Information Builders Awards 2008

• 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.

2007 CRM Market Awards

2007 TDWI Best Practices Award Winners

Gartner Business Intelligence Excellence Award

Computerworld Honors Award Seven Customers Accepted for Outstanding IT Achievement, 2007

In 2007, these customer applications were accepted into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution for their innovative uses of technology:

• Air Canada for its multi-trip pass product that enables companies, ranging in size from small businesses to large corporations, to better manage travel while simplifying the booking process for employees. The WebFOCUS application provides a unique reporting solution, and employees enjoy the ease of use and flexibility while travel managers can rely on a robust online reporting tool to track and manage all user activity. The system helps corporations reduce and simplify the management of travel costs.
• City of Richmond Police Department is using WebFOCUS, predictive analysis from SPSS, and dynamic geographic information system (GIS) mapping from ESRI, to predict the likelihood of crime in each city sector. The new operational system powered by WebFOCUS allows the city’s crime analysts to look at the interaction between present and past data, such as arrest records, motive, and type of crime at a particular location based on the day, time, weather, and the coincidence of public events. This insight enables the city to knowledgeably optimize police resources to deter crime.
• The Hillman Group created an effective way to react to sudden changes in any of its many product lines. They streamlined revenue reporting with real-time data, empowered business users, and helped managers better identify and address problems. WebFOCUS' GIS integration has enabled cost-effective decisions about shipments. Hillman has already realized hard-dollar returns: Hillman used the BI fill-rate reporting system to analyze instances to prove that it had not short-shipped, saving $131,000 in fines.
• Jefferson Regional Medical Center constructed a self-service reporting environment with WebFOCUS that organizes reports into three primary groups: financial reports for the finance department, productivity reports for department managers, and bed-management reports for hospital administrators. Information management has become an integral part of the hospital's daily management activities – boosting staff productivity, improving physician deficiency rates, and cutting costs throughout the facility.
• LaBarge Inc. improved efficiency and profitability of their production lines. Using WebFOCUS, they gave authorized users easy access to information. From purchasing to customer service, contracts, and accounting, LaBarge employees no longer struggle to extract the information they need.
• St. George Bank developed a groundbreaking solution addressing credit risk monitoring and management, management reporting, loans management, consolidation and regulatory reporting (largely, as a result of the BASEL regime), and default and compliance management. The solution provides a more efficient and proactive way of conducting portfolio reviews with online access to past inspection comments and real-time access to current reviews. An intuitive, visual workflow-related interface enables users to conduct train-of-thought analysis and stay focused on the business objective with automated distribution of issues intuitively guiding users to areas of concern. Savings in time and money have resulted through reduced administration and portfolio review preparation, decreased paper volume, a 40 percent reduction in the time to complete an inspection review, and a simplified user experience requiring less support.
• Caja General de Ahorros de Granada created an application to monitor and measure the bank’s performance. Certified by the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative (BSC), WebFOCUS converts the bank’s strategy into a series of well-defined steps and clearly presents then in a highly visual format, helping management to see and understands objectives, initiatives, and results. This solution helped to effectively communicate the new company strategy to its employees. Its also aligned all the internal information necessary to comply with objectives.