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Targeted to companies with
Revenues > $300
Million in a heterogeneous environment. Targeted
industries include financial, telco, insurance and government.
Cost.
Starts at about $30k Canadian.
Install Base. About 12,000 worldwide with about 300 in Canada.
Roots.
Information Builders morphed from a developer of 4th Generation Languages
(4GL), to middleware and now Business Intelligence. The company reinvented
itself in 1996 with components of 4GL and middleware included in a
server-based internet BI product.
Multiple platforms. Information Builders extracts data from all
major platforms including Microsoft operating systems,
Linux, multiple flavors of UNIX and mainframes.
Information Builders also reports natively from data on all major
platforms.
Scalability. Information Builders will handle 1000's of concurrent
users.
Accessibility. Information Builders supports ad hoc enquiries,
production reports, OLAP and parameterized reporting (self-service).
Parameterized Reporting. Rather than proliferate reports or
cubes, users can filter their reports using parameters.
Drill
Through. You can access transactions from the source systems.
Native
Security. Information Builder will leverage NT authentication,
database security, and 3rd party tools such as RSA.
Write-back. You can update an OLAP cube directly within system.
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