Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Actuate and Webalo Make Spreadsheets Mobile

Actuate Corporation  and Webalo announced that the two companies will combine efforts to deliver integrated, analysis-ready, managed spreadsheets to mobile devices.

Spreadsheets are the most popular analysis tool for business users, and the vast majority of these business users depend on a mobile device to increase their efficiency. Until now, spreadsheets have not been viable for delivery on mobile devices, because data housed within spreadsheets has not been able to be customized and presented to the masses in a scalable fashion. Actuate 9 e.Spreadsheet and Webalo's User Proxy work together to address the user experience and inconsistencies in spreadsheet data in reports sent to mobile devices like RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Palm Treo and Java-enabled smart phones, by combining the power of managed spreadsheets, mobile delivery and an SOA architecture.

With this new collaboration, users of Actuate 9 e.Spreadsheet will be able to receive time-critical Business Intelligence wherever they are. Getting a report from Actuate 9 e.Spreadsheet to the Mobile Dashboard is achieved by answering questions in an easy online "wizard." Once this is done, continuously updated information is automatically sent by e.Spreadsheet to Webalo's Mobile Dashboard, which then delivers it to users' devices.

For further information, visit http://www.webalo.com or http://www.actuate.com.

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