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Actuate Corporation

Type	Public(NASDAQ: ACTU)
Founded	1993
Headquarters	San Mateo, California, USA
Key people	Nicolas C. Nierenberg, Founder, Chairman of the Board & Chief Architect Peter I. Cittadini, CEO & President Daniel A. Gaudreau, Senior Vice President, Operations & CFO David R. Rosenbacher, V.P. Worldwide Sales num_employees = 581 (as of Q4 2007)
Industry	Computer software
Products	Actuate 9, Actuate BIRT
Revenue	FY '07 $140.6 million USD.
Net income	FY '07 $20.2 million USD.
Website	www.actuate.com

Actuate Corporation develops Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Java Reporting software. Actuate also has a board member seat in the Eclipse Foundation, steward of the open source BIRT project.

• Actuate 9 is the company's core product suite. 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 Performance management and balanced scorecard and activity management software product.

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

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

See also

References

External links

• Actuate Corporation web site
• BIRT Exchange Community Site - Resources for BIRT developers
• Actuate stock report