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Actuate corporation was founded in 1993. Actuate Corporation is headquartered at South San Francisco, California with subsidiaries in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, and the UK and has offices worldwide.
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About ACTUATE CORPORATION
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Actuate Corporation a leading provider of Information Delivery solutions for Global 2000 companies and packaged application software vendors provides a full range of products and services for customer applications including client reporting, key performance indicators, CRM, e-Procurement and Net marketplaces. With specific intent in making applications user friendly, Actuate content is printable, accessible via Excel spreadsheets and are able to exchange data with other applications. Extracting operational data from disparate systems and publishing secure, interactive and perfectly formatted content that can be integrated seamlessly with Web sites is done easily using the Information Delivery Solutions. Actuate increase revenue, reduces costs and improves customer service by delivering personalized content to end users.
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Founded in 1993, Actuate Corporation is headquartered at South San Francisco, California with subsidiaries in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, and the UK and has offices worldwide. Complementing its direct sales activities are a wide range of channel partners who provide leverage for Actuate's sales activities through the provision of technical skills and geographical market knowledge. With an employee base of more than 600, over 1300 direct customers, over 170 OEM partners the likes of which include American Express, AT&T, Bank of America, BMC Software, Chase Manhattan Corporation, Clarify, Lucent Technologies, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems and Walt Disney Company and a vision to extend their portfolio to encompass the whole spectra of Information Delivery Solution, Actuate Corporation is seeking to be a global leader in the technology sector that focuses on software and programming.
For more information on Actuate Corporation, visit the company's Web site at www.actuate.com
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What is Actuate
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Information Delivery Solution an all encompassing term, defines the complete organization of people, process and technology used to transform data into actionable information. Information Delivery made up of two primary disciplines, Data Management which is the ability to effectively prepare the data for Business Intelligence and Business Intelligence the ability to effectively use the prepared information to achieve business results forms the core technology focus for Actuate. Information Delivery one of four components in an e-Business platform, along with content management systems, application servers and databases is critical to a company's e-Business strategy and and also needs to have the ability to capture critical data from a variety of sources and publish it to any medium and to any number of users both inside and outside the enterprise. Actuate Corporation caters to this need and make solutions which allows companies implementing an e-Business strategy to streamline business processes and build stronger relationships with customers, partners and employees by providing extra features like support for Java, LDAP, XML, additional scalability, and advanced tools for making content more interactive and actionable improving performance by reducing report rendering time. It can also be used to deliver content such as service level information, transaction histories, performance metrics, manufacturing and distribution status, and customer account information.
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Application Areas
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In a world where the largest corporations are moving their key business processes to the Web the shift necessary to improve profitability by increasing customer satisfaction while decreasing costs, to build an e-Business applications meeting the needs of employees, customers and partners, corporations are relying on an emerging set of interconnected components and services that constitute an e-Business platform. Information Delivery technology, provided by Actuate, is an integral part of this platform. Actuate is well integrated with all leading CRM & ERP packages and has an array of OEM integrators which is best used in web based applications with easy implementations tools. Actuate Corporation, pioneer in e.Reporting for e.Business, enables companies to differentiate their offerings by extending the value of information across the entire customer lifecycle, giving them the edge in the ever-competitive e.Business world.
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The Actuate e.Reporting Suite 4 is the first-ever solution that automates the creation and delivery of structured, personalized content, providing tens of thousands of users with instant access to high-resolution, customized business information that is seamlessly integrated into a company's e.Business Web site.
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With the launching of its e.Spreadsheet Server as part of Actuate 5, Service Pack 2. Actuate e.Spreadsheet Server is the world's first multi-platform, server-based spreadsheet reporting solution, enabling customers to create, manage and deploy business reports as Excel documents over the Web. Actuate e.Spreadsheet Server is a response to end user demands to receive business reports in the form of Excel spreadsheets over the Internet a scalable way to refresh the data and alert the appropriate people that new reports are available. Developers of Excel-based reports are looking excited with Actuate e.Spreadsheet Server which meets the needs of end users and report developers out of the box. For eg. most Global 2000 companies make daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly financial control reports which are delivered as PDF documents over the Web to managers and financial analysts. However, managers and analysts want these reports as Excel spreadsheets so they can further analyze the data and forward the results to other people.
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The latest version of Actuate Software Corp.’s enterprise reporting system features has a high-performance Web reporting data distribution capabilities With additional features like ReportBlast, a new report format optimized for Web distribution containing all of Actuate’s live viewing features as standard including Dynamic Table of Contents, Hyperlinks and ReportQuery improves Web performance for faster access to corporate data and provides enhanced scalability that lets users develop, generate and distribute reports more rapidly throughout the enterprise. The Transporter technology another additional feature provides the ability to extract select data from corporate reports and move this business-critical information to other applications which allows users to preserve data integrity and eliminates the need to re-query the database to extract information. Frequently used queries can be saved and then either viewed within Actuate Reporting or transported to another application. The new version of Actuate Report Server also allows companies to more effectively support a greater number of enterprise reporting users accessing increasingly larger reports by providing accelerated administration functionality and providing security through a single sign-on mechanism.
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Competitors
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1. Seagate Crystal Reports
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Powerful Information Delivery for the Web delivering rich, interactive content from virtually any data source, publish it to the Web, and integrate it within applications with Crystal Reports. With Crystal Reports, you can easily deliver rich, interactive content from virtually any data source, publish it to the Web in a variety of formats and integrate it with applications. Crystal Reports is part of a suite of integrated technologies that ensure data can be accessed, analyzed, reported on and delivered to any stakeholder anytime, anywhere, by any device. Crystal Reports provide one Integrated Solution where you can take all your Crystal report files, regardless of version, and start delivering interactive, actionable content to every user in your company. Crystal is robust, easy-to-use reporting, analysis and information delivery software.
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2. Cognos products
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Cognos provides an enterprise-scale business intelligence solution, the software connecting people across an organization with their businesses, enabling them to make timely, fact-based decisions optimizing their company's performance. From the consolidation of a company's various data sources to creating a unified view of the business, to delivering of the right information, to the right people, at the right time, Cognos provides it all. Organizations can select Cognos products to build the information environment that meets their business needs, or deploy pre-built, customizable Cognos analytical applications that speed the time to value.
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3. Brio Reports
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BRIO INTELLIGENCE: For sophisticated query and analysis, Brio Intelligence is the most advanced and easy-to-use set of tools available, leveraging data from existing enterprise information systems, Brio Intelligence provides executives, analysts, developers and employees with powerful query and analysis capabilities supported by an intuitive, web-enabled interface. Delivering business-critical information, Brio Intelligence drives an interactive understanding of business opportunities and trends, empowering employees to make optimal decisions.
BRIO PORTAL: The leading business intelligence portal, Brio Portal, drives real-time evaluation of enterprise performance with personalized metrics and content. Through web-based delivery of drillable dashboards and dynamic reports, Brio Portal closes the gap between opportunity recognition, decision-making and action. It automates the search, notification and delivery of information for improved decision-making at every critical point in a business process. Users are able to spot trends early and take actions that optimize performance.
BRIO REPORTS: Brio Reports an enterprise-class solution for generating high-volume, presentation-quality reports with unparalleled performance. Allowing access to and processing data directly from multiple enterprise systems, Brio Reports seamlessly integrates real-time, structured business information to your website, portals or applications to guide business decisions and track performance.
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