Actuate BIRT Recognized as a Leader in Open Source Business Intelligence Wave Report
10 August 2010 - 8:59PM
Business Wire
Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the people behind BIRT®,
today announced that the company and its value added offerings for
BIRT have been recognized as a leader in “The Forrester Wave™: Open
Source Business Intelligence (BI), Q3 2010” report. The Forrester
Wave report, created as a global vendor assessment tool, rated
Actuate as a Leader based on the company’s pure play BI application
and highly scalable, function-rich reporting.
By rolling up the scores to high level aggregates, providing
customizable weights to each evaluation criteria and drawing a
clear distinction between community and commercial editions,
Forrester was able to achieve as close to an apples-to-apples
comparison as possible between the Open Source BI offerings.
Forrester used 157 criteria to evaluate the vendors and found that
“Actuate BIRT led the pack because of richness of reporting
functionality.”
According to the report, “The Forrester Wave™: Open Source
Business Intelligence (BI), Q3 2010” “Actuate BIRT inherits the
Actuate legacy of large-scale production reporting.” The report
goes on to say, “…Actuate BIRT reports can be used for mass
(millions) report distribution and for highly complex (with
scalability and load balancing challenges) BI applications like
interactive online customer statements. In the most recent
addition, Actuate also added BIRT data objects, which can be used
for disk- or memory-based OLAP-style analysis…Actuate is also
investing heavily into mobile BI with BIRT iPhone application and
BIRT Mobile virtual appliance, which can deliver BIRT content to
most popular mobile devices. Additionally, as BIRT is part of the
Eclipse project, Actuate BIRT is also highly attractive to
developers using Eclipse integrated development environment
(IDE).”
The complete report “The Forrester Wave™: Open Source Business
Intelligence (BI), Q3 2010” may be viewed by clicking here:
http://birt.me/Leader_OSBIWave
“We are pleased that Forrester’s Wave report for open source
Business Intelligence names Actuate BIRT as a Leader. Both
Actuate BIRT and the Eclipse open source BIRT project lead in terms
of market presence and strength of strategy, BIRT clearly provides
functionality that the developer community and the market have
chosen to adopt,” said Nobby Akiha, senior vice president of
marketing at Actuate. “Actuate and BIRT are backed by a vibrant
BIRT community of over 750,000 developers, plus Actuate is
generating significant revenue from its BIRT-based offerings, both
signs that we have struck a balance between open source community
and business interests.”
Actuate - the people behind BIRT
Actuate founded and continues to co-lead the Eclipse BIRT open
source project. BIRT is the premier development environment for
Rich Information Applications that present structured data and
content in compelling and interactive ways via the web on any
device. Actuate and its people are dedicated to making BIRT the
best environment for our customers to develop Web 2.0 applications
that drive revenue through higher customer satisfaction/loyalty and
improve operational performance. The people of Actuate continually
participate in and provide resources for the vibrant open source
community that has emerged around BIRT. Anybody can participate in
the BIRT movement by visiting www.birt-exchange.com.
Actuate offers value-add BIRT products and services that speed
the development process and bring additional functionality such as,
interactivity, content transformation and enterprise scalability to
BIRT-based Rich Information Applications. Actuate has over 4,500
customers globally in a diverse range of business areas including
financial services and the public sector. Founded in 1993, Actuate
is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices worldwide.
Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol ACTU. For more
information, visit the company's web site at www.actuate.com.
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