Business: Designs and markets software to help school districts manage their large amounts of student data.
Founded: 1993
Headquarters: Arden Hills
Website: www.infinitecampus.com
Executive: Founder Charlie Kratsch
Employees: 150
2006 revenue: $13 million, vs. $5.8 million in 2005; on track to top $22 million in 2007.
Quote: "It puts data in the hands of people who need it, when they need it." Jan Forsberg, IT service manager for the Eden Prairie School District, talking about how Infinite Campus software has changed data management from the days when multiple databases could not communicate with each other.
Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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