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Eclipse Foundation and Actuate Announce Approval of <br> | |
Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project </b></span></b></h1> | |
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<li>Industry Analysts Applaud Actuate's Bold Move in Open Source</li> | |
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<P>South San Francisco, Calif. - October 6, 2004 - Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: | |
ACTU), the world leader in Enterprise Reporting Applications, and the | |
Eclipse Foundation, a community committed to the implementation of a universal | |
platform for tools integration, today announced that the Eclipse Foundation | |
has officially approved the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools | |
(BIRT) Project. Thirty days after posting the BIRT proposal on the Eclipse | |
website, there has been a positive response from Open Source developers | |
who have given feedback to the first Eclipse-backed BI project.</p> | |
<P> "The Eclipse community and our board members are pleased to accept | |
BIRT as a top level project," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director | |
of the Eclipse Foundation, Inc. "The volume of positive feedback | |
received in response to the BIRT proposal clearly demonstrates the need | |
for a Business Intelligence and reporting tool as part of the Eclipse | |
technology portfolio."</p> | |
<P>Now that the BIRT project has been officially approved by Eclipse, Actuate | |
will begin the task of stewarding development of BIRT, which is expected | |
to culminate in the industry's first open Business Intelligence and Reporting | |
platform by early 2005. Industry analysts agree that BIRT will benefit | |
developers and Actuate by expanding the visibility of business intelligence | |
and reporting to a wide audience of developers. These developers require | |
easy to use tools, such as BIRT, to decrease development costs associated | |
with the core application functions of reporting and analysis. <br> | |
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<P><b>Industry Analysts Embrace Actuate's Decision to Support BI Open Source | |
Development</b></p> | |
<P><b>Forrester Research</b><br> | |
"Actuate is being aggressive in an area where most of its competitors | |
choose not to be: open-source," noted Keith Gile, senior analyst, | |
Forrester Research. In his September 2004 report, Actuate Pioneers Open | |
Source Business Intelligence And Reporting, he adds that "BI vendors | |
that have avoided participation in an open-source initiative need to rethink | |
this approach, and ideally get involved, as open-source will be an issue | |
that must be addressed sooner than later."</p> | |
<P><b>Gartner</b><br> | |
On 26 August 2004 Bill Hostmann, research director, Gartner Research and | |
Mark Driver, vice president and research director, Gartner Research co-authored | |
an article entitled "Actuate Brings BI Technology to Open Source | |
Group." The full text of their analysis is available at: http://www.actuate.com/download/actuate_brings_.pdf<br> | |
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<P><b>IDC</b><br> | |
"Actuate could realize strong pull-through revenue from its involvement | |
in the Eclipse community," said Dan Vesset, research director, IDC. | |
"Should demand for an open source reporting standard exist, Actuate's | |
active participation in Eclipse is a positive strategic move that could | |
give it first-mover advantage in this open source community."</p> | |
<P><b>META Group</b><br> | |
"Actuate will be building BIRT from the ground up (i.e. no Actuate | |
iServer code will be used). However, application developers without a | |
core BI and reporting standard will be able to use a free open source | |
tool to embed with the applications they develop," said Kurt Schlegel, | |
senior program director, META Group.</p> | |
<P><b>Ventana Research</b><br> | |
"The Eclipse Foundation's Java IDE technology reaches thousands if | |
not millions of Java developers. Adding BIRT to the Eclipse project portfolio | |
means these developers now gain similar access to business intelligence | |
technology," said Eric Rogge, vice president and research director, | |
Ventana Research. "BIRT will benefit from Actuate's experience and | |
competence in enterprise reporting. Actuate will benefit by expanding | |
their visibility in a community where the need for reporting technology | |
is growing."</p> | |
<P><b>Actuate to Steward BIRT Development Roadmap</b> <br> | |
"Actuate is honored to have the opportunity to collaborate with the | |
Eclipse community to build a strong Open Source foundation for Business | |
Intelligence and reporting," said Mark Coggins, senior vice president | |
of engineering at Actuate Corporation. "Our goal is to provide cooperative | |
leadership in the quest to bring developers an easy-to-use tool that will | |
help decrease Business Intelligence and reporting development costs and | |
increase innovation in this area. Now that BIRT is approved, the next | |
order of business is to post a set of project milestones for the technology." | |
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<P>The BIRT Project will leverage the Eclipse platform to provide infrastructure | |
and tools for designing, deploying, generating and viewing reports. BIRT | |
will be an easy-to-use platform to quickly and effectively create and | |
deploy reports without the high development cost associated with having | |
the developer hand-code the reports components. </p> | |
<P><b>To Find Out More</b><br> | |
To become involved in the development of BIRT please visit <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-birt/index.html" target="_top">www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-birt/index.html</a>. | |
More information is available at: <a href="http://www.actuate.com/corporate/corporateresources.asp?ArticleId=7256" target="_blank">www.actuate.com/corporate/corporateresources.asp?ArticleId=7256</a>. | |
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<P> The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member-supported corporation | |
that hosts community based open-source projects. Eclipse creates | |
royalty-free technology and a universal platform for development | |
tools integration, modeling, testing and functionally-rich application | |
construction. Eclipse based offerings give developers freedom of | |
choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported | |
environment. Eclipse delivers a dynamic plug-in based framework | |
that makes it easier to create and integrate technology, saving | |
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<P> Actuate Corporation is the world leader in Enterprise Reporting | |
Applications that ensure 100% adoption by users. Actuate's Enterprise | |
Reporting Application Platform is the foundation on which Global | |
9000 organizations (companies with annual revenues greater than | |
$1 billion) and packaged application software vendors develop intuitive, | |
Web portal-like reporting and analytic applications that empower | |
100% of users with decision-making information. These applications | |
are deployed inside and outside the firewall to improve corporate | |
performance across a range of business functions including financial | |
management, sales, human resource management, and customer self-service. | |
When tested against other business intelligence products, Actuate's | |
Enterprise Reporting Application Platform has been proven to offer | |
industry-leading scalability and the lowest Total Cost of Ownership. | |
Actuate has 2,900 customers globally in a range of industries including | |
financial services, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and distribution | |
services, as well as the government sector. <br> | |
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Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco, | |
Calif., and has offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on the NASDAQ | |
exchange under the symbol ACTU. For more information on Actuate, | |
visit the company's web site at <a href="http://www.actuate.com" target="_blank">www.actuate.com</a>.<br> | |
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<div align="center">Madge Miller <br> | |
Reichert Communications for Actuate Corporation <br> | |
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<div align="center">Barbara Stewart <br> | |
Patterson & Associates for Eclipse Foundation <br> | |
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