NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2006 -- Information Builders, the enterprise business intelligence (BI) standard of choice for organizations around the world, today announced the company was named as a "strong performer" in Forrester Research, Inc.'s report, The Forrester Wave(TM) BI and Analytic Reporting, published on February 8, 2006. Information Builders was recognized as a leader in delivering data access and scalability for BI reporting and analysis platforms as well as cited as best suited for operational BI applications.

"Information Builders has a long history of delivering decision-support technology," writes Keith Gile, research analyst for Forrester. "WebFOCUS has evolved into one of the premier products for embedding BI components within enterprise applications without sacrificing scalability."

Forrester evaluated ten leading BI, database and application vendors across 92 criteria, using a combination of vendor surveys, product demos and customer reference calls to assess the strengths and weaknesses of each solution. The Forrester Wave(TM) charts three major elements including current offering, strategy, and market presence as part of the criteria. Forrester then assigned weightings to each of the criteria to help prospective buyers understand the strengths and weaknesses of each product.

Information Builders' WebFOCUS provides enterprise organizations with comprehensive operational BI capabilities. By utilizing core data integration functionality, users can leverage any data asset, transform it into useful information, and deliver it in an actionable format across the enterprise and beyond. The flexible WebFOCUS architecture scales to enable third party users such as customers and partners to harness the power of business intelligence quickly and effectively, reducing costs and increasing business productivity.

"As the business environment grows increasingly competitive, more and more organizations are requiring business personnel to serve as BI users in order to quickly make critical operational decisions," says Gerald Cohen, CEO of Information Builders. "By understanding the needs of these unique users and providing operational BI solutions and data integration capabilities in real- time, Information Builders continues to lead the industry movement towards operational business intelligence."

About Information Builders

Information Builders is the leader in enterprise business intelligence and real-time operational reporting. The company's WebFOCUS product -- the industry's most scalable, 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 30 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. For more information, visit http://www.informationbuilders.com.