Information Builders Winter 2006

Volume 16 Number 1

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Departments

	Between the Lines
	In the News
	Partners
	At Deadline

Cover Story

	Eastern Mountain Sports Forges a Trail to Merchandising Visibility WebFOCUS and iWay Help Outdoor Specialty Retailer Climb to New Heights

Best Practices for BI

	View From the Top In the area of business intelligence, Information Builders' CEO points to the company's new Best Practices services offering – a solution that is neatly packaged in a series of 10 modules. by Information Builders President and CEO, Gerald D. Cohen
	Building an Intelligent Enterprise Information Builders supplies a complete BI platform for creating strategic, analytic, and operational applications.
	Best Practices for Enterprise Deployment The achievement of organizational missions requires getting the most out of IT.
	Best Practices for Insurance BI platform helps insurance companies with enterprise integration, analysis, and reporting.

Features

	Interview With Wayne Eckerson, the Data Warehouse Institute A one-on-one with Eckerson, director of research and services for TDWI, on the key issues facing today's BI professionals.
	An Excerpt From Data Strategy (Addison Wesley, 2005) Business intelligence and data warehousing have become critical for organizations to make intelligent tactical and strategic decisions.

Integration Spotlight

	Is Service-Oriented Integration Right for You? SOA and SOA-oriented integration software products such as iWay can help to dramatically reduce the immensity of integration challenges.
	iWay Software to Unveil SOA Suite A new offering for creating an IT infrastructure that automates business activities and helps IT respond faster to changes in the business landscape.
	Data Integration – Making the Complex Simple Putting information in the hands of people that use it should be the goal of any data integration or ETL initiative.

Success Stories

	Starwood Hotels Accommodates HR Users With Operational Reporting System WebFOCUS provides a "suite upgrade" for leading hotel and leisure company.
	Parker Hannifin Turbocharges Continuous Improvement Initiative With OBI System New WebFOCUS reporting system helps improve key customer service delivery metric.
	ProRail Innovates Message Exchange iWay helps to establish a link between SAP and BizTalk Server.
	Lloyd's of London Removes Risk from Insurance Processing With WebFOCUS Enterprise BI solution helps Lloyd's of London evolve its business.
	BC Housing Monitors $100 Million in Subsidies with Self-Service BI Application WebFOCUS becomes the reporting standard.