BEA is the world's leading application infrastructure software company with more than 13,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. Companies turn to BEA to help them evolve their existing enterprise software applications from inflexible, redundant, legacy client/server architectures to highly responsive, mature Web infrastructures. Companies built on BEA software are able to use IT to effect rapid change within their organizations and achieve breakthrough levels of efficiency and responsiveness. The BEA WebLogic® Enterprise Platform provides the application infrastructure foundation that simplifies the flow of information, decreases the costs of managing applications, and makes an enterprise more agile, productive, and connected. BEA's platform is also the de facto standard for more than 2,100 systems integrators (SIs), independent software vendors (ISVs), and application service providers (ASPs) who partner with BEA to ensure the successful deployment of your solution. Read the press release. Learn more about our joint solution.

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The partnership between Information Builders, the leader in business intelligence for real-time information delivery over the Web, and ESRI, the leader in geographic information systems (GIS) software, will significantly increase the customers' ability to deliver intelligence in spatially enabled applications.

To address customer-driven demand, Information Builders and ESRI have teamed to deliver a geographic business intelligence solution (GBIS) that extends the real-time enterprise business intelligence and reporting capabilities of WebFOCUS to the powerful ArcIMS® geographic information system (GIS) environment. The combined solution allows users throughout the extended enterprise to rapidly and intuitively analyze real-time information with a spatial component 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.

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Information Builders works closely with Microsoft as both a Data Warehouse Alliance Partner (DWAP) and a Microsoft Data Access Partner. As a DWAP, Information Builders provides complementary and approved technology to enhance the capabilities of Microsoft's Data and Transaction Access Components through our enterprise integration technologies. Information Builders extends MDAC access to more than 85 proprietary information sources with a single driver solution, allowing developers to create applications without having to worry about separate data connectors. Information Builders has also completely integrated our business intelligence solutions with Microsoft 2000 and BackOffice 2000, standardizing on Microsoft's OLAP Services cubes for our WebFOCUS products.

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As an Oracle Member Partner, Information Builders has access to the latest Oracle product updates and product information as well as technical support. Our technology relationship with Oracle also includes the development and distribution of Oracle Transparent Gateway for EDA, which allows Oracle users to integrate legacy data from more than 16 different mainframe-based data sources and create true enterprise information systems using our enterprise integration technology.

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Founded in 1969, Software AG continues to be a leading global provider – and Europe's largest – of system software and services enabling enterprise data integration and management. Software AG's products control the central IT processes of thousands of renowned companies worldwide including Lufthansa, Siemens, Citibank, Merck, DaimlerChrysler, Sony, BP, and Telefonica. Software AG´s EntireX integration technology is based on open standards like XML, SOAP, and Web services. iWay Software's adapters provide EntireX with standards-based plug-and-play access to data, applications, and technologies. Also iWay's extensive product range will enrich Software AG's leading specialization in service-based integration and management products and services. Software AG is based in Darmstadt, Germany.

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An independent operating company of Progress Software Corporation, Sonic Software enables reliable interoperability of software applications within and across enterprises based on Web services and Internet messaging standards. One of the world's fastest growing Internet middleware companies, Sonic provides the first integration suite built on an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Sonic has partnered with iWay Software to provide intelligent, prepackaged adapters for the SonicXQ ESB, integrating disparate, proprietary-based applications and middleware while supporting mainstream business standards, including a range of EDI and specific vertical industry protocols.

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