October 16, 2000
For
Immediate Release
Contact:
Jim Garland, Director of Sales, Logical Information Machines (713) 652-4066
Contact:
Jim Gagne, Chief Communications Officer, WeatherMarkets.com (610) 407-2956
Media
Release
Logical
Information Machines Puts WeatherMarkets.com Forecasts and Data to Work
Chicago, Ill., – Logical Information Machines (LIM), a leading provider of historic data and analytical products, has entered into a strategic arrangement with WeatherMarkets.com to receive and redistribute weather information products for its user community.
WeatherMarkets.com will provide LIM with its CityCast™ service, which
forecasts every hour for the next week for more than 660 locations in the United
States, updated four times a day. Corresponding hourly weather observations also
will be available. In addition, WeatherMarkets.com is supplying daily
observations for more than 800 locations worldwide. These daily updates are
being added to LIM’s standard database offering at no extra charge to LIM
clients.
“LIM clients will be able to fine tune their energy and commodity market
analysis with our CityCast™ service, and LIM will be unique in providing these
forecasts historically as well, so that clients can perform enhanced risk
analysis,” said Ian Clarke, Managing Director, WeatherMarkets.com.
“The new WeatherMarkets.com data will not only enhance our clients’ ability
to analyze movements in the energy markets with hourly observations, it will
greatly improve our standard weather offering,” said Jim Garland, Director of
Sales, Logical Information Machines.
WeatherMarkets.com
is a leading supplier of weather content to market data services, including
Bloomberg, FutureSource-Bridge, and MoneyLine, as well as vertical B2B web
sites, including CoralConnect.com, FuelSpot.com, Rooster.com, e-Markets.com, and
CyberCrop.com. WeatherMarkets.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Planalytics,
Inc., a Wayne, Pa., based supply-chain planning portal serving three vertical
markets: retail, life sciences, and energy.