ISV Applications

Actuate

Application Description
Actuate 7 provides a flexible platform for building a broad variety of information applications including information portals, dashboards, business analytic applications, and reporting applications.

Actuate 7 consists of:

  • A comprehensive environment to develop the core data access and reporting infrastructure for information applications, and to integrate information applications with the rest of the enterprise IT infrastructure. (e.Report Designer Professional and Information Object Designer)
  • A server to manage the generation and secure distribution of reporting and analytic content to large numbers of users (Actuate iServer)
  • A set of products that extend Web pages and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to formats of their choice. (e.Report Option, e.Report Designer, e.Spreadsheet Option, e.Spreadsheet Designer, e.Analysis Option, Actuate Query)

Integration with Java System Application Server (formerly Sun ONE Application Server)
Actuate is the only Information Application platform that brings a unified reporting environment to Sun Java System (formerly Sun ONE) application implementations. Actuate handles all reporting needs, from interactive web reports, server-based Excel spreadsheets, business analytics and end-user query and analysis. With this set of tools, Actuate empowers 100% of users within the enterprise.

Actuate and Java System Application Server create a scalable Information Application Platform for generating, managing and distributing interactive business information to 100% of the users in an organization.

Highlights include:

  • Industry-leading scalability to serve the information needs of millions of users
  • High-availability to ensure that information needs are met reliably on a round-the-clock basis
  • Granular control of security on key enterprise information
  • Simple manageability of large volumes of content through scheduling, versioning, archiving
  • A complete Web services API to integrate security, management and delivery functionality with J2EE, .NET and other types of enterprise infrastructure

Benefit to customers
Actuate is on its 7th major version of its Sun Solution. Actuate has a 100% pure Java Solution that is embeddable in the Java System Application Server. Actuate has an established track record with Sun on the Solaris Platform since 1996.

Demo
Available online.

Contact
If you have any questions or need more details, please contact AS-Partners@sun.com.