Information Builders Differentiators

You will find that many systems cover the basics fairly well but there are differences between them that can be crucial. Our analysis was conducted a few years ago for a seminar presented at the Financial Technology Show. We will endavour to provide an update to our analysis in the near future.

Target Market

Companies with Revenues > $300 Million in a heterogeneous environment. Targeted industries include financial, telco, insurance and government.

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

nformation 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

nformation 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.