Enhanced features to Actuate’s Embedded Analytics solution

Enhanced features to Actuate’s Embedded Analytics solution : New features are announced for the Actuate’s Embedded Analytics solution which delivers ease of use, scalability and productivity for global enterprises that need to tap the variety, velocity and volume of big data and deliver real-time actionable information to their customers on any device. Actuate provides software to more than 3.5 million BIRT developers and OEMs who build scalable, secure solutions that save time and improve brand experience by delivering personalized analytics and insights to over 200 million of their customers, partners and employees. Actuate founded and supports BIRT – the open source IDE – and develops BIRT iHub – the world-class deployment platform – to significantly improve productivity of developers working on customer facing applications.

Enhanced features to Actuate’s Embedded Analytics solution include, BIRT iHub 3.1, with advanced visualization to any mobile device, enabling customers to have instant access to their information when and where they need it.
BIRT Analytics 5.0 provides an advanced analytics engine, allowing business analysts to explore and blend their data to find hidden relationships without the need for IT.

Today, enterprises are tasked to create smarter applications to deliver business results. With traditional business intelligence tools, it can take weeks or months to create an analytic application. The new features in BIRT iHub 3.1 allows development teams to simplify the process of creating and deploying data driven apps with a REST API by easily embedding BIRT content in mobile and Web applications – enabling businesses to deliver rich charts, dashboards and infographics to their mobile and desktop users. Also to incorporate data visualization from third-party libraries of charts and graphs with BIRT outputs, boosting productivity by reducing manual coding from days to hours.

In a highly competitive market, organizations are required to make fast decisions impacting their business such as avoiding customer churn and anticipating risk. The new capabilities in BIRT Analytics 5.0 allows business analysts to access enriched data or intelligence from BIRT Analytics to embed into existing applications with a public API - helping organizations discover hidden insights for forecasts, predictions or patterns for future success, while keeping abreast of the competition. Analyze billions of rows of data in seconds, and generate actionable and real-time results running as a server on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Embed intelligence from the BIRT Analytics columnar database into end-user dashboards with BIRT iHub 3.1 through an open data access (ODA) connector, simplifying the process of accessing real-time analysis.

Actuate is the No. 1 ranked vendor in the “Dresner Advisory Services 2014 Embedded Business Intelligence Market Study.” The report examines user perceptions and intentions surrounding Embedded Business Intelligence (BI), the technological capability to make BI capabilities pervasive by including them as an inherent part of other applications. Of the 24 vendors surveyed in the report, Actuate claimed the “Top Spot” for meeting 100 percent of the Embedded BI architecture requirements, including desktop widgets, Google Gadgets and Python API. Actuate was also ranked as providing superior custom, white-label branding for companies such as banks and telecoms who provide their customers with data driven analytics apps.