Actuate (News - Alert) Corporation, a provider of open source Business Intelligence (BI), has announced that several of its customers save millions in returns on their Actuate Performance Management deployments.

Company officials say typically products that profess to manage performance provide a disjointed picture because they do not identify organization-wide issues; rather they provide only a siloed, fractured view of performance.

Actuate Performance Management, a comprehensive business-user driven performance management solution available in the cloud, helps organizations overcome these planning and execution gaps. It allows companies to more effectively align strategy, performance goals and operations.

Delivered as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) offering, the solution offers unprecedented flexibility, lower cost of ownership and faster time to value delivering actionable performance insight to everyone in the organization.

By offering a laser focused line-of-sight for management that spans organizational silos, the solution ensures executives can identify problems and inefficiencies and launch and track the performance of improvement initiatives.

In addition to these, Actuate Performance Management captures and repeats best practices, aligns the entire organization through effective communication of strategy and offers tremendous gains in organizational performance.

Sacramento Municipal Utility District and St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital recently deployed Actuate solutions and reported tremendous savings using Actuate Performance Management. While Sacramento Municipal Utility District attained ROI of over $2 million across locations, St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital implemented more than 50 projects, totaling $2.5 million in savings.

St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital also implemented a quality-control council to meet weekly and monitor progress, using Actuate Performance Management for major projects and Senior Management Team reporting. This has enabled a $3.1 million in savings and additional revenue. Overall revenues for STEGH increased $1,890,000, or 2.6 percent, from the previous year.

Actuate is the founder of the Eclipse BIRT open source project. Recently, the company formed a partnership with CoreMatrix (News - Alert) Systems, a cloud computing consulting company, to deliver BI to the cloud. As part of the alliance, the companies will develop a BIRT-based application integrated with Salesforce.com (News - Alert).

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