GOVERNMENT

Information Builders, the enterprise business intelligence (BI) standard of choice for organizations around the world, today announced the company has added four state and local government customers to an already impressive roster. Faced with governmental regulatory policies, and limited staff and resources, the customers look to Information Builders to modernize their most critical operations while lowering program costs and increasing service levels. The state and local customer successes include: * Missouri Department of Social Services - through flexible and extensible intranet-based reporting and integration, department users increase service levels to over one million citizens while providing substantial cost and labor savings. * New Mexico Department of Transportation - a cohesive, state-wide reporting environment allows users across departments to easily obtain information from many types of information systems, streamlining cumbersome budgeting, finance, HR, and other operational information. * Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) - a performance management application that presents information about thousands of children and allows caseworkers to make better child-welfare decisions and help the organization comply with federal program requirements such as the Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) mandates. * State of Louisiana - a Web-based reporting tool that can access transactional data and display results in a variety of formats, including geographic map-based displays, which resulted in a more accurate view of trends and patterns in food-stamp benefit transactions to make illegal activity easier to detect, simplify IT structure, and minimize efforts by data processing personnel. "As states across the country face a daunting budget crisis, our organization is striving to find new ways to maximize resources while providing critical services to our constituents," said Brenda Garcia of New Mexico Department of Transportation. "Information Builders provides us with a unique opportunity to effectively satisfy our operational needs while being mindful of our resources," said Bill Hindman of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services. "The success of the application has helped us track progress related to program improvement at the state, area, county, and unit level." With more than 100 state and local agencies as customers, Information Builders is leading the way in providing innovative applications that solve critical social services needs. By focusing on cost-effective, reusable, and user friendly applications, state and local government organizations are extending the power of business intelligence into daily operations, impacting thousands of citizens every day. Government agencies are also applying the integration capabilities of iWay Software to link justice, health, environmental, and emergency networks for homeland-security initiatives. Leveraging Information Builders strategic partnerships with organizations such as ESRI provide additional value to government customers, enabling agencies to utilize innovative GIS mapping applications in everyday operations. "Government agencies at the state and local level have complex needs that require a customized approach and an understanding of how government works," said Gerald Cohen, founder and CEO of Information Builders. "With 30 years of experience in serving the government market, Information Builders has consistently provided reusable tools for building applications that increase productivity and citizen service levels while also lowering costs for social services programs."