Information Builders Honors Five Customers for Outstanding Use of Technology

Business Wire, May 2, 2007

E. & J. Gallo Winery, St. George Bank, Prince George County Police, Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Coty, Inc. Honored for Excellent Use of WebFOCUS and iWay Software

NEW YORK -- Information Builders, the leader in production business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced the winners of the 2007 Customer Awards of Distinction. Five companies are being honored this year for innovative, industry-leading application of WebFOCUS and iWay Software and will be presented with awards for their achievements at the Summit 2007 User Conference held in Las Vegas, May 20 - 24, 2007. The winners are:

* E & J Gallo Winery: best enterprise business intelligence solution

* St. George Bank: best operational business intelligence solution

* Prince George County Police: most innovative use of WebFOCUS

* Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS): best humanitarian application

* Coty, Inc.: highest ROI

"These awards are a way for us to acknowledge and praise our customers' outstanding use of technology," said Gerald D. Cohen, president and CEO at Information Builders. "By creating integrated business intelligence applications for their organizations, these companies are adding immense value for their customers, partners, suppliers, and employees, while simultaneously delivering value to the bottom line."

Best Enterprise BI Solution - A Very Good Year for E. & J. Gallo Winery

With state-of-the-art wineries located throughout California, E. & J. Gallo creates top-quality wines to suit every taste. Gallo has deployed over 1,000 WebFOCUS reports to 3,000 users across 19 lines of business, including customer service, event management, supply chain, finance, warehouse operations, forecasting, and wine management. Executives can create on-demand budget reports using WebFOCUS to help them keep an accurate, up-to-date eye on financials. Information Builders raises a toast to this venerable winemaker and its enduring legacy of finely crafted information systems.

Best Operational BI - St. George Bank Creates a Wealth of Management Info

St. George Bank has built its success on a simple premise: getting to know its customers. Personalized service is the cornerstone of a vast financial enterprise that spans retail banking, institutional banking, and wealth management, distinguishing St. George as one of the top 15 publicly listed companies in Australia. Today, WebFOCUS is extending that same degree of personal awareness to every corner of its operation, with user-friendly reporting applications for analyzing credit, managing loans, and complying with a raft of industry regulations. More than 500 users depend on WebFOCUS to deliver current operational data and the results have increased productivity and financial savings. WebFOCUS has also helped make their review process more proactive and efficient. The time to review a Branch portfolio reduced by 50 percent (from eight days down to four) and a user's ability to quickly and easily reference past account activity and gain real-time access to portfolio progress has helped automate and streamline more processes.

Most Innovative Use of WebFOCUS - Prince George County Rounds Up Critical Information

Citizens of Landover, Maryland depend on the Prince George County Police Department to maintain a peaceful and orderly community, protect lives and property, and apprehend criminals. These same directives describe the county's new incident reporting system as well. The system relies on WebFOCUS to ensure that agency communications are efficient, pervasive, and secure. Prince George County's Active Crime Reporting system is making the community a safer place to work and live, as officer's use BI technology to quickly access service calls and respond to 911 emergencies.

Most Humanitarian .- OKDHS Adopts BI for Case Workers

With thousands of Oklahoma children facing adoption or foster care, Oklahoma Department of Human Services uses WebFOCUS to help caseworkers provide better family services. The software enables the agency to track the precise needs of each child, from initial investigations by caseworkers through foster care, adoption, financial assistance, and post-adoptive financial assistance services. Thanks to the dedication and insight of this agency, case workers have the correct information on compliance issues, contacts, court reports, and treatment plans - so paperwork doesn't hold up the urgent needs of these children.

Highest ROI - Coty Savors the Sweet Smell of Success

As one of the world's largest and most successful beauty companies, Coty knows what it takes to stay on top. Following its acquisition of Unilever Cosmetics International in 2005, CIO Dave Berry turned to iWay for help with a massive SAP integration project - and quickly realized a 415 percent return on his investment in the software. The company utilized iWay's integration technology to integrate Unilever's infrastructure with its existing systems, completing the integration in five months and saving several million dollars. Coty also built a foundation for real-time operations by building an SOA allowing for the creation of a flexible architecture to provide views into real-time data operations.