Open Source Business Intelligence Leadership

Actuate is a pioneer and leader in Open Source Business Intelligence - making significant contributions to the Eclipse Foundation's BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) project, integrating BIRT technology within its own product line to deliver added value to users of BIRT and bringing the innovations of Open Source to the BI industry.

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BIRT enables Java developers to add powerful reporting capabilities to applications using an easy-to-use visual designer and runtime components for report and chart generation. Actuate offers value-added products and services for organizations that are using BIRT:

Actuate BIRT is based on Eclipse BIRT and provides the convenience of a one-button install, and, with a current subscription, Actuate-backed indemnification, maintenance, professional services and support

Ad-Hoc & Interactive Reports products add AJAX-based interactive, ad-hoc web reporting capabilities to BIRT-based reports

Actuate's Deployment products allow for the distribution of BIRT reports in a variety of configurations, from embedding them in applications, to distributing them to small workgroups, to delivering them to users across the enterprise and beyond.

The Open Source BIRT report design format is also the foundation for the Collaborative Reporting Architecture in Actuate. This breakthrough architecture offers skill-specific reporting environments for IT report developers, power users and end-users, while facilitating design sharing between these roles and interactivity within each report. The result is a breadth of reporting applications that can be developed and maintained with a degree of efficiency that’s not possible with any other business intelligence solution.