Public Sector Delivers Vital Information to Knowledge Workers, Communities, and Citizens With Information Builders WebFOCUS
State and Local Governments Rely on Business Intelligence for Outward-Facing Applications
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - July 31, 2008) - Information Builders, the independent leader
in pervasive business intelligence (BI) systems,
today announced that public sector organizations, including city, county,
state, and federal government entities, are delivering outward-facing BI to
their agents and citizens. Today, government organizations have more
information and financial demands to fulfill than ever before -- from
day-to-day public safety and security concerns to real-time public data
access and management requirements. The sudden increase of dynamic
Web-based interactions is driving a re-examination of what it means to
deliver powerful BI models.
With a well-established foothold in the public sector, from law enforcement
organizations to federal agencies, Information Builders has expanded the
reach of its highly intuitive and scalable WebFOCUS BI platform to support
the information access needs of various communities, including:
Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting System
Hailed by FBI officials as the first of its kind in the country, the Pennsylvania State
Police's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Website was built using WebFOCUS
technology. WebFOCUS helps local police fight crime more effectively while
giving citizens 24x7 access to crime statistics for towns, counties,
regions, college campuses, and the state as a whole. The site features
real-time statistical analyses, queries that anyone can customize, and
automated file transfer to the FBI for its national crime database. The
system has also been successfully adapted by Missouri State Police.
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Restaurant Inspection
Information
New York City's Department of Health officials created a restaurant
inspection self-service application that has garnered five-star reviews
from inside and outside of government. This heavily trafficked site lets
users search for their favorite restaurants, bakeries, and take-outs by
name or location and check out any recent violations.
Erlanger, Kentucky Police Department
Information Builders used WebFOCUS and Arc/IMS from ESRI to create an
interactive crime portal, which displays real-time views of incidents,
arrests, 911 calls, and other events throughout the dispatch area. Erlanger
citizens will also be able to access some of this information via a
public-facing Web site, so they can check on crime occurring in their
neighborhoods.
City of Houston Police Department
The City of Houston uses
WebFOCUS to provide citizens a monthly breakdown, by police districts
and beats, of crimes reported. By selecting which area of the city to
research from a clickable, graphic map or a list, they can select a
specific beat from the district map to access a table containing the stats
for the crimes in the selected beat and month. The table shows the type of
offense, date and time, district and beat, premise code of the location,
block numbers, and street name.
City of Richardson, Texas
As part of its effort to revitalize the once booming hub of the Dallas
Telecom Corridor, the City of Richardson
adapted Information Builders WebFOCUS to support its reporting needs.
The Neighborhood Services group, charged with enforcing city codes and
enhancing communication with citizens, has created external reports for the
general public through which WebFOCUS maintains a running history of
violations and citations, so citizens can see, for example, what inspectors
are doing about a neighbor's fence that is in need of repair. WebFOCUS
offers details about citations issued and all follow-up activities.
"State and federal government organizations have vast data stores and have
relied on WebFOCUS to provide access and analysis for a variety of vital
public services," said Information Builders CEO Gerald Cohen. "The growing
demand for self-service government and public appetite for information has
driven a new breed of BI applications. Our software is well-suited to
deliver access to vast data within a framework that is easy and intuitive
enough for any citizen to navigate to get the answers they need. This
usability is the same feature that has driven adoption in public and
private sector customers and powered some of the largest user bases in the
market."
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 give 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 http://www.informationbuilders.com.