IN today's digital economy of consolidation between vendors customers want a single solution that integrates well with existing infrastructure. The proposed UpTrade Program from Actuate enables organizations to cope with the uncertainty created by the announced sales of Crystal Decisions to Business Objects, and Brio Software to Hyperion. The UpTrade program will provide financial incentives for customers of Brio Software, Business Objects, and Crystal Decisions to migrate to Actuate's Information Application Platform.

With organizations seeking to consolidate the number of technologies they utilize to address their Business Intelligence requirements and to realize a streamlined enterprise architecture customers are provided with an integrated platform that is scalable enough to meet the needs of their total user population and flexible in meeting the diversity of information requirements throughout the enterprise. 

"We designed the UpTrade program to address the new risks that have emerged for organizations as a result of the recent consolidation activity in the industry," said 

According to Pete Cittadini, CEO of Actuate, the consolidating BI vendors are asking an awful lot from their customers to wait for technology roadmaps to be announced and clarified, therefore the need for an integrated solution was immediate. The UpTrade program enables customers to rapidly switch to Actuate's Information Application Platform that is scalable up to 24,000 concurrent users.

In another development aimed at providing powerful enterprise information integration capabilities in its Information Application Platform Actuate has announced the acquisition of Nimble Technology. Nimble Technology provides powerful Enterprise Information Integration solutions that enable organizations to intelligently harness business information

By adding Nimble's outstanding technology and development team to Actuate further strengths Actuate's ability to provide a single Business Intelligence (BI) platform to create Information Applications that address the breadth of user needs and the gamut of application scenarios. 

With this acquisition Actuate plans to take advantage of a number of technology and market opportunities by extending the flexibility of Actuate's Information Application Platform to preserve and leverage existing IT investments by increasing the scale and breadth of information that can be processed and presented within Information Applications.