Information Builders Builds Upon IBM DB2 on System z for Customer Successes

Business Wire, March 22, 2007

WebFOCUS Will Support New DB2 9 for z/OS pureXML Capabilities

NEW YORK -- Information Builders, the leader in production business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced support of the new IBM DB2 9 for z/OS with WebFOCUS and iWay Software. DB2 9 for z/OS helps Information Builders better meet the integration and business intelligence needs of customers worldwide by providing the means to leverage information across their enterprise to quickly respond to market opportunities.

"IBM is committed to delivering customers a faster return on their assets with the new capabilities of DB2 9 for z/OS," said Bernie Spang, director IBM data servers. "The pureXML capabilities in DB2 9 deliver new benefits for customers and provide them with unparalleled security and resiliency for business critical information."

Information Builders and IBM have jointly evaluated the scalability and performance of WebFOCUS, Information Builders' leading business intelligence software, and iWay Service Manager in all operating system environments on System z9 as well as on various specialty engines. The software is able to distribute information from DB2 to up to 500 concurrent users in seconds. These results show that, for actionable business information, WebFOCUS running natively on the z9 is one of the fastest, most reliable business intelligence solutions. WebFOCUS can leverage DB2 9 to respond to the information needs of any organization's extended enterprise including partners, management, employees, customers, and shareholders.

"The combination of the System z, DB2 9, and WebFOCUS can help ensure that organizations can take full advantage of the breadth and speed of the industry's leading information management and business intelligence applications," said Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders. "WebFOCUS natively accesses DB2 and runs natively on the z/OS operating system, which means that Information Builders can quickly integrate any data asset with DB2 and drive additional information from all those systems to any user in the format they want."

About Information Builders

Information Builders, an innovator for more than 30 years, makes the most widely deployed business (BI) intelligence solution and is the leader in production BI. WebFOCUS, the company's flagship product, is a comprehensive and fully integrated business intelligence platform whose architecture and simplicity permeate every level of the extended enterprise - executive, analytical, and operational. Developed with all users in mind - regardless of technical skills - it is the most secure and flexible solution in the market, helping organizations build applications that have no barriers, and scale from a dozen to hundreds of thousands of users. Information Builders is the only vendor to offer its own integration solution with iWay Software. The seamless integration with WebFOCUS, creates unrivaled access to any information source.

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 1,500 people and has more than 350 business partners.