Overview on Products

Achieve Maximum Business Agility, Without Tripping Up

To achieve the full potential of enterprise business intelligence, your entire extended enterprise – in all its complexity – needs consistent information about itself, tailored for latency, process, and audience. Information Builders makes that happen, with the right architecture, the right level of integration, and interactive simplicity.

Information Builders' Products

Enterprise Business Intelligence (WebFOCUS)

WebFOCUS cost-effectively delivers enterprise business intelligence at the operational, tactical, and executive level, providing the integration, scalability, and self-service usability needed for informed decision-making and reporting standardization throughout the extended enterprise.
Host-Based Reporting (FOCUS)

FOCUSsets the industry standard for host-based reporting and information systems.
Integration Solutions (iWay Software)

iWay Software, an Information Builders subsidiary and the world's leading provider of adapters – over 280 in all – supplies a universal adaptive framework that incrementally facilitates service-oriented architectures and enables organizations to accelerate business integration with a low cost of entry and full project reusability.

An Overview of Integration Solutions (i-way)

About iWay Software

iWay Software provides rapid integration solutions that help companies large and small meet new business challenges without making their vital information investments obsolete. iWay's proven products, partners, and professional services are key to quickly and efficiently transforming business processes by integrating existing data, applications, and environments with new systems and applications – including all popular ERP, CRM, and SCM application packages; messaging technologies such as MQSeries; application technologies like Java™/J2EE/JCA and XML; and new Internet technologies such as Web Services and .Net. The hallmark of iWay Software is its simplicity, based on the assembly and configuration of off-the-shelf components. These components include over 300 prebuilt connections to virtually any back-office system, including legacy systems and packaged applications. This simplicity enables companies to achieve rapid integration without lengthy custom coding or expensive systems overhaul, and to implement mission critical applications without costly delays.

The Genesis of iWay Software

Information Builders founded iWay Software in early 2001 by leveraging the same integration middleware expertise we had developed over the course of a decade with our award-winning EDA middleware technology. iWay Software enables Information Builders to build and extend the power of EDA in an environment dedicated to rapid integration solutions and highly responsive customer service. With revenues topping $50 million in 2006, iWay Software is among the top 10 integration vendors worldwide. Among our clients in business, government, and education are many of the top Fortune 500 companies.

Also Find Out More below:

• Service and event design
• Designing for complex environments
• Service execution and management
• Service interfaces

iWay SOA, EDA, and ESB technologies provide capabilities for the following service interfaces:

• Web services for ESB
• Other standard interfaces (iWay and JCA, JMS, and JDBC)
• Commercial product interfaces

Web Services

iWay Software provides the industry's most comprehensive and effective tool set for creating and deploying web services from any existing IT investments you may have. Web services are created from existing systems with the smallest amount of custom code, saving your team valuable time and money

Business Process Management

iWay Process Manager Workbench is a new offering that helps IT organizations implement business process management solutions. As a comprehensive implementation of the OASIS BPEL specification, it perfectly compliments iWay Software's world-class SOA and ESB solutions

Business to Business Integration

iWay Software allows you to easily implement collaborative business processes with your customers and partners by transforming application output from any application to XML, transforming XML to EDI and vice-versa, or transforming between two different XML formats. iWay supports all major horizontal and vertical XML and EDI standards, providing a unique combination of low-cost information exchange capabilities to help users communicate with virtually any partner using any data format and connectivity to back-end systems.

Data Integration Solutions

iWay Software's extensive line of data management products - from a comprehensive adapter suite and powerful extract, transform, and load (ETL) tools, to intelligent resource analysis and governing solutions - efficiently support key enterprise information initiatives, including self-service applications, real-time information delivery, business activity monitoring, enterprise information portals, and more. iWay Software provides everything you need to develop an effective, yet economical strategy for accessing, storing, managing, and delivering all your enterprise information assets. Our federated query and enterprise information integration (EII) solutions allow real-time access to diverse enterprise data stores Using iWay SOA Middleware, you can create Web services with any data source you may have.

Universal Adapter Suite

Adapters are iWay Software's heritage, and our 15-year experience with thousands of customers is brought to bear in the Universal Adapter Suite. Over 300 adapters provide easy access to any information system. Smaller ESB and BPM vendors don't provide the number of adapters iWay Software does, and large vendors with complex software suites often have different adapters for each part of the software stack. iWay's Adapter Suite works across everything in the SOA Middleware Suite, and more.