Information Builders Honored in InformationWeek Business Technology Network's Intelligent Enterprise 2009 Editors' Choice Awards

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - January 21, 2009) - Information Builders, the independent leader in operational business intelligence (BI) systems, today announced that it was selected in the Intelligent Enterprise 2009 Editors' Choice Awards as a winner in the Companies to Watch business intelligence category. Each year these awards honor technology companies with exceptional vision, innovation, and customer leadership in attaining strategic objectives.

In 2008 Information Builders drove innovation by tightly integrating WebFOCUS with robust open source engines such as Lucene for search, Google Maps for geographically aware applications, Flex for rich internet applications (RIA), and RStat for predictive analytics.

"Meanwhile, the company's proven products include scalable and affordable alternatives such as its underrated WebFOCUS Active Reports technology, which binds data and interactive viewing into a single, cross-platform file format," said Doug Henschen, editor-in-chief, InformationWeek and Business Technology Network's Intelligent Enterprise.

The Intelligent Enterprise 2009 Editors' Choice Awards name the dozen most influential vendors in enterprise IT for 2009 and highlight 36 Companies to Watch in five categories. Winners are selected by Henschen based on extensive analysis and collaborative input from 12 publication contributors.

"This year CIOs are going to be expected to do more with less across the enterprise," said Gerald Cohen, CEO and president, Information Builders. "We've been working hard, especially in the past year, to be in a position to help our customers achieve this goal by innovating with open source software and free data sources. It's rewarding to be publicly recognized by the leading source in enterprise technology for our efforts."

About Information Builders

As a leading independent business intelligence (BI) company for the past 30 years, Information Builders has provided innovative solutions to more than 12,000 customers, including most of the Fortune 100 and numerous U.S. federal government agencies. The company's flagship WebFOCUS product is the world's most widely used BI platform. Superior architecture and intuitive nature enables WebFOCUS to address the needs of everyone in the extended global enterprise -- executive, analytical, operational, and beyond. It provides the agility to adapt to changing business conditions with the security, scalability, and flexibility to support dozens to millions of users.

Unique to the company is the integration expertise it brings to the BI market. Information Builders iWay Software suite solves complex integration problems with pre-built components that require minimal custom programming. The award-winning combination of WebFOCUS and iWay gives Information Builders customers the ability to embrace the company motto: "Everyone Makes Decisions."

Information Builders is committed to customer service excellence with a Professional Services division that specializes in building custom applications using WebFOCUS and iWay Software. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has more than 350 business partners. Visit http://www.informationbuilders.com.

Contact Information: Press Contacts: Kathleen Moran Information Builders (917) 339-6313 Karyn Martin Emerge PR (617) 729-3173