Actuate BIRT Launched; Actuate Announces Annual Subscription-Based Indemnification, Maintenance and Support to Promote Adoption of BIRT -Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools-.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: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. Applications, today announced the general availability of Actuate BIRT. Actuate BIRT adds value to the Eclipse BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) project with features such as comprehensive live support, indemnification, professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. and maintenance. BIRT, which has been downloaded from the Eclipse web site over 9,000 times since the preview version was launched in March, is the only Eclipse project centered on Business Intelligence and reporting, and one of only 6 top-level Eclipse Projects The following is a list of notable projects and plugins for the Eclipse IDE. Official Eclipse projects These projects are maintained by the Eclipse community and hosted by the Eclipse Foundation. . IT managers and project owners may have concerns about deploying an application that leverages open source software within their corporations. Issues with open source software include: a lack of indemnification, which could increase legal risks, a lack of maintenance and support, so no entity is accountable to address and resolve product defects in a timely manner, and a lack of enforceable Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Actuate BIRT aims to reduce the risks of adopting open source technology by introducing value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. services in parallel to Eclipse BIRT. Actuate BIRT provides the added benefits of an indemnified license along with maintenance and support, on an annual subscription basis. These services provide subscribers with accountability for issues and bugs, legal indemnification and experienced support, all grounded in Actuate's over ten years of experience in supporting and deploying enterprise class BI and reporting applications. "Actuate BIRT will aid the adoption of the Eclipse BIRT Open Source project by providing a commercial alternative for corporations that want to reap the benefits of the Open Source movement, but also require timely and reliable support and legal protection," said Pete Cittadini, 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. and president of Actuate Corporation. "We will back Actuate BIRT with our world-class support organization, which has a decade long track record of ensuring customer success for mission critical applications." Features of Actuate BIRT Actuate BIRT delivers functionality that is identical to the Eclipse BIRT project The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project is an open source software project that provides reporting and business intelligence capabilities for rich client and web applications, especially those based on Java and J2EE. , its Open Source Eclipse Public License The Eclipse Public License (EPL) is an open source software license used by the Eclipse Foundation for its software. It replaces the Common Public License (CPL) and removes certain terms relating to patent litigation. (EPL 1. EPL - Early PL/I. 2. EPL - Experimental Programming Language. 3. EPL - Eden Programming Language. U Washington. Based on Concurrent Euclid and used with the Eden distributed OS. Influenced Emerald and Distributed Smalltalk. ) equivalent. Actuate BIRT provides the convenience of a one button install, and Actuate backed licensing, maintenance, professional services and support. Actuate BIRT includes reporting and charting offerings that are immediately available on an annual subscription pricing basis starting at $95 per developer user. Highlights include: Actuate BIRT Report Designer and SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). , an Eclipse BIRT-based report designer, which can be installed with an English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese or Korean interface with internationalization and localization "Internationalization" redirects here. This term may also refer to the establishment of an independent free city. In computing, Internationalization and localization are means of adapting computer software for non-native environments, especially other nations and cultures. support for the end user's language. The Actuate BIRT Report Designer and SDK provides connectivity to all major enterprise databases, and includes a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. editor that provides "drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. " report creation. Furthermore it includes a palette of standard report items to make report design easy. The Actuate BIRT Report Designer and SDK also includes a code editor to add business logic to reports during data access, report generation, or viewing. Actuate BIRT Chart Designer and SDK, an Eclipse BIRT-based chart designer which is fully integrated into the Actuate BIRT Report Designer and SDK and provides multiple ways to graphically visualize a report including pie charts, line charts and bar charts. The charting components of the Actuate BIRT Report Designer are also available in a separate package that can be used to integrate business charting within an application. Subscription Deployment Licenses, licensing options for Actuate BIRT include a stand-alone indemnification license, desktop deployment license and CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. based server deployment licenses. Actuate BIRT will also offer various levels of product and deployment support: Basic: Allows unlimited access for 12 months to releases of Actuate BIRT for product enhancements and maintenance updates from Actuate's secure web site. Silver: Includes the features of Basic support plus a 12 month maintenance agreement that allows up to 3 registered contacts, 30 days of installation support, access to the Actuate knowledgebase, forums, and a mechanism to report product defects and enhancements via the online support web site. Gold: Includes all of the features of the Silver program plus a 12 month maintenance agreement that allows three to five named contacts access to Actuate BIRT Customer Support for an unlimited number of incidents along with a committed response time. Pricing and Availability Actuate BIRT is immediately available at www.actuate.com/birt. Annual subscription-based pricing begins at $95 for a single user deployment. About Actuate Corporation Actuate Corporation is the world leader in Enterprise Reporting Applications that ensure 100% adoption by users. Actuate's Enterprise Reporting Application Platform is the foundation on which Global 9000 organizations (companies with annual revenues greater than $1 billion) and packaged application software vendors develop intuitive, Web portal-like reporting and analytic applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. that empower 100% of users with decision-making information. These applications are deployed inside and outside the firewall to improve corporate performance across a range of business functions including financial management, sales, human resource management, and customer self-service. When tested against other business intelligence products, Actuate's Enterprise Reporting Application Platform has been proven to offer industry-leading scalability and the lowest Total Cost of Ownership. Actuate has over 3,000 customers globally in a range of industries including financial services, 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. 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) 2005 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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