Information Builders

Information Builders (ibi)
Type	Private
Industry	Software and consulting
Founded	1975 in United States
Headquarters	New York City, United States
Key people	Gerald D. Cohen, Chairman of the Board; Frank J. Vella, CEO
Products	WebFOCUS; FOCUS iWay Software ; integration technology
Revenue	US$315 million (2007)
Number of employees	1,400 (2007)
Website	ibi.com

Information Builders (ibi) is a 40+ year old privately held software company headquartered in New York City.[1] Information Builders provides services in the fields of Business Intelligence, Data Integration and Data Quality solutions.

History

Gerald D. Cohen, currently the Chairman of the Board,[2] co-founded Information Builders in 1975[3] with Peter Mittelman and Martin B. Slagowitz. Their initial product, FOCUS, was designed to enable people without formal computer programming skills to work with information systems.[4] The current CEO is Frank J. Vella.[2]

Information Builders is one of the largest privately held software firms and operates in more than 60 locations.[5] In 2001, it established iWay Software, a wholly owned company that focuses on data integration and service-oriented architecture (SOA).[6]

Recognition

On 15 June 2020, In Dresner's Wisdom of Crowds ® Business Intelligence Market study, Information Builders, Inc. (IBI), announced it is a global leader in customer experience for the fifth consecutive year. The report ranked IBI as a trust leader in credibility of vendors as well.[7]

gollark: It's not a crypto problem. It's a trust problem.

gollark: Sure, if you expect everyone to be trustworthy security is much easier.

gollark: Why not just directly do payments from that somehow?

gollark: So you also have to manually muck around with a tablet or something to declare how much money it should let you take?

gollark: ?

References

Mervyn Rothstein (May 2, 1997). "Lease for Office Space". The New York Times.
Brust, Andrew. "Information Builders names Frank J. Vella new CEO". ZDNet. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
"Information Builders, Inc". Founded in 1975
"Focus on End User tools". Network World. May 9, 1994. p. 39.
Zielenziger, David (5 December 2011). "Let Oracle, SAP Buy Others, Information Builders Remains Independent Stalwart, CEO Says". International Business Times.
"iWay Software, from Information Builders". ComputerWorld. March 19, 2001. p. 50. iWay Software, launched in February 2001, is a wholly owned company of Information Builders Inc.
"Information Builders Named Customer Experience Leader by Dresner Advisory Services for Fifth Consecutive Year". Globe Newswire. 15 June 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.

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[1] Mervyn Rothstein (May 2, 1997). "Lease for Office Space". The New York Times.

[cob-2] Brust, Andrew. "Information Builders names Frank J. Vella new CEO". ZDNet. Retrieved 13 March 2019.

[3] "Information Builders, Inc". Founded in 1975

[4] "Focus on End User tools". Network World. May 9, 1994. p. 39.

[5] Zielenziger, David (5 December 2011). "Let Oracle, SAP Buy Others, Information Builders Remains Independent Stalwart, CEO Says". International Business Times.

[6] "iWay Software, from Information Builders". ComputerWorld. March 19, 2001. p. 50. iWay Software, launched in February 2001, is a wholly owned company of Information Builders Inc.

[7] "Information Builders Named Customer Experience Leader by Dresner Advisory Services for Fifth Consecutive Year". Globe Newswire. 15 June 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.