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Centric Consulting Becomes Information Builders Implementation Partner
| Source: Information Builders
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - January 28, 2009) - Information Builders, the leader in
operational business intelligence (BI)
solutions, and Centric Consulting, Inc., a management and technology
consulting company, today announced a partnership whereby both companies
will work to promote services opportunities for Centric and software
opportunities for Information Builders. Together they will provide fast
time to market and strong return on investment for customers across the
financial, government, logistics, retail, and utilities markets.
Centric provides BI technology consulting and implementation services, both
strategic and tactical, to hundreds of organizations across the healthcare,
financial, insurance, and U.S. federal, state, and local government
sectors. With expertise in BI architecture design and implementation, data
management programs focused on data quality, governance and stewardship,
and master data management, Centric helps its clients achieve meaningful
business performance improvements.
"As we continue to actively grow our BI practice, teaming up with
Information Builders represents an important enhancement to our arsenal of
leading packaged software applications," said Chad Caldwell, vice
president, Centric Consulting. "We value Information Builders blend of
experience and powerful, innovative technology. The joint opportunities we
have had to date are a great indication of more success to come."
As an Information Builders implementation partner, Centric is committing
time, resources, and expertise to provide joint customers high-quality
services and support. It will offer project management, training,
business-process redesign, proof-of-concept implementations, and systems
integration to deliver powerful and repeatable solutions built with
Information Builders applications and software. With Information Builders
BI software offerings, Centric will enhance its capabilities in data
warehouse, data marts, and ETL process design and development projects.
"Centric has a great team, deep deployment expertise, and an impressive
track record," said Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information
Builders. "This partnership provides our customers and prospective
customers access to a seasoned team of consultants that can leverage
WebFOCUS to get valuable BI applications up and running quickly."
About Information Builders
As a leading independent business intelligence (BI) company for the past 30
years, Information Builders has provided innovative solutions to more than
12,000 customers, including most of the Fortune 100 and numerous U.S.
federal government agencies. The company's flagship WebFOCUS product is the
world's most widely used BI platform. Its superior architecture and
intuitive nature enables WebFOCUS to address the needs of everyone in the
extended global enterprise -- executive, analytical, operational, and
beyond. It provides the agility to adapt to changing business conditions
with the security, scalability, and flexibility to support dozens to
millions of users.
Unique to the company is the integration expertise it brings to the BI
market. Information Builders iWay Software suite solves complex integration
problems with pre-built components that require minimal custom programming.
The award-winning combination of WebFOCUS and iWay gives Information
Builders customers the ability to embrace the company motto: "Everyone
Makes Decisions."
Information Builders is committed to customer service excellence with a
Professional Services division that specializes in building custom
applications using WebFOCUS and iWay Software. Headquartered in New York
City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has
more than 350 business partners. Visit informationbuilders.com.