Information Builders vs VMware

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Information Builders
Based on 21 reviews.
VMware
Based on 2268 reviews.
Overview
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 system called FOCUS. Information Builders is one of the world's largest privately held software firms.
VMware, Inc. is a US software company that provides cloud and virtualization software and services, VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while its enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi, are bare-metal hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system. In 1998, VMware was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion. Greene and Rosenblum, who are married, first met while at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sample Customers
iWay Universal Adapter Framework
RBC, City of Cincinnati, Pershing, Brotherhood Mutual, Friends University, Nationwide, City of Richardson, Cetera Financial Group
iWay Data Hub
Ford Motor Company, City of Erlanger, Kentucky Police Dept., Helzberg Diamond Inc.
iWay EIM Suite
ICA Fluor, Prym Consumer, Estonia Police Department, Guelph General Hospital (GGH), Kansas City Police Department (KCPD)
iWay Big Data Integrator
AutoZone, RDC inMotiv
iWay DataMigrator
Estonia Police Department
Popular Solutions
Top Industries
Financial Services Firm
20%
Comms Service Provider
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Insurance Company
6%
Educational Organization
13%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
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