Information Builders Announces WebFOCUS 5New Release Sets the Standard for Enterprise Business Intelligence by Supporting a Greater Number of Users, Enabling More Applications, and Empowering a More Diverse User Community New York, NY February 4, 2003 Information Builders, the leader in enterprise business intelligence (BI) and real-time Web reporting, today introduced WebFOCUS 5, the newest release of its flagship solution. WebFOCUS 5 sets the standard for enterprise business intelligence by delivering more than 450 new features that ensure unparalleled performance and maximum three-way scalability scaling to support more users, more applications, and a broader and more diverse user base than any other solution on the market today.
This new Java Servlet-based implementation significantly
minimizes hardware requirements while providing a completely open
environment that allows WebFOCUS 5 to deliver content to any third-party
portals. Server clustering, multi-tiered processing, and load balancing
guarantee optimum performance, even as system demands for real-time
reports continue to grow. In addition, new facilities that "push"
information based on schedules or alerts have been enhanced to enable
all content not just WebFOCUS reports to be created,
distributed, and archived.
Key enhancements include:
WebFOCUS 5 with all its new features is the only business intelligence solution that operates on all major platforms, including MVS, Linux, UNIX, NT, and AS/400.
According to Howard Dresner, vice president and research director at Gartner, "Through 2004, more than 50 percent of Global 2000 enterprises will fail to use BI properly, losing market share to those that use BI correctly." The latest release of WebFOCUS helps organizations meet this challenge by providing a single integrated solution with a complete feature set that includes enterprise reporting, ad hoc query and analysis, portal integration, and extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) capabilities for building data marts and warehouses. All this robust functionality can be utilized to address enterprise-wide information needs so business intelligence can be strategically deployed to make critical, real-time data accessible to all levels and types of decision-makers, including executives and managers, employees and knowledge workers, and analysts and power users, as well as external users. "Organizations are increasingly selecting WebFOCUS as their standard for delivering information internally, as well as to their customers, suppliers, and partners," said Gerald Cohen, president of Information Builders. "Our corporate mission is to harness the power of the Web to provide users with the information and insight they need to streamline operations, proactively address potential problems, meet regulatory and legislative demands, and most importantly drive profitability."
WebFOCUS in Action
Leading organizations, such as Ford, Royal Bank of Canada, FedEx, and NASA are already reaping the benefits of WebFOCUS. One such example, Administaff, a well-established and respected leader in the professional employer organization (PEO) industry, plans to utilize Information Builders' WebFOCUS 5.
Currently Administaff uses WebFOCUS to help manage their reporting
environment through a single facility. Predefined menus and routines
give client-users the ability to produce consistent, accurate, and
secure reports via the Web. This reporting system expands the functionality
for users while offering broad data access. WebFOCUS allows Administaff
to provide clients with secure access to personnel-related reports
on payroll, employee benefits, and other types of human resources
information. Information Builders' technology facilitates easy integration
with third-party systems that include security tables from other
sources, and it also takes advantage of database-level security
functions. Additionally, the software gives Administaff flexibility
for authorizing users while protecting sensitive data.
We have been very pleased with our use of WebFOCUS, and we are looking forward to implementing the new version," says David Dickson, vice president and chief technology officer at Administaff. "The Information Builders team has been very proactive in helping us meet the objectives we set for our Web-reporting services. It's clear they are very interested in our success. Information Builders is one of the best technology vendors we have worked with."
About Information Builders
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 meets all the reporting needs of the extended enterprise, ranging from analysts to power users to the widest deployments for hundreds of thousands of users. 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
for 27 years to more than 11,000 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
1,900 people, has over 350 business partners, and generated revenues
exceeding $300 million in 2001. For more information, visit www.informationbuilders.com.
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