Actuate Corp. - Enterprise Reporting Solutions

701 Gateway Boulevard
South San Francisco, California 94080
(650) 837-2000
www.actuate.com

Sales

$104 million

Business Description
Actuate Corporation (“Actuate” or the “Company”) provides an Enterprise Reporting Application Platform, a unified software platform that enables large organizations and packaged application software vendors to develop and deploy self-service, customer and employee-facing Enterprise Reporting Applications. Enterprise Reporting Applications are intuitive, Web portal-like reporting applications that empower 100% of users with decision-making information. The application experience is designed to fit seamlessly into the way in which individuals work, providing a readily accessible way for users to receive highly relevant information that is usable, dependable, and timely. Our goal is to ensure that 100% of users adopt decision-making information into their day-to-day activities, opening up completely new avenues for improving corporate performance. With 100% user adoption of information, organizations can more easily grow revenues, improve service quality, control expenses, meet regulatory requirements, and increase efficiency.

Our Actuate 7 product line provides a platform upon which Global 9000 organizations (companies with annual revenues greater than $1 billion) and packaged application software vendors develop and deploy mission-critical Enterprise Reporting Applications. Such Applications retrieve business information from corporate databases and deliver it as interactive Web pages, Excel spreadsheets, and analytic cubes to customers, partners and employees around the globe. Our products and services are used by our customers to develop and deploy Enterprise Reporting Applications across a range of business functions including financial management, sales management, account management, and customer self-service. Actuate 7 is a comprehensive platform that can be seamlessly integrated into any enterprise IT infrastructure and consists of a highly scalable and reliable Enterprise Reporting server and a robust development environment for building Enterprise Reporting Applications of any scale. Actuate 7’s powerful development architecture allows developers to create content from virtually any data source and present it in virtually any format required by users.

The Actuate Solution

Actuate 7 is a unified software platform for developing and deploying Enterprise Reporting Applications. The platform features a development architecture that is flexible enough to meet every user requirement for intuitively accessible and personalized information. Actuate 7 also features a deployment architecture that is scalable enough to serve 100% of the user population. Actuate’s Enterprise Reporting Application Platform consists of:

A set of products that employ familiar Web pages and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to provide users with an intuitive, Web-portal like experience for accessing and interacting with decision-making information.

A comprehensive development environment to build, integrate and maintain the core data access and reporting infrastructure of Enterprise Reporting Applications.

A scalable server to manage the secure deployment of reporting and analytic content to large numbers of users.

Actuate 7’s key benefits include:

• Increased user satisfaction and reduced support and training costs due to a zero-training analysis and reporting experience for users that leverages their existing expertise and skill sets;

• Reduced hardware and maintenance costs for serving the information needs of large numbers of users due to a highly scalable information server;

• Flexibility to meet all user requirements through powerful, programmatically extensible tools for developers;

• Reduced development and maintenance costs due to a true, object-oriented development framework; and

• Flexibility to integrate with any software infrastructure through a complete Web Services API.

Products and Technology

Actuate 7 is a unified software platform for developing and deploying Enterprise Reporting Applications. Enterprise Reporting Applications provide decision-making information with the simplicity, consistency and relevance necessary for adoption by 100% of users, both inside and outside the firewall. In the case of direct sales to end user customers, our server products have been typically priced on a per CPU basis and our development products are typically priced on a per user basis. Indirect sales are usually either fixed price, unlimited usage arrangements, or arrangements where royalties are paid to us based on sell through to end-users.