WebFOCUS

Information Builders

Type	Private
Industry	Software and Consulting
Founded	USA (1975)
Headquarters	New York City, USA
Key people	Gerald D. Cohen, CEO
Products	WebFOCUS FOCUS iWay Software(host-based reporting) Integration Technology
Revenue	US$315 million (2007)
Number of employees	1,400 (2007)
Website	informationbuilders.com

Information Builders is a privately held software company, with its headquarters in New York City. Information Builders is known for its business intelligence tools FOCUS and WebFOCUS.

Information Builders was founded in 1975 by Gerald D. Cohen, Peter Mittelman, and Martin B. Slagowitz. Their founding product was the database management system called FOCUS.

Information Builders is one of the largest privately held software firms.

It operates in more than 60 locations. Information Builders sells to businesses, including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle Corporation, SAP and Teradata.

In 2001, it established Way Software, a wholly owned company that focuses on data integration and service-oriented architecture (SOA).

The company announced growth in 2013. i