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Information Builders est un éditeur de logiciel Spécialiste de la BI est de l'intégration de données. Cet éditeur Américain a aujourd'hui envriron 12000 clients et reste l'un des leader positionné dans le magic Quadrant BI du Gartner.

Vous trouverez ci-dessous des informations complémentaires provenant du Gartner 2010;

Strengths
Information Builders' WebFocus product is well suited as a platform for building custom Web-based BI applications, including rich Internet applications, often in extranet and public, customer-facing, constituent-facing, supply-chain-facing or partner-facing BI Web applications where its deployments regularly exceed tens of thousands of users executing live interactive queries against multiple databases.
Information Builders specializes in building highly parameterized enterprise reporting for report consumers. These report consumers can specify output formats and drill paths, in addition to measures and dimensions, through extensive report parameterization options, while also having an exceptional degree of report interactivity. While in the past, ad hoc analysis had not been a strength of Information Builders, this year, users gave Information Builders an above-average rating for ad hoc analysis, suggesting that InfoAssist, Information Builders' casual user ad hoc reporting and analysis tool, introduced in 2008, is gaining positive market traction.
Information Builders provides broad platform, data integration and application support. The Magic Quadrant survey data confirms that Information Builders is chosen more often than any other vendor for its data access and integration capabilities. WebFocus is fully integrated with Information Builders' iWay integration platform. It provides the WebFocus platform with capabilities for enterprise, real-time reporting from multiple data sources with integrated ETL, data federation, data profiling and data quality, automated data geocoding and real-time search index management, business activity monitoring/complex-event processing, file-based integration, MDM, and operational write-back. This integration makes Information Builders better suited than most other BI platforms for organizations without a data warehouse and for operational reporting.
Information Builders places a strong emphasis on the customer relationship as an integral part of the corporate culture. In a consolidating, highly competitive market, this high-touch approach appears to have paid off in terms of strong customer satisfaction. Information Builders had by far the highest number of references and survey responses in this year's survey — almost double that of the second-placed vendor. Customers rated it above average for support, customer experience and view of the vendor's future. Moreover, despite market consolidation, Information Builders has been able to hold enterprise ground. A majority of Information Builders' customer references in the Magic Quadrant survey consider its products their BI standard.
Information Builders continues to be a BI innovator, having been among the first to deliver capabilities for integrated search, mobile devices, use of rich Internet applications and mashups, predictive analytics, data discovery, and visualization (through its OEM relationship with Advizor Solutions). New investments in cloud computing and government-grade security capability underscore Information Builders' agility and ongoing commitment to groundbreaking development. While still one of the few vendors with production deployments of BI, search and integrated capabilities for predictive analytics, survey results show below-average use of the platform for other than static and parameterized reporting.

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Cautions
Information Builders continues to offer limited OLAP capabilities of its own, which is evident from its below-average OLAP functionality survey scores.
While Information Builders' WebFocus is a mature and fully featured platform, survey customers rated it more difficult to implement, migrate and use, on average, than the platforms of other vendors. This is supported by anecdotal evidence from Gartner inquiries. Information Builders is at a disadvantage with line-of-business buyers who are making an increasing percentage of BI purchasing decisions and are looking first and foremost for easy-to-use, easy-to-deploy platforms.
As extranet deployments continue to be an Information Builders 'sweet spot' and go-to-market emphasis, with many of Information Builders' customers using custom extranet BI applications built with WebFocus, without knowing they are using Information Builders, expanding brand awareness is an ongoing challenge. Its low brand awareness is a negative factor on revenue growth, which is already slower than that of the market overall.
As one of the remaining large pure-play BI platform vendors, without the momentum of either the megavendors or the 'easy to use' and lighter weight platforms of pure plays, Information Builders has experienced slower revenue growth than the market overall. It will continue to be challenged in winning broader stack-centric IT-driven enterprise deals or departmentally driven line-of-business deals that fall outside its sweet spot.