Actuate provides information delivery and business intelligence solutions through packaged offerings and services. It has adopted a service-oriented architecture with over 60 web services APIs that allow reporting and dashboard capabilities to be integrated and consumed by various applications. Actuate services can integrate with enterprise systems and messaging buses to enable real-time access to critical business data and indicators across different platforms.

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Information-Delivery Transformation
through Solutions

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Topics
• Who we are and what we do
• Actuate and SOA
• How have we helped our customers be
successful

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Services Oriented Solutions
Packaged Offerings
Deployment Strategy
Session
Technology/Projectsolutions
Industrysolutions
Tech. Audit Fast Start RTTV
Enterprise Systems Integration Solutions
Frameworks
Flexible Framework
Pre-built
libraries
Enterprise
Dashboards
Content Presentation
Framework
Business Solutions
Financial Performance
Management
Customer Self Service
Applications
Sales Management
Collaborative Program & Project Execution
Onsite Offsite/Offshore Fixed bid Turnkey
Consultants
More than 40% of Consultants
with over +7 years of Actuate
experience
Good mix of business/industry
knowledge and consulting skills
Methodology
Disciplined, structured and
templates enabled project
execution
Knowledge Base
Extensive repository of reusable
code/components including
access to technical experts

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Information Application Platform
CRM SCM OtherHRMSERP
IT
Management
Actuate Server Centric Architecture
Portal Process Integration Web Apps Content
Enterprise Reporting Services
Management
Console
Employee
Business
Partner Customer

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Actuate has been SOA Ready for a long time
• Industry leading set of reporting services
• Introduced in Actuate 6
• Fully standards compliant (SOAP, XML, HTTP)
• Web Service Description Files (WSDL) for leading tools
• .NET and JSP Portal Integration
• Open Data Access
• Full support for Automation
Actuate Web Services (60+ APIs)
• Report Generation and Printing
• Viewing Services
• Report Encyclopedia Management
• Server Administration Services
• Security and Authentication Services

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SOA vs. Enterprise Reporting: Different Focus
Enterprise Reporting
DataInformation
Post transaction processing
SOA
Transaction processing
Business Process
Management
Similar Objectives
Reusability
Platform Transparency
ER SOA
Process, Transactions
& Data
Process Metrics,
Performance & History

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Enterprise Services Consumption
Centralized Report
Encyclopedia
Usage Monitoring &
Logging
Cluster and System
Administration
Data Access Services
Workflow and
Application
Integration Services
Security Management
Data
Sources
Relational Flat Files ERPLegacy XML
<XML>
Databases Warehouses/Marts Operational Data Stores Legacy Systems
Message Bus
Actuate Services

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Integration with ESB (MQ Series)

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New Web Services Connector

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Integration with Oracle Apps and ESB
Portals, JSF pages, Microsoft Office
• Actuate consumes
Web services exposed
by the Oracle ESB
Integration Interfaces
• Faster Design to
Deploy
• Time
• Real Time Access to
Critical Business
Indicators
• Integrated Reporting
and Analytics

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UDDI
Registry
Points to service description
Points to service
SOAP
Communicates XML Messages
Actuate
Information
Services
ServiceConsumer
Find service, its
description and its
capabilities and
constraints
Applications
.NET, Java, ISV
Runtime Binding
Business Analysts
Visibility of Business
Service Portfolio
Developers
Reuse services Administrators
Manage Business
Services
Publish Service and Service
definitions
WSDLWSDLWSDL
Publish service
metadata
Think Services not Objects

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IT application scenarios with Actuate’s SOA
User Productivity
Enablement
Integrate Actuate with
Existing Portals
Enabling User
Collaboration
Business Task
Management
Integrating Business
Processes
Enterprise Informaton
sharing
Business Information
Management
Enterprise Reporting, Query, and
Analysis
Business Planning and Analytical
Services
Enterprise Data Access
Workflow enablement
Enabling Application-to-
Application Processes
Enabling Business-to-
Business Processes
Business Process
Management
Enabling Platform
Interoperability
Business Task
Management
Custom Development
Developing, Configuring, and Adapting Actuate
Applications
Enabling Platform Interoperability
Reporting application
Life-Cycle Management
Implementation/Design methodologies Server Operations
Application
Authorization &
Security
Authentication and Single Sign-On External and Internal User/Authorization Management
Consolidation via COEs
Enabling Cross Platform
deployments
Enterprise Reporting
Operations
Applications Consolidation
Enterprise Knowledge
Management
Service Oriented
Architecture
Web Services via Information Delivery APIs
IT Services Implementation Scenarios