Logical Information Machines Selects Inflow-Austin to Provide Key Technology Strategies [22nd October 2003]

Inflow Assists LIM in Providing Research and Data Warehousing Services to Fortune 500 Companies

October 22, 2003 (Austin, TX) – Logical Information Machines, Inc. (LIM), a leader in providing software to perform sophisticated historical energy, equity, bond and commodity research services, has selected Inflow Inc., a leading provider of managed web application hosting and outsourced IT services, as a new business partner. Inflow-Austin has provided LIM with key technology strategies for the maintenance, delivery and warehousing of data to leading corporations.

“We selected Inflow-Austin because of its high-level of expertise in the area of data maintenance and disaster recovery,” stated Joe Frantz, Chief Operating Officer, LIM. “Our ability to create and deliver mission critical, decision-making information from multiple sources is the cornerstone of our offering. We sought a partner that has extensive experience and understands the importance of the volume and depth of data we aggregate for our clients.”

LIM processes over one million securities per day and collects data from more than 100 vendors worldwide. LIM’s clients include leading energy companies and financial institutions such as ChevronTexaco and Bank of America, and data partners including Standard & Poor’s and Global Insight. Critical to LIM’s mission is efficiently delivering, preserving and backing-up the information LIM compiles and tracks on behalf of the analysts it serves.

Inflow-Austin is providing LIM with a suite of solutions to address these requirements, including recovery, back-up and optimization strategies. Inflow provided its Business Impact Analysis (BIA) service to assist the company in developing a cost-effective and comprehensive plan that fit its requirements as an enterprise service for leading corporations worldwide.

“LIM provides a sophisticated service to leading corporations, and processes high volumes of data and transactions on an ongoing basis,” stated Cameron Brown, General Manager, Inflow-Austin. “We sought to develop a strategy that created both comprehensive redundancies to ensure the safety of data and employed technologies that create greater efficiency in its transmission. We are excited to be working with LIM and feel our relationship demonstrates the comprehensive IT strategies we undertake at Inflow.”

About Logical Information Machines, Inc.
Logical Information Machines Inc. (LIM), founded in 1988, has a comprehensive market coverage package that is used by the leaders in the finance and energy markets, supported with easy to use applications and providing access to worldwide historical intra-day and daily data. In addition, LIM's Market Information Machine (MIM) database supports sophisticated tick-collection solutions.

LIM's unique value proposition lies in the ability to provide a total solution for an enterprise. The core technology includes a complete data warehouse solution powered by a server architecture that is quantum leaps beyond other databases, a patented real-English query language, and a suite of software products that allow researchers to comprehensively analyze and forecast the markets.

For more information, or an online demo, please go to www.lim.com. Media Contacts: Jennifer Prewit, 713-652-4066 ext. 23, jennifer@lim.com.