Best Video Contest

Congratulations to Handmark — winner of the blazingly fast Kickfire Analytic Appliance!

Kickfire set out to find the organization with the greatest data warehouse pain. Many companies entered our contest, but only three became finalists: Globalpark, Handmark, and Discovery Solutions. Their videos submitted as part of their contest application appear below.

The contest inspired heavy voting from the public, and in the end you selected Handmark, a company based in Kansas City, Missouri, that powers more than 50 mobile content storefronts with entertainment, information and productivity applications and services. Handmark plans to implement its new Kickfire analytics appliance to exponentially speed up query performance, which is particularly critical because of the rapid rise in data volumes that is resulting from the high demand for Handmark’s mobile content.

We look forward to enabling Handmark to make cutting edge query technology and analytics available to all of their users.

Thanks to all of the great organizations who participated in our contest, with special thanks to the finalists for the diligence that went into their contest applications.

Thanks also to all who voted to select our winner. We appreciate your support!