Document management, sorry ‘enterprise information management’
(EIM) solutions provider OpenText is in acquisition mode having
acquired both Informative Graphics and Actuate Corp. in a $330 million
cash transaction. Actuate’s predictive/analytics technology is to be
integrated with OpenText’s existing offering. Actuate develops
BIRT,
an open source integrated development environment and iHUB, a
platform for developing business intelligence applications.
Actuate claims that the BIRT IDE is ‘the only top-level Eclipse project
focused on business intelligence and reporting.’ The
company’s ‘hybrid’ strategy combines open source software with
enterprise development. The toolset includes access to data stored in a
Hadoop file system thanks to a deal with Cloudera. Actuate claims over
3.5 million Birt developers.
The Informative Graphics Corp. (IGC) acquisition brings secure mobile access, document mark-up and collaboration to OpenText. IGC is a long time OpenText partner and claims over 300,000 seats for its ‘Brava’ for OpenText content server. The toolset will augment OpenText’s new engineering solutions offering. InfoGraph clients include BHP Billiton, BP America, Chevron, Marathon Oil, Petro-Canada and Saudi Aramco.
Actuate’s oil and gas credentials include CGI’s oil and gas division which, according to lead developer Bimal Thomas, uses the toolset to ‘improve our application’s usability, presentation and interactivity.’ More from OpenText.
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