Actuate Corporation Social Media Press Release – EclipseCon 2007

Bringing Business Intelligence to the Masses, the Eclipse Foundation and Actuate Unlock Open Source at EclipseCon 2007

EclipseCon 2007, Santa Clara, Calif. – March 5, 2007

Core News Facts

Actuate's contribution to Eclipse and BIRT:

  • Actuate chairs the project management committee for Eclipse’s Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project
  • To date, over 75 Actuate employees have been committers to Eclipse projects, including both BIRT and the Data Tools Project
  • Actuate employees have written over half a million lines of code for BIRT and the Data Tools Project
  • Jason Weathersby, Actuate’s BIRT Evangelist, has been dedicated to spreading the message about BIRT by presenting at 8 conferences and publishing 10 articles since the start of 2006, and responding to over 1,000 BIRT-related postings
  • Actuate employees are delivering 7 talks at EclipseCon 2007 regarding BIRT

Actuate's dedication to putting open source BI on the map:

  • Actuate was the first publicly traded BI company to embrace open source
  • Actuate employees have authored two books on BIRT
  • Since BIRT's launch, over a dozen companies have integrated it into their own software that they re-sell
  • After the formal initiation of the BIRT project in October 2004, the number of open source BI projects on http://sourceforge.net/ has more than tripled
  • Actuate has leveraged BIRT technology for several of its own products – iServer, iPortal, Actuate BIRT and Business Reports Studio

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Eclipse Foundation

"Actuate has made great strides in widening the scope of discussion for open source software in the Business Intelligence space, particularly with their contributions to the BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) and DTP (Data Tools Platform) projects. We look forward to Actuate's continued involvement with the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer, Board Member and not least as a commercial company that paves the way for the adoption of the open source software."

Mike Milinkovich, executive director of theEclipse Foundation

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Demo Letter, January 5, 2007 		View Page
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Actuate - The BIRT Company™

Actuate founded and co-leads the BIRT open source project, which is used by more than 2.5 million developers around the globe and serves as the foundation of the ActuateOne® platform. Applications built on ActuateOne deliver more business and consumer insights to more people than all BI companies combined — ensuring organizations are ready for the exponential growth of Big Data and the proliferation of touch devices.

The ActuateOne platform empowers developers to rapidly develop custom, BIRT-based business analytics and customer communications applications. ActuateOne applications built with one BIRT design can access and integrate any data, including unstructured sources. They provide one user experience regardless of skill level and are supported by one platform for any cloud, hybrid, on-premise, web or touch device deployment.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Actuate has over 5,000 customers globally in a diverse range of business areas including financial services, technology and the public sector. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol BIRT. For more information, visit www.actuate.com or engage with the BIRT community at www.birt-exchange.com.

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