iWay Software's Security Exchange 1.0 was named a finalist in the eWeek Excellence Award (2003) for application and Web services development. iWay Security Exchange 1.0 combines iWay and IBM tools that offer both "push" and "pull" information access and delivery across organizational boundaries.

RBC Financial Group and Information Builders were selected by industry-expert judges as finalists in the Business Intelligence category. The RBC Financial Group implementation was chosen over more than 100 entries based on its impact, relevance, and innovation.

Each year we recognize select customers for exceptional applications in categories such as "highest return on investment," and "most innovative use of Information Builders technology."

• A Major U.S. Bank – Most Scalable

  Using WebFOCUS, the bank is able to perform impromptu searches to analyze eminent spending patterns and trends and provide more than 500,000 corporate credit card customers with direct, real-time access to detailed account information.

• A Major U.S. Bank – Most Scalable

  Using WebFOCUS, the bank is able to perform impromptu searches to analyze eminent spending patterns and trends and provide more than 500,000 corporate credit card customers with direct, real-time access to detailed account information.

• WESCO International, Inc. – Highest ROI

  WESCO, a leading provider of MRO products, construction materials, and advanced integrated supply procurement outsourcing services, employed WebFOCUS to aggregate purchasing, inventory management, financial reporting, and supplier information from hundreds of disparate UNIX servers and deliver it in real-time directly to employees worldwide. With WebFOCUS, WESCO provides low-cost access to real-time information to an extensive user community, including business analysts, senior executives, and managers. While analysts are able to drill down to line item detail, managers use a higher-level customized format. Since deploying the WebFOCUS technology, WESCO has saved millions of dollars.

• City of Philadelphia – Most Innovative Use of Technology

  Philadelphia used WebFOCUS to build a Homeless Outreach Application, which the city uses to track its homeless population and monitor their last point of contact as well as shelter placement. In addition to the Homeless Outreach Application, Philadelphia implemented WebFOCUS to develop an Early Intervention Interruptions Application. This application ensures that young children with developmental disabilities are covered with medical plans by the state. The agencies use WebFOCUS and Maintain to track the services provided by the city.

Intelligent Enterprise named Information Builders among its Companies to Watch for the second consecutive year, citing the company's "experience in creating large-scale information transparency" as a key factor.

The U.S. Department of Justice and Melinda Morgan, deputy director of the DoJ's Human Resource Systems Analysis Group, join a select group of recipients who were recognized for making a significant contribution to federal information technology during the 2002 calendar year. The award was for the DoJ's Human Capital Project, which was designed to meet a presidential mandate for human-capital management. Nominated by Federal Computer Week readers, the winners were selected by a panel of independent judges based on the success of the development, acquisition, or management of federal information technology.

WebFOCUS was named one of three finalists for a 2003 Well-Connected Award in the category of Business Intelligence Solutions from Network Computing magazine. WebFOCUS was chosen for its features designed to leverage Web technology, wide-scale information delivery capabilities, and rapid return on investment (ROI).

Information Builders has been named one of the 100 Companies That Matter by KMWorld. According to the publishers of KMWorld, criteria for inclusion varied, but all companies have things in common. Each has either helped to create, redefine, or enhance a market, and they all share one thing: velocity of innovation. The leading information provider serving the knowledge management systems market, KMWorld informs more than 56,000 subscribers about the components and processes – and subsequent success stories – that together offer solutions for improving business performance.

In 2003, these customer applications were accepted into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution for their innovative uses of technology:

• Beringer Blass Wine Estates, a leader in the premium wine industry, looked to WebFOCUS for the necessary BI to enhance its competitiveness by making critical business data and industry analysis readily available to employees via a corporate portal. This includes key remote sales agents who benefit from unlimited access anytime, anywhere.
• New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene uses portions of iWay Software's Bioterrorism Response Suite application in its Syndromic Surveillance System, an important business intelligence and data-mining tool that solves lengthy data collection problems. Local healthcare institutions submit symptom data into the system, which conforms this information into a common format. Temporal-spatial analyses are then performed based upon probability modeling, which allows the department to watch for trends that indicate an elevated level of a syndrome, or defined set of symptoms is occurring in specific neighborhoods. This information may then be used to increase active surveillance of disease in a community, or to notify the medical provider community to be on the alert for particular diseases.
• RBC Financial Group uses WebFOCUS for its innovative Bankbook Reconstruct application, completely automating the once manual process of printing bank statements and bankbook reconstructs. As a result, employees save a tremendous amount of time while the financial institution saves millions of dollars. This intranet application enables personnel to instantly reconstruct bank statements containing up to six years of transaction history for their 12 million personal banking clients.
• Trustmark, a major health insurance and benefits-administration company, used HIPAA as the catalyst to build a flexible integration platform incorporating iWay Software's XML Transformation Engine and adapters. This initiative provides value in an ever-increasing e-business environment while being compatible with new government regulations. The system takes HIPAA-standard transactions and processes them based on the specific need.
• United States Department of Justice and its finance staff use WebFOCUS to improve reporting on human-capital assets and costs by streamlining access to HR and payroll information. The Human Resource Systems Analysis Group implemented a secure, Web-based, self-service reporting application providing department-wide access to personnel and payroll information to a variety of users.

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene worked with Information Builders and iWay Software to develop the Bioterrorism Response Suite allowing the city's 32 hospitals, the 911 emergency system, laboratories, pharmacies, emergency workers, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to quickly share information and monitor outbreaks of disease.

Software Business named iWay Software's Security Exchange solution, Best Security Initiative. The Security Exchange cost-effectively enables the exchange of information with little to no impact on existing information assets.

The City of Richmond, B.C., which uses WebFOCUS to keep the low-lying city from sinking into the Fraser River, received the Best Application of Web Technology award from the British Columbia Technology Industry Association (BCTIA). The award recognizes outstanding utilization of Internet technology to enhance and improve business processes, operations, sales, marketing, supply chain management, customer service, communications, competitiveness, or business relationships.

Information Builders was included as one of the 500 leading solution providers in North America for the second consecutive year, generating nearly $280 million in 2001 fiscal sales.

Each year, we recognize select customers for exceptional applications, in categories such as "highest return on investment," and "most innovative use of Information Builders technology."

• Moneris Solutions – Most Scalable

  Moneris Solutions, Canada's leading technology merchant processing company, has rolled out Canada's first Internet-based online transaction and analysis reporting service for merchants – to over 300,000 merchants. The system offers daily Visa, MasterCard, and debit card transaction report information. It also streamlines cash flow and consolidated statements. Moneris plans to provide this application to U.S. merchants.

• RBC Financial Group – Highest ROI

  RBC Financial Group has automated the process of bank statement reprints and bankbook reconstructs, saving the bank millions of dollars per year and creating a more profitable revenue channel. Return on investment equaled 1,218 percent.

• Management Information Solutions/MSD Wayne Township – Most Innovative Use of Technology

  MSD Wayne Township, one of Indiana's 10 largest public school districts, has integrated all the district's systems so student achievement can be effectively measured. As a result, student achievement has grown, the staff has become more effective, and the school and community have gained recognition, creating even more opportunities.

In 2002, these customer applications were accepted into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution for their innovative uses of technology.

• ArvinMeritor

  ArvinMeritor, a $7 billion global supplier of integrated systems, modules, and components for the motor vehicle industry, developed a flexible, intuitive Web environment for a wide range of reporting needs, including accounting and financial reports, task forecasting, customer service, end-of-month billing, quality control, shipping, engineering, and purchasing.

• Geronimo

  Geronimo an employee relations service, has succeeded in developing an innovative and highly flexible payroll system. The system is based on an intelligent workbench supporting increased flexibility and individualization of employee benefits by enabling payroll specialists to define payroll and benefits regulations. This has allowed Geronimo many benefits, including excellent application performance, time savings, complete scalability, and shorter application maintenance cycles.

• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

  Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) utilizes WebFOCUS for its innovative BureauNet Project for the Federal Insurance Mitigation Administration (FIMA) and National Flood Insurance Program Bureau (NFIP). The solution, implemented by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), revolutionized the way information is delivered to disaster responders through a Web-based system powered by Information Builders' technology.

• CSX Transportation

  CSX Transportation, the largest railroad in the eastern United States, consolidates their disparate signal-trouble ticket systems into one Web-based system. This has led to an enhanced ability to more effectively respond to signal incidents, thereby enhancing railroad operations and safety.

• Caja Espana

  Caja Espana, one of Spain's leading financial institutions, devised the Commercial Information System (CIS) project, to meet customer demands and improve its relationship with the most profitable customer segments.

• BMO Bank of Montreal

  Bank of Montreal, Canada's first bank and one of the largest financial institutions in North America, created WebMPM. This electronic reporting system gives the bank's finance staff information at their fingertips. Users are able to drill down and produce consistent, accurate reports in a matter of minutes.

Administaff, a respected leader in the professional employer organization (PEO) industry, has received the KMWorld Best Practice Award. The award is presented by KMWorld Magazine to companies that have made significant contributions within their organizations through the use of knowledge management and business intelligence.

The Boeing Company has awarded Information Builders a coveted Gold performance rating for quality and delivery of software products. This rating is accorded vendors who can meet Boeing's stringent criteria – a success rate and satisfaction level of no less than 100% – for a minimum of one year. Information Builders products are used by Boeing for its work at the Kennedy Space Center.

Intelligent Enterprise Magazine has named Information Builders a Company to Watch in 2002. Information Builders received the honor for providing IT products that help organizations achieve competitive advantage by gathering, analyzing, sharing, and acting upon intelligence. IT and business leaders will increasingly rely on the company to make their organizations smarter, faster, and more profitable.

Information Builders is the proud recipient of the 2001 International Corporate Award, an honor bestowed on companies that exhibit substantial global growth and support of international business endeavors. The award is given by the Manhattan International Development Corporation (MIDC) for Information Builders' role in changing the landscape of technology commerce.

The United States Department of Agriculture was awarded the prestigious PostNewsweek Agency Award for Excellence for its Mapping Analysis Program (MAP). This sophisticated analysis, management, and reporting system utilizes Information Builders technology to help the agency better monitor program performance and target tax dollars where they are needed most.

Information Builders and its customer, the city of Richmond, British Columbia, are joint recipients of the Mobile/Wireless Business Intelligence Merit Award from CMP Media's RealWare Awards program. The RealWare Awards recognize outstanding customer implementations demonstrating innovative IT solutions. Information Builders' WebFOCUS and AvantGo solutions allowed the city of Richmond to more effectively monitor flood levels and provide valuable trend information, analysis, and reports wirelessly to people in the field.

The ComputerworldROI's list of the top 25 Wireless Innovators included Edward Hung of the city of Richmond, British Columbia for his work in monitoring flood levels on the Web and through handheld devices using WebFOCUS.

Information Builders' president and cofounder Gerald Cohen was named the 27th most powerful person in IT by Enterprise Systems. The list of 100 was made up of technology leaders who have affected the IT landscape or have the power to greatly affect it going forward.

Information Builders was named one of the top business intelligence vendors in DM Review's 2001 Top 100. For four consecutive years, Information Builders has achieved this prestigious recognition based on a product usage/vendor rating survey in the e-business, customer relationship management, and data warehousing sectors, from DM Review's readers.

New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani recognized Gerald D. Cohen for his quarter-century commitment to the New York and global technology marketplace. He was one of six recipients of the coveted Mayor's Award for Excellence, the honor given annually to recognize special members of, and contributions to, New York's science and technology community.

The United States Postal Service (USPS), an Information Builders' customer, was awarded the Government Computer News (GCN) Federal Government Agency Award for Excellence for its Anti-Money Laundering Compliance System. The USPS was one of 10 government agencies honored for their outstanding record in the application of information technology.

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The Pennsylvania State Police were honored with a Process Innovation Award in the Government Vertical category for its Web site application. The Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting System (PAUCRS), built using WebFOCUS technology, delivers crime statistics and information to the public.

In 2001, these customer applications were accepted into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution, contributing to the museum's efforts to chronicle the information age:

• Dogmatch

  Dogmatch, a national dog-adoption database (www.dogmatch.com), used WebFOCUS to build its Web-based system, matching dogs in shelters with potential owners by personal preferences and geographic locations.

• Oxford Properties' OASIS

  Oxford Properties' OASIS (Oxford's Advanced Strategic Information Source) system is a Web-enabled intelligence and information delivery system for analysis and reporting powered by WebFOCUS. OASIS allows executives, employees, partners, and clients to better manage their real estate properties with detailed or consolidated financial, lease, and occupancy information and statistics.

• The United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania

  The United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania installed a WebFOCUS system to automate the tracking and capture of financial donations made over the Internet, resulting in an elimination of all paperwork, reduced costs, and an improved collections process.

• USPS

  The United States Postal Service's Anti-Money Laundering solution, powered by WebFOCUS, instituted reporting and analysis tools to track suspicious money orders and locate patterns that may indicate money-laundering activities.

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• Von Roll Group

  Von Roll Group created a WebFOCUS-based financial consolidation and reporting system for large corporations that provided flexibility and facilitated decentralized data capture, product line organization, and high-speed and English-translated reporting.

• CECA

  CECA, the savings bank association of Spain, used a WebFOCUS-based application to allow customers easier use of their business banking cards. The system enabled companies to group, sort, and filter charged expenses, resulting in better analysis of company expenditures.

Information Builders was included as one of the 500 leading solution providers in North America, generating nearly $280 million in fiscal 2000 sales.

Information Builders' WebFOCUS was named a finalist in the eWeek Excellence Award, 2001, for enterprise systems development.

Each year, we recognize select customers for exceptional applications, in categories such as "highest return on investment," and "most inovative use of Information Builders technology."

• Philips Semiconductor, Inc. – Fastest Time to Market

  For the business forecasting phase of its CLASS (SAP) Project reporting application, allowing all users in the company to use one ERP system.

• CN Rail – Highest ROI

  For its Chargeable Services application that provides timely information to manage business, improve billing collection, and identify missed opportunities to grow CN Rail's Chargeable Services revenues.

• City of Richmond, British Columbia – Most Innovative Use of Technology

  For the Mobile Monitoring for Municipalities application that allows the city's Engineering and Public Works Department to respond to alerts, monitor trends, track pump status, etc. via their wireless devices and keeps the low-lying city from sinking.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), an Information Builders' customer, was awarded the Government Technology Leadership Award for its Domestic Electronic Bid Entry System (DEBES). DEBES, powered by WebFOCUS, was developed to automate the process of soliciting and receiving bids for the support of the domestic distribution of food assistance.

Crain's New York Business ranked Information Builders the number one privately-held NY technology firm in their The Private 200-1999 New York Area's Top Private Companies. (#87 overall)

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