Partnership Provides Unified Foundation for an Enterprise Information Architecture and Fundamental Building Block for SOA

NEW YORK--iWay Software, an Information Builders company and an innovator of enterprise integration solutions, announced today it will partner with IBM to support the new IBM Information Server and help customers derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across their IT systems.

iWay plans to work with IBM to develop integrated solutions that not only supports IBM Information Server, but provides a scalable, high performance framework for cleansing, transforming, and delivering information consistently and securely throughout the enterprise. IBM Information Server helps companies integrate information so it can be accessed and used in new ways to drive innovation, increase operational efficiency, and lower risk.

“The powerful combination of iWay Software and the IBM Information Server helps customers achieve unprecedented access to information throughout their organization,” said John Senor, president of iWay Software. “We are pleased to be partnering with IBM to support this game-changing approach to information integration.”

Critical business initiatives such as business intelligence, master data management, application migrations, and business transformation require consistent, complete, and trustworthy information. iWay Software offers a family of tools that makes it easy for IBM applications to interact with enterprise information assets. iWay Software complements IBM information integration technology with hundreds of productivity-enhancing adapters that let users connect rapidly to more than 300 enterprise assets and accelerate the deployment of service-oriented applications built for the IBM platform.

“We value the contributions iWay Software can deliver by helping customers rapidly leverage the IBM Information Server and creating unprecedented access to trusted information,” said Pete Fiore, vice president, IBM Information Integration Solutions. “By collaborating with iWay, we can solve some of the most pressing information management challenges faced by organizations today.”

About iWay Software

iWay Software, an Information Builders company and an innovator of enterprise integration solutions, accelerates business integration by providing tools to build a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Clients achieve short-term ROI by using iWay to reduce custom programming and solve problems quickly, while incrementally creating an architecture that supports long-term projects. The biggest names in software, including BEA, IBM, and Microsoft, use iWay adapters to simplify access to ERP and CRM systems, messaging, legacy systems, e-business protocols like AS2 and ebXML, and more. For more information, visit www.iwaysoftware.com.

About Information Builders

An industry innovator for more than 31 years, 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’ 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 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 1,600 people and has over 350 business partners. For more information visit www.informationbuilders.com.