Information Builders

Information Builders (ibi), founded in 1975, was a privately held software company headquartered in New York City.^[1] Information Builders (ibi) provided services in the fields of Business Intelligence, Data Integration and Data Quality solutions.^[buzzword]

Information Builders (ibi)

Company type	Private
Industry	Software and consulting
Founded	1975 in United States
Headquarters	New York City , United States
Key people	Gerald D. Cohen, founder Frank J. Vella, CEO
Products	WebFOCUS FOCUS iWay Software integration technology
Revenue	US$315 million (2007)
Number of employees	1,400 (2007)

History

Gerald D. Cohen, who died in 2020,^[2] co-founded Information Builders (ibi) in 1975^[3] with Peter Mittelman and Martin B. Slagowitz. Their initial product, FOCUS, was designed to enable people without formal computer programming skills to work with information systems.^[4]

Information Builders (ibi) was one of the largest privately held software firms, operating in more than 60 locations.^[5] Computer Intelligence estimated in 1987 that Information Builders had 3% of the Fortune 1000 PC database market, tied for third behind Ashton-Tate and Microrim.^[6] In 2001, it established iWay Software, a wholly-owned company focusing on data integration and service-oriented architecture (SOA).^[7]

In October 2020, TIBCO Software agreed to purchase ibi. The deal was completed in March 2021.^[8]