Actian, the data and AI division of HCLSoftware, has integrated Jaspersoft's embedded analytics and reporting capabilities into its data management portfolio following HCLSoftware's acquisition of Jaspersoft. The company plans to enhance Jaspersoft with AI-enhanced analytics, agentic BI capabilities, and deeper integration across Actian's offerings. Jaspersoft serves approximately 1,000 customers globally and brings around 90 partners across 44 countries to Actian's network. The platform specialises in creating reports, interactive dashboards, and visualisations for regulated industries including financial services, healthcare, government, manufacturing, and technology. "With the addition of Jaspersoft, we're expanding our portfolio to support both, giving customers a seamless path from data to reporting, analytics, and AI-driven insight," said Marc Potter, chief executive officer of Actian.

Actian CEO Potter: AI driving a data governance renaissance. Published March 19, 2026 Actian CEO Marc Potter said AI is proving to be a wakeup call on data governance as companies realize it's a business imperative. "Everyone has been talking about governance, but it has been more at a policy level and no one was enforcing it," said Potter. "There was a disconnection between data governance and reality. Because of AI, there's a reality check that data is not as good as companies thought. Data quality is getting real." Potter's talk at Constellation Research's AI Forum 2026 came a few days after the company launched its Actian AI Analyst, which was the product of the company's acquisition of Wobby. Actian AI Analyst is designed to provide insights on analytics and data quality to reduce business intelligence bottlenecks. Actian has been built with a series of acquisitions and is now focusing on organic growth and innovation. He said Actian is working on a next-generation vector database. The Actian AI Analyst includes a conversational interface, a rules-based execution engine and full traceability. Actian also launched a new Steward Agent to accelerate AI deployment with semantic modeling, consistent business logic and proactive logic management. Potter said Actian AI Analyst is aimed at business users looking to have a conversation with data and get insights. "Business is where spend happens. A businessperson is going to want real-time insights and clean data," said Potter, who said data quality is what drives return on AI. When speaking with corporate AI leads, Potter's advice is to "understand your data." "The first thing you should do is really understand your data. It's blocking and tackling right now and everyone has jumped way over here and skipped all the steps they should have followed in the design phases," said Potter. "I would go back and really discover your data, tag your data, map your data, and once you understand that data, everything else is easier." Potter said Actian customers all have different levels of AI and data maturity. "What we hear from customers right now is that it's a battle of semantic layers. Every product has its own context within that product, and they're all trying to build their own intelligent layer around that context, but there needs to become one layer that gives best context for that organization," said Potter. Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights Constellation Research Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights at Constellation Research, where he leads editorial coverage focused on enterprise technology, digital transformation, and emerging trends shaping the future of business. He oversees research-driven news, analysis, interviews, and event coverage designed to help technology buyers and vendors navigate complex markets with clarity and context... Results. Insight News March 19, 2026 Agentic AI is going to revamp the customer's experience and interactions are going to look a lot different. Here's a look at how... Larry Dignan Insight News March 19, 2026 Data to Decisions Sandy Carter, Chief Business Officer of Unstoppable Domains, said quot;there are claws everywhere nowquot; and enterprises need to give OpenClaw and its various derivatives a spin... Larry Dignan Insight News March 19, 2026 Data to Decisions Alibaba Cloud posted third quarter revenue growth of 36% driven by AI demand. The company's traction with its Qwen family of models also remained strong... Larry Dignan Insight News March 18, 2026 Data to Decisions Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang held court with financial and industry analysts this week at Nvidia GTC 2026 and riffed on tokenomics, why he wished OpenAI and Anthropic were public compan... Larry Dignan Insight News March 18, 2026 Data to Decisions Snowflake said it is launching Project SnowWork, an autonomous enterprise AI platform that aims to automate work... Larry Dignan Insight News March 17, 2026 Future of Work Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri said agentic AI is more of a friend to enterprise software than a foe since it can expand the market. However, AI's displacement of human workers is going... Larry Dignan Published. March 19, 2026 Insight News December 22, 2025 Data to Decisions Actian, the data and AI division of HCLSoftware, is seeing strong demand for its metadata, data catalog and governance tools. Wobby will bring an agentic AI data analyst to Actian... Larry Dignan