Actuate Completes IBM Grid Computing Enablement Program; Companies Can Economically Deploy Enterprise Reporting Applications to 100% of User Communities.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 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) Business Partner, today announced that its Enterprise Reporting Application Platform complies with the IBM grid computing grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal enablement, Level 6. Actuate's grid-enabled platform allows companies to more cost-effectively deploy financial management, customer self-service and sales management Sales Management Role and Goal Importance of sales management is critical for any commercial organization. Expanding business in not possible without increasing sales volumes, and effective sales management goal is to organize sales team work in such a manner that ensures a reporting applications and ensure that these strategic applications are always available. Most companies are using Enterprise Reporting Applications for mission-critical functions such as financial management, customer self-service and sales management. Corporate IT departments need these types of applications to not only be available 24x7 but also be cost-effectively deployed to 100% of the target user community both inside and outside the firewall. Grid computing enables the virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. of distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. and data resources including processing, network bandwidth and storage capacity to create a single system image, ensuring application scalability and availability. The Actuate grid-enabled Enterprise Reporting Application Platform allows multiple Enterprise Reporting Applications to be built, run, administered, and maintained from a central IBM server or cluster of servers. These applications efficiently share services and resources across the enterprise. Actuate's unique architecture leverages IBM's infrastructure and hardware to allow businesses to seamlessly add new Enterprise Reporting Applications and users as needs expand. Additionally, Actuate's extremely scalable platform allows data to be delivered to a wide spectrum of users on demand, regardless of data quantity or user volume. For more information about the high scalability and performance of Actuate's Enterprise Reporting Application Platform, reference the press release of May 12, 2004 titled "Benchmark Tests Showcase Actuate as the Industry's most Scalable Enterprise Reporting Platform." "The ability to cost-effectively deploy Enterprise Reporting Applications and ensure 100% adoption of decision-making information is very important to our customers," 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. "Actuate is excited to join IBM in advocating and enabling this innovative technology. We see grid computing as an ideal means to deliver information and gain 100% user adoption of Enterprise Reporting Applications." Actuate's Enterprise Reporting Application Platform was successfully deployed on a grid of geographically dispersed AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , Linux and Windows nodes. The platform is now grid enabled based on the following criteria: --Allows multiple applications to run as tightly coupled See tight coupling. parallel services. --Based on a Service Oriented Architecture. --Supports heterogeneous computing environments: AIX, Linux, Windows, etc. --Allows multiple instances of a service to be started on single or multiple grid nodes. --Handles parallel requests by one or multiple users. --Provides faster results and higher availability through intense communication and synchronization between clients and services. To Learn More To learn more about Actuate's relationship with IBM please visit: www.actuate.com/partners/partnerresources.asp?ArticleId=6557&bhcp=1. 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 2,800 customers globally 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. 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) 2004 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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