Information Builders Joins IBM's ISV Advantage Initiative.Effort Will Provide SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. Customers With Open, On-Demand Business Intelligence Solutions NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Information Builders (Information Builders, Inc., New York, www.informationbuilders.com) A software company founded in 1975 by Gerald Cohen that specializes in enterprise business intelligence and real time Web reporting. , a leading enterprise integration and business intelligence (BI) software company, has joined IBM's ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. Advantage Initiative, a program designed to provide independent software vendors (ISVs) with technical and marketing support. IBM's ISV Advantage Initiative helps Information Builders better meet the business intelligence needs of small and medium businesses (SMBs) as customers strive to integrate processes and applications internally and externally and to quickly respond to changing market opportunities on demand. "The power and accessibility of Information Builders products have a strong appeal to the SMB market See SMB. ," said Gerald Cohen Gerald Allan "Gerry" Cohen, (born 1941) is the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford. Born into a Jewish family in Montreal, Cohen was educated at McGill University, Canada (BA, philosophy and political science) and the University of Oxford , president of Information Builders. "By combining our experience with that of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , enterprises will be well equipped to access and integrate all their databases and applications to improve decision-making and achieve better business performance." By extending Information Builders' reach to IBM's DB2 for Linux, the ISV Advantage Initiative will help the company expand into the SMB market faster and more effectively than is possible with proprietary platforms. The IBM DB2 family includes products that are designed and priced specifically for SMBs in that they are easy to install and manage, can scale as business grows, offer rich functionality, and are based on open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced to allow integration with existing software and hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. . "We are eager to work closely with Information Builders to deliver customized business intelligence solutions for SMB customers," said Buell Duncan, general manager of ISV and Developer Relations at IBM. "Information Builders' industry leading applications, coupled with IBM's open and integrated middleware platforms provide comprehensive, information-on-demand solutions that customers need today." Information Builders will also work closely with IBM to expand its presence in target vertical industries through various co-marketing and sales activities. Information Builders is engaged in IBM's PartnerWorld Industry Networks program to sell focused solutions to customers in the insurance, education, manufacturing, and retail and wholesale industries. IBM ISV Advantage is administered by PartnerWorld, the developer resource for IBM Business Partners. It is a worldwide program designed to help software developers reach broader markets, lower their costs of doing business, and take their products to market faster. For more information, visit www.ibm.com/partnerworld or call 1-800-426-9990 in North America, 1-770-863-2048 outside North America. About Information Builders An industry innovator for more than 31 years, Information Builders is the leader in enterprise business intelligence and real-time operational reporting. The company's WebFOCUS product - the industry's most scalable, secure, and flexible - is able to meet all the reporting needs of the extended enterprise, ranging from analysts to power users to the widest deployments for hundreds of thousands of users. Additionally, WebFOCUS' empowerment of organizations seeking to leverage all their data - by accessing it all from legacy to data warehouse - is unmatched. Information Builders' award-winning technology has successfully provided quality software and superior services to more than 12,000 customers, including most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,600 people and has over 350 business partners. IBM, the IBM Business Partner emblem, DB2, DB2 Universal Database, PartnerWorld, and WebSphere are trademarks or registered trademarks of IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. |
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