Actuate Accepted into IBM SOA Specialty Program.Service Oriented o·ri·ent n. 1. Orient The countries of Asia, especially of eastern Asia. 2. a. The luster characteristic of a pearl of high quality. b. A pearl having exceptional luster. 3. Architecture Approach to Reporting and Analysis Drives Business Agility and Flexibility 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, and an IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Premier Partner, today announced its acceptance to the IBM (NASDAQ:IBM) SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements. With this achievement, the Actuate platform integrates with the IBM SOA Foundation, a single, integrated platform that combines the industry's top application server and integration capabilities. Customers of IBM and Actuate can now take advantage of a common approach to Service-Oriented Architecture See SOA. to rapidly integrate business intelligence and performance management capabilities into applications to support the complete spectrum of business processes. Acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty is for Business Partners that have demonstrated compatibility with IBM SOA Foundation products, endorse the IBM SOA strategy, and whose go-to-market activities IBM determines to be in agreement with its own. Actuate has been working closely with IBM to achieve a high level of business and technical alignment and as a result, has become the first partner to achieve all levels of SOA Specialty certification - Connect, Extend, and Exploit. This means that Actuate is certified See certification. by IBM to be able to connect, extend, and exploit the IBM SOA Foundation products including the WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Integration Developer, and WebSphere Process Server. Specifically, Actuate exploits the SOA Foundation by building 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 components within the WebSphere Integration Developer, deployed on the WebSphere Process Server to communicate with applications using the WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. The IBM SOA Specialty in the PartnerWorld for Industry Networks provides technical enablement and skills-building roadmap for partners who want to access the growing SOA market opportunity. The Specialty will also provide SOA-specific marketing and sales benefits for those who achieve key milestones such as SOA Connection Events to meet directly with IBM SOA Sales specialists and discounted print advertising and telemarketing telemarketing, the practice of selling goods or services to customers by means of the telephone or of surveying consumer preferences in telephone conversations. . IBM Sales Connections, a consultative service in the PartnerWorld Industry Networks, helps business partners close SOA deals quickly by connecting them with the relevant IBM SOA and local field sales team. "SOA is an increasingly important architectural requirement in the market because of the business flexibility it enables, and Actuate is an important partner in the SOA ecosystem," said Sandy Carter, vice president, SOA and WebSphere, IBM Software Group. "Actuate's acceptance into the SOA Specialty at the "Exploit" level is a reflection of their long term, extensive business partnership with IBM." The Actuate platform is a fully SOA-enabled suite of easy-to-use Business Intelligence and Performance Management capabilities designed to meet the reporting and analysis needs of employees, partners and customers. Powered by the Actuate iServer, the platform enables users to access integrated data from multiple systems, build and deploy interactive, customizable reports, and perform ad-hoc queries and analysis in a flexible, scalable and secure way. "Actuate and IBM share a common vision regarding how organizations can maximize the value of Business Intelligence and our SOA certification further validates our business and technical alliance with IBM," 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. "When organizations move beyond viewing Business Intelligence as a separate, stand-alone exercise for a limited number of individuals, and move towards integrating reporting and analytics with all the business processes that touch every user, they can achieve breakthrough corporate performance." 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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