Orange County, FL, Selects Information Builders' WebFOCUS Business Intelligence Solution for Reporting and Drill-Down Capabilities

WebFOCUS Selected Above Competition After Extensive Capability Comparison Testing

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Information Builders, leader in business intelligence solutions for real-time information delivery over the Web, today announced that Florida's Orange County Government chose the WebFOCUS business intelligence solution. Orange County is in the process of beta-testing its next-generation financial management solution, AMS ADVANTAGE ® 3.0 Financial from American Management Solutions (AMS). After a thorough evaluation, Orange County selected Information Builders' WebFOCUS for its reporting functionality due to the immediate drill-down capabilities of WebFOCUS to real-time data.

"Our users are much more concerned with usability than look and feel," said Barry Skinner, deputy director of finance and accounting at Orange County. "For this particular project, Orange County was looking for a solution, such as WebFOCUS by Information Builders, that would make end users more self-sufficient and reduce the burden on IT for addressing user information needs."

At the heart of WebFOCUS is a high-powered reporting engine designed to meet a wide range of enterprise information needs. WebFOCUS allows organizations to access data on virtually any platform or in any file structure and dynamically generate it in a variety of formats including HTML, XML, Excel, Excel 2000, and PDF files for display in Web browsers or for use with popular applications. The result is a robust, scalable, easy-to-maintain reporting system that makes information instantly available to any user throughout the enterprise in the most appropriate format.

Unlike SQL wraparound tools, WebFOCUS is designed for reporting and analysis. Its unique data manipulation capabilities enable it to easily handle complex tasks with one pass of the data -- rankings, IF-THEN-ELSE logic, row totals, multidimensional reporting, cumulative totals, percentages, inter-record calculations, operations on computed columns, "if" tests on totals, and much more. Other reporting tools either cannot match this level of complex reporting or require multiple passes of the data.

Millions of customers utilize Information Builders' technology solutions every day in business, government, and education through applications running on intranets, extranets, and the Internet. With 11,000 customer sites, including most of the Fortune 100, Information Builders works with the world's leading organizations in every major industry.

About Information Builders
Information Builders is the leader in business intelligence, specializing in real-time information delivery over the Web. Headquartered in New York, Information Builders helps companies and government organizations improve their mission-critical operations by transforming data into usable information and delivering it to employees, managers, partners, and customers through the Internet. With the award-winning WebFOCUS solution, Information Builders delivers information for more than 11,000 global customer sites, including most of the Fortune 100 and all U.S. government agencies. The company employs 2,000 professionals worldwide and generated revenues exceeding $300 million in 2000.