Digex, Incorporated (NASDAQ

IGX), a leading provider of managed Web and application hosting services, today announced that Global Reports, LLC, a provider of the highest quality, most comprehensive collection of international annual report filings available online, has selected Digex to host its online infrastructure including its extensive Global Reports Library, which contains full color annual report filings available for more than 16,000 companies in 60 countries.
Global Report's team of document acquisition and indexing specialists provides superior quality documents to investors and businesses. The company accomplishes this by pairing an extensive database of international financial filings in full color PDF (Portable Document Format) with a powerful search engine and flexible delivery methods. The Global Reports Library contains current and historical annual reports from every major index constituency and exchange throughout the world. The Library has over a half-million electronic and/or paper annual reports, with up to 30 years of financial history for some companies.
Digex is managing the entire application on a secure, reliable and scalable environment. The Global Reports platform is built on a multiserver Windows 2000 environment with a SQL Server database. By taking advantage of Digex's e-Enablement Solution for effective online information management, Global Reports will be able to cost-effectively and securely handle the requirements from those doing serious financial and investment research around the world who want to take advantage of the company's extensive database and flexible delivery methods. Like all Digex-managed hosting solutions, the platform is supported by the unrivaled reach, performance and reliability of WorldCom's (WCOEQ) facilities-based UUNET global IP network.
"Our decision to outsource was based on Digex's security services, 24/7 monitoring, customer service, rigid quality control, cost effectiveness and technical expertise," said Scott Schwartz, founder and principal member of Global Reports. "In addition, we demand a certain level of up-time and security for our clients and Digex helped us tailor an SLA that exceeded our requirements."
"Companies like Global Reports are using the Internet to create a new model for financial reporting and research," said John Callari, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Digex. "Digex is providing a secure, managed infrastructure to ensure that Global Reports can handle the volumes of traffic and complex searches coming from businesses and investors across the globe."
About Global Reports, LLC
Global Reports, LLC provides the highest quality, most comprehensive collection of international Annual Report Filings available online. Full color Annual Report Filings are available for more than 16,000 companies in 60 countries, with history going at least five years and for some companies as far as 20 years. The company currently has offices in Kensington, MD and Oakland, CA. Please see http://www.global-reports.com/ .
About Digex
Digex is a leading provider of managed Web and application hosting services. Digex customers, from mainstream enterprise corporations to Internet-based businesses, leverage Digex's services to deploy secure, scaleable, high performance e-Enablement, Commerce and Enterprise IT business solutions. Additional information on Digex is available at http://www.digex.com/ .
About the WorldCom-Digex Affiliation
The WorldCom-Digex affiliation strategically combines the custom managed Web and application hosting expertise of Digex with the shared, dedicated and colocation hosting technologies of WorldCom to offer businesses of all sizes the full continuum of secure, dependable hosting services. Powered by the reach and reliability of the facilities-based WorldCom global network, the WorldCom-Digex affiliation rapidly delivers scalable, high-availability outsourced solutions that enable companies throughout North America, Europe and Asia to better focus on their core business.