Information Builders

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Information Builders Inc
Type Private
Founded Flag of the United States USA (1975)
Headquarters New York, USA
Key people Gerald D. Cohen, CEO
Industry Software & Programming
Products WebFOCUS Business Intelligence
FOCUS Host based reporting
Employees 1,600 (2006)
Website www.informationbuilders.com

Information Builders Inc is a privately held software company, with their headquarters in New York. The company was founded in 1975 by Gerald D. Cohen, Peter Mittelman, and Martin B. Slagowitz. Together with Apple Computer, Oracle Corporation, Cincom, and SAS Institute they belong to a select group of medium to large software and hardware companies from the mid-seventies that are still managed by their founders. Information Builders is known for their Business Intelligence tools FOCUS and WebFOCUS. After 26 years of reporting knowledge from a variety of platforms, data sources and applications, in 2001 they established iWay Software, a wholly owned company that focuses on integration and SOA. The group has a worldwide presence with 47 of its own sales offices and 26 national distributors and agents. They have more than 1400 employees worldwide and their revenue in 2007 was more than $315 million, with double digit growth in software license revenue.

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