Information Builders - Information Delivery (Published Reports)

Business Intelligence Software : Information Builders Information Delivery (Published Reports)

Companies today are inundated with information – including an ever-growing glut of documentation – and require an information delivery solution that can distribute information easily to everyone who needs it, when and how they need it. This challenge makes information delivery arguably one of the most critical tasks that companies face today. WebFOCUS information delivery solution meets these enterprise challenges through intelligent delivery and storage of vital business intelligence information.

WebFOCUS, the only business intelligence solution with robust information management features, comprises a complete just-in-time business information delivery platform. Through WebFOCUS' cutting-edge report delivery engine, ReportCaster, companies have a single point of control for fully automating the scheduling, distribution, and storage of information including WebFOCUS reports and third-party content, to anyone within or outside the organization.

Source: For more information on business intelligence software, Information Builders Information Delivery, check out http://www.informationbuilders.com/products/webfocus/delivery_manage.html

Information Builders - Self-Service Reporting

Business Intelligence Software : Information Builders Information On Demand – Self-Service Reporting

IT departments are challenged to make business intelligence available to everyone who needs it – everywhere throughout their extended enterprises – but without adding more hardware or increasing support resources. These critical objectives can be accomplished easily and efficiently with WebFOCUS.

WebFOCUS' unique self-service reporting ensures maximum flexibility for executive, analytical, and operational business users everywhere without requiring organizations to deploy complex business intelligence tools to everyone. Users simply need a Web browser to obtain and share information – no plug-ins or additional software is necessary.

Source: For more information on business intelligence software, Information Builders Self-Service Reporting, check out http://www.informationbuilders.com/products/webfocus/self-service_reporting.html

Information Builders - Reporting

Business Intelligence Software : Information Builders Reporting

Today’s companies have two primary goals – to respond faster and more efficiently to the changing conditions that impact them most, and to optimize business processes while reducing costs. To achieve these objectives, they require a solution that offers simple access to information. WebFOCUS meets these critical requirements and enables large numbers of people within an organization – executives, analysts, front-line workers, customers, partners, etc. – to rapidly create and deploy richly formatted reports from any enterprise data in real time. And, because WebFOCUS is the only enterprise reporting solution built for the Web, an organization can effortlessly extend powerful reporting capabilities to everyone who impacts the business.

With WebFOCUS, you can rapidly create and deploy intuitive reporting applications based on its revolutionary guided ad-hoc technology*. WebFOCUS reporting applications are so easy to use that they boast the industry’s highest user adoption rates – more than 2 ½ times that of other BI tools. WebFOCUS also supplies all the advanced Web-based features people need to use reports effectively, such as integrated proactive hyperlink drill-downs – in all supported output formats – to any other report, program, or location, as well as multiple locations, without any additional client or viewer.

Source: For more information on business intelligence software, Information Builders Reporting, check out http://www.informationbuilders.com/products/webfocus/enterprise_reporting.html

Information Builders - "Intelligent" Business Intelligence

"Intelligent" Business Intelligence

Companies today are looking to boost operational productivity and performance while addressing the full range of information requirements throughout the extended enterprise. WebFOCUS provides comprehensive business intelligence functionality, allowing organizations to leverage any data asset, transform it into useful information, and deliver it in an actionable format to a much larger, more distributed scale of users.

Intelligence is more than just delivering reports from a data warehouse. It's about providing large numbers of people – executives, analysts, customers, partners, and everyone else – secure and simple access to the right information so they can satisfy their unique reporting or analysis requirements, then share that information accordingly. WebFOCUS enables your users to become as self-sufficient and productive as possible. WebFOCUS' unique tool set provides reporting, analysis, and advanced data visualization capabilities that can be embedded in any dashboard, portal, or Web self-service environment. It also provides information for service-oriented purposes and for optimizing operational systems.

Source: For more information on business intelligence software, Information Builders, check out http://www.informationbuilders.com/products/webfocus/intelligence.html

Business Intelligence Software Vendors - Information Builders

Information Builders - BI Software

Unlike most of its competitors, who already excel at providing self-service reporting and analysis against a data warehouse, but are only now providing operational reporting capabilities, Information Builders is doing the opposite. Already well-established in the operational reporting space — bolstered nicely by its iWay Software subsidiary — Information Builders spent 2006 building out its end-user reporting and analysis capabilities. In particular, it released Power Painter, its first true ad hoc query tool, and heavily promoted the report wizard, Active Reports, and Visual Discovery features of WebFOCUS. In addition, Information Builders improved its process-driven BI vision — going beyond just operational reporting — by focusing on its partnerships with key analysis vendors, particularly SPSS, to deliver predictive models.

Information Builders also released a visual workflow modeling tool that improves a BI architect's ability to insert information directly into the steps of a workflow process. Information Builders demonstrates its ability to execute, particularly in very large extranet applications, with the highest number of 10,000 plus seat deployments in the industry. To move into the Leaders quadrant, the company must bolster its sales-channel strategy and prove that its analysis capabilities can be successful in the market. It has a strong, energized sales force, but it is about half the size of those of other leading BI platform vendors.

Furthermore, Information Builders lacks a strong channel presence with systems integrators and value-added resellers (VARs), as offered by some of its direct competitors. Strengthening its sales channels would help drive Information Builders' deployments globally, which today are heavily concentrated in North America.

Furthermore, Information Builders needs to go beyond its "sweet spot" of operational reporting and information delivery and show a large number of successful deployments where WebFOCUS is used for analysis.

Source: http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/oracle/145507.html