Enterprise reporting software developer Actuate Software Corp has released integration software to allow its Reporting System suite to work with major OLAP tools and Excel 2000. Open Analysis, using ActuateÆs Transporter technology, should now allow users of Excel and Brio software to integrate Actuate for free. Cognos, Business Objects, and Corvu versions of the software will be released over the rest of 1999. This is part of ActuateÆs strategy to move users away from one size fits all business intelligence vendors. The company argues that integrated BI products suites are inflexible and that open systems are the way forward.
