ProQuest Named to 2012 InformationWeek 500

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ann Arbor-based ProQuest^® has been named in the 2012 InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. ProQuest is best known for its creation of information and technology tools that support research. InformationWeek is a premier source of news and analysis of leading-edge products and vendors in the business IT industry. Its InformationWeek 500 list is considered unique among industry rankings for its spotlight on the power of innovation in information technology.

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"We are proud to be recognized again as an innovative company that is making a meaningful difference in our customers' research experiences and helping librarians fulfill their important missions," said Kurt Sanford, ProQuest CEO.  "We continuously challenge ourselves to find better ways to connect people to information and advance scholarly research around the world."

This is ProQuest's fourth consecutive appearance in the InfoWeek 500. The company is being recognized for its ability to navigate in a highly competitive industry, where new market entrants come from non-traditional sources and where customers are overwhelmed, at times, by the exponential growth in information. Particularly noted is the company's creation of an efficient, unified resource management system for libraries. Being developed through ProQuest business unit Serials Solutions^®, this web-scale venture – called Intota™ – provides the library market with a single, centrally-provisioned solution to manage the entire resource lifecycle, regardless of format. Intota captures and manages each element of the library's collection, enabling librarians to focus on the important business of evolving their library during a time of rapidly changing user expectations and information growth.

"The InformationWeek 500 has recognized the most innovative users of business technology for 24 years, and this year's innovations were particularly impressive," said InformationWeek Editor In Chief Rob Preston. "What the editors looked for are unconventional approaches – new technologies, new models, new ways of grabbing business opportunities and solving complex business problems with IT."

InformationWeek identifies and honors the nation's most innovative users of information technology with its annual 500 listing, and also tracks the technology, strategies, investments, and administrative practices of America's best-known companies. Past overall winners include PACCAR Inc., The Vanguard Group, CME Group, National Semiconductor, Con-Way, and Principal Financial Group. The InformationWeek 500 rankings are unique among corporate rankings as it spotlights the power of innovation in information technology, rather than simply identifying the biggest IT spenders.

To learn more about ProQuest, visit www.proquest.com. Additional details on the InformationWeek 500 can be found online at www.informationweek.com/iw500/.

About ProQuest (www.proquest.com)  
ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information. Key to serious research, the company has forged a 70-year reputation as a gateway to the world's knowledge – from dissertations to governmental and cultural archives to news, in all its forms. Its role is essential to libraries and other organizations whose missions depend on the delivery of complete, trustworthy information.

ProQuest's massive information pool is accessible through the all-new ProQuest® platform, which moves beyond navigation to empower researchers to use, create, and share content –accelerating research productivity.

This energetic, fast-growing organization includes the Summon™ web-scale discovery service, the new ProQuest Dialog™ service, and business units ebrary®, Serials Solutions®, RefWorks-COS™ and Bowker®.

About InformationWeek Business Technology Network (http://www.informationweek.com/)  
The InformationWeek Business Technology Network provides IT executives with unique analysis and tools that parallel their work flow—from defining and framing objectives through to the evaluation and recommendation of solutions. Anchored by InformationWeek, the multimedia powerhouse that looks across the enterprise, the network scales across the most critical technology categories with online properties like DarkReading.com (security), NetworkComputing.com (networking and communications) and BYTE (consumer technology). The network also provides focused content for key IT targets, such as CIOs, developers, and SMBs via InformationWeek Global CIO, Dr. Dobb's and InformationWeek SMB, as well as vital vertical industries with InformationWeek Financial Services, Government and Healthcare sites. Content is at the nucleus of our information distribution strategy – IT professionals turn to our experts and communities to stay informed, get advice and research technologies to make strategic business decisions.

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