>Hi, all...
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>Does anyone have any knowledge/awareness of a reporting tool called Actuate?
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>Alan Griver mentioned it several years ago at a developer conference. All I know is that supposedly it is an object-oriented report writer, but that's it.

It was evaluated in the office where I worked (I haven't really seen it), with the goal of online reporting for a huge web-oriented app. They were testing it a couple of months and trying to make it work, which they eventually did, but then for some reason gave it up and started looking at other reporting engines. All I saw were a few fancy reports with pictures and graphs, based on SQL server data. They did look nice, but I don't know how much work it took to make them.