Actuate Extends BIRT-Based Offerings, Offers Improved SOA Governance
Actuate, a vendor for Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Reporting Applications and an IBM Business Partner, has announced that its commercial BIRT-based offerings can now extend IBM Rational Portfolio Manager to improve SOA governance.
Large corporations have increased demands to gain visibility across their IT assets throughout the application lifecycle and therefore experience misalignment of software and systems development with business objectives. Without effective tracking of system integration efforts and application deployment, organisations fail to manage skills inventory, resource supply and project demand. The BIRT-based reports within IBM Rational Portfolio Manager will enable businesses to initiate real-time governance processes throughout the application development lifecycle that supports strategic, financial, functional and technical requirements, claims Accentuate. On an operational level, managers will be able to generate reports to uncover development bottlenecks, determine trends for specific projects and identify code hotspots to improve development and planning.
“The combination of Actuate’s Business Intelligence solutions with IBM Rational Portfolio Manager allows companies to exploit open source collaboration and extend SOA governance capabilities,” said Scott Hebner, vice president, marketing and strategy for IBM Rational Software. “This integration gives companies greater visibility for business decisions about the related IT portfolio.”
“Actuate continues to add value to open source Business Intelligence by providing extended functionality to enable companies to confidently deploy BIRT to deliver reporting within mission-critical applications,” said Pete Cittadini, CEO and president at Actuate Corporation. In conjunction with this announcement, Actuate is providing special pricing for BIRT-based packages for IBM Rational Portfolio Manager customers