Actuate Corporation, a provider in delivering Rich Internet Applications Without Limits, recently announced that Actuate’s value added products for BIRT, open source information application development environment and a top level Eclipse project founded and co–led by Actuate, are enhancing Cisco’s Secure Access Control System (ACS). Cisco, the leading supplier of networking equipment and network management for the Internet, has chosen BIRT and Actuate for the rich content presentation layer of ACS, an access policy control platform that helps businesses comply with growing regulatory and corporate requirements.

The combination of ACS, Actuate and BIRT provides rich interactive information for network monitoring and planning. Additionally, BIRT and Actuate’s value added technologies embedded in ACS empower users with a dynamic self–service, ad–hoc query and report design tool interface enabling users to quickly and easily access the data they need and to create reports, but within the parameters of IT control.

“We chose Actuate and BIRT to give Access Control Server customers improved reporting capabilities,” Said Neil Mehta, Engineering Manager, Cisco Systems. “Actuate's reporting technology, embedded directly in ACS, allows network administrators to monitor and analyze who accesses the network and when. Previously users wanting to monitor network access had to gather the raw data from ACS and cobble together custom reports themselves. Now users can easily generate network authentication trend reports and display data for SOX compliance auditors without the help of IT.”

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