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BIRT PowerDocs from Actuate is Now Available for the Salesforce1 Mobile App - Empowering Companies to Run their Businesses from their Phones
[August 11, 2014]

BIRT PowerDocs from Actuate is Now Available for the Salesforce1 Mobile App - Empowering Companies to Run their Businesses from their Phones


SAN MATEO, Calif. --(Business Wire)--

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:BIRT), The BIRT Company™ and leader in personalized analytics and insights, today announced BIRT PowerDocs™ is available for the Salesforce1 Mobile App, empowering companies to run their business from their phone. The Salesforce1 Mobile App delivers the most complete and customizable mobile experience in a single app for business users. Already translated into 10+ languages, BIRT PowerDocs is a cloud-based app designed to automatically incorporate ERP and CRM data and simplify generation of customer sales quotations and other correspondence within Salesforce1.

Leveraging the power of Salesforce1 Customer Platform, the social, mobile and cloud customer platform built for the Internet of Customers, BIRT PowerDocs is immediately available for test drive and deployment on the Salesforce AppExchange at https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N3000000B4Z5KEAV.

"Companies are looking to transform the way they connect with customers, partners and employees to thrive in today's connected world," said Ron Huddleston, Senior Vice President, Global AppExchange and Partner Programs, salesforce.com. "With solutions such as BIRT PowerDocs, customers can harness the power of Salesforce1 to run their business from their phones."

"BIRT PowerDocs conveniently accesses Salesforce1 customer data such as 'service requests' and auto-generates the appropriate documents in just a few teps, thus providing a quick return on investment for users," explained Marc Koch, Director of Marketing for Actuate's (News - Alert) Content Service Group, and founder of legodo ag - the German company Actuate acquired in January 2014.



"For any organization, the quality of customer correspondence can be a decisive factor in its success," said Koch. "BIRT PowerDocs on Salesforce1 quickly automates the generation of sales quotations and other correspondence, and reduces the risk of costly errors. We are very pleased to release this kind of app for the Salesforce1 Platform."

Product Features


BIRT PowerDocs guides the user easily through these processes via an interactive document creation wizard called "Interview Mode." With BIRT PowerDocs, the management of multiple channel delivery of PDFs and Word docs is streamlined. The BIRT PowerDocs app can be accessed from any device including a PC, tablet, or smartphone running either Android (News - Alert) or iOS, allowing organizations of all sizes and industries to generate and continuously edit customer documents in the cloud with just a few steps. All processes and files associated with quotation creation and management can be saved in a file system or backup server, issued through a wide variety of channels, and even printed directly from Salesforce. Generated documents can be archived in any location.

Salesforce1 Mobile Ready Apps on the Salesforce AppExchange

Salesforce1 Mobile Apps are available on the Salesforce AppExchange, the world's leading business apps marketplace. With more than 2,200 partner apps and more than 2.4 million customer installs, the Salesforce AppExchange is the world's leading enterprise apps marketplace. The Salesforce1 Mobile App is the world's first enterprise app that lets customers run their business from their phones. Built on the Salesforce1 Platform, mobile ready apps from the Salesforce AppExchange can be easily and securely deployed to any Salesforce1 user.

About Actuate (NASDAQ:BIRT) - The BIRT Company™

Actuate provides software to more than 3.5 million BIRT developers and OEMs who build scalable, secure solutions that save time and improve brand experience by delivering personalized analytics and insights to over 200 million of their customers, partners and employees. Actuate founded and supports BIRT - the open source IDE - and develops BIRT iHub™ - the world-class visualization and deployment platform - to significantly improve productivity of developers working on customer facing applications. Actuate's BIRT Analytics™ delivers self-service predictive analytics to enhance customer engagement using Big Data. The Actuate Customer Communications Suite™ empowers organizations to easily transform, process, personalize, archive and deliver high volume content and individualized correspondence. Actuate is headquartered in Silicon Valley with more than 5,000 enterprise customers in financial services, technology and government. Visit actuate.com and developer.actuate.com.

Copyright © 2014 Actuate Corporation. All rights reserved. Actuate, legodo, BIRT iHub, BIRT iHub F-Type, BIRT Analytics, Actuate Customer Communications Suite, The Actuate Document Accessibility Appliance, BIRT onDemand, BIRT Viewer Toolkit, and the Actuate logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Actuate Corporation and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and certain other countries. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between Actuate and any other company. Salesforce, Salesforce1, AppExchange and others are among the trademarks of salesforce.com, inc. All other brands, names or trademarks mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners.


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