Information Builders and iWay Software Recognized as a 'Strong Performer' in Enterprise ETL by Independent Research Firm

Information Builders and iWay Software Recognized as a 'Strong Performer' in Enterprise ETL by Independent Research Firm

Objective Report Identifies WebFOCUS DataMigrator, Which Uses iWay Software Technology, for its Scalability, Advanced Connectivity and Collaborative Development

NEW YORK, January 12 /PRNewswire/ -- iWay Software, a wholly owned division of Information Builders and world's leading adapter vendor, today announced that it was among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in its December 2004, Forrester Wave report, How to Evaluate Enterprise ETL. In this evaluation, iWay was cited as a strong performer in the ETL tools market. iWay was recognized for its high scalability and advanced connectivity.

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There is a growing demand for the convergence of ETL, application integration and business intelligence. In order to more fully leverage current infrastructure investments and automate processes, organizations want a BI platform that includes ETL and integration functionality. DataMigrator also makes access and migration of virtually all enterprise data seamless, since it employs industry leading adapter technology from iWay Software.

Forrester surveyed 14 ETL vendors for this report. For each ETL vendor participating in the study, Forrester ranked the vendor's product according to the three key indicators of The Wave(TM) -- current offering, strategy, and market presence.

"Three requirements distinguish enterprise ETL: scalability, connectivity, and collaborative development," writes Philip Russom, research analyst for Forrester. In the report, he adds that Forrester "applied these and other requirements to a Forrester Wave(TM) assessment of 14 vendor products to determine which are most capable of enterprise ETL."

In the area of scalability, DataMigrator was ranked "high," relying on its companion product Adapter Manager, which has more than 80 connectors that are natively optimized for high-performance extraction from data sources. In the area of connectivity, Forrester gave iWay the highest ranking of "advanced" noting that "ETL tools at this high level of connectivity are differentiated from others by native access to legacy databases and EAI platforms."

"iWay Software's unique ability to address complex integration issues makes us an obvious choice for companies that need ETL solutions," said John G. Senor III, president of iWay Software. "As organizations continue to integrate more systems and bring more business processes online, they will need an ETL solution that can scale and handle connectivity with a greater number of data sources. We find that Forrester's ETL Wave validates our product strengths in this area."

About iWay Software

iWay Software, an Information Builders company and the world's leading adapter vendor, is a market leader in middleware that accelerates business integration. With facilities to integrate systems in real time, near-real time, or on a scheduled basis, iWay provides a complete reusable infrastructure for EAI, B2B, e-commerce, mobile business, and e-government. iWay's experience with complex information systems led to the development of prepackaged intelligent adapters to connect to more than 250 packaged applications, transaction systems, legacy data, relational databases, and e- business formats, without writing custom code. iWay Software integration solutions significantly reduce the time, cost, effort, and risk of integration projects throughout the enterprise. For more information, go to http://www.iwaysoftware.com/.

About Information Builders

Information Builders, a $300 million company, is the leader in enterprise business intelligence and real-time operational reporting. The company's WebFOCUS product -- the industry's most secure and flexible -- is able to meet all the reporting needs of the extended enterprise, ranging from analysts to power users to the widest deployments for hundreds of thousands of users. Additionally, WebFOCUS' empowerment of organizations seeking to leverage all their data by accessing it all -- from legacy to data warehouse -- is unmatched.

Information Builders' award-winning technology has successfully provided quality software and superior services for 29 years to more than 12,000 customers, including most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,750 people, and has over 350 business partners.

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CONTACT: Press Contact: Jon Stotts of iWay Software, +1-917-339-5442,
Jon_Stotts@ibi.com; or Samantha Smith of Horn Group, Inc., +1-781-356-7139,
sssmith@horngroup.com

Web site: http://www.informationbuilders.com/
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