Actuate, The BIRT Company™, is a leader in big data, providing easy access to virtually any structured or unstructured data. ActuateOne, the commercial suite of application development and user analytic tools built on BIRT, provides the framework necessary to produce from disparate data sources stunning visualizations in dashboards, easy-to-understand scorecard solutions, end user friendly ad-hoc reports, performance and customer-facing analytics applications, customer communications management, and more. Actuate's end-to-end solutions can tackle any big data dilemma, enabling IT to tap into and combine any data source with another, producing the kind of information applications today’s users have come to expect, including delivery of big data on little (mobile) touch devices.

We’ve Been Waiting for You

The ActuateOne platform was built to be future-proof and is firmly, comfortably situated where it has been all along, poised to take advantage of perfect market conditions and trends in which mature Actuate server and cutting-edge touch technologies converge to deliver unparalleled big data access. Actuate’s iServer, often called the “workhorse” of servers, was built to handle big data before anyone began calling it big data, employing phrases such as “Scales to Millions of Users” to describe this phenomenon long before the term “big data” hit the tech industry. To learn more about ActuateOne’s scalability, read our benchmark paper, which proves how well ActuateOne can handle just about anything thrown at it, capturing and making available structured and unstructured data types. In addition, the Xenos Enterprise Server is able to deliver millions of documents to millions of people, ensuring that the high volume of big data can be delivered to users who need it. Data can come from virtually any source, including, but not limited to, the following:

• Logs
• Social Profiles
• Sentiment (Analysis)
• Packet and Network (Analysis)
• Internet-based Data
• Print Streams and Document Archives

ActuateOne Big Data Solutions

ActuateOne and BIRT have been successfully deployed in a multitude of big data projects in industries ranging from banking to manufacturing. Actuate has helped organizations in the following industries deal with big data dilemmas:

Large-Scale BIRT and ActuateOne Application Deployments

Telecom

• Mobile Telecom Harnesses ActuateOne and Hadoop for Big Data Access and Analytics.

Finance

• Sales enablement, performance measurement and low TCO at a consumer bank
• Enterprise statements platform for major Chinese securities organization
• Next-generation treasury application at a global bank
• Loan tracking, cross-sell and anti-money laundering applications for a consumer bank

Sales and Marketing

• National sales compensation application at major telecom company
• Social media monitoring for a digital marketing agency

Health Care

• Patient care and financial management for a regional UK healthcare provider

Human Resources and Operations

• Employee benefits portal for 600,000 customers
• Facilities management application for state government

Manufacturing

• Inventory control application for industrial and auto parts manufacturer
• Revenue-generating info delivery for manufacturing systems

BIRT iHub for Big Data

Actuate recently announced the availability of BIRT iHub, which helps organizations access data in any format—including big data—and provides users with unprecedented access to this data. In the process, iHub allows organizations to access any big data source without increasing costs such as those incurred in owning and maintaining decrepit data warehouses, while concurrently meeting the data consumerization expectations of end users on both traditional and touch devices and improving the usability and value of insights derived from diverse data sources. Visit the BIRT iHub page or download the BIRT iHub data sheet for more information.

Show, Don’t Tell

To demonstrate what ActuateOne and BIRT can do, the Actuate team recently created an application that combined disparate data sources to produce reports on the summer games in London, showcasing its ability to handle big data to produce insightful, and often unusual, results. Dash for Gold is currently being updated in preparation for the 2014 winter games in Sochi, and will be accessible both online and via mobile devices for that event. Check back here for upcoming news on Dash for Gold.

Actuate Big Data Partners

Actuate has joined forces with big data’s rock stars to effectively meet the seamless storage, integration and analysis requirements of big data deployments. Actuate’s Big Data partners include the organizations below; click the logos to learn more.