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Actuate Technical Experts to Present Four Technical Sessions on Big Data and BIRT at EclipseCon on M

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Actuate Technical Experts to Present Four Technical Sessions on Big Data and BIRT at EclipseCon on March 25-28 in Boston


Virgil Dodson, John Ward and Michael Williams to Present on BIRT Extension Points and How Big Data is Affecting Business Intelligence Software Development

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Actuate Corporation (NAS: BIRT) , The BIRT Company™ – delivering more insights to more people than all BI companies combined, today announced they will lead four technical presentations at EclipseCon 2013, held in Boston, Mass., March 25-28, 2013.EclipseConis the annual technical conference of the Eclipse Foundation. The Conference focuses on the latest innovations in both the Eclipse community and the software industry.

EclipseCon 2013 includes 140 technical sessions and 18 tutorials over four intense days. The conference features tracks on:

  • Eclipse 4: Sessions on migrating to Eclipse 4, and case studies of companies building applications based on Eclipse 4
  • Mobile and Device Development: Sessions on Android, 3D printing, machine-to-machine development, embedded C++, and more
  • Eclipse Modeling: Sessions on EMF, CDO, and domain specific languages
  • Web Development: Sessions on Orion (a new web-based IDE), JavaScript development, and much more
  • EclipseRT: Sessions on Eclipse Equinox, RAP, EclipseLink and more

Virgil Dodson, Director, BIRT Exchange Evangelists at Actuate, will conduct the technical session entitled, “Big Data and Business Intelligence.” This session will cover in detail how to retrieve and visualize data from Big Data sources using BIRT. The presentation will also focus on where and why Big Data is being mined, what applications are being created to manage it, and what benefits are being realized from Big Data insights by companies who have taken the leap.

“In this session, we’ll go hands-on with the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project, created and co-founded by Actuate,” said Dodson. “BIRT offers native support to Hadoop, and we’ll cover how BIRT can access Cassandra and MongoDB, among other Big Data tools. We’ll also demonstrate the extremely flexible BIRT Designer …read more
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Actuate Executives to Present "Turning Developer Passion into Advocacy" at Evans Developer Relations

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Actuate Executives to Present “Turning Developer Passion into Advocacy” at Evans Developer Relations Conference on March 18th

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Actuate Corporation (NAS: BIRT) , The BIRT Company™ – delivering more insights to more people than all BI companies combined – today announced their participation in the annual Evans Developer Relations Conference. Presenting for the third year in a row, Nobby Akiha, SVP of Marketing for Actuate, and Ray Gans, Community Manager for BIRT-Exchange.org, will demonstrate how Actuate is working with the most active developers in the BIRT community to reward their efforts and drive community advocacy.

“Whether they are using open source BIRT or ActuateOne® – the BIRT-based suite of commercial products for development and deployment of custom analytics applications – our developers have invaluable knowledge and influence that supports the community development efforts,” said Akiha. “By recognizing and rewarding our developers’ willingness to ‘spread the word’ in the physical and virtual spaces where they hang out, we gain influence and insights into conversations we otherwise never could achieve.”

The Developer Relations Conference features presentations from developer relations experts in leading software, telecom and web companies. The event showcases the latest survey data on developers’ technology adoption, views on program features and adoption, development preferences and “wish lists” on topics such as Cloud, mobile development and embedded systems.

During the past two years the audience for Actuate’s presentations at this conference has included community managers, developer relations managers, evangelism managers, developer event planners, and senior executives responsible for developer programs.

Conference Details



Actuate Presentation

 : “Turning Developer Passion into Advocacy,” March 18th, 9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.


General Conference Dates:
 March 18 – 19, 2013


Location:
 Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City, California

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Actuate Steering the Future of Spatial Technology as Eclipse LocationTech Industry Working Group Fou

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Actuate Steering the Future of Spatial Technology as Eclipse LocationTech Industry Working Group Founding Member


Actuate to Steward Community-curated, Location-aware Software with OpenGeo, Oracle, and IBM

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Actuate Corporation (NAS: BIRT) , The BIRT Company™ – delivering more insights to more people than all BI companies combined – today announced it has lent its considerable expertise in developing viable, highly adopted open source technology to the Eclipse LocationTech Industry Working Group.

Actuate, which founded the popular BIRT project within Eclipse in 2004, recognizes the intersection between the exponential growth in data volumes and the requirement to harness and distill that data for consumption via touch devices. The next step in the progression is certainly location-based technology. LocationTech will be the leading community for individuals and organizations to collaborate on commercially-friendly open source software that is location aware.

“Being part of LocationTech is a natural fit for Actuate and for BIRT,” said Jason Weathersby, Director of Evangelism and Community Development at Actuate. “We’ve seen the BIRT community grow to over 2 million developers globally and raised the standard of open source technology for data visualization. We believe that LocationTech will change the game for location aware software development in a similar way, by delivering value to developers and corporations who are increasingly turning to open source software as the indicator of future standards.”


About LocationTech

LocationTech is hosted by the Eclipse Foundation. Eclipse is a vendor neutral community for individuals and organizations who wish to collaborate on commercially-friendly open source software. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts technology projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services.

Eclipse hosts over 225 active open source projects and is supported by over 185 members. Eclipse employs 18 staff members to provide services to support the ecosystem. These include: information technology, intellectual property management, development process, ecosystem development, and event planning.

LocationTech is the Eclipse Foundation‘s industry working group focusing on location aware technologies. Members of LocationTech are also …read more
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Actuate to Present at the 25th Annual Roth Conference

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Actuate to Present at the 25 th Annual Roth Conference

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Actuate Corporation (NAS: BIRT) , The BIRT Company™ – delivering more insights to more people than all BI companies combined, today announced that the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Pete Cittadini and Chief Financial Officer, Dan Gaudreau will present at the 25th Annual Roth Conference at the Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Niguel.

The presentation will take place on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time. One-on-one meetings with management can be arranged through Roth. A live webcast of the presentation will be available at www.actuate.com/investor. A replay of the webcast will be available for a limited time thereafter.


Actuate – The BIRT Company™

Actuate founded and co-leads the BIRT open source project, which is used by over 1.5 million developers around the globe and serves as the foundation of the ActuateOne® platform. Applications built on ActuateOne deliver more business and consumer insights to more people than all BI companies combined – ensuring organizations are ready for the exponential growth of Big Data and the proliferation of touch devices.

The ActuateOne platform empowers developers to rapidly develop custom, BIRT-based business analytics and customer communications applications. ActuateOne applications built with one BIRT design, can access and integrate any data, including unstructured sources. They provide one user experience regardless of skill level and are supported by one platform for any cloud, hybrid, on-premise, web or touch device deployment.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Actuate has over 5,000 customers globally in a diverse range of business areas including financial services,technology and the public sector. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol BIRT. For more information, visit www.actuate.com or engage with the BIRT community at www.birt-exchange.com.

Copyright © 2013 Actuate Corporation. All rights reserved. Actuate, ActuateOne, BIRT Analytics and the Actuate logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Actuate Corporation and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and certain other countries. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between Actuate and any other company. All other brands, names or trademarks mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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