ABC Financial Gets a Solid Work-out With Information Builders; Leading Provider of Club Management Solutions for the Health and Fitness Industry Provides Users With New Reporting Capabilities.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Information Builders (Information Builders, Inc., New York, www.informationbuilders.com) A software company founded in 1975 by Gerald Cohen that specializes in enterprise business intelligence and real time Web reporting. , the enterprise business intelligence (BI) standard of choice for organizations around the world, announced that ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. Financial, the #1 provider of club management solutions to over 1,500 health and fitness clubs, has selected WebFOCUS as its enterprise BI standard for reporting and information delivery. Before making the standardization decision, ABC Financial conducted a comprehensive comparison of several leading BI vendors including Cognos and Business Objects before finally selecting WebFOCUS. ABC Financial was looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a solution that would provide club owners with the flexibility to slice and dice Refers to rearranging data so that it can be viewed from different perspectives. The term is typically used with OLAP databases that present information to the user in the form of multidimensional cubes similar to a 3D spreadsheet. See OLAP. performance metrics Performance metrics are measures of an organizations activities and performance. Performance metrics should support a range of stakeholder needs from customers, shareholders to employees [1]. , but would not require in-depth training. WebFOCUS' structured ad-hoc capabilities satisfied both criteria and delivered a whole lot more, including a way to provide club owners with a snapshot of cash flow and customer churn metrics as well as allow them to drill down to see how each service was contributing to the overall bottom line. "By providing our club owners with this level of flexibility, we can help them become more profitable," said Tonya Millican, special projects manager at ABC Financial. "In addition, we like the flexibility WebFOCUS offered by allowing us to consolidate and present information from multiple systems and we were impressed with the vendor's approach during our evaluation. They took the time to understand our needs and provided the right mix of training, consulting, and mentoring to ensure our success." "By putting business intelligence into the hands of more users, ABC Financial is helping club owners more efficiently manage their operations and pump up service and sales," said Gerald Cohen Gerald Allan "Gerry" Cohen, (born 1941) is the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford. Born into a Jewish family in Montreal, Cohen was educated at McGill University, Canada (BA, philosophy and political science) and the University of Oxford , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Information Builders. "ABC Financial understands that the true value of BI is realized when organizations standardize on a platform and empower users to get at data that helps them make real-time business decisions." About ABC Financial ABC Financial Services is the #1 provider of club management solutions to over 1,500 health and fitness clubs. Since 1981 ABC Financial Services has helped club owners nationwide improve the management of their club and bottom-line profit. About Information Builders Information Builders is the leader in enterprise business intelligence and real-time operational reporting. The company's WebFOCUS product - the industry's most scalable, 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 over 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 New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,750 people and has over 350 business partners. For more information, visit www.informationbuilders.com. |
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