Information Builders' WebFOCUS 8 Solution Certified for Integration With SAP HANA(R)

Solution Delivers Faster Data Analytics to Customers Through Interoperability With SAP HANA


NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - May 27, 2014) - Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity and integration solutions, today announced its WebFOCUS 8 BI platform has achieved certified integration with the SAP HANA® platform, providing customers with the capacity to improve BI through enhanced data processing.

As a result of the certified integration with SAP HANA, users of WebFOCUS will now be able to accelerate analytics, business processes, data processing and predictive capabilities.

"Information Builders is proud to achieve this certification from SAP of WebFOCUS 8," said Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders. "Through the integration, users can perform real-time analytics and run ad hoc data queries at an extremely rapid pace. Our current and future customers now have the ability to expand the business potential of their data through integration with SAP HANA, adding another powerful data management component to WebFOCUS."

WebFOCUS is a flexible, fast, and scalable BI and analytics platform that helps organizations use information to their competitive advantage by empowering more people to make better decisions. Information Builders provides an integrated solution set for BI and analytics, integration, and data integrity to combine its core capabilities into a single information management platform. WebFOCUS now offers InfoApps™, interactive BI apps that are focused on a specific business problem and enable ad hoc querying and analysis that helps users get the answers they need quickly.

The SAP HANA platform enables businesses to make smarter, faster decisions through real-time analysis and reporting combined with dramatically accelerated business process.

Information Builders is an SAP software solution and technology partner in the SAP PartnerEdge® program. Through the program, partners work closely with SAP to develop and certify the technical integration of their solutions with SAP software. Integrated partner applications extend, complement, and add value to SAP solutions, thereby helping mutual customers more successfully meet business needs and drive strong results.

About Information Builders
Information Builders helps organizations transform data into business value. Our software solutions for business intelligence and analytics, integration, and data integrity empower people to make smarter decisions, strengthen customer relationships, and drive growth. Our dedication to customer success is unmatched in the industry. That's why tens of thousands of leading organizations rely on Information Builders to be their trusted partner. Founded in 1975, Information Builders is headquartered in New York, NY, with offices around the world, and remains one of the largest independent, privately held companies in the industry. Visit us at informationbuilders.com, follow us on Twitter at @infobldrs, like us on Facebook, and visit our LinkedIn page.

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