Actuate

Actuate's rich Internet applications (RIA)-ready platform enables all users - from the mailroom to the boardroom - to enjoy the rich, interactive experience of the web at work. Actuate has harnessed the interactivity and flexibility of Web 2.0 applications and technology, enabling every user in the enterprise to experience Rich Internet Applications Without Limits™ and to access the information they need at the right time, every time, in the format they prefer and at the level they require.

Rich Internet Applications Platform

In addition to its world-class information platform and state-of-the-art RIA and reporting tools, Actuate provides:

• Enterprise performance without compromise
• User experience without barriers
• Integration without boundaries

From implementation to end user buy-in, Actuate provides complete solution packages and options to ensure that your business has the tools and technology it needs to succeed.

Enterprise Performance Without Compromise

The Actuate RIA-ready platform offers enterprise performance without compromise and can scale to accommodate any user population, from the smallest workgroup or department to the enterprise comprising multiple installations delivering data to millions. This data can consist of real-time transactional data, data warehoused either on- or off-site, data trapped in legacy applications, data that requires delayed delivery, or a combination of any or all of the above.

Once your Actuate installation is complete, every user in your organization will enjoy the experience of interacting with their data in an environment that's intuitive and easy to navigate, yet powerful enough to deliver the most complex applications with nearly limitless functionality and interactivity.

User Experience Without Barriers

Actuate's powerful product suite features skill-appropriate applications and interfaces designed with the end user in mind. Together, they comprise Actuate's Collaborative Reporting Architecture, a rich Internet application (RIA)-ready platform that gives users a Web experience without barriers, enabling them interact online with Actuate's suite of RIAs.

Actuate's RIA-ready platform:

• Increases the interactivity and effectiveness of corporate data, enabling customers, partners, and employees to get data views fast
• Delivers richer, more relevant online information, anywhere and to anyone - both inside and outside the firewall - from new consumers to power users
• Makes building, deploying, and managing RIAs straightforward and risk-free
• Enables every user in the enterprise and beyond to access and experience the flexibility and power of Actuate's Collaborative Reporting Architecture

Actuate's most recent release harnesses the powerful new capabilities of the latest Eclipse open source release (BIRT 2.2), increasing the value of the Collaborative Reporting Architecture by allowing a broader set of reporting and deployment requirements to be addressed, optimizing ease-of-use, improving performance, and enabling reporting to be developed faster and deployed economically to larger audiences.

Integration Without Boundaries

The Actuate product suite features the industry's most open, standards-based architecture for integration without boundaries, enabling Actuate to interact with all web services, enterprise applications, back-end data sources and e-business applications and platforms. At the front end, Actuate's iPortal can integrate Actuate content seamlessly with the look and feel of any website, as well as embed frameless Actuate Reportlets® within any unstructured web page. On the back end, Actuate iServer or iServer Express supports live data access from any source, across any corporate infrastructure and firewall environment.