Cargill, Incorporated North American Grain Standardizes On Actuate; Actuate Delivers Competitive Advantage via Leading Enterprise Reporting Solution.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 1999-- Actuate Software 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 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. , announced that Cargill, Incorporated, one of the country's leading grain and oilseed oilseed the seeds of the linseed plant, rapeseed or canola, peanut, safflower (Carthamus tinctorius); biproduct oils from seeds include corn, grapeseed, olive, sesame, sunflower. marketers end exporters has decided to standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. its enterprise-wide reporting on the Actuate Reporting System in its North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Grain division. Actuate's Enterprise Reporting solution links remote and central operations Central Operations (CO) is a major command of the London Metropolitan Police that provides operational support to the rest of the service. It is commanded by Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur. for Cargill's North American Grain division, delivering centrally-stored report data, such as grain volumes, quality and location, via the company's WAN and LANs. By leveraging this report data across its locations, Actuate gives North American Grain quicker access to detailed information in order to better manage inventories/pipelines. "Actuate gives our North American Grain managers and staff fast, reliable and secure access to our enterprise report data, particularly our daily rollups and availabilities, and that gives us a significant competitive advantage," said Gary Hicks Hicks , Edward 1780-1849. American painter of primitive works, notably The Peaceable Kingdom, of which nearly 100 versions exist. , IT manager of the Emerging Technology Lab at North American Grain. "The ability to access this report data across our organization and staff means that our trading merchants, regardless of their location, can know precisely where a certain grain is stored and how much we have on hand. This kind of up-to-the-minute information allows us to react to market opportunities more quickly than our competition." In early 1997, Cargill North American Grain recognized that a new enterprise-level, production reporting system would improve operations and profits for North American Grain by giving remote and central managers timely access to the information they need to be more effective in their day-to-day operations of buying, selling and transporting grain. With 300 grain elevator grain elevator Storage building for grain, usually a tall frame, metal, or concrete structure with a compartmented interior; also, the device for loading grain into a building. operations scattered Scattered Used for listed equity securities. Unconcentrated buy or sell interest. across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada and Mexico, the number of users needing report data access, and their geographical distribution the natural arrangements of animals and plants in particular regions or districts. See under Distribution. See also: Distribution Geographic , meant that enterprise scalability and WAN access were crucial for a successful solution. After evaluating nearly all of the reporting systems available on the market, Cargill North American Grain determined that Actuate was the best solution that could scale across the enterprise to meet its distributed user demand, while also meeting the requirements of its most complex production reports. Actuate's reliable high-performance and secure report delivery were also key factors, as these reports contain business-critical, timely information necessary to optimize daily operations, planning and decision-making. Due to Actuate's extensibility, there is no limit on the complexity of the reports that North American Grain can generate. For example, legal form layouts can be dynamically customized to meet the varying requirements of different regions and customers. Actuate can also handle North American Grain's complicated load/unload reports that track all the grain (volume and quality), rail cars and trucks that enter and leave a given facility every day. Because the Actuate Reporting System is an object-oriented solution, North American Grain developers have access to libraries of 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, such as units of measure, currencies, and report templates with standard North American Grain reporting formats that greatly simplify report creation and modification. "The volume and complexity of the data Cargill needs to sort through is immense," said Nico Nierenberg, 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 Chairman of Actuate. "The Actuate Reporting System is the ideal solution for such an enterprise because it can meet an unlimited range of reporting needs and it provides a flexible foundation for both Web-and WAN-based reporting that can be easily scaled and modified." Actuate has also improved Cargill's report response times, regardless of whether the report is requested to be run locally at a remote site, or requested to be run centrally and distributed to the field locations. Further, Actuate easily integrates with North American Grain's WAN multicast distribution technology, providing the flexibility to distribute reports via the company's WAN, giving managers on-demand access to the information they need. The Actuate Reporting System allows North American Grain to deliver high-quality, business-critical information in the form users need it whenever they need it, while helping to streamline the report distribution process. Adopting the Actuate Enterprise Reporting solution has made Cargill North American Grain a more competitive operation. About the Actuate Reporting System The Actuate Reporting System allows organizations to rapidly develop, generate and distribute reports via the Internet, thereby increasing access to and the value of corporate data. The Actuate Reporting System provides a scalable, dynamic reporting platform that can meet the Enterprise Reporting needs of organizations of any size. Actuate's Live Report Documents(R) feature rich interactive capabilities that enable users to more efficiently and effectively access information. Actuate's adaptable environment allows developers to create reports from any data source and in any format required by users. Actuate's Web Report Server contains a unique report distribution technology called Virtual Report Distribution(TM) that scales to support thousands of users around the world accessing thousands of report pages. Architected specifically for the Internet, Actuate can be seamlessly integrated into any Web site, and ReportCast(R) technology can target the delivery of reports through Internet channels The Internet Channel is a version of the Opera 9 web browser for use on the Wii by Opera Software and Nintendo.[1] On December 22, 2006, a free beta version (promoted as a "trial version") of the browser was released. to categories of subscribed users. About Actuate Software Corporation Actuate Software Corporation meets the information access needs of the extended enterprise with the premier Web Reporting solution for e.Business. The Actuate Reporting System, including ReportCast, securely and efficiently delivers corporate reports to employees, customers and partners. Actuate's customers include some of the largest 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. , telecommunications, health care and media companies. Software vendors reselling Actuate solutions include PeopleSoft, Siebel, Clarify, Vantive, Ariba and Ascend. Founded in 1993, and headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., Actuate has offices worldwide. For more information on Actuate, visit the company's Web site at http://www.actuate.com. 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