(WAYNE, PA, August 27, 2007) - Inc. today ranked Octagon Research Solutions, Inc., 1130 on its first-ever Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Octagon was also ranked 29 out of 782 companies in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE Metro Region, and 63 out of 377 companies in the Business Services Industry category. The Inc. 5,000, an extension of Inc . magazine’s annual Inc. 500 list, catches many businesses that are too big to grow at the pace required to make the Inc. 500, as well as a host of smaller firms. Taken as a whole, these companies represent the backbone of the U.S. economy.