Information Builders (ibi), founded in 1975, was a privately held software company headquartered in New York City.

[buzzword] Gerald D. Cohen, who died in 2020,[2] co-founded Information Builders (ibi) in 1975[3] with Peter Mittelman and Martin B. Slagowitz.

Their initial product, FOCUS, was designed to enable people without formal computer programming skills to work with information systems.

[4] Information Builders (ibi) was one of the largest privately held software firms, operating in more than 60 locations.

[5] In 2001, it established iWay Software, a wholly-owned company focusing on data integration and service-oriented architecture (SOA).