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Information Builders Welcomes New Partners to Drive Solution-Oriented Business Intelligence
Leading Specialists in SaaS, Fraud Protection, and Management Solutions Enhance Value and Efficiency With WebFOCUS and iWay Software
| Source: Information Builders
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - December 3, 2008) - Information Builders, the leader in
operational business intelligence (BI)
solutions, today announced partnerships with six innovators in software as
a service (SaaS), fraud protection, and case management solutions.
MegaMation, Accertify, iovation, 41st Parameter, Creative Data Solutions,
and ScottTech have co-developed specialized solutions using WebFOCUS and
iWay Software to meet customer demand for enhanced value and efficiency.
"Companies do not just want technology. They look for solutions that solve
critical problems," said Gerald Cohen, CEO of Information Builders.
"Web-based access to report sharing and distribution has been available
only to organizations with the IT infrastructure required to support such
solutions. For small and mid-sized organizations with limited resources,
the alternative has been static reports via e-mail or hard copy, which is
time-consuming and leads to conflicting data. By offering customers
WebFOCUS as part of reporting solutions, our partners help
organizations reduce expenditures on software and hardware, shorten
deployment cycles, and optimize existing IT investments."
By encouraging and promoting the integration of Information Builders
technologies and applications into third-party software, Information
Builders is able to provide customers with complete solutions that maximize
their technology investments. Information Builders has sought out and
collaborated with solution partners that enhance its business intelligence
and integration
solutions and increase its breadth of expertise and specialized knowledge.
With new partners in SaaS, fraud protection, and vertical management
solutions for logistics and the public sector, Information Builders is well
positioned to extend the coverage of BI and integration to the marketplace
and provide customers with complete solutions.
It's essential for organizations looking to optimize information and
business processes to deploy solutions that eliminate the need for capital
expenditure on software and hardware, shorten deployment cycles by several
weeks or months, and reduce the reliance on IT resources for deployment and
maintenance. By partnering with SaaS solution providers, Information
Builders and its partners are helping customers save time, costs, and
resources at a critical economic time.
Similarly, there is increased demand for fraud services to achieve cost
savings, improve customer security, and for financial services/credit card
companies to mitigate default on payment and manage greater prospect
scrutiny. By having reports on who is spending what and where, lenders can
determine what offers to make to consumers and how to protect them.
Information Builders has active partnerships with the following:
-- MegaMation is a leading provider of facility maintenance management
solutions in a SaaS model. Its partnership with Information Builders
enables it to exchange information from its DirectLine product to
third-party applications via iWay Software adapters. "DirectLine
Maintenance" provides maintenance management services to manufacturers,
facility managers, school boards, universities, and hospitals/healthcare
organizations with installations ranging from single sites to
company-wide customized solutions.
-- Accertify offers Interceptas, a SaaS solution for combating Card Not
Present (CNP) credit card fraud, developed specifically to meet the needs
of merchants who sell online or accept CNP transactions. Using WebFOCUS,
Accertify will provide analysis and reporting capabilities integrated with
Interceptas to enhance its ability to identify and mitigate credit card
fraud.
-- iovation provides the first and only device reputation service,
protecting business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer interactions on
the Internet. Its real-time service prevents online fraud including
identity theft, charge-backs, phishing, click fraud, and other abuses of
online services such as predatory behavior, stealing or cheating, posting
unwanted content and chat abuse. As part of its service, iovation provides
summarized reports to its subscribers using WebFOCUS. It also built an
internal reporting environment for deeper analysis of trends and anomalies.
-- 41st Parameter, a leader in fraud intervention, provides solutions that
protect customers and brands, reduce fraud losses, and make the Internet a
safer place to conduct business. Through a combination of best practices,
leading technology, and human interaction, it makes the process of
preventing and detecting Internet fraud easier and more effective, reducing
both expenses and potential losses. 41st Parameter will be reselling iWay
adapters to bring more data into its fraud-detection environment including
Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server.
-- Creative Data Solutions (CDS) has provided court management solutions
for local, state, and federal governments for more than 16 years. CDS'
product suite, DuProcess®, includes more than 18 modules that offer
integrated court management solutions. CDS is incorporating WebFOCUS to
enhance its solutions for performance
management, online budget and financial reporting, online court docket
information, as well as tools to securely access, integrate, and share
court data. Joint customer, Volusia County Clerk of Court is poised to
achieve three key organizational and cost reduction goals by implementing
this enhanced case management system.
-- ScottTech's Celution Software, a warehouse-control system, delivers
powerful solutions for inventory control, order management, and
distribution needs. ScottTech incorporated iWay Software adapters as part
of its PickPro™ WCS Software Suite to enhance performance and
integration of SAP and other ERP systems for companies in the automation
and manufacturing industries.
"By incorporating WebFOCUS into our fraud protection SaaS offering we are
able to give financial organizations immediate insight into critical data
as well as visibility into trends over time," said Andrew Lauter, CTO at
Accertify. "Information Builders brings both longevity and innovative
technology that together help us to deliver a compelling and effective
solution for combating online fraud."
In addition to these partnerships, Information Builders has also expanded
existing relationships with Netezza in data warehousing and Lombardi for
business process management.
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. 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:
"Because 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.