OpenText Acquires Actuate
OpenText, a provider of enterprise information management solutions and the Experience Suite for Omnichannel Messaging, has acquired Actuate, a provider of personalized analytics and insights. Actuate brings powerful analytics to the OpenText portfolio of products that enable customers to analyze and visualize a broad range of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
OpenText customers will now benefit from added analytic capabilities to their existing deployments and a new breed of analytics that provide insight across entire business flows.
"OpenText is committed to leading the EIM market place, and analytics is an imperative to enabling a digital-first world," said Mark Barrenechea, president and CEO of OpenText, in a statement. "Actuate is a market-leading provider of analytics, visualization and big-data insights, with 20 years of experience enabling large enterprises, the embedded markets, and the developer. It is an honor to welcome Actuate customers, employees, and partners to OpenText."
Actuate will continue to serve the embedded analytics market and will be deeply integrated into OpenText Products and OpenText, enabling OpenText to deliver analytics for the entire EIM suite based on a common platform. Designed to be embeddable, developers can use the platform to enrich nearly any application, whether it is deployed on premises or in the cloud.
The founder of the popular integrated development environment (IDE), BIRT, Actuate developed BIRT iHub, a deployment platform for customer-facing applications. Currently, more than 3.5 million BIRT developers and OEMs use Actuate to build scalable, secure solutions that deliver personalized analytics and insights to more than 200 million customers, partners and employees.