INFORMATION BUILDERS APPS ACCEPTED INTO SMITHSONIAN

Information Builders, a leader in Web business intelligence, announced that six of its customers' applications were honored on Monday, April 9, by the Chairman's Committee of the Computerworld Honors Program with a Medal Presentation ceremony at San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor. The committee recommends these information technology applications for inclusion in the prestigious Smithsonian Institution's Permanent Research Collection. Laureates chosen for this award have devised tools that extend the benefits of technology to society.

Nominated by Gerald D. Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders, the applications employ Information Builders' popular WebFOCUS solution and will become part of a collection that includes more than 440 of the year's most innovative applications of technology, from 38 states and 21 countries. "Information Builders is proud to see these customers recognized for using WebFOCUS to make such valuable contributions to society through technology," said Mr. Cohen.

Each year the Computerworld Honors Program, established by the leaders of the information technology industry, honors the achievements of those who have used technology for the benefit of mankind. The award is designed to enhance the Smithsonian Institution archives on innovation in information technology and to recognize each nominee's achievement. Every nominee's case study is inducted into the Permanent Research Collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

The Information Builders 2001 Laureates

Dogmatch, a national dog-adoption database, www.dogmatch.com, used WebFOCUS to build its Web-based system, matching dogs in shelters with potential owners by personal preferences and geographic locations.

Oxford Properties' OASIS (Oxford's Advanced Strategic Information Source) system, a Web-enabled intelligence and information delivery system for analysis and reporting, is also powered by WebFOCUS. OASIS allows executives, employees, partners, and clients to better manage their real estate properties with detailed or consolidated financial, lease, and occupancy information and statistics.

The United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania installed a WebFOCUS system to automate the tracking and capture of financial donations made over the Internet, resulting in an elimination of all paperwork, reduced costs, and an improved collections process.

The United States Postal Service's Anti-Money Laundering solution, powered by WebFOCUS, instituted reporting and analysis tools to track suspicious money orders and locate patterns that may indicate money-laundering activities.

Von Roll Group created a WebFOCUS-based financial consolidation and reporting system for large corporations that provided flexibility and facilitated decentralized data capture, product line organization, and high-speed and English-translated reporting.

CECA, the Savings Bank Association of Spain, used a WebFOCUS-based application to allow customers easier use of their business banking cards. The system enabled companies to group, sort, and filter charged expenses, resulting in better analysis of company expenditures.

About WebFOCUS

WebFOCUS is Information Builders' suite of business intelligence tools designed to deliver information easily and instantly to management, employees, customers, partners, and vendors -- at the point of business where it's most vital. WebFOCUS contains system integration, data reporting, and analysis capabilities to access data from any enterprise source. The data is turned into useful information and delivered in real time over an Internet or intranet connection to the desktop or virtually any wireless device.

Organizations benefit from WebFOCUS' ease of use, depth and breadth of information access, delivery capabilities and scalability. It delivers mission-critical business information throughout the enterprise more quickly and cost-effectively for today's e-business initiatives. WebFOCUS provides support for all levels of users: portals for management, OLAP for analysts, and self-service for employees, partners, and customers.

About the Award

"The primary source material submitted by these organizations will enrich the National Museum of American History's growing collection on the history of information technology, and contribute significantly to the museum's ongoing efforts to chronicle the Information Age," said Spencer R. Crew, Director of the National Museum of American History. The museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution, founded in 1846, which is a complex of 16 museums, numerous research facilities, and the National Zoo. Case studies from the 2001 Computerworld Honors Program will be available at www.cwheroes.org, the official Internet site of the Computerworld Honors Program, where the entire collection is available to scholars, researchers, and the general public worldwide.

Each year, the Computerworld Honors Chairman's Committee nominates companies that use information technology to improve society for inclusion in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History's IT Innovation Collection. Founded in 1988, the Computerworld Honors Program searches for and recognizes companies that have demonstrated vision and leadership as they strive to use information technology in innovative ways across 10 categories: Business and Related Services; Education and Academia; Environment, Energy, and Agriculture; Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate; Government and Nonprofit Organizations; Manufacturing; Media, Arts, and Entertainment; Medicine; Science; and Transportation.

About Information Builders

Information Builders is the leader in Web Business Intelligence. Headquartered in New York, Information Builders helps companies and government organizations improve their mission-critical operations by transforming data into usable intelligence and delivering it through the Internet. With its market-leading WebFOCUS product, Information Builders boasts more than 9,000 global customer sites, including 93 of the Fortune 100, among its current customers. The company employs 2,000 professionals worldwide and generated revenues exceeding $300 million in 2000. For more information, please visit www.informationbuilders.com.

Contact Kathleen Moran of Information Builders, 917-339-6313, kathleen_moran@ibi.com.