NEW YORK, NY, December 13, 2006 -- Information Builders, the enterprise business intelligence standard of choice for organizations around the world, today announced that Power & Telephone Supply Company (Power & Tel) has selected Information Builders as its enterprise business intelligence (BI) standard for reporting and information delivery. Power & Tel compared BI solutions from many vendors extensively before selecting WebFOCUS as the tool that could help reduce development costs and improve delivery speeds.

Based in Memphis, Tennessee, Power & Telephone Supply Company is the largest independent distributor of material for the telecommunications and cable TV industries worldwide, reaching customers in 62 countries. The company stocks more than 10,000 cable television and telecommunications products from top manufacturers worldwide and serves customers in an array of markets including cable TV, independent telephone, rural utility services, international/multilingual, and government. Power & Tel¡¦s material management, bar-coding, forecasting software, emergency response, point-of-sale reporting, and other services help companies consistently get the right material, at the right place, and at the right time.

¡§We evaluated BI solutions from Cognos, Business Objects, Hyperion, and Information Builders before choosing WebFOCUS,¡¨ commented Rafael Rangel, director of International Business at Power & Telephone Supply. ¡§WebFOCUS best demonstrated the ability to reduce our development cost and improve delivery speed through simple and flexible reports. Its structured ad-hoc reports could be rolled out faster and to more departments without additional training, letting us quickly realize return on our investment.¡¨

Information Builders¡¦ WebFOCUS is a comprehensive and fully integrated enterprise business intelligence platform whose architecture, integration, and simplicity permeate every level of the global organization ¡V executive, analytical, and operational. WebFOCUS makes any data available, accessible, and meaningful to every application and person who needs it, when and how they need it.

Another factor in Power & Tel¡¦s decision to select WebFOCUS was the product¡¦s practical and user-friendly approach. WebFOCUS¡¦ mature delivery model supports offline access; and WebFOCUS Active Reports, PivotTable support, and two-way e-mail capabilities ensured Power & Tel could support customers, suppliers, and field sales staff anywhere in the world.

¡§Our team was looking for more than a reporting solution,¡¨ said Dennis Dominioni, director of Information Technology for Power & Tel. ¡§We were looking for a partner to make our information delivery strategy a reality. We compared vendors based on product capability, responsiveness, and cost ¡E¡E¡V but also on professionalism and responsiveness. The Information Builders services team brought a lot of relevant experience to the table, listened to our needs, asked good questions, and mapped out a plan for success. At the end of the day, their apparent synergies with our business practices made it easy to select Information Builders as our BI partner.¡¨

Information Builders worked with Power & Tel to implement the WebFOCUS Business Intelligence Dashboard and Developer Studio, which include a complete back-end environment for data access, integration, and event monitoring.

¡§The telecommunications and energy sectors have faced relentless competition in recent years, impacting profit margins and heightening the need for consolidated reporting solutions,¡¨ said Gerald Cohen, CEO of Information Builders. ¡§Customer-driven companies like Power & Tel, which serve and supply these volatile markets, need smarter and faster business intelligence to ensure customer service and satisfaction.¡¨

About Power and Telephone Supply

Headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, Power & Telephone Supply Company (Power & Tel) is the largest independent distributor of material for the telecommunications and cable TV industries worldwide. Power & Tel offers a complete product solution from the top manufacturers in the communications marketplace and does not manufacture any products or own any service providers. The company is fully focused on providing customers with the products and services they need for business success and strives to be the most cost-effective way to get the right material at the right place at the right time, every time. http://www.ptsupply.com

About Information Builders

An industry innovator for more than 31 years, Information Builders is the leader in enterprise business intelligence and real-time operational reporting. The company¡¦s WebFOCUS product ¡V the industry¡¦s most scalable, secure, and flexible ¡V 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 ¡V by accessing it all from legacy to data warehouse ¡V is unmatched.

Information Builders' award-winning technology has successfully provided quality software and superior services 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 1,600 people and has over 350 business partners.

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