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University of North Carolina Selects Information Builders, Over Other BI Vendors, as Their Enterprise Business Intelligence Standard

UNC Standardizes on WebFOCUS to Facilitate SungardSCT Banner Implementation

NEW YORK, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Information Builders, the enterprise business intelligence (BI) standard of choice for organizations around the world, today announced that the University of North Carolina (http://www.northcarolina.edu/), the oldest public university in America, has selected WebFOCUS as its enterprise standard for business intelligence and reporting.
The University of North Carolina selected WebFOCUS based on the software's flexible architecture and ability to meet the increasing demands for large-scale user deployments.

The University of North Carolina, under the auspices of the Shared Services Alliance, has formed several implementation teams based on functional area expertise. Each area is chartered with the creation of common business intelligence specifications that will be used across all of the participating institutions. "Information Builders is a great company to partner with in this endeavor," said Vijay Verma, associate vice president for Information Resources at the University of North Carolina. "When it comes to meeting the business intelligence requirements of UNC, Information Builders was the company with the most comprehensive solution."

Information Builders' innovative licensing for higher education ensures that all users at every level of the organization can collaborate across the multiple university campuses and functional areas. Now each of UNC's campuses will have most of their reporting and business intelligence needs met with just one product instead of several. "WebFOCUS is critical to our environment since it integrates so well with SungardSCT's suite of products and security," explained Verma. "Pertinent information can be safely delivered to administration, faculty, and students when, where, and how they need it."

"Many organizations are standardizing on a single business intelligence vendor that can meet the needs of the entire enterprise," said Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders. "The University of North Carolina is one of the most respected universities, and through the use of WebFOCUS, they are able to optimize their organization's performance."

According to Verma, standardizing on WebFOCUS will dramatically improve UNC's reporting uniformity and enhance strategic decisions made throughout the campuses.

About the University of North Carolina

For more than two centuries, North Carolina has led the nation in strong support for public higher education. Today, the University of North Carolina enrolls nearly 190,000 students. UNC campuses support a broad array of distinguished liberal arts programs, two medical schools and one teaching hospital, two law schools, a veterinary school, a school of pharmacy, ten nursing programs, 15 schools of education, three schools of engineering, and a specialized school for performing artists. UNC's mission is to discover, create, transmit, and apply knowledge to address the needs of individuals and society. Additionally, each campus is dedicated to ground-breaking research and wide-ranging public service that promote the continued economic and cultural growth of the state.

About Information Builders

Information Builders, a $300 million company, is the leader in enterprise business intelligence and operational 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 30 years to more than 7,000 customers and 10,000 sites, 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, has over 350 business partners.

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