e.Reports, Actuate’s pixel-perfect report production tool, provides the most discerning users with brochure-quality, on-demand reporting documents designed for presentation. e.Report products create every business report imaginable, from annual to internal operational reports, and from banking and credit card statements to wealth management portfolio reporting documents.

e.Reports

Actuate e.Reports scale to millions of users, providing personalized content and report functionality with an intuitive application experience.

e.Report Designer Professional

e.Report Designer Professional enables developers to quickly create report designs that access any data source, deliver information in any format and present reports in any conceivable layout, no matter how graphically complex.

The Actuate e.Report product line creates high-level, brochure-quality reports appropriate for distribution both inside and outside the firewall. These are the reporting documents you deliver when you need to represent your brand at its best to employees, investors, customers and partners, users that typically require information presented in a well-designed, pixel-perfect layout. These users also require immediate responses to their questions.

Actuate e.Reports delivers high-end report documents in an environment that scales to an unlimited number of users.

Meet user needs and improve IT productivity through improved reports

With Actuate e.Reports, every user receives the reports required, while IT productivity improves.

• Deliver a fantastic application experience to users outside the firewall – Many customer interaction portals require presentation of data derived from numerous systems in the form of reports while maintaining consistent, high quality branding. Often these sites offer content and reports to millions of users, each of whom expects an easy to use, personalized experience. Actuate is ideal in these situations, providing unmatched scalability and output flexibility, access to any enterprise data, and the ability to maintain a fantastic application experience for each visitor.
• Generate timely information for internal controls and performance reporting – Actuate brochure-quality reports are ideal for internal reporting applications that monitor operational performance and other metrics across large, dispersed organizations. Timeliness, accuracy and action are keys to success in these applications for generating reports. Actuate e.Reports exceed user expectations and help drive better decisions by resolving the most challenging problems while creating reports, including geographic dispersion, multi-source data integration, security and complex business logic.
• Promote higher productivity among application and report developers with useful reports for all users – Actuate development tools support object-oriented reuse to speed productivity. The design environment for e.Reports and e.Report Designer Professional features precise control over content and layout in order to meet exacting standards. It provides maximum flexibility when creating reports, enabling developers to create rich information applications complete with form functions, dashboard controls and dynamically changing content; even the most challenging layouts are possible with Actuate e.Reports.
• Deploy and maintain rich information applications easily and quickly – Actuate seamlessly integrates with existing applications and portals. Users need no training when creating reports, while IT experiences fewer support calls. e.Reports makes this possible with advanced features such as benchmark-proven scalability, single sign-on support, progressive viewing, demand paging and Page Level Security, a patented, scalable technology that individualizes content rich reports for thousands of consumers from a single, server-side report.
• Provide flexible formatting and brochure quality reports for every user – Actuate users can select from multiple output formats such as XML, DHTML, PDF, PowerPoint, Excel and Word (RTF) when creating their personal reports, all from a single report. Brochure quality formatting is maintained between Web and printed output. Actuate offers precise, pixel-level control over reports for the creation of elaborate visualizations. The content of reports can be formatted in magazine style as maps, dashboards, and bar codes, or as other intricate designs.
• Produce actionable content and inform good decision making – Actuate reports are more useful than ordinary paper or web reports. Available within every one of the reports is a navigation bar that provides access to an automatically generated table of contents; search, analysis, and print and save options; and page navigation tools. Hyperlinks enable drill-to-detail, and dynamic parameter pick lists help users navigate easily through reports.

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