New York, NY, December 19, 2006 -– Information Builders, the enterprise business intelligence (BI) standard of choice for organizations around the world, today announced that Scherer Brothers Lumber, a leading Midwest building materials supplier and manufacturer, has standardized on Information Builders' WebFOCUS business intelligence solution to automate complex financial reporting and provide greater access to disparate data sources.

Scherer Brothers had previously compiled data in cumbersome paper reports that were generated only once per month. As a result, Scherer management was unable to make swift business decisions. With the implementation of the WebFOCUS suite, Scherer Brothers executives and managers have on-demand access to critical financial data from their PeopleSoft Enterprise One ERP system. Scherer's WebFOCUS deployment also features the Active Reports BI tool. Active Reports provide sales reporting and analysis to Scherer's account managers. The data can be spliced into several report combinations without downloading additional data.

"WebFOCUS allows our staff to generate financial reports in minutes that previously took hours to run," said Scherer CIO Marjorie Arnold. "With Active Reports our general managers can now get key financial information for their specific business units rather than having to wade through cumbersome hard copy report books. We anticipate similar efficiencies for our account managers using this business intelligence tool to do off-line analysis of important customer data."

"Scherer Brothers is leveraging WebFOCUS' business intelligence technology to make smarter business decisions and achieve tangible ROI," said Gerald Cohen, CEO of Information Builders. "By using WebFOCUS and Active Reports, the company is defining, building, and automating metrics that help them track progress on a daily basis, which allows them to react to their customers' needs in real time."

About Scherer Brothers Lumber

Since 1930, Scherer Brothers Lumber Company has grown into a large entity that offers a great deal more to customers than our founders ever dreamed. In fact, we offer such a wide variety of products and services – from windows to cabinets, wall panels to engineered trusses, and one-of-a-kind custom millwork to wood specialty products – that calling ourselves a "lumber company" does not adequately define the scope of our business. The more diverse Scherer Brothers becomes, the more we can do for our customers. In order to maintain the highest quality products and services, and to better meet the needs of our customers, we have to follow closely our mission of "working together, filling needs." Our dedication to follow through with that mission will define our success as a valued partner with equally valued customers. Visit www.schererbros.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 – the industry's most scalable, 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 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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