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Company: Information Builders
Industry: Business Intelligence
Location: Nashville, TN, United States of America
Utz, Ace, City of Houston, BT, and JCPenney Receive Top Honors for Superior Business Intelligence Initiatives
Nashville,TN--Information Builders, the independent leader in pervasive business intelligence (BI) systems and its subsidiary iWay Software, an innovator of enterprise integration solutions, today announced the winners of its Awards of Distinction for innovative use of BI and integration. Winners are being honored at the 2008 Information Builders Summit User Conference, which brings together leading industry analysts and more than a thousand customers from around the world, and showcases exceptional use of BI and integration technologies in more than 100 customer-led sessions.
"We continue to be impressed by our customers' ability to apply our technology applications to create cutting-edge business solutions," said Information Builders founder and CEO Gerald Cohen. "Our business intelligence applications enhance operations and overall performance throughout these organizations for more accurate decision-making and a competitive advantage in their respective markets."
Information Builders has maintained a 33-year history of innovation, marked at this year's conference by the introduction of advanced analytics and a spotlight on BI search in action with products that fulfill the "Everyone Makes Decisions" theme of Summit 2008. The following distinguished award winners for 2008 are recognized for their ongoing efforts to bring BI technology benefits to the forefront of their organizations:
* Best Production BI Application – Utz Quality Foods
Utz coordinates the sales and production of more than 20,000 pounds of potato chips every hour, and manages more than 700 delivery routes to 30,000 stores. Timing is crucial, which is why Utz uses BI technology to coordinate the timing among its production, marketing, sales, and distribution operations. WebFOCUS is at the heart of a system that allows managers to quickly gather and analyze current sales and distribution information. The BI environment delivers daily sales breakdowns in a form that is easy for busy salespeople to digest. This information helps them manage their routes and improves visibility throughout the supply chain, positioning Utz as a leader in its market.
* Most Innovative BI Implementation – City of Houston Police Department
BI technology is making steady inroads into law enforcement, as government agencies discover the power of intelligence-driven policing. The Houston Crime Center is using technology from Information Builders and ESRI to create a dynamic geographic information system (GIS) that maps crime patterns and predicts the likelihood of crime activity throughout the city. The BI environment has led to quicker arrests and more thorough criminal investigations.
* Best New Enterprise BI – Ace Hardware
With more than 4,600 stores throughout the U.S. Ace continues to expand and adopt more advanced information technology. IT leaders realized they could improve corporate efficiency by standardizing on one comprehensive BI environment. Ace selected WebFOCUS as its enterprise-reporting standard for its ability to create cohesive, user-friendly reports that scale to thousands of users. Ace estimates more than 2,000 users will be running or writing WebFOCUS reports on a daily basis.
* Best Use of iWay Software – BT
Recently, the telecom giant sought to eliminate inefficiencies and costs associated with cross-border trade settlements by providing communications for Euroclear's Common Communications Interface. BT asked iWay Software for help creating a secure messaging gateway that enables straight-through processing over standard business protocols. BT's Managed Secure Messaging used iWay's SOA Middleware Platform to deliver a reliable messaging service that features complete security, guaranteed delivery, non-repudiation, auditing, encryption, and integrated access controls.
* Customer Lifetime Award – JCPenney
The well known retailer has partnered with Information Builders since February 1978 and, 30 years later, store associates across the country continue to rely on its BI technology. JCPenney utilized the FOCUS product during the 1980s and early 1990s as the primary means for reporting merchandising sales and profits. In 2000 the retailer implemented WebFOCUS, continuing its investment in Information Builders' innovative solutions. Today, JCPenney remains a loyal customer with the implementation of a new application to help monitor its day-to-day store operations.
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: Everyone Makes Decisions.
Information Builders' customers include 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.
About iWay Software
iWay Software's integration methodology is simple: We use a single, integrated set of graphical design tools to assemble powerful pre-built integration components for enterprise-class B2B, A2A, or B2B2A integration scenarios - without the use of custom code. Integration configurations are deployed to run-time execution engines that can be deployed in a standalone manner to any environment supporting a JVM - including Web Application Servers from any vendor. We deliver the fastest, most cost-effective, and simplest way to integrate and streamline critical business processes. iWay Software's vendor, platform, and protocol-neutral integration solutions achieve the promise of SOA, true reusability.
Kathleen Moran (kathleen_moran@ibi.com)
Phone: (212) 736-4433 |
