Visualization Combined With Industry Statistics Provides Insight on 2009 Baseball Season
NEW YORK, NY (March 31, 2009) –
Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) and integration solutions, today announced that it has a new MLB Fantasy League Active Report to provide baseball enthusiasts and fantasy players with a free, easy way to quickly access MLB statistics. With opening day less than two weeks away, fantasy participants are under pressure to make their final picks and are looking for ways to gain statistical insight on players and teams to make more educated decisions.
Anyone with Web access can crunch the numbers with the MLB Fantasy League Active Report to analyze the results and gain real insight into the 2009 baseball season. The report can be accessed at: http://www.informationbuilders.com/mlb/. Almost instantaneously, users can answers questions such as who are the fastest base stealers in the West? Who are the hottest power hitters in the American League? Are National League pitchers at a disadvantage because they have to bat? The report allows filtering on many criteria – lefty, righty, position, players, team, league, etc. It allows users to generate comparative charts, reports and calculations with the ability to easily e-mail results to anyone. Data will be available for the duration of the 2009 MLB season.
As the industry’s first portable BI platform for delivering interactive analytic applications, WebFOCUS Active Reports has its own API, components, security, and analytic engine, enabling users to create active dashboards and receive Active Reports on mobile devices. They enable anyone with access to a Web browser to retrieve information and centralized data available online. Additional benefits of WebFOCUS Active Reports include: improved user experience and decision-making, guaranteed single version of the truth, scalability that reaches unlimited numbers of users, and it requires no specialized software or Web connection.
Information Builders recently shared how leading organizations around the globe including Dealer Services Corporation (DSC) and Israeli Credit Insurance Company (ICIC) are rapidly adopting WebFOCUS Active Reports for portable sorting, filtering, and analysis to better understand customer needs in real time, greatly improve decision-making, and operate more cost effectively.
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Information Builders’ award-winning combination of business intelligence and enterprise integration software has been providing innovative solutions to more than 12,000 customers for the past 30 years. WebFOCUS is the world’s most widely utilized business intelligence platform. It provides the security, scalability, and flexibility needed at every level of global extended enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical, and operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users. Information Builders’ iWay Software suite provides state-of-the-art, multi-purpose, pre-built integration components that address all SOA, application, data, and information management requirements. Its integration adapters have been adopted by the leading software platform providers. Together, these products give Information Builders’ customers the ability to grow and innovate according to their needs.
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Source: Information Builders