Information Builders Honors Five Customers for Outstanding Use of Technology.E. & J. Gallo Winery, St. George Bank, Prince George Prince George, city (1991 pop. 69,653), central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako rivers. It is a railroad division point and a distribution center for a lumber region. County Police, Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Coty, Inc. Honored for Excellent Use of WebFOCUS and iWay Software iWay Software, an Information Builders subsidiary, makes over 300 software-based adapters that access data from applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Baan as well as databases such as Adabas, DB2, SQL Server and Oracle and deliver these data to other systems and 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 leader in production business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced the winners of the 2007 Customer Awards of Distinction. Five companies are being honored this year for innovative, industry-leading application of WebFOCUS and iWay Software and will be presented with awards for their achievements at the Summit 2007 User Conference held in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , May 20 - 24, 2007. The winners are: * E & J Gallo Winery: best enterprise business intelligence solution * St. George Bank: best operational business intelligence solution * Prince George County Police: most innovative use of WebFOCUS * Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS OKDHS Oklahoma Department of Human Services ): best humanitarian application * Coty, Inc.: highest ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). "These awards are a way for us to acknowledge and praise our customers' outstanding use of technology," said Gerald D. Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , president and 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. at Information Builders. "By creating integrated business intelligence applications for their organizations, these companies are adding immense value for their customers, partners, suppliers, and employees, while simultaneously delivering value to the bottom line." Best Enterprise BI Solution - A Very Good Year for E. & J. Gallo Winery With state-of-the-art wineries located throughout California, E. & J. Gallo creates top-quality wines to suit every taste. Gallo has deployed over 1,000 WebFOCUS reports to 3,000 users across 19 lines of business, including customer service, event management, supply chain, finance, warehouse operations, forecasting, and wine management. Executives can create on-demand budget reports using WebFOCUS to help them keep an accurate, up-to-date eye on financials. Information Builders raises a toast to this venerable winemaker and its enduring legacy of finely crafted information systems. Best Operational BI - St. George Bank Creates a Wealth of Management Info St. George Bank has built its success on a simple premise: getting to know its customers. Personalized service is the cornerstone of a vast financial enterprise that spans retail banking, institutional banking, and wealth management, distinguishing St. George as one of the top 15 publicly listed companies in Australia. Today, WebFOCUS is extending that same degree of personal awareness to every corner of its operation, with user-friendly reporting applications for analyzing credit, managing loans, and complying with a raft of industry regulations. More than 500 users depend on WebFOCUS to deliver current operational data and the results have increased productivity and financial savings. WebFOCUS has also helped make their review process more proactive and efficient. The time to review a Branch portfolio reduced by 50 percent (from eight days down to four) and a user's ability to quickly and easily reference past account activity and gain real-time access to portfolio progress has helped automate and streamline more processes. Most Innovative Use of WebFOCUS - Prince George County Rounds Up Critical Information Citizens of Landover, Maryland Landover is an area of Prince George's County in the State of Maryland in the United States of America. It is an unincorporated area, with no official status, but the United States Census Bureau considers it a part of the Greater Landover census-designated place. depend on the Prince George County Police Department to maintain a peaceful and orderly community, protect lives and property, and apprehend criminals. These same directives describe the county's new incident reporting system as well. The system relies on WebFOCUS to ensure that agency communications are efficient, pervasive, and secure. Prince George County's Active Crime Reporting system is making the community a safer place to work and live, as officer's use BI technology to quickly access service calls and respond to 911 emergencies. Most Humanitarian .- OKDHS Adopts BI for Case Workers With thousands of Oklahoma children facing adoption or foster care, Oklahoma Department of Human Services uses WebFOCUS to help caseworkers provide better family services. The software enables the agency to track the precise needs of each child, from initial investigations by caseworkers through foster care, adoption, financial assistance, and post-adoptive financial assistance services. Thanks to the dedication and insight of this agency, case workers have the correct information on compliance issues, contacts, court reports, and treatment plans - so paperwork doesn't hold up the urgent needs of these children. Highest ROI - Coty Savors the Sweet Smell of Success As one of the world's largest and most successful beauty companies, Coty knows what it takes to stay on top. Following its acquisition of Unilever Cosmetics International in 2005, CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. Dave Berry The name Dave Berry could refer to:
(2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. allowing for the creation of a flexible architecture to provide views into real-time data operations. About Information Builders Summit User Conference Summit is Information Builders' annual user conference. Established in 1985, it is the leading product education conference for WebFOCUS, FOCUS, and iWay Software. Summit provides an extensive educational forum on Information Builders' business intelligence and integration solutions, and is a showcase for future products. For more information, please visit www.informationbuilders.com/summit. About iWay Software iWay Software, an Information Builders company and an innovator of enterprise integration solutions, accelerates business integration by providing tools to build a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Clients achieve short-term ROI by using iWay to reduce custom programming and solve problems quickly, while incrementally creating an architecture that supports long-term projects. The biggest names in software, including BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , and Microsoft, use iWay adapters to simplify access to ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. systems, messaging, legacy systems, e-business protocols like AS2 and ebXML, and more. For more information, visit www.iwaysoftware.com. About Information Builders Information Builders, an innovator for more than 30 years, makes the most widely deployed business (BI) intelligence solution and is the leader in production BI. WebFOCUS, the company's flagship product, is a comprehensive and fully integrated business intelligence platform whose architecture and simplicity permeate every level of the extended enterprise - executive, analytical, and operational. Developed with all users in mind - regardless of technical skills - it is the most secure and flexible solution in the market, helping organizations build applications that have no barriers, and scale from a dozen to hundreds of thousands of users. Information Builders is the only vendor to offer its own integration solution with iWay Software. The seamless integration with WebFOCUS creates unrivaled access to any information source. 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 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 1,500 people and has more than 350 business partners. |
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