JCB PARTNERS IS AWARDED BEST OF SHOWCASE AT IOD 2010

JCB Partners receives Best of Showcase award for their leadership and solutions development on IBM’s Cognos 10 platform.

At IBM's annual Information On-Demand conference JCB Partners was honored with IBM's Best of Showcase award for their leadership and solutions development on IBM's Cognos 10 and InfoSphere platforms. This recognition marks the 6th consecutive year that JCB Partners has received top honors with IBM and Cognos.

The Best of Showcase award recognizes JCB Partners unparalleled expertise in developing and delivering retail performance management applications built on Cognos and InfoSphere technologies, and identifies JCB Partners as the leader in creating high impact industry specific solutions and services.
Retail PathwaysTM provides out-of-the-box standardized business intelligence reporting, dashboards and financial planning applications that link strategy-to-execution and optimizes financial process and operational alignment.

"We're pleased to see Retail Pathways™ recognized at the highest levels within IBM. We developed our solution to address issues typically involved in deploying analytical and planning tools across business lines within retail organizations and the IBM software stack provides us with all of the tools necessary to develop world class solutions. Retail Pathways™ can be up-and-running in less than 6 weeks which enables our customers to start understanding the data that drives their business that much sooner", said Brad Smith, Managing Partner at JCB. "The retail industry is facing many challenges from the economy, increased competition and customer loyalty. Our retail practice helps business gain trusted access to vital information such as vendor profitability, markdown effectiveness, item mix, labor usage patterns, inventory velocity, and performance-to-plan and market basket analysis."

"We're pleased to honor JCB Partners with the Best of Showcase Award for their success and industry expertise, said Mel Zeldon, Worldwide Channels and Alliances Executive for Business Analytics at IBM. "It's through successful partnerships like this that IBM is able to meet the distinctive needs of our clients and help them drive and improve overall business performance."

About JCB Partners
JCB Partners is a performance management consulting firm driven to creating meaningful, measurable, and sustainable improvement to business through the re-engineering of business processes. By combining expertise in technology and business strategy, JCB Partners provides its clients the knowledge and tools needed to align company goals with management action across all areas of operation. Built around a philosophy of thinking strategically, starting small and accelerating systematically, JCB offers a proven history of accountability and results, having engaged in over 500 successful client relationships since its founding in 2001. Headquartered in Denver, Colo., with offices in Chicago, Ill., Dallas, Texas, Los Angeles, Calif., and San Francisco, Calif., the firm offers consulting, implementation and training solutions to customers around the globe.

For more information about JCB Partners, visit www.jcbpartners.com
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