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Actuate and Webalo Combine Efforts to Take BIRT Mobile(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Actuate, a company delivering Internet applications, and Webalo announced that the two companies will combine efforts to deliver BIRT output to mobile devices. Actuate and Webalo are working to improve data access for very large enterprises by enabling Mobile Dashboard users to efficiently "pull" highly personalized information on demand from BIRT reports running on iServer Express and iServer Enterprise. Actuate is a provider of deployment support for BIRT (the Eclipse Foundation Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools project). All Actuate BIRT-based products can be run within iServer Express and iServer Enterprise server deployments, making them appropriate for projects of any size, both inside and outside the firewall. The Mobile Dashboard offers a point-and-click interface that permits even non-programmers or end users to quickly set up access from the handheld of their choice to corporate data, websites, and other assets, in a matter of hours not the months typically required. Webalo's Mobile Dashboard can be run in hosted mode or as an appliance installed inside the enterprise, providing end-to-end capabilities without custom programming or middleware. Mobile workers can then interact with their backend applications and data, sending as well as receiving information. Many of our customers strive to address the issue of making information and analysis available to as many decision makers as possible to improve corporate performance, said Nobby Akiha, senior vice president of Marketing at Actuate Corp. Personalized information delivered to mobile devices is the next step in ensuring users have accurate, actionable information at their fingertips. We re excited to extend our integration with Webalo to include BIRT output and feel that working with Webalo will deliver great value to our combined customer bases. Webalo technology transforms enterprise applications and data to make them compatible with mobile devices. The groups noted this eliminates the need for traditional custom programming, reducing the deployment of mobile applications from weeks or months to, in most cases, less than a day. The resulting "anywhere, any time, on-demand" availability of enterprise data on handheld devices turns such devices into viable alternatives to desktop, laptop, and palmtop computer hardware, and lets mobile employees work more productively on the spot to solve problems, answer questions, monitor operations, close sales, and make informed decisions. The Webalo Mobile Dashboard Service available both as a hosted service and as a behind-the-firewall appliance lets non-IT business administrators securely specify the content of mobile-accessible information, and the companion Webalo Proxy Server configures it, in seconds, to conform to the native user interface of any BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm, Symbian, or Java-enabled smartphone. Webalo's technology transforms the role of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) into a User Oriented Architecture, enabling Web services to communicate with users as effectively as they communicate with other system services, the companies noted in a release. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) ((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd - http://www.m2.com)) ((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com)) Copyright ? 2008 Wireless News |