Business Intelligence - Always ahead to lead industries
By BI.Techieindex As one more spectacular year is passing, and a buoyant new year is coming BI companies are looking forward for new heights. It' s sure that BI technologies will go large distance in the upcoming years and advanced technologies will come on its way. Here is the snapshot of latest product releases in Business Intelligence for year 2006.

Support and Retain Insurance Agents
By Actuate Corporation This brief discusses the benefits of an agent portal in the insurance industry

Actuate’s Performancesoft Selected by Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust for Practice Based Commissioning and Annual Health Check
Performancesoft Inc., a division of Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), and the leading provider of Performance Management solutions, is pleased to announce that Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust (TPCT) has implemented pbviews, the world’s most widely deployed Performance Management software solution, to support its Practice Based Commissioning initiative and deliver management information for the Annual Health Check

The Open Source Business Intelligence Tools Are Coming!
More than two decades after the launch of the GNU’s Not Unix (GNU) software project—and almost a decade after the term “open source” was first used to describe GNU and other open software licenses—open-source software is an established model that’s every bit as legitimate as its closed-source counterparts.

Actuate Takes Enterprise Reporting to Next Level with Version 8
Actuate' s new version 8 moves enterprise reporting to a new level of maturity. This major release directly addresses the end user accessibility and information and integration requirements that organizations face in directly implementing and deploying reports across the enterprise.

US reporting company seeks deals with NZ developers
Enterprise reporting software company Actuate is discussing with New Zealand applications vendors the possibility of embedding the Actuate product into their software.

Wireless Reporting Speeds Access to Sales Data
Lincoln Financial gets its reps the information they need when they need it.

Actuate Delivers Enterprise Reporting Applications for York University
York University was using a custom-built solution developed on campus that provided financial reports generated from PeopleSoft data.

Actuate integrates Nimble
Previously, the fact that Actuate had acquired Nimble Technologies was interesting, and worthy of mention. But no more than that...

Actuate Taps into Chinese Software Talent
The South San Francisco-based business intelligence (BI) software maker is collaborating with the Tsinghua University to drive research into BI software.