Saba Software Recognized for Excellence in Business Intelligence
SINGAPORE, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: BIRT), The people behind BIRT® and the leading open source Business Intelligence (BI) vendor, today recognized Saba Software with a BIRT Excellence Award for achieving outstanding business performance from their BIRT-based business intelligence application.
Saba Software, a leading provider of learning, people management and collaboration technologies, is an award recipient in the BIRT implementation category for their Saba People Cloud Adoption Metrics portal. The company was in need of a BI solution that could quickly and effectively provide their cloud customers with data visualizations that incorporated the extensive array of metrics to measure and analyze the actual usage of Saba's core business objects. To meet this challenge, Saba Software implemented BIRT iServer to distribute a number of business-intrinsic data visualizations while at the same time reducing response times significantly.
"We are very excited about this recognition of our use of BIRT. We chose Actuate's technology for its ease of use, robust deployment, great support, extensive API integration capabilities and rapid implementation," said Gaurav Ruchandani, Technical Lead, Saba Software India Pvt. Ltd, "Actuate BIRT blew us away with its simple yet stylish BI solution -- exactly what we were looking for!"
"By deploying BIRT and Actuate for their metrics-related BI applications, Saba Software has empowered their cloud customer with greater visibility into their usage of Saba Software products," said Nobby Akiha, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Actuate. "Saba's customer relationships are stronger as a result of greater collaboration, more effective planning and further insight into Saba's products."
Winners of the Actuate Excellence were honored Dec 1st 2011 at ActuateOne Live! in Singapore at The Fullerton Hotel. Follow the conversation on Twitter by tracking #A1Live.
Actuate -- The people behind BIRT
Actuate founded and co-leads the Eclipse BIRT open source project. ActuateOne™ is a unified suite of products for rapidly developing and deploying BIRT-based custom Business Intelligence applications and information applications. Applications built with ActuateOne provide one user experience regardless of task or skill level; are supported by one server for any deployment including cloud and are built with one BIRT design that can access and integrate any data source - including high volume print streams. ActuateOne adds rich data visualizations, including interactivity, dashboards, analytics, and deployment options to web and mobile BIRT applications, helping organizations drive revenue through higher customer satisfaction and improved operational performance.
Actuate has over 4,800 customers globally in a diverse range of business areas including financial services and the public sector. Founded in 1993, Actuate is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol BIRT. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.actuate.com or visit the BIRT community at www.birt-exchange.com.
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Photo caption: Gaurav Ruchandani, receiving the award flanked by (L to R) Brian Mort,VP International Operations, Nobby Akiha, SVP Marketing, & James Conway, Regional Director, APAC from Actuate.
