The Baseline 500; It is not easy staying at the top of the Baseline 500.

13 The Baseline 500

It is not easy staying at the top of the Baseline 500. Just ask the 159 companies that dropped off the 2004 ranking. Here are the 500 best

information managers, culled from a database of 2,324 publicly traded

companies with sales of $100 million or more.

45 Industry Leaders

Energy companies made the strongest showing, but food and beverage,

financial services and manufacturing also did well.

53 Leaders Ranked by Revenue

Does size matter? Not when it comes to Information Productivity,

which is the great equalizer among companies with sales between $10 million and $10 billion. This …