Why Actuate’s Business Intelligence Solutions?

Actuate Corporation is dedicated to providing business intelligence solutions that increase the richness, interactivity and effectiveness of enterprise data, for everyone, everywhere. Delivering the next generation open source-based business intelligence and Rich Information Applications, spanning all levels of development and deployment, Actuate boasts unmatched scalability, performance, security and reliability. Actuate today is the best choice for building rich, interactive information applications for your organization.

Why pick Actuate as your Business Intelligence Solutions standard?


Actuate's Rich Information Application-ready, open source, BIRT-based business intelligence tools can be deployed in any pre-existing or new development project to create a progressive, collaborative reporting environment that allows developers, report writers and end users to create and/or use applications rich in interactivity, depth, span and complexity. With BIRT at its core, the Actuate suite of BIRT-based products creates an environment that is virtually boundless; an infrastructure in which to build and deploy Rich Information Applications without Limits.â„¢

BIRT Designers: Provide your developers with the best solutions available in the marketplace, downloaded more than seven million times. BIRT Designers from Actuate are born from open source. They are built using a web design metaphor, support user interactivity, embed Adobe Flash widgets, and offer complete scripting support. Learn More Deployment PlatformOne Technology, Multiple Deployment Alternatives: A diverse set of deployment solutions from embedded engines to the BIRT iServer platform meet the business intelligence reporting needs of every embedded application, workgroup, or large enterprise deployment, including customers and partners outside the firewall. Learn More
ApplicationsApplications for your Industry:
Actuate technology powers business intelligence solutions that improve
corporate performance, increase efficiency and enable sustainable enterprises. Actuate is the
backbone of customer-facing online channel applications that provide interactive, easy-to-use, high-quality,real-time content outside the firewall. Browse applications and solutions powered by BIRT.
Learn More		Performance ManagementTrack KPI's and Measure Performance with Views: The BIRT Performance Management suite shares a common infrastructure with all other Actuate business intelligence products and supports "drill through" to operational data for root cause analysis. This allows customers to further extend the value of their information applications while supporting any performance management methodology such as Balanced Scorecard, Malcolm Baldrige, Six Sigma, etc. Learn More
Rich Internet ApplicationsDrive 100% Adoption, Deliver a Rich Information Application: Actuate breaks down the barriers to adoption by providing users with solutions that include personalized and interactive content accessible from a single, intuitive interface. Each user enjoys a zero-training environment to customize their information visualizations thus driving adoption. Learn MoreData IntegrationIntegrate and Simplify Data: 
Access data in multiple data warehouses, transactional applications, and custom legacy data sources. Efficiently deliver it to end users in engaging and meaningful ways while adhering to corporate standards. Learn More
e.SpreadsheetsServer-Driven Spreadsheets for the Power User: While other business intelligence spreadsheet tools claim to automate the process, only BIRT Spreadsheet truly delivers; securely providing live business data, on demand, as easy-to-use and
familiar Excel© spreadsheets, with all formatting,
formulas and graphs intact. Learn More		Actuate All ProductsFrom Open Source to Enterprise, we've got it covered: View a complete index of Actuate's business intelligence product family, from embeddable BIRT and BIRT Spreadsheet Java components to BIRT iServer Enterprise and BIRT Mobile. Actuate delivers the goods, anywhere. Learn More
A successful information application meets the growing needs of users while being deployed easily, effectively and economically. Actuate's RIA-ready platform supports output formats such as print, PDF, Excel and interactive web pages. The use of Flash charts and animated widgets to present rich interactive visualizations provide users with an intuitive environment that incurs zero training costs. The optional use of meta data provides customers the flexibility to determine how content is created and reused, providing the fastest possible time to market with low setup costs. Progressive design and end user interactivity reduces the quantity of business intelligence reports that need to be created while meeting the always-changing demands of every user.

The growth of BIRT-based business from $1 million in 2006, $8 million in 2007, to $15.4 million in 2008 has not only made Actuate one of the most dynamic open source business intelligence vendors but also one of the most profitable software companies of its size. Actuate's non-GAAP operating margin of 18.6% in 2008, is the highest among software companies with revenues between $100 million and $200 million. Actuate also generated a record $29.5 million in cash flow from operations in 2008. For business intelligence projects at any level that are centered around converting data into information, undoubtedly, Actuate is the right choice.