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What is Business Intelligence?

Business Intelligence (BI) gives you the ability to gain insight into your business or organization by understanding your company’s information assets. These assets can include customer databases, supply chain information, personnel data, manufacturing, sales and marketing activity as well as any other source of information critical to your operation. Business intelligence software allows you to integrate these disparate data sources into a single coherent framework for real-time reporting and detailed analysis by anyone in your extended enterprise – customers, partners, employees, managers and executives.

WebFOCUS, Information Builders' comprehensive suite of business intelligence software, reduces the cost and time for development and deployment of BI applications, while providing powerful, scalable, enterprise-wide business intelligence solutions. It is the only solution that enables every process involved in creating and delivering interactive, actionable information including:

• Accessing all of your current information assets, including legacy and relational data sources, cubes, data warehouses and data marts
• Processing requests quickly, intelligently and efficiently
• Providing visuals, advanced formatting and output options such as charts, Excel spreadsheets and Adobe PDF documents, and performing complex calculations
• Delivering real-time actionable information anytime, anywhere via Web, e-mail and mobile devices to employees, managers, partners, and customers.
  
  

iWay Software, a subsidiary of Information Builders, handles the back-end integration. iWay builds on the foundation of Information Builders' EDA middleware, extending it with powerful new Enterprise Application Integration and Web Services capabilities necessary for companies and organizations to evolve and compete in today's e-business world. iWay provides standard connections to over 200 back-office systems and data sources, enabling organizations to quickly and easily leverage technologies such as IBM’s Websphere™, Microsoft’s Biztalk™, XML, and Java™. For more information on the newest suite of integration solutions, please visit iWay Software's Web site.

The combination of WebFOCUS BI suite on the front-end and iWay Software's integration technology on the back-end provides a unique, single vendor solution that allows you to deliver real-time information to everyone in your extended enterprise.

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