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Public Sector Delivers Vital Information with Information Builders WebFOCUS

Published: July 31, 2008

Public sector organizations are delivering outward-facing BI to their agents and citizens.

Information Builders, the independent leader in pervasive business intelligence (BI) systems, 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.

"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.”