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Information Builders Announces City of Richmond Police Department Named Winner of TDWI Best Practices Award
Richmond, VA Police Department's Use of WebFOCUS to Predict and Prevent Crime Receives Top Recognition for BI Use by a Government Agency
| Source: Information Builders
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - July 10, 2007) - Information Builders, the leader in production
business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that the City of
Richmond, Virginia, Police Department -- a longstanding customer
demonstrating innovative use of Information Builders' WebFOCUS technology
-- was named the co-winner of the 2007 TDWI Business Intelligence Best
Practice Award in the Government and Non-Profit Solutions category.
TDWI [The Data Warehousing Institute] Best Practice Awards program is
designed to recognize organizations that have demonstrated excellence in
developing, deploying, and maintaining business intelligence and data
warehousing (DW) applications. Winners are chosen by a panel of independent
judges who have expertise in these areas.
"WebFOCUS has enabled us to capture and analyze crime data much more
proficiently," said Rodney D. Monroe, chief of police, Richmond Police
Department. "As a result, the technology has helped us deploy our officers
where they would be most needed, which has reduced crime, but equally
important reduced citizens calls and the dispatch of officers."
Using predictive analysis through business intelligence technology
supported by dynamic geographic information system mapping, the Richmond
Police Department has applied an information-based policy to predict the
likelihood of crime and prevent future crimes from occurring. These
solutions allow the city's crime analysts to look at the interaction
between present and past data, such as arrest records, and type of crime at
a particular location -- based on the day, time, weather, and the
coincidence of public events. This insight enabled the city to
knowledgeably deploy police resources to deter crime -- and as a result,
crime was decreased by 49 percent, and the citizen reacted with fewer 911
calls that had to be serviced.
"Business intelligence technology is not just for the enterprise anymore,"
said Gerald Cohen, CEO of Information Builders. "This BI deployment by the
City of Richmond shows that technology created for corporate America can
prove equally effective in other real-world applications. Recognition by a
well regarded organization like TDWI helps solidify the fact that our
customers achieve truly remarkable results with their BI deployments."
To learn more about the TDWI awards and this year's winners, please visit:
http://www.tdwi.org/education/display.aspx?id=8010.
About Information Builders
An industry innovator for more than 31 years, Information Builders is the
leader in enterprise business intelligence and real-time Web reporting. The
company's WebFOCUS product -- the industry's most secure and flexible -- is
able to meet all the reporting needs of the extended enterprise, ranging
from analysts to power users to the widest deployments for hundreds of
thousands of users. Additionally, WebFOCUS' empowerment of organizations
seeking to leverage all their data by accessing it all -- from legacy to
data warehouse -- is unmatched.
Information Builders' award-winning technology has successfully provided
quality software and superior services for 31 years to more than 12,000
customers, including most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government
agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the
company employs 1,500 people and has over 350 business partners. For more
information visit www.informationbuilders.com.
About TDWI
TDWI, a division of 1105 Media, is the premier provider of in-depth,
high-quality education and research in the business intelligence and data
warehousing industry. Starting in 1995 with a single conference, TDWI is
now a comprehensive resource for industry information and professional
development opportunities. TDWI sponsors and promotes quarterly World
Conferences, regional seminars, on-site courses, a worldwide membership
program, business intelligence certification, resourceful publications,
industry news, an in-depth research program, and a comprehensive Web site:
www.tdwi.org.