NEW YORK, NY, July 21, 2006--Information Builders, the enterprise business intelligence (BI) standard of choice for organizations around the world, today announced support and certification of WebFOCUS on Sun Fire(TM) x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers powered by AMD Opteron(TM) processors. As organizations continue to extend operational business intelligence into the hands of millions of users, the ability to run on a multitude of platforms is important. By delivering operational business intelligence capabilities on Sun Fire x64 servers, Information Builders' WebFOCUS ensures organizations are delivering a wide array of data and applications to users throughout an organization's extended enterprise.

"The Solaris 10 OS on Sun's x64 systems - the fastest, most scalable and energy-efficient available - will supercharge Information Builders' WebFOCUS to offer customers unbeatable, enterprise-class business intelligence at low cost," said Rick Moss, director of partner marketing for Sun Microsystems.

WebFOCUS unites enterprise search, BI reporting, and integration technologies from iWay Software to tap into any database or application to provide information in the format users want, whenever they want. Sun's x64 servers and workstations powered by AMD Opteron processors deliver 64-bit and 32-bit binary compatibility, platform choice, and industry-leading price/performance.

"To achieve the full potential of enterprise business intelligence, your entire extended enterprise - in all its complexity - needs consistent information about itself, tailored for latency, process, and audience," said Gerald Cohen, CEO of Information Builders. "Information Builders powered by Sun Fire x64 servers makes that happen, with the right architecture, the right level of integration, and interactive simplicity. WebFOCUS does much more than graft a browser front-end onto your reporting applications. It helps optimize your business by extending throughout and beyond the enterprise - to front-line employees, customers, suppliers, business partners, and more."

About Information Builders

An industry innovator for more than 31 years, Information Builders is the leader in enterprise business intelligence and real-time Web reporting. The company's WebFOCUS product - the industry's most secure and flexible - is able to meet all the reporting needs of the extended enterprise, ranging from analysts to power users to the widest deployments for hundreds of thousands of users. Additionally, WebFOCUS' empowerment of organizations seeking to leverage all their data by accessing it all - from legacy to data warehouse - is unmatched.

Information Builders' award-winning technology has successfully provided quality software and superior services to more than 12,000 customers, including most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,750 people and has over 350 business partners. For more information visit www.informationbuilders.com.

Sun, Sun Microsystems and Sun Fire are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. AMD and AMD Opteron are trademarks or registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

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Kathleen Moran, 212-736-4433
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