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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.
Operational 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

	BIRT Performance Scorecard 9 Technical Summary of New Features BIRT Performance Scorecard 9 (formerly Performancesoft) continues to expand its integration with the BIRT iServer platform by enhancing the packaged Web Services and Information Objects for simple and dynamic access to performance management data stored in the application. The full integration with the latest version of the BIRT iServer, allows customers to take advantage of all the features and functionality available with the Actuate 10 platform. Read this whitepaper to learn more.	Download whitepaper
	Recommendations for Implementing Mobile BI for Increasing Employee and Customer Satisfaction Learn how Mobile Business Intelligence initiatives can help deliver timely BI information that keep staff up-to-date and informed, no matter where they are.	Download whitepaper

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Operational Performance Management

	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.	Download whitepaper
	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	Download whitepaper

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Online Channel Solutions

	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.	Download whitepaper
	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.	Download whitepaper

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OEM

	Empowering 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.	Download whitepaper
	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.	Download whitepaper

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Industry Solutions

	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	Download whitepaper
	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.	Download whitepaper

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Partner Solutions

	Maximizing 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	Download whitepaper
	Using Actuate to Power Your Supply Chain Enterprise Reporting Application Actuate's Enterprise Reporting Application Platform can help Supply Chain Management Independent Software Vendors enable their applications to support electronic collaboration with partners of any size.	Download whitepaper

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Data Integration

	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.	Download whitepaper
	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.	Download whitepaper

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