Actuate

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Actuate Corporation

Type	Public(NASDAQ: ACTU)
Founded	1993
Headquarters	South San Francisco, California
Key people	Pete Cittadini, CEO & President, Nico Nierenberg, Founder
Industry	Computer software
Products	Actuate 9, Actuate BIRT
Revenue	FY05 $106.4 million.
Employees	594(as of Q3 2006)
Website	www.actuate.com

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 in its contributions to the BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) project. Founded in 1993, the company employs over 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:

1)Collaborative Reporting - Interactive reporting jointly developed by IT and business users enables design sharing across skill-matched reporting tools.

2)Spreadsheet Reporting - Automatically generates analysis-ready, data-driven Excel spreadsheets for large user populations.

3)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.

FormulaOne Reporting Engines The Formula One e.Report Engine is a Pure Java reporting toolset for use with J2EE development environments and application servers.

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.

[edit] 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