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FOCUS by Information Builders :: Last updated on May 12, 2008

FOCUS is the enterprise standard for mission-critical decision support applications at thousands of the world's leading corporations, institutions, and government agencies. Why? Because the combination of power, efficiency, reliability, and portability of FOCUS for custom application development, reporting, and analysis has never been equaled by any other software in any operating environment. FOCUS systems have been mastered by more than a million users working on virtually every computer platform, from mainframe to PC.

Key Features

• FOCUS application development and reporting tools provide maximum functionality for non-technical business managers to business analyst/power users to professional developers.
• FOCUS can create reports from virtually any database, relational or legacy.
• FOCUS reports and applications are portable and scalable to more than 35 operating systems, including IBM mainframes, Compaq OpenVMS and NonStop systems, AS/400s, and an array of UNIX platforms, such as HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, and others. So users on multiple computer platforms throughout an enterprise can run the same consistent reports.
• FOCUS users in every major industry are finding it easier than ever to build and maintain custom applications and reports in Windows, Windows NT, even the Internet.
• In the history of the software industry, few products have offered a more open upward-migration path or more remarkable return on investment.

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Core Capabilities

• Business Intelligence (BI)
• Analytics
• Application Suite
• Reporting/Scorecarding
• Security
• Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) / CMMS
• Asset Management
• Materials Management
• Procurement
• Work Management
• Financials
• Financial Reporting & Analytics
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
• Product Information Management
• Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• Resolution Management
• Service Parts Planning
• Supply Chain Reporting & Analytics

Industries

• Aerospace and Defense
• Chemicals
• Consumer Packaged Goods - Beverage, Tobacco
• Consumer Packaged Goods - Food Products
• Consumer Packaged Goods - House, Health, Beauty Products
• Electrical Equipment
• Electronics and Semiconductors
• Hi-Tech (Computers, Communications, Office)
• Industrial/Heavy Equipment and Machinery
• Instruments and Controls
• Medical Devices
• Metals - Fabrication and Assembly
• Metals - Primary (Mills, Foundries)
• Miscellaneous Manufacturing
• Oil and Gas
• Other Transportation (Railroad, Ships, Boats)
• Pharmaceuticals
• Plastics and Rubber Products
• Pulp and Paper
• Textiles and Apparel

Platforms

• HP/MPEiX
• HP/UX
• IBM AIX
• IBM OS/400
• Linux
• Microsoft Windows CE
• Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003
• Palm OS
• Sequent DYNIX
• Silicon Graphics IRIX
• Sun Solaris/Sun OS

Databases supported

• 4th Dimension
• ASCII - Text file-based
• Borland Interbase
• FOCUS
• IBM DB/400
• IBM DB2
• Informix
• Ingres
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft SQL Server
• MySQL
• Oracle
• Other ODBC Compliant Systems
• Poet OODBMS
• PostgreSQL
• Progress
• Proprietary
• SAG ADABAS
• Sybase
• Unidata
• XBase

Target Business Size(s)

• Large (501+ users)
• Mid-Size (101-500 users)
• Small (1-100 users)

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