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News Release from: Actuate | Subject: BIRT-based products
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Team on 15 June 2007
Improved BIRT based SOA Governance
BIRT-based products support IBM Rational Portfolio Manager to improve SOA governance
Actuate, a leader in 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 Actuate applauds the new levels of flexibility and insight for project planners in IBM Rational Portfolio Manager V7.1, through the addition of standard open source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) -based reports and an open, extensible data warehouse for Actuate and IBM Rational customers
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 5 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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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.
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.
With Actuate's BIRT-based commercial products that extend the BIRT-based reports in IBM Rational Portfolio Manager, end users from senior executives to IT staff can benefit from enhanced flexible reporting and analysis.
The functionality will provide greater visibility into the performance of their IT portfolio to proactively manage their application lifecycle to ensure optimal performance.
"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".
"The combination of BIRT-based solutions with IBM Rational Portfolio Manager is a further demonstration of the close alignment between Actuate and IBM," said Pete Cittadini, CEO and president at Actuate Corporation.
"Both companies have a strong desire to see open standard Business Intelligence succeed and have contributed significantly to the BIRT project".
"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".
In conjunction with this announcement, Actuate is providing special pricing for BIRT-based packages for IBM Rational Portfolio Manager customers.
To Find Out More Actuate and IBM are hosting a web seminar titled "Business Intelligence SOA Solutions and IT Governance from IBM Rational and Actuate", to be held on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 to explore this topic in greater depth.
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