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Mid-Market Companies Embrace Multiuse Business Intelligence From Information Builders
WebFOCUS Helps Mid-Size Companies Take Control of Their Information Assets
| Source: Information Builders
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - May 8, 2008) - Information Builders, the independent leader
in pervasive business intelligence (BI) systems,
today announced that mid-market leaders have become a significant sector
for its WebFOCUS BI solutions. Mid-market companies have unique
characteristics that are often overlooked by functional enterprise software
vendors. Despite their size and financial constraints, these organizations
have all the same business processes as global enterprises and are focused
on staying competitive.
"Our customers want to use WebFOCUS in every department so we have adapted
our solutions to better meet their needs," says Information Builders CEO
Gerald Cohen. "They strongly object to having to pay for it on a per-seat
basis because it restricts their flexibility in deployment, so we have
special licensing for our mid-market customers to remove this obstacle."
Together with other special mid-market policies, Information Builders is
answering the call from customers like Garden Ridge, Hunt Petroleum, J&J
Industries, Plexus, Utz, and YKK Canada, by providing a flexible BI system
that they can use everywhere in their organization, across supply chain,
finance, sales, and other areas. By incorporating the functionality
required by just about every type of user and the versatility for every
type of application, their return on investment in Information Builders is
significant.
"We believe that competitive advantage is based increasingly on innovation,
speed to market, and depth of knowledge, rather than simply the size of
your organization," said Ed Smith, CIO of Utz. "By implementing WebFOCUS
and giving all our users the ability to analyze data in real time, we're
empowering them to make better decisions that contribute to our bottom
line. When you're competing with big market players, it's all about how you
leverage your information assets to stay ahead of the curve."
Recent Information Builders mid-market successes include:
-- Hunt Petroleum - an international oil and gas exploration and production
company, Hunt Petroleum leverages WebFOCUS for insight into financial,
production, reserve, and project-planning data that is stored in multiple,
disparate database systems. WebFOCUS offers a sophisticated, definitive
solution for integrated reporting with historical production data as well as
financial information. With real-time monitoring and reporting
capabilities, WebFOCUS instantly lets field employees know which wells are
experiencing problems, and therefore assists them in prioritizing the ones
that need maintenance.
-- J&J Industries - one of the largest privately held commercial carpet
manufacturers, J&J Industries uses WebFOCUS to efficiently measure
productivity and monitor production, resulting in better decision-making
and greater accountability. All departments, including inventory, claims,
operations, special projects, finance, as well as all manufacturing areas
benefit from WebFOCUS. If any department is unable to meet a production
level, WebFOCUS quickly makes it apparent through an alert system so that
users can promptly research and remedy the situation. With a BI standard
that allows key performance indicators (KPIs) to be placed on dashboards of hundreds of workstations, J&J employees make
better and faster decisions on a daily basis.
-- Plexus Medical Group - a leading healthcare consulting firm, Plexus uses
WebFOCUS as a the platform for a nationwide system that delivers
information about costs, reimbursements, treatment success rates, and many
other key performance indicators. The BI solution, called Pi, helps
providers analyze the quality and efficiency of their primary processes,
then compares these results to national benchmarks. Hospitals using Pi may
have cost reductions of up to 10 percent of their annual budgets, thanks to
insight derived from the system.
About Information Builders
As a leading independent business intelligence (BI) company, Information
Builders has been providing innovative solutions to more than 12,000
customers for the past 30 years. The company's flagship WebFOCUS product is
the world's most widely used business intelligence platform. Superior
architecture and intuitive nature enables WebFOCUS to address the needs of
everyone in the extended enterprise -- executive, analytical, operational,
and beyond -- and provides the agility to adapt to changing business
conditions. It provides the security, scalability, and flexibility needed
at every level of the global organization and can support dozens to
millions of users.
One of the company's greatest differentiators is the integration expertise
it brings to the business intelligence market. Information Builders iWay
Software suite solves complex integration problems with pre-built
components that require minimal custom programming, together with a
flexible enterprise architecture that can adapt to long-term change. The
award-winning combination of WebFOCUS and iWay give Information Builders
customers the ability to live up to the company motto: "Because Everyone
Makes Decisions."
Customer service is at the core of every decision Information Builders
makes. The company's Professional Services division specializes in
building custom tailored applications using WebFOCUS and iWay Software. The
company continues to successfully provide quality software and superior
services to its customers, including most of the Fortune 100 and numerous
U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90
offices worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has more than 350
business partners. For more information visit
http://www.informationbuilders.com.