Information Builders, a leader in enterprise business intelligence (BI) solutions and real-time Web reporting, has expanded the already formidable data integration capabilities of WebFOCUS through the addition of a Web services adapter.
The WebFOCUS Web Services Adapter enables Web services created and deployed using any Web-services authoring tool to be directly consumed by the WebFOCUS report server and manipulated as though it were relational data.
"This new adapter makes WebFOCUS the only business intelligence solution that can both read the output of a Web service as a data source, as well as be called to present data as a Web service. In other words, WebFOCUS is both a consumer and publisher of Web services," explains Twanette Jurd of ICL, the local representative for Information Builders. "Large enterprises are standardising on Web services and service-oriented architectures as a means of implementing low-cost, high ROI, standards-based integration," she says. "By enabling Web services to be accessed and manipulated as easily as if it were another relational database, customers employing Web services as a standard means of integrating data, applications, transaction systems, or packaged applications now have virtually unlimited access to enterprise data through WebFOCUS."
The WebFOCUS Web Services Adapter enables customers to author, publish, and deploy Web services. Once published, WebFOCUS enables metadata describing the Web service as a relational structure to be automatically created, catalogued, and made directly accessible for reporting or analytical purposes. Also, the same Web service may be manipulated in conjunction with the 85 other RDBMSs, DBMSs, and legacy file systems accessible through the WebFOCUS enterprise adapter architecture.
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ICL South Africa has been operating in SA since 1911 and has undergone constant change in line with industry and market developments.
ICL South Africa is part of the global IT services and solutions company Fujitsu Services Plc which is wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Japan, the third largest IT company in the world, with annual revenues of $38 billion and over 35 000 employees.
ICL South Africa has moved from being predominantly hardware-focused to becoming an IT services and integration specialist, combining its in-house expertise with selected partners from the whole spectrum of the IT industry.
Headquartered in Johannesburg, ICL SA has offices in Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth.
Web site: www.iclafrica.com
Information Builders
Information Builders is the leader in enterprise business intelligence and real-time Web reporting. The company`s WebFOCUS product - the industry`s most 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`s empowerment of organisations 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 almost 29 years to more than 11 000 customers, including most of the Fortune 100 and US federal, state, and local government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1 750 people, has over 350 business partners, and generated revenues exceeding $300 million in 2003.
Web site: www.informationbuilders.com
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