Information Builders Partners With Integral Systems to Deliver Human Capital Solutions and Seamless Integration of OnDemand Software as a Service

WebFOCUS Helps Integral Customers Optimize Reporting Environment


NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - December 17, 2008) - Information Builders, the independent leader in operational business intelligence (BI) systems, and Integral Systems, leading provider of premier human capital solutions, today announced an agreement designed to optimize Integral's i-Trust OnDemand product suite with Information Builders business intelligence technology. The combined offering incorporates Information Builders WebFOCUS into Integral's i-Trust, creating an HR, talent management, and payroll product suite to help customers obtain real-time data in an easy to use, drag and drop report-development environment.

"By integrating business intelligence tools with HR products and services, Information Builders is meeting the changing demands of the human capital industry," said Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders. "We are working with Integral to provide the tools and support needed to satisfy the employee and talent-management needs, critical to today's business model."

Integral services more than 1.2 million users and clients across multiple Fortune 1000 companies. Realizing that an organization's most critical asset is its people, Integral's i-Trust product suite offers an integrated solution to helping organizations better manage their workforce from applicant tracking and onboarding, to benefits management, and payroll processing, to leadership development and succession planning. Based on more than 30 years of industry experience Integral's i-Trust product suite is delivered through an OnDemand "pay as you use" pricing model.

The inclusion of WebFOCUS, the comprehensive and fully integrated enterprise business intelligence and reporting platform developed by Information Builders, offers a great advantage to Integral's solution. Real-time updates give clients the power to leverage Integral's product suite without the cost or resources required for an internal implementation and also gives them greater flexibility, whether they are an international firm using internal systems or a small company operating "virtually" on the Web.

With WebFOCUS, Integral's i-Trust product suite puts HR and payroll data at the user's fingertips. Reports can be produced in multiple formats, including HTML, Excel, and PDF, allowing for the integration of any report element into a range of other reports, including Web and news searches about your company -- and the tables, charts, and graphs it creates can be readily adapted for presentations or handouts. Other reporting and analysis features include: dashboards, a reporting repository, a library of fully developed parameter-driven reports, visualization tools, and online analytical processing.

"Incorporating Information Builders business intelligence reporting and analytics into Integral's product suite is a great benefit to our customers," said Scott Macdonald, Integral's president. "As Integral continues to bring best-of-breed solutions to the human capital management space, our relationship with Information Builders ensures that key performance indicators and benchmark information will be more accessible to industry-leading businesses in a one-stop solution."

About Integral Systems

Integral Systems, founded in 1972, is a leading provider of versatile employee and talent management solutions. Integral offers OnDemand solutions to facilitate human capital management and is an innovative provider of HR, pay and benefit management systems to Fortune 1000 Companies. Leveraging over 30 years of experience, Integral's i-Trust product suite brings to the desktop the power, functionality and tools necessary to successfully manage an organization's workforce.

Integral's worldwide client base includes government agencies and companies in the manufacturing, distribution, higher education, health care, energy, retail, and telecommunications fields. For information on Integral's products and services, visit www.integralsys.com.

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 informationbuilders.com.

Contact Information: Press Contacts Kathleen Moran Information Builders (917) 339-6313 Jennifer Moebius Emerge PR (617) 729-3183