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Seattle, WA June 8, 2005 -- The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), the premier provider of in-depth, high-quality education and training in business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW), has announced the 2006 winners of its annual Best Practices Awards.

TDWI's Best Practices Awards program is designed to identify and honor companies that have demonstrated excellence in developing, deploying, and maintaining BI and DW applications. Winners are chosen by a panel of independent judges who have expertise in BI and DW. Companies and sponsoring solution providers from many diverse industries submitted entries to be judged in a variety of categories.

[Selected] 2006 Best Practices Winners:

Customer Relationship Management: GE Consumer Finance -- Americas, a division of General Electric Capital Corporation
Solution Sponsor: Satyam -- GECF Data Management

Unstructured Data Integrated with BI/DW: IBM

Predictive Analytics: Pannon GSM

For more information, visit www.tdwi.org