SYD Sybron Dental Specialties

Sybron Dental Specialties Selects Information Builders as Their Enterprise Business Intelligence Standard Sybron Standardizes on WebFOCUS to Strategically Align All Global Business Units NEW YORK, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Information Builders the leader in enterprise business intelligence (BI) solutions and real-time operational reporting, today announced that Sybron Dental Specialties, leading manufacturer of general dental products, has selected WebFOCUS as its corporate standard for business intelligence and enterprise reporting. Sybron Dental Specialties (NYSE:SYD) chose WebFOCUS based on the software's proven ability to create, schedule, and deliver a wide range of financial reports to authorized users of all levels throughout its extended enterprise. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020619/IBLOGO http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020904/IWAYLOGO ) "WebFOCUS is critical to our reporting environment," said Stephen Smirl, data warehouse manager at Sybron Dental Specialties. "The software empowers our financial professionals and account representatives to efficiently access and analyze information from multiple data sources, dramatically improving their productivity and facilitating their ad hoc and monthly reporting tasks." According to Smirl, what sets WebFOCUS apart from the competition is its efficient, Web-based architecture and broad set of capabilities for organizing and presenting information. Each of Sybron Dental's 25 international offices originally had their own, unique reporting systems and independent business strategies, complicating the task of efficiently managing the company's products and customers. Standardizing with WebFOCUS has dramatically improved Sybron's business uniformity, streamlining its methods of developing customer relationships and enhancing strategic sales initiatives. "Information Builders is supplying the single most important piece of technology that we've licensed to restore global business unity: data access, integration, reporting, and business intelligence," said Smirl. "Today leading organizations are standardizing on a single business intelligence vendor that can meet the needs of the entire enterprise," said Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders. "Sybron Dental Specialties is one of the fastest growing manufacturers of high technology dental products and through the use of WebFOCUS, they are able to optimize their business performances, in real-time." About Sybron Dental Specialties Sybron Dental Specialties and its subsidiaries are leading manufacturers of value-added products for the dental and orthodontic professions and products for use in infection control. Sybron Dental Specialties develops, manufactures, and sells through independent distributors a comprehensive line of consumable general dental and infection prevention products to the dental industry worldwide. It also develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes an array of consumable orthodontic and endodontic products worldwide. For further information, please contact: Gregory D. Waller, chief financial officer of Sybron Dental Specialties, Inc., +1-714-516-7400 or visit http://www.sybrondental.com/ . About Information Builders Information Builders, a $300 million company, is the leader in enterprise business intelligence and real-time operational reporting. The company's WebFOCUS product - the industry's most 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 29 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. Trademarks: This press release refers to numerous products by their trade names. In most cases, their respective companies claim these designations as trademarks or registered trademarks. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020619/IBLOGO http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020904/IWAYLOGODATASOURCE: Information Builders, Inc. CONTACT: Kathleen Moran of Information Builders, +1-917-339-6313, Web site: http://www.sybrondental.com/ http://www.informationbuilders.com/

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