Mortgage Cadence, Inc., a leading end-to-end mortgage lending platform provider, today announced it has launched a new application using Microsoft SQL Server 2005, earning the company Front Runner status from Microsoft Corp. Mortgage Cadence 4.0, in combination with Microsoft SQL Server 2004, helps enable customers by not only providing better performance and scalability, but better security and more reliability as well. SQL Server 2005 is the next-generation data management and analysis software that will deliver increased scalability, availability and security to enterprise data and analytical applications while making them easier to creat, deploy and manage.