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My Way or the iWay? More from the IAP

The second set of presentations at the Independent Analyst Platform was by Kevin Quinn and Vincent Lam, representing Information Builders and iWay Software, an owned subsidiary of Information Builders. Kevin's presentation screamed through the extremely versatile organization and presentation of reporting, analysis, and some of the ways that Information Builders' product landscape feeds into an organizational business productivity and improvement activity. Reliance on data integration that has evolved over 30+ years from within lends a degree of credibility to the claims of pervasiveness and scalability.

Vincent's presentation on iWay spanned the capability spectrum of numerous abilities for data integration. One interesting note: many other BI vendors have recognized the need for a data integration (or ETL) capability, then went out and bought a vendor or two to fill that void, then wriggled and writhed through the process of making the purchased tools work together. Information Builders has grown their own internal data integration suite, which obviates that need to make things work together, and that is an extremely appealing notion.

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