Information Builders (ibi), founded in 1975, was a

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company headquartered in

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. Information Builders (ibi) provided services in the fields of

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, Data Integration and Data Quality solutions.

History

Gerald D. Cohen, who died in 2020, co-founded Information Builders (ibi) in 1975 with Peter Mittelman and Martin B. Slagowitz. Their initial product,

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, was designed to enable people without formal computer programming skills to work with information systems. Information Builders (ibi) was one of the largest privately held software firms, operating in more than 60 locations. Computer Intelligence estimated in 1987 that Information Builders had 3% of the

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PC database market, tied for third behind

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and

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. In 2001, it established iWay Software, a wholly-owned company focusing on

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and

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(SOA). In October 2020,

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agreed to purchase ibi. The deal was completed in March 2021.

References

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