Information Builders Magazine Spring/Summer 2000 - Volume 11 No. 1 25th Anniversary Issue - Driving the Future of Business The following articles are also available in PDF format. You can Download the Acrobat Reader now. Departments Hot Off the Wire At Deadline Cover Story Twenty-Five Years of Intelligent Solutions by Gerald Cohen At Deadline Tech Summit The Evolution of i-business The future is transformed as Information Builders marks its 25th Anniversary Celebrating Success Customers and partners reflect on the crucial role that Information Builders has played at their organizations and in their careers Past, Present, Future: A Common Thread Through the years, Information Builders user conferences have mirrored the vast changes in IT. But one thing has never changed � the incredibly powerful forum they provide for sharing ideas

Features

	Interview with Dr. Martin Slagowitz, Vice President of Information Builders Consulting Information Builders' Consulting organization is poised for its biggest growth ever and is helping customers grow their businesses by improving business performance, for example, by seizing the opportunities presented by the Internet by Eberly Barnes
	Customer Support's Silver Anniversary Information Builders' "New" CSS Improves Customer Satisfaction Worldwide � and Online by Robert Davies and Clark Matthews

Industry Insight

Interview with META's Mark A. Smith A one-on-one with META Group's program director, Application Delivery Strategies, to gather his perceptions on the state of the Business Intelligence marketplace by David Baum

Putting i-business To Work

	Merrill Lynch Streamlines Loan Origination Process with Custom Workflow Management System EDA software combines disparate business processes into one unified system by David Baum
	Thomas Register: Massive Publishing Project Gets A New Look from EDA Reed Technology, a member of the international publishing powerhouse Reed Elsevier plc., looks to Information Builders to help manage the massive Thomas Register by Paul DeGroot
	Bell Canada Transforms Legacy Applications into Sophisticated Business Intelligence Systems by David Baum
	Fukuoka City Bank Invests in Customer Service Banks are synonymous with growth, but like any business they need to worry about growing their own infrastructures in order to keep pace with their business needs by Carolyn Gruske

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