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Information Builders and Jaros Form Partnership

Information Builders and Jaros Partner to Offer Joint Data Warehouse Based Corporate Performance Management Products

New York, NY and Saint Louis, MO - April 24, 2006 - Information Builders, the enterprise business intelligence (BI) standard of choice for organizations around the world, and Jaros, a global provider of data warehouse solutions to support business intelligence and corporate performance management, today announced a partnership that will deliver a complete data warehouse and ERP reporting solution. As a result of this alliance, enterprise customers will gain business intelligence solutions with the underpinning of a scalable enterprise data warehouse providing right-time information as well as detailed analytical data from Oracle Applications and other packaged applications, ERP systems, data warehouses, and databases.

"The alliance between Information Builders and Jaros is a great initiative for both companies," said Paul J. Scheibal, president and CEO of Jaros. "Together we provide detailed, right-time information for individuals across an organization while meeting the wide range of information needs of the large and unique customers we serve."

By bringing businesses access to detailed, right-time data from various sources with Jaros and presenting the data in the context of the business with Information Builders' WebFOCUS, the joint solution provides organizations with a complete and actionable view of their business. Jaros and Information Builders customers use this information to help monitor, analyze, and optimize business performance. The joint solution offers comprehensive solutions for developing, managing, and optimizing a flexible data architecture that efficiently supports key enterprise information initiatives.

When ArvinMeritor, a premier $8.8 billion global supplier of a broad range of integrated systems, modules, and components to the motor vehicle industry, was looking to improve their Working Capital Performance Management, they turned to the joint Jaros and Information Builders solution. Their system is able to provide accurate right-time business intelligence and a single source of truth, with a lower risk and TCO than many other data warehouse approaches.

"Leveraging an organization's data is crucial to business performance measurement," said Gerald Cohen, CEO of Information Builders. "An enterprise data warehouse provides the scalability and range of information necessary to make performance measurement actionable. Partnering with Jaros gives customers access to a wide range of data and reporting solutions."

About Jaros
Jaros provides a hybrid solution for enterprise analytics with the fusion of a pre-built Enterprise Data Warehouse and a real-time Operational Data Store. This fusion enables Jaros to deliver solutions that meet business needs throughout decision support, process improvement, and performance improvement lifecycles. Jaros Analytics eliminates the risk and high cost of Data Warehouse development, allowing organizations to focus on the business not the technology. More information about Jaros is available at http://www.JarosTech.com.

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 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.