"We are very excited about the opportunities that exist for implementing the iWay Adaptive Framework," said Alex Miller, President ESRI Canada. "The iWay adapter technology will help with integrating GIS and leading enterprise systems. Our users will benefit from proven technology for integrating systems and geo-enabling their enterprise applications allowing them to leverage the power of GIS throughout their organizations."

"This partnership is a natural fit for both ESRI Canada and Information Builders," said Brian Joynt, Vice President and General Manager Canadian Region, Information Builders. "ESRI Canada can provide their customers with additional functionality, extending the reach of their GIS solution and providing an end to end solution - from data to reports to visualization Information Builders' WebFOCUS reporting tool will take the geospatial information combined with any other information source in the enterprise to create reports and deliver them enterprise wide. This partnership opens new market opportunities for our award winning solutions" adds Brian.

In the past, writing code to retrieve and enrich information that needs to be loaded into a GIS system has required customer programming, testing, and ongoing maintenance effort. iWay adapters allow code-free access to data, applications, and technologies, to vastly reduce the time and risk associated with the integration effort. With over 280 adapters and the ability for additional adapters to be developed through the iWay Adapter Factory, ESRI's software can access any type of applications or data store in the enterprise. Additionally, iWay has developed adapters for ESRI's ArcSDE that are specifically designed for working with geocoding and geospatial technologies, and can integrate with the other iWay adapters to bring information into the GIS application using point-and-click tools.

About ESRI Canada:
Established in 1984, ESRI Canada is a Canadian owned company specializing in geographic information systems (GIS) solutions. We distribute the world's leading GIS software solutions from ESRI Inc., NovaLIS Technologies, Miner and Miner, Telcordia, and Azteca. In order to provide organizations with complete industry-specific solutions we have established an extensive business partner program that includes more than 100 Canadian organizations. ESRI Canada also provides professional services including consulting, training, technical support, and enterprise GIS implementation. We are leaders in providing world-class enterprise GIS solutions for many industries including local government, utilities, public safety and defence, business demographics, education, natural resources, and transportation. ESRI Canada has twelve regional offices across the country, with headquarters in Toronto, Ontario. For more information, please visit http://www.esricanada.com/ or call 1-800-447-9778.

About Information Builders Canada/iWay Software:
Information Builders (Canada) Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Information Builders located in New York City. Information Builders, a $300 million company, is the leader in enterprise business intelligence and operational Web reporting. The company's WebFOCUS product - the industry's most secure and flexible - is able to meet all the reporting needs of the extended enterprise, ranging from analysts to power users to the widest deployments for hundreds of thousands of users. Additionally, WebFOCUS' empowerment of organizations seeking to leverage all their data by accessing it all - from legacy to data warehouse - is unmatched.

Information Builders' subsidiary, iWay Software, is the world's leading provider of adapters - more than 280 adapters in all - that fit almost any type of application or middleware. iWay Software's universal adaptive framework incrementally facilitates service-oriented architectures and enables organizations to accelerate business integration by providing a foundation for business agility with a low cost of entry and full project reusability.

Headquartered in Toronto, Information Builders Canada is responsible for direct sales, consulting services, marketing, education and primary support of all Information Builders and iWay Software products in Canada. The company has offices in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver, and employs over 80 people. For more information, visit http://www.informationbuilders.com/

Media Contacts:
Matt Down
GIS Marketing Specialist
ESRI Canada
T: 416-441-6035 x6308
E: mdown@esricanada.com  

Michèle Le-Fèvre
Information Builders/iWay Software
T: 514-334-0404 x218
E : Michele_Le-Fevre@ibi.com