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Information Builders Supports All Major 64-Bit Platforms, DBMSs

Information Builders announced full support for 64-bit processing modes, making WebFOCUS the only business intelligence solution that supports 64-bit generation on all major platforms and all major 64-bit DBMSs. Now customers can run WebFOCUS on a complete 64-bit infrastructure for maximum performance and reduced processing time.

The next evolution of computing, 64-bit processing offers increased performance and scalability for enterprise applications. WebFOCUS is already the most scalable enterprise BI and real-time operational reporting solution (with known deployments of more than 2,000,000 users) and the support for 64-bit processing takes this to the next level.

"Unisys is the leader in the high-end Windows server market and last year 52 percent of our business intelligence customers purchased Intel Itanium-2- based ES7000 servers to meet their increasingly demanding reporting and analysis requirements," said Michael Thomas, vice president of Global Solutions Partners at Unisys Corp. "Big data volumes, access to more data sources, and the need for real-time information are creating growing demand for the processing power of the ES7000. The new 64-bit capabilities of WebFOCUS combined with the 64-bit ES7000 server family uniquely address these demands and will provide significant performance gains -- all at a lower cost of ownership than competing UNIX and mainframe solutions."

WebFOCUS offers support for all major 64-bit DBMSs, including Oracle, DB2, Informix, Sybase, Ingres and Red Brick. WebFOCUS also supports 64-bit generation on all major platforms, with all major DBMSs such as AIX, Sun, HP, Windows Itanium and Tru64. Information Builders has always supported 32- on 64-bit processing and now expands this with full support for the 64-bit environment.

"64-bit operating systems are the wave of the future. They promise higher performance," said Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders. "For a company like Information Builders, which is known for unparalleled scalability and large deployments, these new systems will give us even more options for helping our customers."

Organizations running on a 64-bit computer architecture can leverage WebFOCUS for the utmost performance of their information systems. 64-bit computing increases the speed of computation and calculations while leveraging memory. For example, systems running WebFOCUS on the Microsoft Windows 64-bit environment experience impressive performance gains -- processing time is reduced by threefold.