A strategic alliance with CoreMatrix Systems has been announced by Actuate (News - Alert) Corporation. Business Intelligence, or BI, will be delivered to the cloud through this alliance. The top open source BI vendor, Actuate Corporation is responsible for development of BIRT. CoreMatrix Systems is the top cloud computing consulting company. The organization is also a premier implementation partner of Salesforce.com (News - Alert).

A BIRT-based application integrated with Salesforce.com will be developed by CoreMatrix and Actuate as part of the alliance. Interactive dashboards and real-time reporting in the cloud will be presented to Salesforce.com end users by this application. Analysis for sales, pipeline, account and user data will be also provided in the cloud to the end-users.

In a release, Ernie Megazzini who is the VP of Cloud Strategy at CoreMatrix (News - Alert) said, "As a premier partner of Salesforce.com we are highly selective when deciding which companies to align ourselves with. We recognized early on that Actuate's BIRT-based applications for BI and rich visualizations are the clear industry leaders, which made our decision an easy one."

According to Megazzini, rich, interactive visualizationsare provided by Actuate and BIRT. The value of BI and the proliferation of the Eclipse development environment can be therefore harnessed by companies to better manage their enterprises. Megazzini added that the company looks forward to deliver best-of-breed BI solutions for Salesforce.com data through this collaboration.

Nobby Akiha, the SVP of Marketing at Actuate, said, "We are excited to be working with CoreMatrix as they are on the leading edge of cloud computing consulting and implementation. With more than 1,200 Salesforce.com implementations, CoreMatrix has a wealth of expertise that, when paired with the power of Actuate and BIRT, will be a great asset to Salesforce.com customers looking for richer visualizations to present their customer information."

Mid-sized to Fortune 500 companies are provided cloud computing consulting, systems integration, custom application development, and support services by CoreMatrix. The company has completed more than 1,200 cloud computing engagements. For more information, visit www.corematrix.com.

The Eclipse BIRT open source project was founded and co-headed by Actuate. BIRT-based custom Business Intelligence applications and information applications can be rapidly developed and deployed with the unified suite of products, ActuateOne. For more information, visit www.actuate.com.

Want to learn more about cloud communications? Then be sure to attend the Cloud Communications Summit, collocated with TMC’s (News - Alert) ITEXPO West 2011, taking place Sept. 13-15, 2011, in Austin, Texas. The Cloud Communications Summit will address a growing need of businesses to integrate and leverage cloud based communications applications, process enhancement techniques, and network based communications interfaces and architectures. To register, click here.