Information Builders has partnered with Cognizant Technology Solutions to allow enterprises to transfer their legacy reporting environments onto the Web.
Information Builders has developed a suite of business intelligence (BI) tools that will offer customers `e-Transformation` solutions, built on its flagship Web reporting platform WebFOCUS.
For its part, Cognizant, a custom software provider, will provide specific transfer software and services that target legacy reporting tools or database platforms - such as Easytrieve, Model204, Cobol, and Ideal. Both companies already have joint customers that they will initially target with this new solution.
ICL marketing and communications manager Tony Cross said this is an ideal opportunity for companies to leverage off their legacy systems.
"Rather than replace systems, or face the disadvantages of trying to report off disparate legacy applications, the new solution will provide the necessary tools to integrate applications," he explained.
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Information Builders provides its customers with robust business intelligence solutions, specialising in real-time information delivery over the Web. Headquartered in New York, Information Builders helps companies and government organisations improve their mission-critical operations by transforming data into usable information and delivering it to employees, managers, partners, and customers through the Internet. With its award-winning WebFOCUS solution, Information Builders delivers information to more than 11 000 global customer sites, including most of the Fortune 100 and all US federal government agencies. The company employs 1 900 professionals worldwide and generated revenues exceeding $300 million in 2001.
ICL (South Africa) is the sole distributor of Information Builders in southern Africa. For more information, visit www.informationbuilders.com or contact Tony Cross on (011) 233 5067 or tony.cross@iclafrica.com.
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ICL South Africa, a subsidiary of Fujitsu Services Plc (Formerly ICL Plc), is one of the leading IT services companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa. It has an annual turnover of lb2.4 billion (EUR3.9 billion), employs 15 500 people and operates in over 30 countries. It designs, builds and operates IT systems and services for customers in the financial services, telecoms, retail, utilities and government markets. Its core strength is the delivery of IT infrastructure management and outsourcing across desktop, networking and data centre environments, together with a full range of related services, from infrastructure consulting through integration and deployment.
Headquartered in London, Fujitsu Services is the European-centred IT services arm of the Fujitsu Group. The Fujitsu Group is a $38 billion (about EUR43 billion) leader in customer-focused IT systems and services for the global marketplace. Prior to April 2002 Fujitsu Services operated as ICL. www.services.fujitsu.com
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