Actuate 9 Marks First BI Solution With Server-Generated Spreadsheets and Native PowerPoint Reports.Latest Actuate 9 Release Adds Ability to Centrally Generate and Manage Native Microsoft PowerPoint Reports 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. -- Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :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 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. and Performance Management Applications that empower 100% of users to achieve breakthrough corporate performance, today announced that Actuate 9 SP1, with its new support for native Microsoft PowerPoint, now allows users to choose from the complete range of Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. formats for viewing and communicating mission-critical corporate performance information. Actuate 9 SP1 will be available in December 2006 and allows everyone to benefit from Business Intelligence applications by giving end users the power to choose the most appropriate format for the information and the audience. This broad diversity of format choices eliminates the need for users to manually transfer information into other formats, which can introduce errors. "One of the most significant bottlenecks in the communication of information has been the arduous process of preparing and formatting information for group consumption," said Jeff Morris, director of product marketing at Actuate. "Traditional processes require manual steps to compile, format and assemble documents and slide presentations that contain report data. Because of this manual process, updating the same document and presentation requires the user to repeat all the steps, which ultimately reduces the speed with which organizations can leverage information to react to business trends." Actuate 9 e.Report can now centrally generate and manage native PowerPoint documents that contain enterprise report data. Users can now have the confidence that the data within all common Microsoft Office report formats -- Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations -- is up-to-date, error-free and immediately ready to distribute. Actuate 9 e.Report now includes PowerPoint along with its extensive list of supported brochure-quality formats. End users can now expedite the production of PowerPoint presentations by selecting PowerPoint as their "save as" format. The Actuate iServer then delivers the report, or the pages specified by the user, in a ready-to-deliver PowerPoint presentation. Actuate e.Report PowerPoint output can be securely delivered to millions of users by leveraging Actuate's Page-Level Security and the industry's most scaleable platform, the Actuate iServer. PowerPoint presentations can be scheduled, downloaded on demand and traded via email, as any other report format from Actuate. Further, each user controls and selects their output format without re-executing the report. Actuate e.Report selections now include Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. , DHTML See Dynamic HTML. DHTML - Dynamic HTML , e.Analysis graphic visualization, Microsoft Excel (tool) Microsoft Excel - A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world. Latest version: Excel 97, as of 1997-01-14. , Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. (RTF (Rich Text Format) A document format from Microsoft for encoding text and graphics. It was adapted from IBM's DCA format and supports ANSI, IBM PC and Macintosh character sets. ), text and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. . Single platform for all content options Actuate 9 SP1 iServer supports all content generation options by adding e.Reports, Actuate Query and Actuate Analytics to the platform that already includes e.Spreadsheet, BIRT Reports and BusinessReport Studio. Actuate 9 SP1 e.Report Designer Professional enhancements * Information Object Exporter generates Information Object maps from e.Report queries in order to quickly reuse queries across reports and report options such as BusinessReports and e.Spreadsheet. * Enhanced Dynamic Text Control for creating magazine, newspaper and brochure-style blocks of text as word processors can. Text with full justification and soft hyphen A hyphen that prints if it winds up at the end of the line, but does not print otherwise. Contrast with hard hyphen. See discretionary hyphen. support combine with keep-with-next and keep-together properties to provide true "Brochure-Quality" reports. * Bubble Charts are an added chart type, and chart formatting is improved with finer control over chart labels. * Visually Rich Data-Driven Vector Graphics The representation of a digital image as points, lines and other geometric entities. All computer-aided design (CAD), drawing and diagramming programs create vector graphics formats, such as AI, DXF and WMF (see graphics formats). are improved with the addition of predefined Actuate Basic functions, 'sample image' displays during design and expression properties to define state changes within the widget Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe examples of made-up products along with other fictitious names; for example, "10 widgets, 5 frabbits and 2 dingits. . Now junior application developers can build high-fidelity dashboard widgets and report graphics. * Developer Productivity and Reuse are further improved with many new property dialogs and enhancements, including formatting dialogs to set basic and conditional formatting properties as well as custom property and custom data type definition dialogs that help speed and simplify report development. About Actuate Corporation Actuate Corporation is the world leader in Enterprise Reporting and Performance Management Applications that empower 100% of users to achieve breakthrough corporate performance. Actuate provides the most scalable, reliable, flexible and high-performing reporting capabilities for every application in the enterprise. Customers use Actuate to deliver information in context to users inside and outside the firewall as Performance Management and Customer Self-Service applications, managed spreadsheet applications and Java reporting applications. Actuate has over 3,500 customers globally in a range of industries including banking, insurance, manufacturing, communications, and government. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco, Calif., with offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol ACTU. For more information on Actuate, visit the company's Web site at www.actuate.com. Copyright[c] 2006 Actuate Corporation. All rights reserved. Actuate and the Actuate logo are registered trademarks of Actuate Corporation and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and certain other countries. All other brands, names or trademarks mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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