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Information Builders
Information Builders' award-winning combination of business intelligence and enterprise integration software has been providing innovative solutions to more than 14,000 customers for the past 33 years. WebFOCUS, the world's most widely utilized business intelligence platform, runs natively on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Information Builders' iWay Software suite provides state-of-the-art, multi-purpose, pre-built integration components that address all application, data, and information management requirements via the JBOSS ESB.
IT decision-makers can now integrate business intelligence into their Linux applications from any database or application. Don't sacrifice price for performance. Organizations turn to Red Hat and Information Builders for cost savings through lower cost hardware and software and through the ability to consolidate servers. And business users benefit from having actionable information delivered that impacts business at the point of decision.
Before implementing enterprise business intelligence, it is imperative that organizations carefully scrutinize the architectural underpinnings of any solution they are considering. Efficient, agile businesses need informed decision-making at three levels: executive, analytical, and operational. Architecture is essential to fully embracing all three levels.
About WebFOCUS
The WebFOCUS operational business intelligence platform is all about architectural superiority. It boasts self-aware, self-healing, self-optimizing autonomic servers whose workload and traffic management and capacity planning eliminate complexity, improve system performance, and dramatically reduce TCO. The WebFOCUS autonomic server runs 24/7 with lowest-possible administration cost, and our scalability puts more users on less hardware than any other BI solution.
WebFOCUS provides the most flexible, reliable, and scalable architecture available today, supporting hundreds of thousands of users, multiple application types, and a wide variety of information consumers - from employees and managers to customers and external business partners. Developed in step with current and emerging industry standards, WebFOCUS is designed to deliver robust enterprise-wide reporting while protecting existing technology investments and minimizing support and maintenance costs.
The WebFOCUS Reporting Server, the "hub" of the WebFOCUS architecture, enables highly efficient reporting, query, and analysis from any data on any platform in any file structure. The server can deliver content in HTML, DHTML, XML, Excel, and PDF for Web browsers and wireless devices. At the same time, it provides features to guarantee optimum performance, even as the demands placed on your systems continue to grow.
WebFOCUS is tested and certified for all major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is this thorough level of testing that provides the assurances to hundreds of mutual customers who are benefiting from this certified solution stack.
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Whitepapers
Extending the TCO of Linux with BI
Linux is critical to maximizing ROI for your business intelligence needs. With attendant high costs and process disruption, extensive custom development and integration projects are less attractive options when organizations need to improve their BI capabilities. By turning to Linux, enterprises gain extremely powerful (and surprisingly affordable) options for achieving business goals.
WebFOCUS on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The combination of WebFOCUS and Red Hat offers application scalability that reduces ongoing licensing, maintenance, energy, and resource costs, especially where per-processor licensing models are used. This allows IT executives significant flexibility when examining system consolidation and vertical scaling, reducing the budgetary impact of that choice.
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Information Builders: Key Fact
Find out more about how WebFocus:
- Extends the Linux TCO story to the application level
- Enables the integration of Linux servers with the broadest set of data and application resources
- Provides the most scalable reporting solution in the market
- Delivers the market-leading BI and reporting suite for the Linux platform
Joint Successes
WebFOCUS is used by more than 14,000 companies worldwide, delivering information to millions of users. Recent examples using Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Information Builders' WebFOCUS include:
- The world's largest rental car company
- Sony Electronics
- St. Louis University
- Friends University
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