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Information Builders Enters Worldwide OEM Agreement With ESRI
Information Builders Extend Geographic Business Intelligence Capabilities
| Source: Information Builders
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - September 27, 2007) - Information Builders, the leader in production
business intelligence (BI) systems,
today announced that it has reached a worldwide OEM agreement with ESRI.
Information Builders will now bundle ESRI ArcGIS Server along with its
WebFOCUS business intelligence and iWay Software integration solutions.
ArcGIS Server 9.2 extends the robust reporting capabilities of its BI
solution through the power of geographic information systems (GIS).
WebFOCUS and ArcGIS Server deliver location intelligence complete with tabular, graphical, and
dashboard-based views of geographic information. The resulting solution
gives users unprecedented capabilities to absorb information in the most
intuitive formats.
Information Builders and ESRI have had an alliance for five years with
joint customers including the Gartner and TDWI award-winning City of
Richmond, VA Police Department; Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission;
and The Hillman Group. The new agreement is the first in which Information
Builders can directly OEM ESRI software.
"To provide organizations a more visual way to see their problems
geographically and holistically, Information Builders offers a
bidirectional bridge between ESRI ArcIMS or ESRI ArcGIS Server through
WebFOCUS," said Gerald Cohen, CEO of Information Builders. "By bundling
ESRI products, we will be able to service customers globally with high
caliber location intelligence solutions."
"We are pleased that Information Builders has introduced WebFOCUS users to
the geographic approach for solving complex business problems and
communicating more effectively," said Jack Dangermond, president of ESRI.
"This new relationship will streamline the deployment of our joint
solutions and allow us to efficiently address the demand for more effective
business intelligence."
Geographical mapping of business data provides a more intuitive way for
processing and comprehending certain business information, enhancing the
ability to analyze and discern critical trends and patterns. Users can
aggregate real-time information from disparate databases and spreadsheets,
build individual ad hoc queries and formatted reports, and then instantly
transform their results onto geographic maps.
About Information Builders
Information Builders'
award-winning combination of business intelligence and enterprise
integration software has been providing innovative solutions to more than
12,000 customers for the past 30 years. WebFOCUS is the world's most widely
utilized business intelligence platform. It provides the security,
scalability, and flexibility needed at every level of global extended
enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical, and
operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users.
Information Builders subsidiary iWay
Software provides state-of-the-art, multi-purpose integration engines
that address all SOA, application, data, and information management
requirements. Its integration adapters have been adopted by the leading
software platform providers. Together, these products give Information
Builders' customers the ability to live up to the company motto: "Your
business. No barriers."
Information Builders' customers include most of the Fortune 100 and U.S.
federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices
worldwide, the company employs 1,600 people and has more than 350 business
partners.
About ESRI
Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to
think and plan geographically. As the leader in GIS, ESRI applies
innovative technologies to help organizations create, analyze, and
visualize information for more informed decisions. Running on more than a
million desktops and thousands of servers, ESRI applications are the
foundation of the world's mapping and spatial analysis infrastructure.
www.esri.com.