ESRI and Information Builders, Inc., are working together to deliver complete GIS solutions to our customers.

Information Builders, Inc., and ESRI are working together to deliver a new breed of business intelligence. To address customer driven demand, the two organizations have teamed to deliver award winning geographic business intelligence solutions (GBIS) that extend the real-time enterprise business intelligence and reporting capabilities of WebFOCUS, Information Builders' leading information delivery product, to ESRI's ArcGIS Server and ArcIMS. These combined solutions allow users throughout the extended enterprise to rapidly and intuitively analyze real-time information by presenting business intelligence information in the context of physical location. GBIS improves decision making and responsiveness while extending the reach of GIS to address a wide range of business applications and integrate natively with more than 85 data sources.

In addition, ETL Manager, an extraction, transformation, and load tool, and other information access technologies by iWay Software, an Information Builders company, enable ESRI's ArcSDE product to seamlessly extract and encapsulate enterprise data for transformation into maps. Together, ESRI and Information Builders meet the market demand for integrated business and location intelligence capabilities.

Organizations in telecommunications, financial services, retail, manufacturing, and the public sector are finding this combination of technology critical to managing their businesses and making effective decisions. For example, the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development Program uses the software combination to integrate its databases and to network offices and service programs. The Mapping Analysis Program gives policy officials and program managers access to key program data and the ability to analyze it in a geographic context.

Information Builders has provided quality software and superior services for more than 30 years to more than 12,000 customer sites including most of the Fortune 100. Headquartered in New York City, the company employs 1,600 people worldwide and has more than 350 business partners, and 47 offices and 26 worldwide distributors.