The Council of Europe Selects Information Builders for Enterprise Business Intelligence.WebFOCUS Delivers Reliable, Simplified Budget-Management Controls to the Council of Europe Council of Europe, international organization founded in 1949 to promote greater unity within Europe and to safeguard its political and cultural heritage by promoting human rights and democracy. The council is headquartered in Strasbourg, France. 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, today announced that the Council of Europe has selected WebFOCUS to support its ever increasing budget-management role, which involved [euro]260 million in 2006. The Council of Europe has deployed Information Builders' WebFOCUS throughout the organization as part of its commitment to deliver operational business intelligence. "We had specific criteria by which we evaluated products in the BI market," explains Enrico Vannucci, Head of Payments and Financial Information Division at the Council of Europe headquarters in Strasbourg. "Interface ease of use for more than 200 employees at all levels of the organization, the ability to accurately drill down through the information, the solution's ability to export to a wide range of reporting formats, and performance were the main benchmarks to which the products were assessed." The Council of Europe is the continent's oldest political organization. Founded in 1949 it currently includes 46 countries. Over the past 20 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Council has become a political anchor and human rights watchdog, as well as a resource for aiding political, legal, and constitutional reform in line with wider European economic reform. "The decision to invest in an operational business intelligence solution was driven on a purely business level," adds Enrico Vannucci. "We were generating and managing a lot of information that could not be rationalized quickly enough to be used to aid business decisions effectively. The concept of 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). in this case was more in terms of support and efficiency than financial gain, even though the number of days work that we save per year as a result of WebFOCUS is certainly significant." "Government agencies and political organizations are standardizing on WebFOCUS as their solution for operational business intelligence and reporting," 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 , 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. of Information Builders. "The Council of Europe is a high profile example of an organization that has recognized the growing need to consolidate its Business Intelligence solutions to generate more operational benefits for its users." About Information Builders Information Builders is the leader in enterprise business intelligence and real-time operational reporting. The company's WebFOCUS- the industry's most scalable, secure, and flexible product - 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 em·pow·er tr.v. em·pow·ered, em·pow·er·ing, em·pow·ers 1. To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority. See Synonyms at authorize. 2. 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 1,600 people and has over 350 business partners. For more information, visit www.informationbuilders.com. |
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