These days, efficient reporting is a fundament for many companies. Once the data flow is crucial, Business Intelligence solutions have grown their meaning significantly. It's not enough to ensure all the information are spread among all interested users but it is also important to deliver the information as soon as possible. The information that is similar for every business user. And - finally - the information that is easy to understand. Actuate e.Report is one of those solutions that ensures the widest reporting capabilities, but simultaneously mean something more to the company: become the base of its success.

Actuate e.Report solution helps delivering the most timely reports to all users with specified level of access. Created reports, then, are based on the newest data possible, easily consumable, clear, and ready to present.

Actuate e.Reports seems simpler than any other reporting solution could ever be. It's just a matter of while to implement the tool and, right after that, begin preparing the report. Once it's also truly easy to maintain, no special knowledge nor skills are required. Also the fact that the reports are Web based isn't meaningless. It - at first - shortens the time needed for preparation, and - at second - simplifies its reading and modifying.
Moreover, there's no need for external users to download any applications nor plug-ins, once the reports they receive they can open immediately within any Web browser they use. Today's business doesn't leave even a while for hesitating and Actuate e.Report seems to realize it best.

However, current business users are more and more demanding. Thereupon, their requirements about the reports they're provided with are higher than earlier. Fortunately, Actuate e.Report - with its wide set of personalizing and customizing capabilities - meets all the requirements. It allows users to turn numbers into illustrations, trends into graphs, so on and so forth. Wide choice of output formats - DHTML, "standard" HTML, PDF file, and XML - helps with better suiting the report. Additionally, Picture Perfect, Dynamic Text Control, and Dynamic Page Sizing capabilities increase the already high number of options to choose from.

The reports prepared within Actuate e.Report solution - in most cases - are purpose built, therefore users often want much more than just to see the findings.
The key feature of the tool is to allow report consumers to dive into chosen areas of data, change them, visualize them, change the point of view, analyze trends, highlight numbers, modify graphs, drill, hyperlink, so on and so forth.
In a very few words, do everything that is needed to use the report to the maximum. And it always means much more than just reading the presented numbers.

Actuate e.Report features

The most meaningful features of Actuate e.Report:

• Almost imperceptible work - report receivers don't even need to open the e.Report tool once the reports are easily readable within any Web browser. Moreover, they're also easily navigable, therefore - in point of fact - opening the tool is necessary solely for report preparing. And the last, every (modern) Web browser is enough without a need for implementing any additional extensions nor plug-ins
• No training needed - Actuate e.Report solution helps saving a lot of time due to its no end user training requirements. Web based interface is so intuitive that even the total technological "zeroes" couldn't have any difficulties with it
• Demand Paging - the system that ensures only the ordered page of the report is being forwarded through the Internet
• Differentiated security systems
• Support for many output formats (Dynamic HTML, HTML, PDF file, and XML)
• Customization capabilities - reports not only need to be full of information, but also pleasant to read. Actuate e.Report solution ensures all useful capabilities that help turning usual grayscale reports into colorful sources of information.
• Easy report consumption. Actuate e.Report is supplied with numerous navigation bars, drilling capabilities, functional hyperlinking, single click action performing, and many others that simplify the work.

Actuate e.Report resources

• Ereport option datasheet - five pages of more or less usable information from the vendor's website. The official data sheet by Actuate provides only the fundamental information about the e.Report solution, therefore can be considered for the very beginning only. There are a few words about the solution as a whole and quite a lot of paragraphs about its chosen features, however that's all so general that only few could benefit from it. Just the outline, however the data sheet can be enough for the ones who want only to know that such a tool exists and what it's being used for.

• http://www.actuate.com/products/e-report/summary/ - the official website of Actuate company provides quite a lot of information about the e.Report solution, however it still seems to be solely the very beginning. Even though there is an interesting overview and a few words about each of e.Report features and benefits, it strictly lacks for information. Nevertheless, that's all what Actuate want to inform their potential customers before they finally decide to purchase the solution, then why not read it? Additionally, there is a section of resources included, and what one can find there is a link to data sheets.

• http://www.learnquest.com/course-detail.aspx?cnum=acer-100 - here is an example course devoted to Actuate e.Report solution. What's included are the objectives of the course, a few information about the audience, the presumptions, and the - what's most important - topics that are to be mentioned during the course. Even if one's not willing to take part in such a course, he could consider useful to realize what are the questions connected with the e.Report tool and what he already knows about them.

• http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E05553_01/books/Reports/ReportsCreateRpt6.html - here's the instruction about preparing a report design within Actuate e.Report Designer Professional tool on Oracle pages. All the needed information is included in easy to understand, specific points that no one should have problems with following. Step by step instruction, then, is the thing e.Report users might consider useful especially because Actuate itself isn't rather willing to offer too much resources. Moreover - if one decided to look deeper - he would find many other instructions, too.