Quality Business Intelligence Products are Available from Actuate

Based upon open source BIRT, Actuate provides a full spectrum of products to develop and deploy Rich Information Applications for any organization - from simple startup to global enterprise. Applications can range from individual business intelligence reports and Business Intelligence & Performance Management applications for departments to dynamic, interactive applications for hundreds of thousands of users outside the firewall. Included in Actuate's end-to-end information-driven solutions are business intelligence tools for Rich Information Application development, data integration and application deployment.

Actuate's business intelligence product line includes report development solutions ranging from full-service servers to embeddable engines, and from sophisticated report development and design tools to interactive viewing applications for end users. These business intelligence products transform closed, often difficult to use software systems into a suite of usable tools for everyone in the organization, from the board room to the mail room. The resulting progressive design architecture facilitates collaborative reporting, ensuring that everyone in the enterprise is on the same page—both literally and figuratively. Available options include rich information application web reports, automated spreadsheet reports, performance management tools, brochure-quality reports and analytics.

Actuate Business Intelligence Products: Multiple Product Lines = Endless Possibilities


Actuate BIRT Products: Ad-hoc and Interactive Content Creation for Everyone in the Enterprise

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Actuate's value-added BIRT product line is anchored by code from the project it co-sponsors with the Eclipse Foundation, the open source Eclipse BIRT project, ensuring that the underlying technology is cutting edge and that its business intelligence products will remain at the forefront of reporting applications and tools. These products follow industry-standard conventions, virtually guaranteeing that systems and data sources, whether newly created or legacy, can be easily integrated with the latest business intelligence reporting technology. With Actuate BIRT products, the upgrade path is clear of hidden costs and unnecessary overhead.


  • Reduce initial costs
  • Prevent lock-in from proprietary vendors
  • Ease customization during business intelligence reporting
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BIRT Spreadsheet: Spreadsheet Automation for Easy Distribution

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BIRT Spreadsheet takes the spread out of spreadsheet reporting, helping IT to automate - but still control - company spreadsheets by retaining a master copy of every spreadsheet created within the system.


  • Facilitate better analysis through better spreadsheets and better business intelligence
  • Reduce spreadsheet construction errors for better compliance
  • Produce spreadsheets for everyone, automatically
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BIRT Performance Scorecard: Business Metrics for Maximum Productivity  

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BIRT Performance Scorecard helps organizations drive strategy at all levels, improve decision making, and ensure better operational performance and execution.


  • Automate any performance management framework
  • Improve performance by transforming strategy into an actionable plan based on rich business intelligence analysis
  • Create richer business intelligence reports and provide business users with a more holistic view of organizational performance
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BIRT iServer: Deployment Options for Any Size Project—Anytime, Anywhere

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When it comes to deployment options, everybody has one. Just one. Only Actuate offers three distinct options, ranging from an easily and quickly deployed server - BIRT iServer Express - to a world-class enterprise server with nearly unlimited capacity. Actuate also offers an embeddable component library, which makes it compatible with virtually any existing infrastructure.


  • Maximize utility and deployment flexibility
  • Minimize the overhead associated with information delivery projects including system integration, development tool training costs, security models, portal integration, internationalization, formatting output and server management
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BIRT Information Objects: Unified Data Access across the Enterprise  

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Actuate's metadata layer—BIRT Information Objects—balances the business user's need for direct access to business intelligence information with IT's need to meet corporate and industry standards, to provide data security and to ensure transactional system performance.


  • Unify data access for IT and real-time information for end users
  • Centralize data management with ad-hoc query for improved business intelligence reporting
  • Provide data caching, minimizing system load and improving performance
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e.Reports: Brochure Quality, Executive-level Reports

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Actuate e.Reports delivers high-end, pixel-perfect business intelligence reports in an environment that scales to an unlimited number of users. e.Report products create every business report imaginable, from annual reports to internal operational reports, and from banking and credit card statements to wealth management portfolio reports.


  • Deliver an extraordinary business intelligence application experience to users outside the firewall
  • Generate timely business intelligence information for internal controls and performance reporting
  • Improve productivity of application and report developers

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Actuate Analytics: Personalized Business Analytics

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Actuate Analytics deliver full OLAP analytic functionality to business and power users through an easy-to-use web interface that requires no training. Personalized cubes are delivered to users who can work offline and leverage the local processing power of their own PCs to manipulate the cube.


  • Build personalized cubes that scale to thousands
  • Deliver self-service business analytics
  • Provide offline mobility and desktop performance

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