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

Multimedia Available

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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

Relevant Coverage

Demo Icon Developing an Application Using the Eclipse BIRT Report Engine API
Enterprise Open Source Magazine, February 20, 2007 		View Page
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ADT Magazine, January 29, 2007 		View Page
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Demo Letter, January 5, 2007 		View Page
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Actuate - the people behind BIRT

Actuate founded and continues to co-lead the Eclipse BIRT open source project. BIRT is the premier development environment for Rich Information Applications that present structured data and content in compelling and interactive ways via the web on any device. Actuate and its people are dedicated to making BIRT the best environment for our customers to develop Web 2.0 applications that drive revenue through higher customer satisfaction/loyalty and improve operational performance. The people of Actuate continually participate in and provide resources for the vibrant open source community that has emerged around BIRT. Anybody can participate in the BIRT movement by visiting www.birt-exchange.com.

Actuate offers value-add BIRT products and services that speed the development process and bring additional functionality such as, interactivity, content transformation and enterprise scalability to BIRT-based Rich Information Applications. Actuate has over 4,600 customers globally in a diverse range of business areas including financial services and the public sector. Founded in 1993, Actuate is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol ACTU. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.actuate.com.

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