Previously, the only way of creating fast reports in Siebel was to optimise the report design and apply some advanced techniques – 30% to 40% improvement is possible. If a larger improvement in performance was required then the last rest resort was to rewrite the report to bypass the Siebel application and address the database directly. This was a last resort because, by doing this, the benefits having Siebel visibility and the user’s query applied in the report were lost.

Report Accelerator is a new technology available from Customer Systems. It provides Siebel visibility and query restrictions to database level reports so that, now, it is possible to have direct to database performance without loosing any of the close integration to Siebel that report users are used to.

Benefits

Immediate
Previously slow reports can be generated in seconds.
Standard Features
All of the features available with standard reporting in Siebel are also standard in Accelerated Actuate reports. The user experience is far faster while remaining as rich as it always has been.

Management Reporting
Actuate has traditionally only been used for operational reporting where the volumes of data are low. Using Report Accelerator Actuate can now be used to generate management information quickly and from within the Siebel application. This could remove the requirement for a separate, costly, management reporting application.