Actuate Corporation

This article has multiple issues. Please help or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. Please help by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. (May 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (May 2017) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (May 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Actuate Corporation

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Computer Software, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Reporting, Business Analytics
Founded	1993
Headquarters	San Mateo, California, USA
Area served	Worldwide
Products	BIRT, BIRT iHub, BIRT iHub F-Type, BIRT Analytics, Actuate Customer Communications Suite
Revenue	US$134.6 million (FY 2013)[1]
Operating income	US$23.4 million (FY 2013)[1]
Net income	US$16.7 million (FY 2013)[1]
Total assets	US$196.1 million (FY 2013)[2]
Total equity	US$128.8 million (FY 2013)[2]
Owner	OpenText
Number of employees	570 (as of December 31, 2013)
Website	www.opentext.com/what-we-do/products/analytics/

Actuate Corporation is a publicly traded reporting, analytics and customer communications software company based in San Mateo, California, part of the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Actuate software helps businesses and OEMs worldwide serve their customers within the finance, government, manufacturing, telecommunications, and healthcare industries, among others.

Actuate's primary commercial offerings includes:

• the BIRT Designers
• BIRT iHub development, deployment platform for developers
• BIRT Analytics for business analysts' own predictive analytics exercises
• Actuate Customer Communications Suite

History[]

Actuate Corporation was founded in 1993.

The company is known for its creation of the open source Eclipse BIRT business data reporting project launched by the Eclipse Foundation in 2004.

BIRT iHub F-Type is a freemium software product released by Actuate on July 10, 2014.

In 2015, Actuate Corporation was acquired by OpenText for approximately $163 million.^[3][4][5]

Locations

Products and Services[]

BIRT[]

Open source BIRT consists of a designer and a runtime engine for generating report content that can be embedded into an application.

BIRT iHub[]

Actuate's commercial offerings include BIRT iHub, containing various viewing capabilities, and BIRT Designer Pro. Developers use BIRT Designer Pro to build data visualizations, such as reports, dashboards and analytic content. This content can then be deployed and distributed to end users using BIRT iHub, the deployment server. BIRT iHub supports easy integration and access to multiple data sources. Server offerings are based on BIRT iServer, a report server with scheduling, distribution, security and alerts capabilities.

BIRT iHub F-Type[]

The product provides access to the features and functionality offered in Actuate's BIRT iHub enterprise-grade deployment platform, with metered output capacity. As a free server, BIRT iHub F-Type is designed to manage and distribute content created by developers who use the open source BIRT Designer, a top level Eclipse Foundation project, or Actuate's commercial BIRT Designer Pro.

BIRT iHub F-Type is created for developers who want to try out the features of Actuate's commercial BIRT iHub deployment platform. Users can run the software to deploy up to 50MB of data output each day in the form of reports and other visualizations for free and can buy additional 50MB increments on a subscription basis.

BIRT Analytics[]

BIRT Analytics is self-service software for business analysts who want to perform their own predictive analytics on customer behavior and purchasing patterns, using any source of small or Big Data including social media activity, to enhance customer engagement.

Actuate Customer Communications Suite[]

The Actuate Customer Communications Suite offers full spectrum functionality and includes modules for transforming, processing, personalizing, archiving and delivering high-volume content, correspondence and communications to an organization's customers. Examples of such communication include bank statements, insurance policies, explanation of benefits documents and utility bills.

Actuate's Document Accessibility Appliance, part of the above-mentioned suite, was introduced in April 2014 and is based on patented technology. The Appliance is a software tool that automatically converts high volumes of electronically delivered documents into accessible PDF files (PDF/UA format) to make them “readable” by digital readers designed for visually impaired individuals. An organization's deployment of the Document Accessibility Appliance helps to ensure compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Conformance Level AA.

Locations[]

Actuate Corporation had offices across the U.S. and in Toronto, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Fribourg, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney.

References[]

Further reading[]

• Actuate acquires legodo ag https://www.constellationr.com/content/actuate-acquires-legodo-ag
• Actuate acquires Quiterian http://www.mrweb.com/drno/news16288.htm
• Actuate acquires Xenos http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/CRM-News/Daily-News/Actuate-Releases-Enhanced-Reporting-Acquires-Xenos-Group-60285.aspx
• The story of Actuate's initial public offering: Bronson, Po (1999). "Chapter 2: The IPO". The Nudist on the Late Shift. New York: Random House. pp. 40–77. ISBN 0-375-50277-7.