Harbor Payments, with revenue growth topping 2,700 percent over the past five years, is the top company in Deloitte & Touche’s “Georgia technology Fast 50” awards.

The list is based on percentage of revenue growth from 2000-2004, with firms having at least $50,000 in revenue in 2000 and at least $1 million in 2004.

Harbor Payments focuses on electronic invoicing, billing, and disbursement solutions for Global 1000 companies.

Six “Rising Stars” were also recognized. These firms had the fastest growing technology companies based on revenue growth over three years (2002- 2004). The winners were:

1. Wave7 Optics, Inc., Alpharetta – 2744%

2. BancIntelligence.com, Inc., Atlanta – 1410%

3. Ovation Management Systems, Atlanta – 445%

4. Proficient Systems, Inc., Alpharetta – 366%

5. Advectis, Inc., Alpharetta – 310%

6. Logic Trends, Inc., Atlanta – 231%

“Deloitte’s Georgia Technology Fast 50 companies have shown the strength, vision and temerity to succeed in today’s very competitive technology environment,” said Thomas McNulty, of Deloitte & Touche LLP in Atlanta. “We applaud the successes of Harbor Payments and acknowledge it as one of the very few to accomplish such a fast growth rate over the past five years.”

The Fast 50 company ranking is as follows (listed Company, Location, % Growth):

1. Harbor Payments, Atlanta – 12994%

2. Procuri, Inc., Atlanta – 10225%

3. SecureWorks, Atlanta – 6728%

4. Virtual Premise, Inc., Atlanta – 5865%

5. Cypress Communications Holding, Inc. (Arcapita), Atlanta – 4492%

6. SPI Dynamics, Atlanta – 4098%

7. Agentek, Inc., Alpharetta – 3451%

8. ManufacturingQuote, Inc., Atlanta – 1600%

9. Knowlagent, Inc., Alpharetta – 1096%

10. Third Millennium Healthcare Systems, Inc., Atlanta – 939%

11. TurboChef Technologies, Inc., Atlanta – 804%

12. Quickparts.com, Inc., Atlanta – 747%

13. CompuCredit Corporation, Atlanta – 596%

14. Cingular Wireless, Atlanta – 530%

15. Digital Visual Display Technologies, Inc., Atlanta – 414%

16. Return On Investment Corporation (Tectonic Network, Inc), Kennesaw – 383%

17. Serologicals Corporation, Norcross – 332%

18. First Horizon Pharmaceutical Corporation, Alpharetta – 315%

19. Novoste Corporation, Norcross – 256%

20. Intelligent Systems Corporation, Norcross – 218%

21. Witness Systems, Inc., Roswell – 216%

22. Interland, Inc., Atlanta – 213%

23. Logisticare, Inc., Atlanta – 185%

24. Pathfire, Inc., Roswell – 175%

25. ProxyMed, Inc., Atlanta – 170%

26. Knology, Inc., West Point – 156%

27. Verso Technologies, Inc., Atlanta – 153%

28. ILC, Atlanta – 128%

29. Coalition America, Inc., Atlanta – 115%

30. InterNAP Network Services, Atlanta – 108%

31. Checkfree Services Corporation, Norcross – 96%

32. Global Payments Inc., Atlanta – 85%

33. Firearms Training Systems Inc., Suwanee – 85%

34. ITC^DeltaCom, Inc., West Point – 60%

35. ChoicePoint, Inc., Alpharetta – 57%

36. Manhattan Associates, Inc., Atlanta – 55%

37. Internet Security Systems, Inc., Atlanta – 49%

38. Premiere Global Services, Atlanta – 48%

39. Horizon Software International, LLC, Loganville – 47%

40. Immucor, Inc., Norcross – 46%

41. MAPICS, Inc. (Infor), Alpharetta – 46%

42. EarthLink, Inc., Atlanta – 40%

43. EMS Technologies, Inc., Norcross – 39%

44. NDCHealth Corporation, Atlanta – 29%

45. Equifax Inc., Atlanta – 24%

46. Per-Se Technologies, Inc., Alpharetta – 21%

47. Video Display Corporation, Tucker – 21%

48. Concurrent Computer Corporation, Duluth – 16%

49. BellSouth Corporation, Atlanta – 15%

50. Numerex Corporation, Atlanta – 13%

50 Radiant Systems, Inc., Alpharetta 13%

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