2009 North American Customer Value Enhancement of the Year Award

InfoZen Receives 2009 North American Customer Value Enhancement of the Year Award from Frost & Sullivan

PRNewswire/ December 14 2009—

Frost & Sullivan is proud to present the 2009 North American Customer Value Enhancement of the Year Award to InfoZen in the area of homeland security information fusion and mission support

Homeland security is a very challenging market for service providers. From an end-user standpoint, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has dynamic requirements that need to adapt to meet the changing threat profile to the nation's security. From a technology perspective, many of the requirements of DHS agencies demand proven solutions that can be fielded quickly, while keeping costs down. In such an environment, InfoZen stands out as one of the top five fastest growing companies doing business with DHS.

As DHS continues to define the scope of its mission and grow as a government agency, spending on services is expected to increase. Successful companies in the homeland security market must be nimble enough to respond to, and help guide the essential reactive nature of DHS. At the same time, these companies must continue to employ innovative technologies and thought processes to solve the information and support needs of a growing government agency.

From fiscal year 2005 to 2009 InfoZen's market share within DHS increased at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 114.7 percent. In fiscal year 2009, the company received several contracts from DHS for information fusion and mission support services. InfoZen has experienced this success based on a customer focused, mission oriented business strategy.

"As a small business, often competing with the larger systems integrators, InfoZen has been able to prove to the customer, through enhanced value, that it is capable of delivering industry-leading, mission-based services on time and within budget," says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst, David Fisherling. "InfoZen attributes its success to fully understanding the DHS mission, being innovative and nimble, and having the right resources available at the right price to provide best value."

InfoZen is the prime contractor for many of the projects that it is currently working on. Within DHS, the company established a presence with the respective agencies long before the Department was established and before many of the tier one integrators were interested. As a result, InfoZen has been able to beat the larger companies and is often in a position of leverage when it comes to working with the traditional prime defense contractors. Despite its advantageous position, it remains grounded and continues to add to its capabilities and extend its reach into multiple services across a wide customer base.

InfoZen's major customer within DHS is the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Using its RapidAdjudicator(TM) software platform, InfoZen has been providing TSA with automated threat assessments for all at risk populations in the United States. More recently, the company was selected as a prime contractor for the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Administrative and Professional Business Services (CAPs) contract. Additionally, InfoZen has just been chosen by DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of an integrated project team to develop an Automated Threat Prioritization (ATP) as a web service for ICE-targeted individuals nationwide.

"The double to triple digit growth that the company has witnessed over the last five years will be sustained through InfoZen's ability to enhance customer value," says Fisherling. "Current products and services are addressing niche areas, which allows InfoZen to specialize, to some degree, ensuring that the customer is not partnering with a 'jack-of-all-trades'."

InfoZen's core competency remains in the operation and management of mission critical systems and solutions for National Security Threat Assessment and Fraud Detection in entitlement programs. It is working to make sure that its customers can complete their mission, from terrorist threat assessments to business administration, in the most effective and efficient manner. In short, InfoZen has provided DHS with the services and tools that the agency needs. As a small business, InfoZen is able to do this for a price that the customer can appreciate. The end result is an increase in value for the customer, and a growing share of the market for InfoZen.

In recognition of these achievements, Frost & Sullivan is proud to present InfoZen with the 2009 North American Customer Value Enhancement of the Year Award, in the market of homeland security information fusion and mission support.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated excellence in implementing strategies that proactively create value for its customers with a focus on improving the return on the investment that customers spend in their services or products. The award recognizes the company's inordinate focus on enhancing the value that its customers receive beyond simply good customer service, leading to improved customer retention and ultimately customer base expansion.

Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.

About InfoZen

For more than a decade, InfoZen has been developing and implementing mission-critical solutions for federal government agencies and select commercial customers. Whether developing threat assessment and credentialing solutions for Homeland Security, developing innovative software solutions or managing mission critical infrastructures, it has one unifying goal: to help customers succeed.

A "right-sized company," InfoZen maintains a workforce of highly skilled professionals who apply deep subject matter expertise and sound technical skills to solve the customers' most complex problems. By fusing knowledge, creativity and innovation with agility and responsiveness, the company has been able to achieve extraordinary results for its customers.

About Frost & Sullivan

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InfoZen Joins the Center for Applied Identity Management Research

InfoZen Chief Technology Officer Alain Kouyaté to Serve on CAIMR’s Research Planning Committee.

Rockville, MD— October 26, 2009—The Center for Applied Identity Management Research (CAIMR), a public-private partnership dedicated to solving society’s most critical identity management challenges through applied research, today announced that InfoZen, a leader in automated risk assessment and identity management solutions, has joined the organization at the Associate Partner level. Alain Kouyaté, Chief Technology Officer at InfoZen, will serve on CAIMR’s Research Planning Committee, providing valuable insight into the organization’s critical identity management research and publications.

Launched in October 2008, CAIMR is a trusted public-private partnership of cross-disciplinary experts focused on conducting applied research that addresses current and future identity management challenges in order to provide real-world solutions. Those societal challenges include cyber crime, identity theft and fraud, attacks on critical infrastructure systems, data breaches, financial crimes and more, that impact individuals, public safety, commerce, government and national security. CAIMR will identify these key identity management challenges and the existing gaps in knowledge surrounding them in order to provide the much-needed applied research to properly address them.

“InfoZen’s comprehensive screening, credentialing and fraud detection capabilities, as well as its critical infrastructure solutions, enhances CAIMR’s membership goal of assembling the industry’s leading minds on identity management issues,” said Dr. Gary R. Gordon, Executive Director of CAIMR. “Alain’s history in building new security applications will further augment the breadth of our experienced and highly-skilled Research Planning Committee.”

At the Associate Partner level, InfoZen will participate in CAIMR’s research planning committees and provide peer review of the organization’s research reports and publications. Kouyate is a member of CAIMR's Research Planning Committee which is charged with defining the organization’s research agenda, prioritizing research projects, identifying sources of data and assisting in procuring project funding.

“Private and public entities come to us frequently with challenges about lack of effective solutions to determine the identity of people who need credentials to comply with national security requirements or determine fraudulent providers of goods and services in the social and entitlement programs,” said Raj Ananthanpillai, Chairman, CEO and President of InfoZen. “Partnering with CAIMR is just one more way for us to further research the identity validation landscape and collaborate with other industry leaders on how to better protect our customers.”

Kouyate has more than 18 years of industry experience building and deploying complex information technology solutions for Fortune 100 organizations and in the Federal Government space. His technical expertise spans areas such as web portals, complex process automation, transactional database systems, data warehouses, client/server applications, legacy system integration and enterprise application integration, ETL and data mining, Object Oriented Methodologies, Agile Methodologies and the Rational Process.

Other CAIMR membership levels include Partners and Alliance Partners. For more information on joining CAIMR, please visit: http://www.caimr.org.

About CAIMR

The Center for Applied Identity Management Research (CAIMR) is a public-private partnership of cross-disciplinary experts conducting applied research to solve the current and future identity management challenges of the digital world. CAIMR identifies key identity management challenges and the existing gaps in knowledge surrounding them in order to provide the much-needed applied research to properly address them. CAIMR's partners are: Equifax, IBM, Intersections, Indiana University, LexisNexis, Symantec, The University of Texas at Austin, US Secret Service, Visa, Dragnet Solutions, Experian, FICO, InfoZen, Initiate Systems, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, University of Tulsa, US Department of Defense, US Marshals Service, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Wells Fargo & Company, Identity Theft Assistance Corporation (ITAC), the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and TechAmerica. For more information on CAIMR, please visit: http://www.caimr.org.
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InfoZen Marks Outstanding Third Quarter with Multiple New Contracts and Industry Accolades

InfoZen, Inc., today, announced the company ended its third quarter with an exceptional list of accomplishments, including four new contracts and three premier industry awards.

Rockville, MD— October 20, 2009—In October, InfoZen was awarded the Electronic Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Accelerated and Simplified Tasks (eFAST) Master Ordering Agreement – a multiple award, 7 year, $2 billion blanket purchase agreement (BPA). eFAST covers a broad range of professional and support services including technical, engineering and scientific expertise; professional, management and administrative expertise; advisory and assistance services; and major systems support. InfoZen will assist eFAST in the areas of Engineering Services, Computer/Information Systems Development and Computer Systems Support.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Information Technology under GSA Schedule 70 awarded InfoZen a Securities and Exchange Commission BPA for Information Technology professional services. Awarded in August, this is a 5 year award with no ceiling. This BPA covers a broad range of IT services including independent system build; software process management; common components and services deployment management; and application and solution architecture management. InfoZen has already been awarded a task order under this BPA.

InfoZen closed the quarter with an additional contract as a subcontractor to IBM on an award from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The company was also honored this quarter with several highly regarded industry awards: (1) 50 fastest growing companies by Washington Business Journal, (2) Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and (3) 2009 North American Customer Value Enhancement Award for the Homeland Security Information Fusion and Mission Support Markets for demonstrated excellence in implementing strategies that proactively create value for its customers with a focus on improving the return on the investment that customers make in its services or products by Frost and Sullivan.

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    The company was honored in the third quarter 2009 with several highly regarded industry awards:

  • 50 fastest growing companies by Washington Business Journal.
  • Deloitte Technology Fast 500.
  • 2009 North American Customer Value Enhancement Award for the Homeland Security Information Fusion and Mission Support Markets for demonstrated excellence in implementing strategies that proactively create value for its customers with a focus on improving the return on the investment that customers make in its services or products by Frost and Sullivan.
  • INC 5000. InfoZen has upped its rank to 1198 from 1211 in 2008, and currently stands in the top 25% of those named as recipients of the prestigious INC 5000 North American Industry Award.