ABC Financial Gets a Solid Work-out with Information Builders
Leading Provider of Club Management Solutions for the Health and Fitness Industry Provides Users With New Reporting Capabilities
NEW YORK- Sept. 15, 2006-Information Builders, the enterprise business intelligence (BI) standard of choice for organizations around the world, announced that ABC Financial, the #1 provider of club management solutions to over 1,500 health and fitness clubs, has selected WebFOCUS as its enterprise BI standard for reporting and information delivery. Before making the standardization decision, ABC Financial conducted a comprehensive comparison of several leading BI vendors including Cognos and Business Objects before finally selecting WebFOCUS.
ABC Financial was looking for a solution that would provide club owners with the flexibility to slice and dice performance metrics, but would not require in-depth training. WebFOCUS' structured ad-hoc capabilities satisfied both criteria and delivered a whole lot more, including a way to provide club owners with a snapshot of cash flow and customer churn metrics as well as allow them to drill down to see how each service was contributing to the overall bottom line.
"By providing our club owners with this level of flexibility, we can help them become more profitable," said Tonya Millican, special projects manager at ABC Financial. "In addition, we like the flexibility WebFOCUS offered by allowing us to consolidate and present information from multiple systems and we were impressed with the vendor's approach during our evaluation. They took the time to understand our needs and provided the right mix of training, consulting, and mentoring to ensure our success."
"By putting business intelligence into the hands of more users, ABC Financial is helping club owners more efficiently manage their operations and pump up service and sales," said Gerald Cohen, CEO, Information Builders. "ABC Financial understands that the true value of BI is realized when organizations standardize on a platform and empower users to get at data that helps them make real-time business decisions."
About ABC Financial
ABC Financial Services is the #1 provider of club management solutions to over 1,500 health and fitness clubs. Since 1981 ABC Financial Services has helped club owners nationwide improve the management of their club and bottom-line profit.
About Information Builders
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 for over 31 years 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 1,750 people and has over 350 business partners. For more information, visit www.informationbuilders.com.
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Kathleen Moran, 917-339-6313
kathleen_moran@ibi.com
