iWay Software Unveils Enterprise Information Management Solution

New Offerings for Data Quality and Master Data Management Reduce Total Cost of Enterprise Information Management Challenge


NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - February 18, 2009) - iWay Software, an Information Builders division and an innovator of enterprise integration solutions, today announced the immediate availability of a new iWay Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Suite, which includes iWay's new Data Quality Center (DQC) and Master Data Center (MDC) products. Designed to provide complete business visibility with speed and accuracy, the suite lowers the total cost of information management by addressing enterprise information needs in a single platform with reusable services.

Information Management has evolved over the years from strictly batch-oriented Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes building data warehouses and data marts, into complete end-to-end business process supporting solutions that rely on incorporating batch and real-time, internal systems and external systems, structured and unstructured data, typical reporting and dashboards plus real time event driven reporting, dashboards, and alerts.

With these challenges in mind, the EIM suite contains all of the necessary components to meet today's demanding requirements. Built around the core strength of iWay Service Manager, the suite uses the industry-leading connectivity options of the iWay Universal Adapter Suite to provide:

--  Integrated content -- federated data, data warehouse, files, queues,
    documents, e-mail, and ERP/CRM
--  Support for low- and medium-latency events, transactions, and batch-
    oriented integration
--  Integrated ETL, event capture, and change data capture
--  Integrated data-quality firewall and master data management
--  Ability to enrich and feed business events and data extracts to
    enterprise search engines
--  Enablement of real-time dashboards, scoring, and analytics
    

The two new products in the suite, iWay DQC and iWay MDC, are delivered in a single integration platform for real-time and batch integration. iWay DQC is designed not only to evaluate, monitor, and manage data quality in different information systems, but also to prevent incorrect data from entering these systems in the first place. iWay MDC enables organizations to consolidate millions of records according to easily defined business rules, making unified and validated master data instantly available to a wide range of enterprise applications, such as ERP, CRM, self-serve portals, analytical tools, data warehouses, and other internal systems.

"iWay Software is all about making the difficult easy," said Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders. "The iWay EIM suite delivers rich functionality and easy implementation at a tremendous value. By leveraging modern platforms and code-optimization techniques, this solution requires a significantly lower initial investment."

In addition to the EIM Suite, iWay offers Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business Process Automation (BPA) suites that also leverage iWay's Universal Adapter Suite and integration server and are fully customizable for a variety of enterprise needs. These standards-based suites provide comprehensive end-to-end integration from any sources outside the enterprise down to the individual applications themselves. iWay Software's offerings support any information type, latency, and integration style.



About iWay Software

iWay Software's integration methodology is simple: it uses a single, integrated set of graphical design tools to assemble powerful pre-built components for enterprise-class business-to-business (B2B) integration, business process automation (BPA), or enterprise information management (EIM) integration scenarios -- without the use of custom code. Integration configurations can be deployed in a stand-alone manner to any environment supporting a JVM -- or to Web application servers from any vendor. iWay delivers the fastest, most cost-effective, and simplest way to integrate and streamline critical business processes. iWay Software's vendor-, platform-, and protocol-neutral solutions achieve the promise of SOA: true reusability. For more information visit: iwaysoftware.com.

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' iWay Software suite provides state of the art, multi-purpose, pre-built integration components 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 grow and innovate according to their needs.

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 1,450 people and has more than 350 business partners. More information is available at informationbuilders.com.

Contact Information: Press Contacts: Kathleen Moran Information Builders (917) 339-6313 Stephanie Fallon Emerge PR (617) 729-3176