There are a number of great conferences being held during the next few months. February 1st and 2nd in New York is the annual SIIA Summit at Gotham Hall. This is always an excellent event. The lineup for 2005 is super, including Rafat Ali making an East Coast appearance. March for me means a trip to Europe for EBIC, the European Business Information Conference held by TFPL. This year’s conference is in Seville. In April, I will be speaking at Buying and Selling eContent at its regular venue – Camelback in Arizona. I’ll be talking about who actually buys content via aggregators and what they do with that content once they’ve bought it.
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Happy Holidays!
The night before last, Alacra celebrated the close of a terrific 2004 at our annual holiday party, held this year at Fuelray Bar & Lounge in the West Village (go there).
We toasted big wins which include more than 15 new databases, a 25% gain in revenue (again!) and our second year on DT's Technology Fast 50 list for NY! We toasted some arrivals - new VP of Sales & Mktg., Fran Falchook, a new baby boy born to Rosa Wilkins, Software Developer, a second daughter born to Barbara Koscs, VP of Prod. Mgmt. and a new baby daughter for Web Editor Carlos Azeglio. We toasted a loss - good friend and original Data Downlink developer extraordinaire, Taro Kikkawa, who passed on in March. We miss him a lot. We toasted our customers, without whom there would be no Alacra and no party.
Naturally, we toasted each other too. 
We shared some food, some drinks, a whole lot of laughs and even stumped everyone pretty good with this year's game - an Alacra crossword puzzle.
What a thrill it's been watching this little startup - once just some terrific ideas for delivering data and a staff of ten in a single room - blossom into a really great company. No longer a little startup, Alacra is a strong, unique organization full of talent, diversity, dedication and verve and one that is now proving itself a formidable challenger in the business information space.
I can't wait for next year.
Carol Ann Thomas, Alacra Marketing Manager
Online Information 2004
Just back from Online Information 2004 in London where the Alacra team did a fine job with our stand. We’ve exhibited at this show for the past six years and the line up of participants has changed dramatically since we started attending. The larger business and legal information providers have stopped coming. Once again, Thomson Financial, D&B, Reuters, LexisNexis and OneSource were no-shows. Factiva had a smaller stand than previous years. Although it is expensive to be an exhibitor at this event and no one really wants to go to London in early December, we’ve always felt the Online was worth attending, and we’ve spent progressively more each year on our presence there.
This year’s most interesting new product was the rebirth of moreover.com, which is making a play in the reputation management space, combining web and blog contents with search and some neat current awareness capabilities.
