Million-Dollar Baby

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As many of you may already know, Information Builders recently celebrated its 30-year anniversary. Wow – a milestone not only for our company but in the IT industry as well.

From day one – back in 1975 with the birth of the flagship FOCUS product, to today's WebFOCUS business intelligence and iWay business integration solutions – Information Builders has always prided itself in the fact that its long history of success rests first and foremost on the success of its users.

For 30 years we have partnered with customers like you to help build reporting solutions that go a long way in fulfilling your organization's mission. In keeping with that tradition, we introduced a Million Dollar ROI Program, which documents our customers' success with operational business intelligence (OBI) applications built with WebFOCUS. And now we encourage you to cash in on our enhanced Best Practices Program, designed to help more of you realize savings of $1 million or more. (Point your browser to www.informationbuilders.com/new/insights/current_issue.html for more on the Best Practices Program.)

Within these pages you will find the common theme, Best Practices for BI: Building an Intelligent Enterprise; Best Practices for Enterprise Deployment; and as a case in point, Best Practices for Insurance.

Many of our customers have been enriching their organizations through innovative uses of WebFOCUS and iWay. Take, for example, Eastern Mountain Sports, the leading outdoor specialty retailer who developed a business intelligence dashboard that helps store managers keep their shelves stocked with the essential gear their customers ask for.

Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, one of the world's top hotel and leisure companies, experienced sizeable cost savings and productivity gains, thanks to a new enterprise OBI system that pulls production HR data into a data warehouse by day and allows self-service reporting via standard Web browsers.

In this issue you will see firsthand how your peers are putting information to work in their organizations to save time, boost efficiency…and best of all, make big bucks.

Information Builders CEO Gerry Cohen's mantra these days is, "If you don't have at least one business intelligence application saving you $1 million a year or more, you haven't realized the potential of enterprise BI."

So get with the program! Our Best Practices Program, that is, and see how you can develop your own million-dollar baby.