Information Builders Delivers Performance Metrics Manager
Offers Easy Entry Point to Performance Management for SMBs
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - March 26, 2008) - Information Builders, the independent leader
in production business intelligence (BI) systems,
today announced the availability of WebFOCUS Performance Metrics Manager
(PMM), an easy, flexible and economical entry point to performance
management. By making the most widely used elements of performance
management accessible and easy to use for a broad array of stakeholders
within an organization, Information Builders PMM provides an incremental
performance management solution with rich KPI-driven dashboards, using wizards, pre-built dashboards, and analytic
tools.
For many organizations, particularly in small to medium-sized businesses
(SMBs) or businesses just beginning to understand their control points, the
most challenging step toward performance management is getting their
metrics defined, tracked, and organized. For them, a bottom-up approach
such as PMM not only allows a quick path to results, but also represents a
manageable approach to building a culture of performance.
According to AMR Research, "Excessive data can overwhelm some systems and
many users. Platforms that include both structured and unstructured data
and contextual search functionality make navigation through data much
easier for the broad spectrum of users. Even with access to more data and
easier navigation, take care to limit data and metrics to information
relevant to the users' roles via filtering, alerting, exception-based
reporting, and role-specific dashboards."(1)
Information Builders PMM delivers an integrated metrics dashboard system,
analysis, collaboration and alert threading in an inexpensive and rapid
start package. Businesses can begin to collect and consolidate metrics from
anywhere in the enterprise and publish them within weeks through role-based
dashboards. PMM comes with pre-built starter kits addressing the vertical
and horizontal markets, including supply chain, healthcare, banking, HR,
IT, and call center. It also offers more than 350 wizard-based industry
metrics to create a pool or scorecards.
When an organization is ready to align their metrics with strategic goals,
organize strategy maps and scorecards, and align them with initiatives,
themes, and processes, they can easily leverage all of their efforts with a
simple upgrade to the more comprehensive Performance Management Framework
(PMF) that supports these capabilities.
While most other PM solutions represent vendors' combination of various
acquisitions, Information Builders PM suite was written from scratch using
native WebFOCUS and iWay technologies. By using this approach, businesses
can be confident that whatever underlying vendor systems they have now or
in the future can be independent of their PM initiatives. For example, it
does not matter if SAP, Oracle or IBM information systems are mixed or
switched in -- Information Builders PM solutions can combine holistically
or switch between these source systems with ease.
"We believe that for many organizations, performance management should
focus first on standardizing and contextualizing metrics, and deploying
them in dashboards with analytics tools easily and inexpensively to the all
decision makers," said David Cook, director of Performance Management
Solutions for Information Builders. "PMM supports communication, delivery
of dashboards, financial and operational indicators specific to roles and
lets everyone know what they are responsible for and how it contributes to
everything else."
The Information Builders PM suite was designed expressly to support the
business user, so configuration and ongoing management is a fraction of
what other systems typically require. Rather than having IT create new
dashboards or new metric feeds, business users can easily assemble custom
dashboards from a catalog of gadgets and simply point to a metric data
source and schedule refreshes on a periodic basis. Using the iWay
integration platform, more than 400 data and application sources are
automatically available, including RDBMS, legacy file systems, SAP BW and
R3, Oracle and Microsoft MDDs, and SOA message busses.
Pricing and Availability
PMM is available immediately. Pricing starts at $50,000 and includes
unlimited seats. For more information, visit
http://www.informationbuilders.com.
About Information Builders
Information Builders award-winning combination of business intelligence and
enterprise integration software has been providing innovative solutions to
more than 12,000 customers for the past 30 years. WebFOCUS is the world's
most widely utilized business intelligence platform. It provides the
security, scalability, and flexibility needed at every level of global
extended enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical,
and operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users.
Information Builders iWay Software suite provides state-of-the-art,
multi-purpose, pre-built integration components that address all SOA, application, data, and information management
requirements. Its integration adapters have been adopted by the leading
software platform providers. Together, these products give Information
Builders customers the ability to live up to the company motto: "Your
Business. No Barriers."
Information Builders award-winning technology has successfully provided
quality software and superior services 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 1,450 people and has more than 350 business partners. For more
information visit http://www.informationbuilders.com.
(1) Hagerty, John and Kasabian, Dave. "Pervasive Performance Management:
What It Is and How to Prepare," AMR Research, August 16, 2007.