Public Sector Delivers Vital Information to Knowledge Workers, Communities, and Citizens With Information Builders

NEW YORK, NY, Jul 31 (MARKET WIRE) --
Information Builders, the independent leader in pervasive business
intelligence (BI) systems, today announced that public sector
organizations, including city, county, state, and federal government
entities, are delivering outward-facing BI to their agents and citizens.
Today, government organizations have more information and financial
demands to fulfill than ever before -- from day-to-day public safety and
security concerns to real-time public data access and management
requirements. The sudden increase of dynamic Web-based interactions is
driving a re-examination of what it means to deliver powerful BI models.

With a well-established foothold in the public sector, from law
enforcement organizations to federal agencies, Information Builders has
expanded the reach of its highly intuitive and scalable WebFOCUS BI
platform to support the information access needs of various communities,
including:

Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting System

Hailed by FBI officials as the first of its kind in the country, the
Pennsylvania State Police's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Website was
built using WebFOCUS technology. WebFOCUS helps local police fight crime
more effectively while giving citizens 24x7 access to crime statistics
for towns, counties, regions, college campuses, and the state as a whole.
The site features real-time statistical analyses, queries that anyone can
customize, and automated file transfer to the FBI for its national crime
database. The system has also been successfully adapted by Missouri State
Police.

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Restaurant
Inspection Information

New York City's Department of Health officials created a restaurant
inspection self-service application that has garnered five-star reviews
from inside and outside of government. This heavily trafficked site lets
users search for their favorite restaurants, bakeries, and take-outs by
name or location and check out any recent violations.

Erlanger, Kentucky Police Department

Information Builders used WebFOCUS and Arc/IMS from ESRI to create an
interactive crime portal, which displays real-time views of incidents,
arrests, 911 calls, and other events throughout the dispatch area.
Erlanger citizens will also be able to access some of this information
via a public-facing Web site, so they can check on crime occurring in
their neighborhoods.

City of Houston Police Department

The City of Houston uses WebFOCUS to provide citizens a monthly
breakdown, by police districts and beats, of crimes reported. By
selecting which area of the city to research from a clickable, graphic
map or a list, they can select a specific beat from the district map to
access a table containing the stats for the crimes in the selected beat
and month. The table shows the type of offense, date and time, district
and beat, premise code of the location, block numbers, and street name.

City of Richardson, Texas

As part of its effort to revitalize the once booming hub of the Dallas
Telecom Corridor, the City of Richardson adapted Information Builders
WebFOCUS to support its reporting needs. The Neighborhood Services group,
charged with enforcing city codes and enhancing communication with
citizens, has created external reports for the general public through
which WebFOCUS maintains a running history of violations and citations,
so citizens can see, for example, what inspectors are doing about a
neighbor's fence that is in need of repair. WebFOCUS offers details about
citations issued and all follow-up activities.

"State and federal government organizations have vast data stores and have
relied on WebFOCUS to provide access and analysis for a variety of vital
public services," said Information Builders CEO Gerald Cohen. "The growing
demand for self-service government and public appetite for information has
driven a new breed of BI applications. Our software is well-suited to
deliver access to vast data within a framework that is easy and intuitive
enough for any citizen to navigate to get the answers they need. This
usability is the same feature that has driven adoption in public and
private sector customers and powered some of the largest user bases in the
market."

About Information Builders

As a leading independent business intelligence (BI) company for the past
30 years, Information Builders has provided innovative solutions to more
than 12,000 customers, including most of the Fortune 100 and numerous U.S.
federal government agencies. The company's flagship WebFOCUS product is
the world's most widely used BI platform. Superior architecture and
intuitive nature enables WebFOCUS to address the needs of everyone in the
extended global enterprise -- executive, analytical, operational, and
beyond. It provides the agility to adapt to changing business conditions
with the security, scalability, and flexibility to support dozens to
millions of users.

Unique to the company is the integration expertise it brings to the BI
market. Information Builders iWay Software suite solves complex
integration problems with pre-built components that require minimal
custom programming. The award-winning combination of WebFOCUS and iWay
give Information Builders customers the ability to embrace the company
motto: "Because Everyone Makes Decisions."

Information Builders is committed to customer service excellence with a
Professional Services division that specializes in building custom
applications using WebFOCUS and iWay Software. Headquartered in New York
City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has
more than 350 business partners. Visit http://www.informationbuilders.com.

Press Contacts:
Kathleen Moran
Information Builders
(917) 339-6313
Email Contact

Stephanie Fallon
Emerge PR
(617) 729-3176
Email Contact

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