The agreement allows the companies to leverage joint sales and marketing opportunities, and to offer customers greater functionality while reducing the time it takes to deliver a comprehensive analytics and Information Delivery solution.
WhiteLight has significant influence and reach among sophisticated users of advanced analytics, said Nobby Akiha, vice president of marketing at Actuate. Actuate will benefit from increased access to the analytics market and customers seeking to deploy e-Business solutions that feature Information Delivery. The greatest benefit will be a deepening of this strategically important relationship with WhiteLight.
Together, WhiteLight and Actuate address a full complement of business intelligence requirements. The combination of WhiteLight’s analytic platform and Actuate’s Information Delivery capabilities creates a powerful and well-integrated e-Business solution.
WhiteLight has an existing OEM agreement with Actuate that was signed last year. This agreement has allowed WhiteLight to integrate Actuate’s e.Reporting Server with the advanced analytic capabilities of WhiteLight software, forming the basis of WhiteLight’s iApplicationServer. The agreement announced today builds on this solid foundation and will further enable both companies to accelerate sales and extend customer functionality and satisfaction.
We’ve had such an enthusiastic response to our iApplicationServer that we wanted to expand our relationship with Actuate to build on a winning formula: combining the leading Information Delivery system with the most robust and powerful analytic engine available, said Rich Ghiossi, vice president of marketing at WhiteLight Systems. Expanding our relationship with Actuate will not only allow WhiteLight customers to achieve superior enterprise-wide access to our analytic engine, but it will also give both companies the flexibility and scalability necessary to serve and satisfy the needs of a broader range of business users.
