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Information-Delivery Transformation through Solutions

© Actuate Corporation 2004

Topics

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

successful


Services Oriented Solutions

Packaged Offerings

Deployment StrategySession

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Industry solutions

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Enterprise Systems Integration Solutions

Frameworks

Flexible Framework Pre-built libraries

Enterprise Dashboards

Content PresentationFramework

Business Solutions

Financial PerformanceManagement

Customer Self Service Applications Sales Management

Collaborative Program & Project Execution

Onsite Offsite/Offshore Fixed bid Turnkey

ConsultantsMore than 40% of Consultants with over +7 years of Actuate experienceGood mix of business/industry knowledge and consulting skills

MethodologyDisciplined, structured and templates enabled project execution

Knowledge BaseExtensive 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 ServicesManagement

Console

EmployeeBusinessPartner Customer


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


SOA vs. Enterprise Reporting: Different Focus

Enterprise ReportingDataInformationPost transaction processing

SOATransaction processingBusiness Process

ManagementSimilar Objectives

ReusabilityPlatform Transparency

ER SOA

Process, Transactions& Data

Process Metrics, Performance & History


Enterprise Services Consumption

Centralized Report Encyclopedia

Usage Monitoring & Logging

Cluster and System Administration

Data Access Services

Workflow and Application

Integration Services

Security Management

DataSources

Relational Flat Files ERPLegacy XML

<XML>

Databases Warehouses/Marts Operational Data Stores Legacy Systems

Message Bus

Actuate Services


Integration with ESB (MQ Series)


New Web Services Connector


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


UDDIRegistry Points to service description

Points to service

SOAP

Communicates XML Messages

Actuate Informatio

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Service Consumer

Find service, its description and its capabilities and constraints

Applications.NET, Java, ISVRuntime Binding

Business AnalystsVisibility of Business Service Portfolio

DevelopersReuse services Administrators

Manage Business Services

Publish Service and Service definitions

WSDLWSDLWSDL

Publish service metadata

Think Services not Objects


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 ActuateApplications 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

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