Sugar Land, Texas-CVR Energy Inc., a refiner and marketer of petroleum fuels and a nitrogen fertilizer manufacturer, debuted at No. 223 on the 2009 InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation’s most innovative users of business technology. CVR was recognized for its advanced approach to information access and content management within its organization. “Our IT organization has worked diligently to focus on innovation and drive real value for our business,” said Mike Brooks, CVR Energy vice president and chief information officer. “One area of our focus is on managing the many ways our employees are communicating. Important data now exists in e-mail, instant messages and voicemail – places that traditionally have been hard to manage with information access solutions. We’ve stayed ahead of the curve by implementing a technology system that can handle these new forms of data intelligently.”
Transparency Across the Fertilizer Value-Chain