| Munich, Germany – October 26, 2006 - Definiens AG, the number one Enterprise Image Intelligence™ solution provider, today announced its ranking in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards for the fastest-growing technology companies in Germany. Definiens® is ranked number 22 and reached the second position for companies in the Munich region. The rankings are based on the cumulative percentage revenue growth over the last five years, 2001 to 2005 with Definiens achieving 586.25 % growth over this period.
"Our Technology Fast 50 Award recognises companies and business figures who combine initiative, innovation and a willingness to take risk with technical authority", explained Dieter Schlereth, Managing Partner for Deloitte's Technology, Media and Telecommunications Division. "The ranking criteria for these growth companies include cumulative percentage revenue growth. Revenue must also have totalled at least € 50,000 in 2001 and € 1,000,000 in 2004."
„Our successful growth is also supported by the superb technology location in the state of Bavaria, which provides us with access to an excellent infrastructure and talent. Our local research and development helped us to establish Definiens as a global leader with an advanced product offering, while securing local employment ", said Thomas Heydler, CEO at Definiens. „We are very proud to achieve the Deloitte ranking and see this as a confirmation that Definiens is right on track. The ranking also reflects the successes of our clients in automating their image-intensive business processes with the Definiens Cognition Network Technology across the enterprise. They are able to reduce costs, accelerate time-to-market and make high quality decisions based on the precise information extracted from the images data with Definiens solutions."
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About Definiens AG
Definiens is the number one provider of Enterprise Image Intelligence solutions. Leading corporations deploy Definiens' solutions across their organizations to automate image-intensive business processes. Definiens' clients enjoy high return on investments by significantly reducing the cost and risk of image-related information, enabling higher quality decisions faster, speeding time-to-market. Definiens' products and solutions are built on its platform technology Definiens eCognition™ that represents a quantum leap in digital image analysis. The advanced and robust image analysis solutions address the Earth Observation/Remote Sensing and Life Sciences markets. They enable satellite and aerial image classification more intelligently, more accurately, and more efficiently than traditional methods. The technology is also used to accelerate the drug discovery, development, and diagnostics processes in life sciences. Definiens is headquartered in Munich, Germany and has offices located in the USA and Europe.
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