Actuate Corporation

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The Actuate Corporation develops business intelligence tools and Reporting software, that are focused on enterprise reporting solutions. Actuate provides four basic tools for enterprise reporting.

Actuate reports are the companies core product and are written in a proprietary Visual Basic derivative, Actuate Basic. Actuate reports are highly extensible and flexible.

An E.analysis reports have some interactivity that is Excel-like but data is static.

e.SpreadSheet allows developers to create and distribute reports that follow an Excel like spread-sheet metaphor.

FormulaOne Reporting Engines The Formula One e.Report Engine is a Pure Java reporting toolset for use with J2EE development environments and application servers.

BIRT Reporting BIRT reports are an open source reporting solution that have been developed as part of the Eclipse Foundation.

Data Sources Supported

Accessible data sources include:

   * Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft Access, 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 using Actuate's Information Objects solution.

List of Products part of Actaute e.Reporting Suite