Information Builders Honors Three Business Partners at Annual User Conference25 April 2006
Information Builders, the enterprise business intelligence (BI) and integration standard of choice for organizations around the world, today announced that BearingPoint, Inc., a leading global management and technology consulting firm; ESRI, the leader in geographic information systems (GIS) software; and IBM, the world's largest information technology company, are the winners of the company's 2006 Partner of the Year awards.
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The awards, which will be given for the first time this year, are presented to business partners that exhibit dedication and commitment in working with Information Builders to deliver comprehensive and unparalleled integration and business intelligence solutions to customers. Information Builders and iWay Software will honor these achievements at its 27th annual user conference, Summit 2006, which is being held in Orlando, FL, April 23 through 27. More than 1,000 Information Builders and iWay Software customers and partners will attend the conference to discuss their successful business intelligence and integration projects.
BearingPoint, Inc. and iWay Software have worked together for nearly five years, enabling customers to make their entire IT infrastructure more open, flexible, and easily aligned with business requirements. The relationship has offered customers a complementary solution of enterprise integration and SOA middleware, with powerful strategic consulting, application services, technology solutions, and managed services. Information Builders has provided software and services on BearingPoint, Inc. systems integration projects for the County of San Diego, the City of New York, and Duval County Florida Public Schools.
The partnership between Information Builders and ESRI has significantly increased customers' ability to discover and deliver intelligence in spatially enabled applications. To address customer-driven demand, Information Builders, iWay Software, and ESRI deliver a geographic business intelligence solution (GBIS). GBIS allows users throughout the extended enterprise to rapidly and intuitively analyze real-time information by presenting business intelligence information in the context of physical location and geographic influences. Joint customer successes include the City of Houston Public Works, the State of Mississippi, the State of Louisiana Department of Social Services, and the Richmond Virginia Police Department.
Information Builders and IBM have been strategic partners for more than 30 years. FOCUS and WebFOCUS, Information Builders' leading BI solutions, are natively developed on the IBM System z9. By leveraging IBM products such as WebSphere and DB2, the partnership has played a crucial role in helping to provide a means of integrating databases and applications to provide real-time Web-based operational business intelligence for customers. Together, IBM and Information Builders have thousands of joint customers, including JC Penney, Nationwide Insurance, and Mayo Foundation. Information Builders is a Premier member of IBM's PartnerWorld, Leader for Linux, ServerProven, and Built on Express partner.
"Partnerships are critical to the success of our organization," said Gerald Cohen, CEO of Information Builders, "and imperative for delivering best-of-breed value to our customers. Information Builders' awards program is a wonderful opportunity to acknowledge our outstanding business partnerships with BearingPoint, ESRI, and IBM, which are central to our go-to-market strategy. We are grateful for the dedication and support of these partners."
With the addition of nearly 80 new partners to its network of alliances in 2005, channel programs continue to be a key priority for Information Builders. The company works with a wide range of hardware and software vendors, systems integrators, and resellers, helping them increase and expand revenue and market opportunities by enhancing the value of their products and services. Information Builders and its partners combine business intelligence and integration expertise with industry knowledge to offer complete, flexible, and scalable solutions for customers.
About BearingPoint, Inc.
BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE) is one of the world's largest providers of management and technology consulting services to Global 2000 companies and government organizations in 60 countries worldwide. Based in McLean, Va., the firm has approximately 17,500 employees and major practice areas focusing on the Public Services, Financial Services and Commercial Services markets. For nearly 100 years, BearingPoint professionals have built a reputation for knowing what it takes to help clients achieve their goals, and working closely with them to get the job done. For more information, visit the Company's website at http://www.BearingPoint.com.
About ESRI
Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. ESRI is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. To see your data in a new way visit us at http://www.esri.com.
About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of on demand business. For more information about IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com.
About Information Builders
Information Builders is the leader in enterprise business intelligence and real-time Web reporting. The company's WebFOCUS product -- the industry's most 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 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 with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,750 people, and has over 350 business partners.
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