2. Rodney Holman Mandip Kaur Information Builders

3.  Company Name: Information Builders  CEO and Founder: Gerald D. Cohen  Address: Two Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121-2898  Phone: (212)-736-4433  Fax: (212)-967-6406  Sales Information: 1-800-969-INFO  Customer Support: (212)-736-6130  Email: askinfo@ibi.com

4.  It is a comprehensive and fully integrated platform whose architecture, integration, and simplicity permeate every level of the global organization – executive, analytical, and operational.  It makes any data available, accessible, and meaningful to every person or application who needs it, when and how they need it.

5.  Through iWay Software division, Information Builders offers a portfolio of adapters of comprehensive, pre-packaged suites that help companies to build a strong, yet open and flexible technology infrastructure in the fastest, most economical way – to code writing and no costly integration projects.

6.  Self-optimization autonomic servers  Super-linear scalability  A unifying integration infrastructure  Service-oriented architecture  Simplified developer ◦End user interaction ◦Advanced visualization ◦Deep integration with desktop products

7.  Runs 24/7  Lowest possible administrative costs  Eliminate complexity  Improves system performance  Provides the most flexible, reliable, and scalable architecture  Has many users, multiple application types, and wide variety of information consumers (from employees to managers)  It enables highly efficient reporting, querying, and analysis

8.  Supports large number of users with minimal hardware investments and IT support  Has major implications for BI and reporting strategy  It enables organizations to reduce hardware and maintenance costs associated with deploying mission critical BI applications

9.  It accesses, reconciles, cleanses, and prepares data for BI manipulation, analysis, and delivery  No tool simplifies complex data environments better than WebFocus

10.  support with the ability to create, consume, and publish Web services  Web Servers can be used to: ◦Combine data from internal and external sources to create a unified, insightful report ◦Make data from disparate internal systems available via Web services, reducing programming redundancies and integrating systems more efficiently ◦Drill down from one internal or external source to any other to more easily navigate and research

11.  WebFocus Developer Studio is an open and intuitive environment that allows for rapid development of virtually any type of Web based report including: ◦Charts and graphsCharts and graphs ◦Information systems  Training times and costs are significantly reduced, and time to deployment for critical reports and applications is dramatically accelerated  Allows you to build content-rich Web applications that include business logic

12.  With User Friendly Interface each user can personalize their portal by deciding what report they see and how they see them  WebFocus Visual Discovery enhances your existing WebFocus environment with cutting edge data visualization capabilities. It quickly turns any data into intuitive, illustrative enterprise reports.  Deep integration with desktop products – with output options including HTML, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Adobe PDFHTML

13.  Requires the user to create decentralized aggregate data marts throughout the organization.  Requires taking a hybrid approach to data, allowing drill through from a central data warehouse to operational applications  Requires leveraging real-time transactions to tickle feed your data warehouses and alert people of critical business issues when they occur.

14. Demos: ◦WebFOCUS Business intelligence for Google MapsWebFOCUS Business intelligence for Google Maps ◦Advanced Data Visualization for Analysts- WebFOCUS Visual DiscoveryAdvanced Data Visualization for Analysts- WebFOCUS Visual Discovery