Actuate 9 Transforms Business Intelligence with the First Collaborative Reporting Architecture; New Architecture Brings Open Source Technology and Principles to Work Inside the Enterprise to Drive Information Adoption and Corporate Performance.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 introduced Actuate 9, an Enterprise Reporting Application platform based on the world's first Collaborative Reporting Architecture. For the first time, organizations can apply both the technology and principles of open source to Business Intelligence processes. With Actuate's Collaborative Reporting Architecture, companies can shift from a 'closed BI model' where information access and analysis is siloed, to an 'open BI model' that speeds report development by supporting collaboration amongst people of every skill level. Until now, organizations have spent extraordinary amounts of time and energy negotiating reporting and analytic requirements among IT developers, business analysts and end users. As this process collapses, users retreat into silos, resulting in multiple versions of the truth, severe compliance risk and low adoption of information. Only Actuate 9 can transform this broken process by applying open source principles, including participation, iterative development A discipline for developing systems based on producing deliverables often. Each iteration, consisting of requirements, analysis & design, implementation and testing, results in the release of an executable subset of the final product, which grows incrementally from iteration to and modularity, for the benefit of an organization's Business Intelligence initiatives. Actuate's Collaborative Reporting Architecture allows IT developers to quickly create a report and offer it immediately to business analysts and end users, who can now use new interactive capabilities to refine and polish the report in order to clarify their needs with IT. Design changes can be passed between these constituencies to grow the reporting application effectively because it continuously meets the changing needs of every user. "The Actuate 9 Collaborative Reporting Architecture leverages a common, open design format across a set of skill-specific environments to facilitate interaction between information producers and consumers, resulting in efficient, iterative it·er·a·tive adj. 1. Characterized by or involving repetition, recurrence, reiteration, or repetitiousness. 2. Grammar Frequentative. Noun 1. Business Intelligence processes," said Pete Cittadini, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Actuate Corporation. "Actuate 9 fundamentally breaks the economics of enterprise reporting by driving report creation and production costs down dramatically, while fostering community-based BI collaboration that expedites the decision making power of every employee, customer and partner." Collaborative Reporting Architecture The Actuate 9 Collaborative Reporting Architecture combines open source technologies from the Eclipse Foundation The Eclipse Foundation leads the development of Eclipse, the open-source Java application platform and IDE. History In 2003–2004 the Eclipse Consortium, an unofficial consortium of software industry vendors led by IBM, founded The Eclipse Foundation, a BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) project with the scalability, performance, reliability and security of the Actuate iServer and the interactivity of AJAX (Asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. JavaScript 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. ) to create the next generation Business Intelligence environment. The results are dynamic, interactive enterprise reports for every type of deployment and the first ad-hoc web reporting product that allows end-users and IT departments to collaborate on report definitions and effortlessly ef·fort·less adj. Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. See Synonyms at easy. ef  fort·less·ly adv. evolve report designs. The Collaborative Reporting Architecture drives enterprise reporting costs down by leveraging the versatility of the Java development community, the speed and flexibility of Actuate's Information Object metadata (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. layer, and a revolutionary reusable re·use tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. re·us design structure that encourages collaboration among users of every skill level, for every reporting project. Actuate 9 Actuate 9 includes four new products based on the Collaborative Reporting Architecture. Actuate BIRT is now available as an option to the Actuate iServer and offers the ability to deliver interactive web reports based on the open source BIRT technology. Actuate BusinessReports is a new ad-hoc web report development product. Interactive Viewing is a new report viewing capability that allows end users to personalize per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. , save and share their own perspectives of reports delivered from both Actuate BIRT and BusinessReports. Finally, iPortal is a new standards-based portal environment for accessing report content, launching BusinessReports and reviewing Actuate BIRT reports. For an end user, using iPortal, reviewing BIRT reports in the Interactive Viewer or assembling BusinessReports requires no training. For IT departments, these new products in Actuate 9 offer new deployment flexibility and take advantage of popular skills and technologies already in place, specifically Java and Eclipse-based products. With Actuate 9, IT can leverage a common technology to embed em·bed also im·bed v. em·bed·ded, em·bed·ding, em·beds v.tr. 1. To fix firmly in a surrounding mass: embed a post in concrete; fossils embedded in shale. reporting in Java applications A Java program that is run stand alone. The Java Virtual Machine in the client or server is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java applet. See servlet. or to deploy reporting applications for workgroups or across the extended enterprise. Actuate 9 is comprised of the following skills-specific report design and viewing products: --Actuate BIRT Option and Actuate BIRT Designer -- enable professional application developers and report developers to build dynamic, interactive enterprise reports ready for deployment to end users and create composite report design templates for BusinessReports. Because Actuate BIRT is based on open source code, developers will be able to leverage templates and resources created by the BIRT ecosystem to speed report development and deployment. --Actuate BusinessReports -- enables business analysts and power users to craft ad-hoc web reports by using re-useable BIRT-based foundation reports and including data from Information Objects. The iterative design Iterative design is a design methodology based on a cyclic process of prototyping, testing, analyzing, and refining a work in progress. In iterative design, interaction with the designed system is used as a form of research for informing and evolving a project, as successive and development approach empowers close collaboration between developers and end users, who can quickly create and rapidly evolve reports to meet the changing needs of information consumers. --Interactive Viewing -- AJAX-powered interactivity that enables every type of user to think beyond the current structure of the report and personalize it into his or her own perspective. Users have the flexibility to modify report views, reducing the number of reports that need to be created. This flexibility rewards end-user initiative with fast results and the insight to drive corporate performance. --iPortal --iPortal hosts Actuate BIRT, BusinessReports and Interactive Viewing, and can be deployed alone on a single server for small workgroups or in conjunction with the Actuate iServer when enterprise caliber capabilities are required, including scale, access to Information Objects and multi-project support. JSR-168 portlets are also available to deploy content in standards-based portal environments. --Actuate 9 iServer -- Enterprise Reporting Application platform with high scale, performance, reliability and security. --Actuate 9 Information Objects -- enables data architects to leverage Actuate's Enterprise Information Integration (EII (Enterprise Information Integration) Similar to an EIS (executive information system), an EII aggregates current information from all data sources within an organization. ) - powered metadata to supply reusable data objects across the product line. Availability The Actuate BIRT Option, Actuate BIRT Designer, Actuate BusinessReports, Interactive Viewing, and iPortal will be available in Q3 2006. Actuate 9 will run alongside Actuate 8 environments without requiring migration. 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 A software application that allows a user to obtain information or complete a business transaction on the computer that has traditionally required the help of a human representative. Voice response systems and Web sites are widely used for self-service applications. See kiosk. , 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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