolina Department of Public Health with: Knightsbridge and Solucient Data Management Implementation Site: Caudwell Communications with: Netezza Corporation Implementation Site: Office of the Secretary of Defense/Logistics with: EWSolutions and SAIC Data Quality, Data Profiling and Data Remediation Implementation Site: Bell Mobility with: DataFlux Corporation Implementation Site: Hewlett Packard (HP) with: Identity Systems High Availability, Performance and Systems Management Implementation Site: Citigroup - Corporate and Investment Banking, Global Transaction Services Implementation Site: Mutual of Omaha with: Proxima Technology Inc. World Class Solution Award winners will be announced September 28 at the DCI Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing Conference at Disney's Contemporary Resort in Orlando, FL. For further information concerning all of DM Review's awards, please visit: http://www.dmreview.com/awards/.