White Papers

These white papers provide an in-depth view of Actuate's technology and how it can be used to address key organizational initiatives.


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Product Features Learn about the latest updates and new features in the Actuate BIRT product line, including platform, deployment options and individual products. Explore the ways Actuate BIRT technology can help you measure, report and achieve your business goals. OEM Learn how Actuate, BIRT and BIRT Spreadsheet products can help you maximize the usability and value of your application and its associated information, and how to use the Actuate platform to add rich, interactive, Web 2.0 reporting and analytics to your OEM products.
Performance Management Learn how BIRT Performance Management and BIRT Scorecard provide a metrics reporting and management solution that supports scorecarding and KPI initiatives at all levels in an organization.  Partner Solutions Learn how the BIRT product line from Actuate can extend the functionality of your built-in reporting features to add capabilities that include report scheduling, end-user interactivity, ad-hoc reporting and more.
Online Channel Solutions Learn how the Actuate BIRT product suite can help you put both stakeholders and end users at ease while conducting business online, providing you with the agility - and security - your business requires. Data Integration Learn how the Actuate product line can be used to perform fast, efficient information integration within enterprise applications. Several scenarios are examined, including how Actuate integrates with Sun Access Manager and MySAP.
Industry Solutions Learn how Actuate and BIRT products can  provide your business with the tools it needs to successfully handle customer self service, track supply chain transactions, and more, all while scaling to meet the demands of a constantly growing user base.  

Product Features

Datasheet IconActuate 40 Million User, Multi-Currency Statement Application
Whether you are making large data sets available to large user pools now or plan to in the future, you need systems that are designed to handle it. Today's leading BI and reporting applications must scale to accommodate large numbers of users with varying levels of training and expertise. In addition, these applications must be able to access data in a timely manner in order to deliver full value and be adopted.
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Datasheet IconBIRT in the Cloud: Deployment Options for ActuateOne
With the increase in information analysis needs and an explosion of digital information, companies today are faced with the prospect of potentially spending millions of dollars on hardware and data storage costs. Cloud computing has emerged as the economical solution for analyzing big data and powering enterprise applications.
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Datasheet IconActuate 11SP3 Technical Summary of New Features
Actuate 11 SP3 strengthens the ActuateOne platform by offering enhancements across the board based on market and customer feedback.
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Datasheet IconActuate 11SP2 Technical Summary of New Features
Actuate 11 SP2 strengthens the ActuateOne platform by offering enhancements across the board based on market and customer feedback.
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Datasheet IconActuate 11SP1 Technical Summary of New Features
Actuate 11 SP1 strengthens the ActuateOne platform by offering enhancements across the board based on market and customer feedback.
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Datasheet IconSPECint Whitepaper
Tests reveal that BIRT iServer scales near linearly against the SPECint Index for report generation, batch report generation and conversion to PDF and on-demand viewing. Learn more today!
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Datasheet IconActuate 11 Technical Summary of New Features
Actuate Release 11 features the tools and environment necessary to implement effective, user friendly BI deployments inside and outside the firewall.
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Performance Management

Datasheet Icon 40M Benchmark
Whether you are making large data sets available to large user pools now or plan to in the future, you need systems that are designed to handle it. Today's leading BI and reporting applications must scale to accommodate large numbers of users with varying levels of training and expertise. In addition, these applications must be able to access data in a timely manner in order to deliver full value and be adopted.
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Datasheet Icon How to Spot a Bad Strategy   
The most important dimension of any approach to spotting a bad strategy is speed.  This white paper examines some of the practices that work well when evaluating strategies and exposes the most common mistakes organizations make when assessing their strategies.
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Datasheet Icon BIRT For Recovery: How Open Source is Transforming Government Data Into Dynamic Information Ecosystems
Thisarticle will explore five key recommendations that serve to demystifythe perceived complexity related to the ARRA requirements
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Online Channel Solutions

Datasheet Icon How RIA Technologies Enable Business Banking Client Relationships
Withincreased competition on all fronts, banks are rushing to maintainstride with the changing needs of business, sparking a revolution inhow banks interact with commercial customers worldwide. This whitepaper paper looks at recent catalysts of change and how new RichInternet Application technologies are clearing roadblocks that havehistorically blocked progress in online business banking.
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Datasheet Icon Securities Industry Trends: How Client Facing Portals Must Respond
This white paper looks at current trends and drivers in various sectors of the securities and investment industry. It focuses on how the changing demands of customers and regulators are driving the evolution of client-facing portals. The paper also examines strategies best practices used by industry leaders as they seek to remain competitive via their customer portal and service strategies.
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OEM

Datasheet IconActuateOne for OEMs
BIRT is the premier development environment for presenting data to users from multiple, disparate data sources in compelling visualizations. ActuateOne provides OEMs with an easy to deploy environment that can be up and running in as few as 120 days.
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Datasheet IconEmpowering End-Users with Data in Excel
This white paper discusses how e.Spreadsheet allows software vendors to enable their users with the ability to access and analyze business data from their applications which results in increased application adoption and success. 
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Datasheet Icon Enable OEM End Customers to Interact With and Build Their Own Reports
This white paper explains how embedding BIRT into OEM applications enables IT, business users and consumers to work together to evolve reports by sharing report designs and engaging in iterative report development.
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Industry Solutions

Datasheet Icon New Directions for Government: Five Principles for Sustainable Recovery
In this whitepaper we outline some key principles that will help government organizations face these new realities. Download whitepaper 
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Datasheet Icon KMWorld Sponsored - Completing the Self-Service Picture for High-Value Customers
This paper describes what it takes to bring customer self-service to the next level, focus primarily on the concepts of rich and customizable interactive account reporting as well as what-if capabilities for customers. 
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Partner Solutions

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Actuate’s ActuateOne Achieves VMware Ready™ Status
The ActuateOne Platform with VMware vSphere gives enterprises the ability to deploy their Business Intelligence (BI) applications in a unified cloud environment with built-in security and role-based access control. Together, the joint solution delivers unique capabilities to the enterprise.

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Bringing Rich Data Visualizations to Web Apps: BIRT & JBoss
A technical whitepaper on BIRT & JBoss integration to build & deploy Rich Information Applications seamlessly, with step-by-step guide on how to make use of extension points and value added products to extend capabilities of your RIAs

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Datasheet IconMaximizing the Value of the New BIRT Reporting in IBM Rational ClearQuest
This whitepaper gives an overview of the new reporting paradigm and capabilities that BIRT brings to ClearQuest. It also reviews how the BIRT product line from Actuate extends the functionality of the built-in reporting features to add capabilities that include report scheduling, end-user interactivity, ad-hoc reporting and more
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Data Integration

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Monitoring Sun Java System Access Manager Activities with Actuate Enterprise Reporting Platform: An Integration Story
Standards-based Sun Java System Access Manager 2003 Q4 (Access Manager) is a security foundation with which enterprises can manage secure access to web applications, both within the enterprise itself and across businesses. Access Manager provides open, standards-based authentication and policy-based authorization with a single, unified framework. Find out more about Actuate's integration with Access Manager.

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Integrating Enterprise Reporting Seamlessly Using Actuate Web Services API
This document provides an overview as to how Actuate's web services API can be used to perform fast, efficient, "future-proof" information integration within enterprise applications.

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