Analyst Reports

Information Builders rated "Best Buy" by Network Computing in this head-to-head business intelligence software evaluation.

Gartner report positions Information Builders in the leader quadrant in the convergence of enterprise BI suites and reporting.

Have questions about WebFOCUS? So did GIGA Information Group's customers. Here's what GIGA's Keith Gile had to say.

For an independent point of view on WebFOCUS, get a copy of Giga Information Group analyst Keith Gile's report.

Analytics

Learn how turning raw enterprise data into intuitive and visually-perceptive illustrations can make it easier to measure and compare information, and spot critical trends, patterns, and relationships.

Learn how comprehensive financial analysis can help you obtain a complete, consolidated view of corporate performance and deliver timely, accurate financial information.

Business Strategies

Establishing a Culture of Measurement – A Practical Guide to BI  

This paper serves as a synopsis of Information Builders' philosophy of business intelligence. By using this paper as a model, you'll learn how to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization.

Integrated Business Intelligence Suites  

Read about the emergence of enterprise business intelligence suites and how they satisfy the information requirements of users across the enterprise and beyond.

Architecture of the WebFOCUS 5.5 Server for Autonomic Operation  

The autonomic server is Information Builders' next-generation WebFOCUS architecture. The goal of the autonomic server is to ensure that business intelligence applications provide high levels of scalability, reliability, manageability, and functionality without requiring significant human intervention.

The Cost of a Question – Examining Total Cost of Ownership for Business Intelligence Solutions  

Reduce the purchase, maintenance, and implementation costs of business intelligence by standardizing on a single solution that meets all of your reporting and information delivery needs. Compares the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of BI solutions from Cognos, Business Objects, and Information Builders.

Information Builders' CEO Gerry Cohen describes how successfully mastering the three dimensions of business intelligence scalability will provide universal access to real-time information and improve decision-making across your organization.

Discusses how WebFOCUS information delivery and management solutions help organizations dynamically deliver vital business information to the right people at the right time, and effectively store and manage it for future use.

A roadmap for implementing business intelligence solutions.

Defines business intelligence and i-business and shows how they drive successful e-business. Includes case studies.

Development & Deployment

Describes the architectural capabilities critical to the success of enterprise-wide business intelligence implementations.

Structured ad hoc report templates have brought business intelligence deployment to a new level.

Shows how to rapidly develop applications for all users and broadly deploy them via the web.

Shows how to close the loop between operational and transactional systems by providing update capability.

Learn how to leverage the processing efficiencies of Java-based application servers to deploy business intelligence applications to more people at a lower per user cost.

Discusses ways to integrate your business intelligence and portal strategies effectively, including critical success factors in an enterprise information portal.

Legacy Extension

Directed to owners of FOCUS reporting environments, illustrates how leading organizations have minimized cost and time for moving legacy systems to the Web.

Management & Administration

Learn how to deploy secure, wide scale business intelligence applications that provide the ability to personalize and specialize views of the information.

Tells you what to look for in a good performance management system for business intelligence reporting.