I met with Actuate's Nobby Akiha here at the Gartner BI Summit, and I was particularly impressed with how his company entered the BI space simply from the reporting side of the application development paradigm. He said that the goal was to bring information together to make it easily digestible to the end-user. "...to make the information easy to use, easy to grasp and easy to start working with," Nobby said.
Actuate acquired a company about a year ago called PeformanceSoft, and Nobby explained that the Actuate Performancesoft Suite helps high-performing organizations drive strategy at all levels, improve decision making, and ensure better operational performance and execution. Actuate has also been working with IBM's SOA group since late 2006 on its sets of BI initiatives, Nobby added.
Nobby also said that Actuate has been working on Eclipse-based Open Source Business Intelligence tool - "making significant contributions to the Eclipse Foundation's BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) project, integrating BIRT technology within its own product line to deliver added value to users of BIRT and bringing the innovations of Open Source to the BI industry."
As that tool reaches its 1 millionth download within the next couple of months, I asked Nobby if I could follow up with him on it and do another interview then, possibly with Dennis Byron, ebizQ's Open Source blogger and principle analyst at IT Investment Research.
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