Actuate 7 Outperforms Crystal Enterprise 9 for Scalable Reporting in Third-Party Study.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO South San Francisco, city (1990 pop. 54,312), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1908. South San Francisco has several industrial parks; its manufactures include medical supplies and equipment, foods, paint, paper products, consumer goods, and clothing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2003 Performance Study Shows That Actuate's iServer Handles 85%-107% More Load Than Crystal Decisions' Enterprise 9 Actuate Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTU ACTU Australian Council of Trade Unions ACTU AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri) ACTU Association of Catholic Trade Unionists ACTU Australian Capital Territory Union ), the world leader in scalable Business Intelligence Applications, today announced that third-party performance tests of interactive reporting capabilities have shown that Actuate 7 iServer provides 85%-107% higher throughput and is able to support 70% more concurrent users In computer science, the number of concurrent users for a resource in a location, with the location being a computing network or a single computer, refers to the total number of people using the resource at the same time. than Crystal Decisions' Enterprise 9. Being able to support a greater number of users on the same hardware configuration is a cost benefit to customers, who realize a lower total cost of ownership by using Actuate's iServer. These conclusions further validate Actuate's commitment to providing the most scalable enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. solution in the industry to efficiently meet the information demands of user populations of any size and to minimize hardware costs in doing so. The benchmark study was conducted by National Technical Systems (NTS NTS National Technical Systems NTS National Trust for Scotland NTS Nevada Test Site NTS NT Server (Microsoft Windows) nts Not the Same NTS National Traffic System (amateur radio) ) (Nasdaq:NTSC (National TV Standards Committee) The committee that developed the television standards for the U.S, which are also used in Canada, Japan, South Korea and several Central and South American countries. Both the committee and the standard are called "NTSC. ), a leading provider of quality and conformance testing Conformance testing or type testing is testing to determine whether a system meets some specified standard. To aid in this, many test procedures and test setups have been developed, either by the standard's maintainers or external organizations, specifically for for high technology products and a wide variety of industries in the U.S., Europe and Japan, which validated the test sessions, gathered data using industry standard tools and procedures, and impartially im·par·tial adj. Not partial or biased; unprejudiced. See Synonyms at fair1. im  par·ti·al formulated a conclusion based on
the test results.
In order to keep one product from having an advantage over the other, the benchmark test was conducted utilizing the same hardware environment. In addition, NTS also used identical settings when executing the test with a third-party benchmark tool. During the benchmark test, NTS was able to confirm the validity of test sessions because of the consistent results returned on each session. Tests results showed that: -- In a comparable blended reporting environment, Actuate 7 iServer supported 420 concurrent users while Crystal Decisions Enterprise 9 supported 250 concurrent users using a hardware environment consisting of one 8-way Dell PowerEdge This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. 8450 and two PowerEdge 1650 servers, driving functionally equivalent test scenarios A set of test cases that ensure that the business process flows are tested from end to end. They may be independent tests or a series of tests that follow each other, each dependent on the output of the previous one. The terms "test scenario" and "test case" are often used synonymously. . -- Actuate 7 iServer achieved 85%-107% higher throughput, measured as pages per second, and produced better response times than Crystal. Actuate's throughput for batch report generation is 90% higher than Crystal's, while the throughput for view transactions and on demand transactions is 85% and 107%, respectively, higher for Actuate. -- When forced to carry the same 420 concurrent user load, Crystal Enterprise was 13 times slower than Actuate, and delivered numerous internal service errors due to the excessive load. This discovery drove NTS to reduce the number of concurrent users in order for Crystal to deliver error-free responses, and acceptable response times comparable to Actuate. "There is a shortage of information and analysis available today that provides value for customers to make real-world decisions," said Osman Sakr, division president of National Technical Systems Computer Product Testing Labs. "We strived to ensure that this study was based on a blended reporting environment to reflect actual batch reporting, on-demand reporting, and report viewing transactions as they coincide in a real use case. This undertaking enables those seeking to implement reporting systems to do so with a realistic idea of resources required and costs incurred." "These benchmark conclusions underscore The underscore character (_) is often used to make file, field and variable names more readable when blank spaces are not allowed. For example, NOVEL_1A.DOC, FIRST_NAME and Start_Routine. (character) underscore - _, ASCII 95. Actuate's commitment to providing a platform to fulfill today's scalable business Intelligence mandate, while keeping hardware costs and total cost of ownership as low as possible," said Nobby nob·by adj. nob·bi·er, nob·bi·est Fashionable; stylish. [From nob2.] Akiha, vice president of worldwide marketing for Actuate Corporation. "Results such as these explain why Actuate 7 is the only choice for a scalable, enterprise-wide business intelligence platform, whether an organization is deploying a single Information Application to large numbers of users or deploying multiple Information Applications that collectively serve a large population." The complete benchmark study with full details on test methodology and results is available for download at: http://www.actuate.com/info/benchmark.asp. About National Technical Systems, Inc. National Technical Systems, Inc. is a business-to-business services company providing organizations in the aerospace, defense, information technology (IT) and high technology markets integrated testing, certification, quality registration, systems evaluation and IT staffing services. For additional information about National Technical Systems, visit its Web site at http://www.ntscorp.com. About Actuate Corporation Actuate Corporation is the world leader in scalable Business Intelligence applications. Actuate's Information Application Platform is the foundation on which Global 9000 organizations (companies with annual revenues greater than $1 billion) and packaged application software vendors create reporting and analytics applications that scale to empower 100 percent of their user community inside and outside the firewall. These Information Applications include Business Performance Management (BPM) dashboards, Information Portals as well as business analytic, enterprise reporting and spreadsheet reporting applications. Information Applications built with Actuate enable companies to increase their business agility, improve customer and partner relationships, adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. policies, and increase revenues while leveraging existing technology assets. When tested against other business intelligence products, Actuate's Information Application Platform has been proven to offer industry-leading scalability, the best performance, lowest Total Cost of Ownership. Actuate has over 2,100 direct customers and 300 OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners in a range of industries including financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , pharmaceuticals, insurance, and distribution services, as well as the government sector. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco, Calif., and has offices worldwide. For more information on Actuate, visit the company's Web site at http://www.actuate.com. Actuate is a registered trademark of Actuate Corporation. e.Reporting and e.Spreadsheet are trademarks of Actuate Corporation. Other company names and trademarks are trademarks of their respective companies. Results based on Actuate 7 v. Crystal 9 benchmark conducted by National Test Systems in July 2003. |
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