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Actuate Corporation provides an enterprise reporting application platform worldwide. The companys Actuate 8 product line provides a platform for the development and deployment of enterprise reporting applications. These applications retrieve business information from corporate databases and deliver them as interactive Web pages, Excel spreadsheets, and analytic cubes to customers, partners, and employees around the globe. Its products and services are used to develop and deploy enterprise reporting applications for business functions, including financial management, sales management, account management, and customer self-service. The companys enterprise reporting application platform consists of a set of products that provide Web pages, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and analytic cubes to present users with a Web-portal like experience for accessing and interacting with decision-making information; a comprehensive development environment to build, integrate, and maintain the core data access and reporting infrastructure of enterprise reporting applications; and a unified metadata layer, which is accessible by all products within its platform. It sells its software and services through direct sales force to corporate and government customers and through indirect channel partners, such as original equipment manufacturers, systems integrators, and resellers. The company primarily serves customers in various industries, including financial services, government, health care, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, high technology, utilities, automotive, education, entertainment, travel, retail, and others. Actuate was co-founded in 1993 by Nicolas C. Nierenberg and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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