Information Builders: WebFOCUS

A Built on IBM Express Advantage^TM offering

Information Builders’ enterprise integration and business intelligence technology accesses over 280 databases and applications, allowing information to be distributed to anyone, anywhere, in the format they prefer – e-mail, Internet, office applications and maps and geographic information systems. Founded over 30 years ago, Information Builders has a simple mission: To help businesspersons get to the information in their enterprise systems easily and quickly. They achieve their mission with products such as WebFOCUS and iWay, the world's leading supplier of adapters.

Information Builders is an Advanced IBM Business Partner and has been working with IBM to provide rapid integration solutions for over 12 years.

Solution overview

WebFOCUS is a comprehensive, business intelligence solution that delivers information to all levels of an organization. It makes data available, accessible and meaningful — when and how it is needed. WebFOCUS features:

Self-optimizing autonomic servers whose workload, traffic management and capacity planning eliminate complexity, improve system performance and dramatically reduce TCO
A unifying integration infrastructure that accesses, reconciles, cleanses and prepares all data for use
Service oriented architecture support with the ability to create, consume and publish Web services
Simplified developer and end-user interaction with advanced visualization and deep integration with desktop products

IBM Built On Express components:
IBM Express servers and storage
IBM Express middleware
IBM Express Storage Platform
IBM Integrated Platform Express
IBM Process Integration Solution Express
IBM Product Lifecycle Management Express for Machining

Proven client success

Information Builders was able to improve the client’s visibility into merchandising operations for a wide range of users, from corporate executives to store managers. WebFOCUS provides a data mart using point-of-sale and legacy information to pull information from the data mart into a central merchandising dashboard visible to authorized users. The solution extends these capabilities to external suppliers through dynamic reporting options.

This allows the client to quickly access a unified, high-level view of key performance indicators such as sales, inventory and margin levels, with the ability to drill down to granular detail to analyze specific transactions. This helps boost sales, allocate resources and propagate best practices.

IBM Business Partner