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NEW YORK -- Information Builders, the leader in enterprise business intelligence (BI) and real-time Web reporting, today announced a strategic alliance with Unisys Corporation under which the companies will deliver real-time enterprise business intelligence and reporting solutions. The solutions will help enterpripinpoint, retrieve, integrate, and analyze information to make informed, effective business decisions. With this partnership, organizations can implement Information Builders' WebFOCUS applications on the Unisys ES7000 family of scalable Intel-based servers. Offering up to 32 Intel Xeon processors or up to 16 Intel Itanium-2 processors, ES7000 servers combine mainframe-class performance, manageability, and reliability with the superior economics of Windows-based computing. Today, Unisys ES7000 servers power business intelligence solutions for more than 100 large companies and government organizations. Information Builders and Unisys will provide customers with pre-sales support, technical evaluations, training, consulting, and post-sales customer support. Application testing, training, and proof-of-concept demonstrations will be supported by Unisys Centers of Excellence for Business Intelligence located in Bellevue, Washington, and Amsterdam. Complete, preintegrated WebFOCUS solutions are available on all ES7000 models. Solutions running on either 32-bit or 64-bit ES7000 database servers can be configured to support massively scalable data warehousing and online analytical processing. "The need for real-time reporting and business intelligence has never been greater," says Mike Thomas, vice president of Unisys Global Solution Partners. "Customers need to share the data enterprise-wide and WebFOCUS 5, running on the Unisys ES7000 server, clearly has proven that it can scale to address large complex workloads." Solutions based on the Unisys ES7000 server and Information Builders software reference the Microsoft Systems Architecture for building scalable enterprise Windows-based information infrastructures. The prescriptive architecture helps cut the time, expense, and risk of deploying an enterprise-capable IT infrastructure by completing much of the integration and testing needed to plan and install a complex IT environment. "Combining the world-class performance of Unisys ES7000 enterprise servers and services with our applications means that customers can achieve real-time access to the information they need to make more timely, effective decisions," said Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders. "This combined solution is simply the most economical way of distributing large BI deployments to everyone throughout the extended enterprise."