Actuate up for Adoption
Posted On: 1/11/2007
Who?
Nobby Akiha
VP, Marketing
Actuate
www.actuate.com
Tell us about iServer, the flagship piece of your reporting platform for PeopleSoft.
Actuate provides a completely integrated platform; this enables all types of end-user functionality to be processed, managed and administered by Actuate iServer. Having a single, unified platform is relatively rare within the BI industry these days, since most vendors are integrating acquired technologies and trying to upgrade legacy systems. This architectural advantage allows us to pass scalability benefits onto our customers and minimizes their application management burden.
PeopleSoft delivers a suite of reporting tools including Query, SQR, nVision, etc. What are the major gaps in the delivered platform that Actuate fills?
PeopleSoft focuses on transactional applications, so reporting is a secondary or tertiary thought with them, while it is Actuate's primary focus. As you know each member of the PeopleSoft suite is an independent tool that operates in it's own specific and separate way. Actuate operates on a unified, platform, and all of our products are designed for maximum performance and scale and to interoperate. Scalability is a shortcoming of nVision. Plus, SQR is based on dated technology and provides text-terminal based reports. Today reports need to be ‘pixel perfect', ready to present to any information consumer from a board member to a customer, our report designers, such as e.Report Designer are built specifically for this. Lastly, since PeopleSoft's reporting tools are proprietary, you can't consolidate or combine their data with data from other sources, as people try to maximize their investments in ERP systems, this can be a real problem. This is a problem that Actuate solves really, really well.
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