Yahoo! has become the 1 000th direct customer of information delivery company Actuate. Yahoo! is deploying Actuate in a number of custom e-business application; initially, Actuate will be used to streamline the delivery of business information to management, leveraging data from multiple back-end systems and increasing operational efficiency. By pointing Actuate at these systems, Yahoo! management will more quickly receive sales data and company financial information, secure and personalised, from their offices around the world.
Actuate has reached the milestone seven years after founding, with its growth accelerating in the last two years as its technology is rapidly adopted by e-businesses seeking competitive advantage. It recently reported record 2000 revenues of $107,3 million, up 129% against the previous year`s $46,8 million.
Actuate`s South African distributor, PQ Africa`s PQ Business Intelligence (PQBI) division, says local demand for information delivery solutions is also on the up, with growth projections of more than 100% expected for 2001.
PQBI divisional manager Gavin Lipshitz notes: "Actuate customers include the world`s most aggressive adopters of e-business. These companies are moving quickly to deploy `must-have` technology solutions that form their e-business platform. Among the top e-business necessities is information delivery, given the importance of delivering the right information to the right people at the right time."
Organisations today are shifting an increasing number of business processes to the Web. To build e-business applications that meet the needs of customers, partners and employees, companies are relying on an emerging set of interconnected components and services that constitute the e-business platform. Today`s e-business platform includes a content management system (for publishing documents and images such as online brochures and one-to-one marketing), an application server (for processing transactions), and an information delivery solution (for delivering interactive and actionable operational data).
"Actuate delivers complex reports from any enterprise source to any user over the Web at a price that makes it practical for large-scale corporate deployment for thousands of users," Lipshitz says. "It can be used to deliver almost any interactive content, including service level information, transaction histories, performance metrics, manufacturing and distribution status, and customer account information, to users, clients, partners and suppliers anywhere in the world."
For more information on Actuate, or to find out about PQBI`s free Actuate business seminars, contact Mandy dos Santos on (021) 550-3000 or e-mail mandyds@pqafrica.co.za
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