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Information Builders Appoints J.T. Taylor New CTO of iWay Software
Global IT Veteran to Advance Product Direction and Strategy for Market Expansion
| Source: Information Builders
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - July 25, 2007) - iWay Software, an Information Builders company
and innovator of enterprise
integration solutions, today announced the appointment of John T.
Taylor as chief technology officer. A leader in the commercial software
industry, J.T. joins iWay with more than 25 years of experience developing
and marketing enterprise software, continuing his legacy of driving and
delivering fresh and innovative products.
"As more and more companies rapidly expand in today's business environment,
through organic growth or mergers and acquisitions, the value of a
well-structured business integration solution can no longer be
ignored," said Taylor. "Joining iWay Software gives me a great opportunity
to continue bringing companies, both large and small, the industry's most
comprehensive and effective tools for data integration."
At iWay, Taylor will be responsible for strategic product direction and
planning, analyst relations, and overall customer satisfaction, working
closely with John Senor, president of iWay Software.
Prior to joining iWay Software, Taylor was the founder and CEO of
SemanticSolutions, an independent software vendor and reseller targeting
the application development
market. Previously, he held the position of senior director of Global
Product Marketing and chief software architect at Software AG, a $1 billion
independent software vendor in the database, application development, and
application integration markets. Prior to Software AG, Taylor was vice
president and chief technology officer of SingleShop, an Internet
e-commerce startup, responsible for the development and support of the
company's innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) e-commerce products.
Taylor is also a decorated veteran of the U.S. Army.
"iWay Software has been very successful at solving business problems with
integration technologies across a variety of industries," said John Senor,
president of iWay Software. "J.T. will be instrumental in driving new
product innovation and introducing high-value technology solutions into new
and emerging markets."
About iWay Software
iWay Software, an Information Builders company and the world's leading
adapter vendor, accelerates business integration by providing tools that
make service-oriented architectures easy to implement.
Clients achieve short-term ROI by using iWay to reduce custom programming
and to solve problems quickly, while incrementally creating an architecture
that supports long-term projects. The biggest names in software, including
BEA, Microsoft, and SAP, use iWay adapters to simplify access to ERP and
CRM systems, messaging, legacy systems, e-business protocols like AS2 and
ebXML, and more. Additional message transformation and data integration
make iWay a natural integration choice
-- standalone or with other middleware.
About Information Builders
Information Builders' award-winning combination of business intelligence
and enterprise integration software has been providing innovative solutions
to more than 12,000 customers for the past 30 years. WebFOCUS is the
world's most widely utilized business intelligence platform. It provides the
security, scalability, and flexibility needed at every level of global
extended enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical,
and operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users.
Information Builders subsidiary iWay Software provides state-of-the-art,
multi-purpose integration engines that address all SOA, application, data,
and information management requirements. Its integration adapters have been
adopted by the leading software platform providers. Together, these
products give Information Builders' customers the ability to live up to the
company motto: Your business. No Barriers.
Information Builders' customers include most of the Fortune 100 and U.S.
federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices
worldwide, the company employs 1,600 people and has more than 350 business
partners.