Actuate 7 consists of:

A comprehensive environment to develop the core data access and reporting infrastructure for Information Applications, and to integrate Information Applications with the rest of the enterprise IT infrastructure. (e.Report Designer Professional and Information Object Designer)
A server to manage the generation and secure distribution of reporting and analytic content to large numbers of users (Actuate iServer)
A set of products that extend Web pages and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to empower 100% of users with enterprise information in interactive and intuitive formats of their choice. (e.Report Option, e.Report Designer, e.Spreadsheet Option, e.Spreadsheet Designer, e.Analysis Option, Actuate Query)
Actuate 7’s key benefits include:

Reduced hardware and maintenance costs for serving the information needs of large numbers of users thanks to the industry’s most scalable information server
Increased user satisfaction and reduced support and training costs thanks to a zero-training analysis and reporting experience for users that leverages their existing expertise and skill sets
Reduced IT workload, tight security and higher user productivity by empowering users in a controlled fashion with access to enterprise information from all applications
Flexibility to meet all user requirements thanks to powerful, programmatically extensible tools for developers
Reduced development and maintenance costs thanks to the industry’s only true object-oriented development framework
Reduced technology costs thanks to a platform that is flexible enough to support the development and deployment of a wide variety of Information Applications
Reduced hardware administration costs through broad platform support
Flexibility to integrate with any available or best-of-breed software infrastructure thanks to the industry’s most complete Web Services API
All these benefits result in the industry’s lowest Total Cost of Ownership for empowering 100% of the user population with the right enterprise information, at the right time, and in the right format.