Information Builders and Xignite Partner for First-Ever Integration
of On-Demand Financial Web Services with Enterprise Reporting
NEW YORK & SAN MATEO, Calif. Sept, 09, 2006 Information Builders, the enterprise business intelligence (BI) standard
of choice for organizations around the world, and Xignite -- the leading
pure-play provider of financial web services for mission-critical
corporate applications -- today announced a partnership that integrates
Xignite’s popular web services suite of
on-demand financial market data with Information Builders’
WebFOCUS active reporting capabilities.
Xignite develops and markets more than 35 financial web services that
deliver real-time stock quotes, exchange rates, market insight and more.
The company used WebFOCUS to create 400 active report templates to
accompany its on-demand SOAP-based components. The reports enable users
to analyze and report against live financial market data directly from
Xignite. Users of WebFOCUS could easily create such reports to integrate
dynamic financial data into their own enterprise reporting applications.
“On-demand web services are catching on as a
great way to deliver business value in the easiest possible way,”
said Stephane Dubois, CEO of Xignite. “Users
in the financial services industry and others are looking for easy ways
to directly use data from web services. WebFOCUS lets users query our
web services and perform powerful analytic functions like sorting,
filtering, and charting on that data -- all with just a few clicks. This
makes our information even more valuable and useful to our clients.”
“Xignite provides an ideal platform for
incorporating financial data into BI applications,”
said Gerald Cohen, CEO of Information Builders. “Using
Xignite’s pre-packaged web services,
developers can incorporate real-time, dynamic data feeds into executive
BI reports in minutes, without needing to deploy any additional
infrastructure.”
WebFOCUS Active Reports, which combine data and interactive controls
into a self-contained HTML file, operate within a web browser without
the need for any plug-ins or client-side software. This unique reporting
technology lets users interact with the accompanying data as if they
were using a general-purpose report writer. Reports are saved along with
the data, and can be reused in an interactive fashion on demand. This
interactivity is maintained even when a client is disconnected from the
network. WebFOCUS Active Reports can also be sent by e-mail, with no
additional software or license required by the recipient.
WebFOCUS Active Reports are catching on quickly as web services because
they can deliver analytic capabilities to completely portable and
disconnected environments, without requiring any special software.
Sometimes called “portable analytics,”
this unique reporting technology is ideal for people who need
information on the go, such as mobile workers who spend most of their
time visiting clients, or service professionals who travel from site to
site.
Xignite’s web services are used by hundreds
of companies throughout the world. Because they are flexible and
easy-to-integrate, Xignite offerings power different types of
applications across many industries. Xignite’s
on-demand delivery model makes web services compelling for organizations
of all sizes -- especially in conjunction with this new reporting
technology.
About Xignite
Xignite (pronounced “x-ignite”)
is the leading pure-play provider of financial web services for
mission-critical corporate applications. As a pioneer in the field,
Xignite offers the broadest integrated suite of financial web services
available today on an on-demand platform, with more than 35 solutions
covering market quotes, news, corporate data, industry information,
analytics, tools and more. Xignite powers mission-critical applications
for portfolio management, sales management, trading, investor relations,
corporate portals, executive dashboards, analytical engines and
more. Xignite serves more than 220 clients, including Ameriquest, GE
Commercial Finance, Goodyear, ING, McDonald’s,
Marsh & McLennan, Starbucks, and Wendy’s.
For more information, please visit www.Xignite.com
About Information Builders
Information Builders is the leader in enterprise business intelligence
and real-time operational reporting. The company’s
WebFOCUS product -- the industry’s most
scalable, 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' empowerment of organizations 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 31 years to more than 12,000 customers, including most of
the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in
New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,750
people and has over 350 business partners.