from DSSResources.comTravel and Transport standardizes on Information Builders' WebFOCUS for enterprise business intelligenceNEW YORK, NY, June 15, 2004 -- Information Builders, the leader in enterprise business intelligence (BI) solutions and real-time Web reporting, today announced that Travel and Transport, Inc. of Omaha, Nebraska has selected WebFOCUS as its corporate standard for business intelligence and enterprise reporting. Travel and Transport chose WebFOCUS as its corporate standard based on the software's proven ability to create, schedule, and deliver a wide range of reports to authorized users at all levels of the organization, both internal and external. WebFOCUS helps corporate customers monitor employee spending, book travel with preferred vendors, and negotiate corporate purchasing agreements that can save them millions of dollars per year. "As our corporate standard for enterprise reporting, WebFOCUS is critical to our business," said Michael Kubasik, vice president of Information Technology Services at Travel and Transport. "Our accountants use WebFOCUS to reconcile booked items and create billing statements. Additionally, WebFOCUS is used to summarize travel expenditures, as well as to create monthly financial statements for customers." Travel and Transport evaluated BI products from Oracle, Crystal Reports, and Informix before selecting Information Builders' WebFOCUS. "We needed more than just pretty reports," Kubasik said. "We wanted to build a reporting environment that was powerful enough to handle transaction-intensive operations, yet simple enough to deploy over the Web. Having an efficient architecture was important, since we knew we would have hundreds of concurrent users. That's what made Information Builders' WebFOCUS stand out." WebFOCUS has become a critical component of Travel and Transport's eTTek Review, a comprehensive reporting solution that allows travel managers to access corporate travel information instantly via the Internet or their intranets. Travel and Transport's customers can also purchase Power Reporter, a WebFOCUS-based reporting tool that allows them to dynamically change selection criteria and obtain immediate results. Travel managers at about 300 corporations use reporting tools provided by Travel and Transport to analyze corporate travel spending on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Collectively, they run an estimated 10,000 reports per month -- everything from noncompliance reports that reveal why an employee did not obtain the lowest airfare for a particular flight, to executive overviews that summarize corporate spending patterns. Travel and Transport can aggregate this data to negotiate bulk-purchasing agreements with airlines, hotels, and car rental companies. Information Builders Consulting supplied valuable expertise during the development of Power Reporter and eTTek Review, particularly during the final stages when developers were testing the application to increase performance. "With Information Builders, we get great technology and prompt, thorough follow-up whenever issues arise," said Kubasik. "Our Web-based reports are comprehensive management tools that maintain security, safety, policy compliance, and cost efficiency within a company." About Travel and Transport Headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, Travel and Transport is the eighth largest travel management company in the nation, with over 650 employee-owners located nationwide. The company has extensive experience in multiple businesses including travel management, loyalty solutions programs, meeting and incentive planning, and leisure travel services. Travel and Transport is a shareholder of RADIUS(R) -- the global travel company. RADIUS is one of the world's largest travel management companies, with combined annual sales of over $16 billion (USD). RADIUS is comprised of over 85 shareholder agencies in 70 countries around the world with over 4,600 travel agency locations. About Information Builders Information Builders, a $300 million company, is the leader in enterprise business intelligence and real-time Web reporting. The company's WebFOCUS product -- the industry's most secure and flexible -- is able to meet all the reporting needs of the extended enterprise, ranging from analysts to power users to the widest deployments for hundreds of thousands of users. Additionally, WebFOCUS' empowerment of organizations seeking to leverage all of their data by accessing it all -- from legacy to data warehouse -- is unmatched. Information Builders' award-winning technology has successfully provided quality software and superior services for 29 years to more than 12,000 customers, including most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,750 people and has over 350 business partners. Web Site: http://www.informationbuilders.com |