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Have you ever been in one of these scenarios? You just watched the latest Virtual User Group, you saw an awesome feature, and now you want to try it out for yourself in the newest WebFOCUS release – but you don’t want to disrupt the rest of the team by upgrading the shared Dev environment to that latest release.

ibi Summit New York is your opportunity to connect with ibi leaders, gain fresh insights, and position yourself and your organization for future success.

Over the years, our partnership with our customer base has played a major role in driving innovation here at ibi. This partnership has ensured that all parties enjoy sustained growth and success. This in mind, I am happy to announce that ibi has launched our first series of Long-term Support Releases. These Long-term Support Releases are specific product releases that ibi commits to providing ongoing maintenance for five years.

Mainframes are the bedrock of critical business operations, trusted by the majority of Fortune 100 companies. Yet, businesses face a multitude of challenges in harnessing mainframe data for modern digital experiences.

Working with the product teams in the lead up to a very exciting product announcement caused me to do some reflection on what it means and how this will impact our customers.

The new ibi™ platform offers tremendous value to our customers when it comes to quick decision making, getting faster insights, modernizing your use cases on mainframes, and maintaining your data integrity.

I am thrilled to announce the availability of ibi WebFOCUS v9.3. This release exemplifies the power of WebFOCUS with its unmatched scalability and couples it with AI driven data insights and a seamless user experience.

Are you ready for instant access to your IBM Z data in any BI tool? ibi™ Open Data Hub for Mainframe empowers you to modernize your use of IBM Z data--giving you real-time access to that data in the cloud, without compromising on security or your existing data framework.

Remember back before we had smartphones and high-speed Internet, how hard it was to get directions to an unfamiliar location?

Several years ago, a brilliant colleague of mine told me that “location analytics is the future of analytics”. Since that time I've been fortunate to work on incredible applications of location analytics across Modern BI and Enterprise BI use cases.

Today, technology is driving businesses and businesses are generating a lot of data. Enterprises are investing in data as a foundation for driving business decisions on trusted insights.

91% of leading businesses are invested in artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, is your organization amongst them?

If most business leaders are like the rest of us, they see the potential of “AI and Data Science” but they may think ‘that doesn’t apply to me, we’re not sophisticated enough to implement something like that’ or ‘I’d love it if I worked for a company like that, but where would I even begin to bring something like that to my company?’

ibi Managed Cloud is one of the fastest, most efficient ways to run our complete, end-to-end, modern analytics platform.

In today’s business environment, there is so much data to be managed and many different ways that we need to communicate with our customers and colleagues.

Now, more than ever, everyone expects to interact with their reports. Have an app, click on the chart and drill down to learn more.

ibi™ WebFOCUS® is an enterprise business intelligence and analytics solution equipped with data management, visual discovery, predictive analytics, and powerful visualizations.

Funnel analysis is an essential tool enabling businesses to identify and address bottlenecks in the customer journey, both in streamlining their buying experience and increasing conversions.