Actuate

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.
[http://eclipse.org/birt 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 [http://www.performancesoft.com 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