Red Hat Information Builders: Business Intelligence on Linux

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Red Hat Information Builders Business
Intelligence on Linux
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Information BuildersKey Facts

• Top-tier privately-held software vendor
• Established in 1975 (33 years of expertise)?
• Dual competencies
• Integration Software (iWay)?
• Business Intelligence (WebFOCUS)
• 1,400 customer focused employees
• 12,000 customer sites worldwide
• Significant partnerships
• Recognized market leader

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Information BuildersOur Mission

• To help our customers better manage their
  business through mission critical integration and
  the pervasive use of business intelligence.

Manage strategic performance Optimize business pr
ocesses Maximize employee productivity Drive new
revenue opportunities Increase business agility
while maintaining technology simplicity
Remove the barriers to success
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Information BuildersiWay Adapters for JBOSS

• Industry leading provider
• All enterprise assets
• 85 databases
• 150 real-time sources
• Applications
• Messages
• Transactions
• Documents
• Services
• Replaces manual programming
• Completely reusable

Adapters
Integration Assembly
Information Management
iWay Software offers the widest reaching
integration solutions at the lowest cost!
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WebFOCUS Business Intelligence

• Comprehensive Enterprise Business Intelligence
  Suite
  
• Report, Analyze, Visualize, Deliver, Transform
  (ETL), Transact
  
• Built on the Best-In-Class integration
  platform
  
• Accesses ALL enterprise data
• Provides SIMPLE Information Access Delivery
• For users at all skill-levels
• For Strategic, Tactical and Operational
  information Systems throughout your organization
  and beyond

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Why WebFOCUS over any other BI tool

• Architected to cut the cost of implementations in
  4 areas
  
• Data Integration
• More than twice as likely to access existing data
  
  
• It does not require a new data source for
  implementation
  
• Administration and Support via unmatched
  scalability and administrative features
  
• Requires less hardware to run
• Requires less resources to support
• Development
• Requires less developers to implement
• End User Productivity
• Results in more than 2 and ½ times the number of
  users (on average).
  
• According to independent research!

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Why Red Hat and Information Builders
Unmatched potential for ROI Reduced TCO Vendor
Independence Scalable and Manageable Servers
What does WebFOCUS for Red Hat Add?
Extends the Linux TCO story to the application
level Enables the integration of Linux servers wi
th the broadest set of Data and Application
Resources Provides the Most scalable Reportin
g solution in the market bar none!!
Delivers the only Market Leading BI and Reporting
Suite available on the Linux platform
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A Proven History

• Information Builders is the first Enterprise BI
  vendor to see the value of Linux
  
• Information Builders has supported Linux as a
  standard platform with the delivery of the full
  breadth of WebFOCUS solutions since 2001
  
• 41 customers worldwide on Red Hat

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Realize Total Cost of Ownership

• Best Scalability
• Insures that computer resources do not limit
  business growth
  
• Insures that computing costs remain proportionate
  to business growth
  
• Best Performance
• Supports maximum productivity of end users
• Best Availability
• Prevents customer/revenue loss due to downtime
• Best Flexibility
• Decreased support costs / staff required for
  installation, customization, maintenance, and
  monitoring
  
• Faster time to market via On Demand roll out of
  new servers
  
• Lowers TCO
• Via server consolidation