Analyst Papers

This section contains the latest research and reports from leading analyst firms. Learn more on business intelligence and reporting technology trends and what industry experts are saying about Actuate.
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Dresner Advisory Services: 2011 Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study™Dresner Advisory Services
Dresner Advisory Services: 2011 Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study™
Read this Howard Dresner paper to learn why Actuate BIRT outperformed Pentaho and Jaspersoft to secure the leading open source overall ranking and surpassed other open source BI vendors by a wide margin in this independent market study.

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Datasheet IconAberdeen Group: Agile BI
Read how organizations can make their BI implementations more agile so that managers can easily find the information they need as business needs change.
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Datasheet IconDresner Advisory Services: 2011 Mobile Business Intelligence
Market Study
A recent study conducted by Howard Dresner examines trends in Mobile Business Intelligence, comparing nearly 200 Mobile BI vendors from around the globe.
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Datasheet IconForrester Consulting Reveals Substantial ROI in Actuate's
BIRT Product Line
Actuate commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Actuate's BIRT product line. The BIRT product line consists of visual designers that are used to define data access and layouts for visualizations; deployment options to execute, generate, and manage web output; and viewers through which end users interact with Web pages and documents. This study illustrates the financial impact of BIRT deployed at a global financial services provider based in Europe.
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Datasheet IconAberdeen Group: Embedding BI in Enterprise Applications
Many organizations are turning to the reporting and analytical capabilities offered within BI toolsets and leveraging this embedded package within their existing software applications. Read this Aberdeen report to learn how embedded BI solutions can reduce costs and lead to improved business efficiencies.
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Datasheet IconForrester Research
Actuate BIRT named the Leader in Open Source Business Intelligence
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Datasheet IconForrester Consulting
The Total Economic Impact™ of Building Operational Performance Reporting Applications on Actuate
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Datasheet IconForrester Consulting: The Total Economic Impact™ of Building Customer-Facing Reporting Applications On Actuate™
Actuate commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) organizations may realize by building client reporting applications on a dynamic, flexible client reporting platform.
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Datasheet Icon The 451 Group
Actuate jumps into SaaS BI with BIRT onDemand
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Datasheet Icon Butler Group 
Butler Group: Actuate 10 and Actuate Performancesoft Suite
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Datasheet IconAberdeen Group: Operational Performance Visibility - Improving Decision Timeliness and Accuracy
Performance management metrics are traditionally accessed through technologies such as spreadsheets, scorecards, dashboards, operational reporting, analytics, and “automated alerting.” This report investigates how companies meet the challenge of defining, measuring and refining KPIs that drive performance.
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