May 13, 2009
Actuate Platform Boasts Unmatched Scalability, High Performance, Reliability and Security
By Jai C.S., TMCnet Contributor
Enterprise software company Actuate (News - Alert) Corporation co-leads the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) open source project with the Eclipse Foundation, the home of the open source Eclipse Development Framework.
Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) is an Eclipse-based open source reporting system for web applications, in particular to those based on Java and J2EE. It has two main components: a report designer based on Eclipse, and a runtime component which can be added to app server.
Actuate offers a BIRT-based product line that brings Flash objects into BIRT applications; improve the user experience viewing and interacting with BIRT web pages; supply special-purpose data access approaches; add scheduling, security, document management and reliability, performance and scalability features for enterprise implementations.
Nobby Akiha, senior vice president, Marketing, Actuate Corporation, recently participated in an exclusive interview with Ron Powell and the BeyeNETWORK. In the interview, Akiha explains how the Actuate platform boasts unmatched scalability, high-performance, reliability and security.
"Born from the Open Source Eclipse BIRT Project, Actuate value added products have become the industry standard for developing information applications that can span from embedded to enterprise applications," said Akiha. "We bring rich web experiences to business applications inside and outside the firewall in a Global standard for scale, performance, reliability and security to help improve time to market while reducing resource costs for organizations BI initiatives."
Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) is an Eclipse-based open source reporting system for web applications, in particular to those based on Java and J2EE. It has two main components: a report designer based on Eclipse, and a runtime component which can be added to app server.
Actuate offers a BIRT-based product line that brings Flash objects into BIRT applications; improve the user experience viewing and interacting with BIRT web pages; supply special-purpose data access approaches; add scheduling, security, document management and reliability, performance and scalability features for enterprise implementations.
Nobby Akiha, senior vice president, Marketing, Actuate Corporation, recently participated in an exclusive interview with Ron Powell and the BeyeNETWORK. In the interview, Akiha explains how the Actuate platform boasts unmatched scalability, high-performance, reliability and security.
"Born from the Open Source Eclipse BIRT Project, Actuate value added products have become the industry standard for developing information applications that can span from embedded to enterprise applications," said Akiha. "We bring rich web experiences to business applications inside and outside the firewall in a Global standard for scale, performance, reliability and security to help improve time to market while reducing resource costs for organizations BI initiatives."
"Actuate value added BIRT offering are familiar to developers of every skill," added Ron Powell, co-founder and editorial director of the BeyeNETWORK. "The integrated BIRT experience allows these users to maximize their productivity in bringing information applications to market through a mature, modern IDE."
BeyeNETWORK is an online network of sites that provide free resources for business intelligence professionals. The BeyeNETWORK Spotlights are intuitive dialogues with innovative solution providers, and these spotlights are stated to offer a clear introduction to the new products and services of interest to the business intelligence community.
Jai C.S. is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Jai's articles, please visit his columnist page.
Edited by Jessica Kostek
