Saint-Gobain Weber Selects Information Builders' WebFOCUS for Enterprise Reporting With SAP BW Data WarehouseNEW YORK, April 14, 2004 -- Information Builders, the leader in enterprise business intelligence (BI) solutions and real-time Web reporting, today announced that Saint-Gobain Weber (Saint-Gobain's Materials and Construction division) of France has chosen WebFOCUS to provide its SAP environment with a new dimension by adding sophisticated and user-friendly enterprise reporting entirely complementary to SAP BW. WebFOCUS provides SAP with the capacity, via the Internet, to access the SAP BW cube using a lightweight browser. This method accelerates the large-scale deployment of self-service applications while improving the standard content delivered in SAP BW. "The end user can customize reporting needs and the IT team is therefore less often called upon," declares Philippe Marsy, director of information systems at Saint-Gobain Weber. "This will give us a full business intelligence architecture composed of a data warehouse (SAP BW) and a business reporting solution (Information Builders' WebFOCUS)." Powered by WebFOCUS, the Information Systems department at Saint-Gobain Weber will automate the mass production of reports that provide real-time sales-related information. These reports will be sent to sales representatives in PDF format. The principal information contained in these reports concerns product lines, client brand names and regions. The sales representatives will then be able to compare their performance in realtime with their objectives and sales from the previous year. WebFOCUS for BW, a SAP-Certified Solution WebFOCUS can analyze SAP BW data and use it to generate reports. If necessary, it can also explore all company and SAP R/3(R) data in detail. WebFOCUS extends the SAP BW environment from a client/server to a lightweight client Internet model, opening access to easy-to-use self-service applications, as well as the most in-depth OLAP analyses. Due to its OLAP BAPI interface, WebFOCUS provides more scalable integration into SAP BW, one of the components of the mySAP Business Intelligence solution. WebFOCUS searches are processed more efficiently for users of both UNIX and NT. The graphical user interface also manages SAP BW properties and variables. About Saint-Gobain Weber Saint-Gobain Weber's business consists of the constant development of innovative solutions based on ready-to-use mortar employed in facing buildings, tiling work, and more generally in building construction and maintenance. In 2002 Saint-Gobain Weber showed consolidated growth of more than $700 million EU. The company has 58 production units in 20 countries and a total workforce of 3,568 worldwide, including 850 in France. 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 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. For more information, go to http://www.informationbuilders.com. SOURCE Information Builders Web Site: http://www.informationbuilders.com |