Media Advisory: Information Builders(R) to Host Webcast Featuring TDWI's Wayne Eckerson to Address Business Intelligence Search Capabilities

Attendees Will Hear How to Enhance Business Intelligence Initiatives Through the Power of Search


NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - August 13, 2007) -


What:  Information Builders®, the leader in production business
       intelligence (BI) systems, will host a free, one-hour Webcast
       designed to discuss search as an entry point to BI and the
       discovery of relevant information for decision making.

When:  Tuesday, August 14, 2007
       12:00 noon ET / 9:00 a.m. PT

Who:   Information Builders Vice President Jake Freivald will provide a
       brief overview of search through BI technology. Following Freivald,
       Wayne Eckerson, Director of TDWI, a worldwide association of
       business intelligence and data warehousing professionals, will
       discuss how search through BI can be used to make transactions
       searchable and create dynamic interfaces that will help users find
       the information they need. Eckerson has 18 years of industry
       experience and has covered business intelligence and data
       warehousing since 1995.

Why:   Search engines are the dominant way to find what you want on the
       Internet. These same search services, combined with business
       intelligence technology, can be used to help locate valuable
       information to help you make critical business decisions.

       This Webcast will cover how to:
       --  Get a better understanding of how the WebFOCUS business
           intelligence platform works with search engine technologies.
       --  Achieve real business benefits by using search and BI.
       --  Learn how this use of two technologies will power business
           making decisions in the future.

Registration: Pre-registration is now open (copy and paste this link
              in your web browser):

              http://www.informationbuilders.com/events/seminars/swsen.html

Editorial Contact:  Members of the media may request more information from
                    Matt McCarthy, Emerge PR, mmccarthy@emergepr.com,
                    (617) 729-3175.

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.

Contact Information: Editorial Contact: Matt McCarthy Emerge PR (617) 729-3175