Actuate Corporation develops Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Java Reporting software. Actuate is also heavily involved in the Eclipse Foundation, as a board member, strategic developer and co-leader of the BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) project. Founded in 1993, the company employs about 600 people and serves over 4,000 customers worldwide.

• Actuate 9 is the company's core product suite. Actuate reports are constructed on a Collaborative Reporting Architecture. The Collaborative Reporting Architecture provides skills-specific environments and leverages Eclipse, Java, portlets, XML, AJAX. The architecture enables design sharing and interactive viewing. Actuate 9 provides 3 essential types of Enterprise Reporting:
• Collaborative Reporting - Interactive reporting jointly developed by IT and business users enables design sharing across skill-matched reporting tools.
• Spreadsheet Reporting - Automatically generates analysis-ready, data-driven Excel spreadsheets for large user populations.
• Brochure-Quality Reporting - Brand-conscious, precise, multi-format reporting, leveraged in customer interaction applications and operational performance reporting where ease of consumption is the driving factor.

• BIRT Reporting BIRT reports are an open source reporting solution that have been developed as part of the Eclipse Foundation.
• Actuate Performancesoft Suite is a product set that resulted from Actuate's 2006 acquisition of Performancesoft Inc Performancesoft was the maker of Performancesoft Views (formerly known as pbviews), a well known Performance management and balanced scorecard and activity management software vendor.

Data Sources Supported

Accessible data sources include:

• Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft Access, Sybase, Teradata, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, EJB's
• Spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel or CSV
• Text files and XML
• Mainframe data sources
• Any other data source accessible through ODBC or OLAP.
• SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, other packaged applications via Open Data Access- ODA
• Ability to integrate any or all data sources via Enterprise Information Integration or EII

Actuate Software Products

• Report Development
• Actuate BIRT Report Designer Professional
• Actuate e.Report Designer Professional
• Actuate e.Spreadsheet Designer
• Report Deployment
• Actuate iPortal
• Actuate iServer
• Actuate e.Spreadsheet Engine
• End User Reporting and Analytics
• Actuate Interactive Viewer for BIRT Reports
• Actuate BusinessReport Studio
• Actuate Analytics Cube Designer
• Data Integration
• Actuate Information Object Designer
• Performance Management
• Actuate Performancesoft Views
• Actuate Performancesoft Track

See also

• BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools)
• Business Intelligence
• Performance Management

External links

• Actuate Corporation web site
• BIRT Exchange Community Site - Resources for BIRT developers
• Actuate stock report