Actuate

The Actuate Corporation develops Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Java Reporting software. Actuate is also heavily involved in the Eclipse Foundation, as a board member, strategic developer and co-leader of the BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) project. Founded in 1993, the company employs about 600 people and serves over 4,000 customers worldwide.


 * Actuate 9 is the company's core product. Actuate reports are constructed on a Collaborative Reporting Architecture. The Collaborative Reporting Architecture provides skills-specific environments and leverages Eclipse, Java, portlets, XML, AJAX. The architecture enables design sharing and interactive viewing.  Actuate 9 provides 3 essential types of Enterprise Reporting:
 * Collaborative Reporting - Interactive reporting jointly developed by IT and business users enables design sharing across skill-matched reporting tools.
 * Spreadsheet Reporting - Automatically generates analysis-ready, data-driven Excel spreadsheets for large user populations.
 * Brochure-Quality Reporting- Brand-conscious, precise, multi-format reporting, leveraged in customer interaction applications and operational performance reporting where ease of consumption is the driving factor.


 * BIRT Reporting BIRT reports are an open source reporting solution that have been developed as part of the Eclipse Foundation.


 * Actuate Performancesoft Suite is a product set that resulted from Actuate's 2006 acquisition of Performancesoft Inc. Performancesoft was the maker of Performancesoft Views (formerly known as pbviews), a well known Performance management and balanced scorecard and activity management software vendor.

Industries

 * Financial Services including Banking and Insurance
 * Government
 * Education
 * Utilities
 * Telecommunications
 * Manufacturing
 * Healthcare
 * Retail

Data Sources Supported
Accessible data sources include:


 * Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft Access, Sybase, Teradata, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, EJB's
 * Spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel or CSV
 * Text files and XML
 * Mainframe data sources
 * Any other data source accessible through ODBC or OLAP.
 * SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, other packaged applications via Open Data Access- ODA
 * Ability to integrate any or all data sources via Enterprise Information Integration or EII

List of Actuate Software Products
Report Development


 * Actuate BIRT Report Designer Professional
 * Actuate e.Report Designer Professional
 * Actuate e.Spreadsheet Designer

Report Deployment


 * Actuate iPortal
 * Actuate iServer
 * Actuate e.Spreadsheet Engine

End User Reporting and Analytics


 * Actuate Interactive Viewer for BIRT Reports
 * Actuate BusinessReport Studio
 * Actuate Analytics Cube Designer

Data Integration


 * Actuate Information Object Designer

Performance Management
 * Actuate Performancesoft Views
 * Actuate Performancesoft Track