ActuateOne fulfills the vision that Actuate has had since the inception of BIRT: to redefine the Business Intelligence category by moving away from a set of disparate tools to a suite of integrated capabilities within a single environment. ActuateOne is recognition of a single, common architecture for development and deployment that meets the dynamically changing needs of information consumers.

ActuateOne products’ common interface and common design make it possible to work across the organization with minimal effort. The product suite is engineered for rapidly developing and deploying custom BI applications and rich information applications that leverage BIRT, a leading open-source Eclipse project founded and co-led by Actuate. BIRT is the premier development environment for presenting data to users from multiple, disparate data sources in compelling visualizations.

Applications built with ActuateOne provide users with one user experience regardless of task, tool or skill level; are supported by one server with a set of services to support any deployment and are built with one design using BIRT. ActuateOne provides organizations with a quick time to market and the ability to grow with success.

ActuateOne is a complete BI solution built on BIRT that introduces new products and features to its suite of Rich Information Application-ready products.

Product SuiteOverview

Introducing ActuateOne:

One User Experience

One Design

One Server

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OverviewThe latest Actuate release—Actuate 11—adds numerous new features and more than 40 enhancements to its products, extending the value of the Actuate BIRT product suite by providing:

• 64-bit, in-memory analytics • Live Excel® export • Print/export Flash® output in PDF

files • Agile access to virtually any data

source • An improved design interface • User-created analytical and

operational dashboards • New mobile options • Access to document print streams • More interactive content for diverse

user styles

Major changes to the Actuate BIRT environment include:

• Unified BIRT engine: Single common engine for interactive data visualization and OLAP

• Unified data access: Multi-layered and multi-sourced

• Unified metadata layer (Optional): EII-powered with incremental updating and caching

• Unified deployment server architecture: Disseminate information to a single or a million users both inside and outside the firewall

• Unified, open API: Access and integrate any content created by the platform into existing applications

Products offered in the ActuateOne suite include tools for one user experience, one design and one server.

ActuateOne provides every user in the enterprise with the right skill-specific experience to create

and view interactive content. View the ActuateOne video.

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BIRT User ExperienceActuate provides multiple tools to enhance the user experience and serve any user population, anywhere.

• BIRT Studio – Ad Hoc Reporting: Browser UI for creating, modifying and viewing BIRT content

• BIRT Viewer: Simple UI for users to view BIRT content.

• BIRT Interactive Viewer: Presentation UI that allows users to view and modify their content.

• BIRT 360 – Dashboards: Application for creating operational and analytic dashboards using BIRT content, content from other feeds, supplied widgets from ActuateOne, Google widgets and other third-party content.

• BIRT Mobile Options: Smartphone application options for viewing BIRT content anywhere, anytime, on nearly any device, including iPhone and iPad.

• BIRT Data Analyzer, BIRT Data Objects – Analytics: Powerful in-memory analytics that allow users to analyze data from virtually any data source.

BIRT DesignActuate provides a single design environment for developing multiple applications, from simple list reports to complex, multi-dimensional analytic reports.

BIRT Designer Pro: Developer UI for creating BIRT templates, applications, reports and more.

BIRT ServerBIRT iServer is built to scale as businesses grow and offers a variety of phased-in services that can be added as needs and requirements change. It can be implemented in a variety of ways, providing the level of services required in deployment options designed to meet any requirement:

• Cloud Implementation • On Premises • Phased-In Services • BIRT onDemand (SaaS/PaaS)

Actuate BIRT content can be output in a variety of formats, including fully functional Excel® spreadsheets.

View the Export to Excel demo.

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Additional Product Options• BIRT Performance Scorecard:

Industry leading, fully featured performance management solution that supports strategy maps, scorecarding and KPI initiatives at all levels.

• Xenos Print Stream and Document Transformation: Transforms print streams, mitigates risk, achieves compliance and reduces the challenges of document accessibility.

• BIRT Spreadsheet: Automates and centralizes spreadsheet production, maintenance, archiving, and security, eliminating version discrepancies and curbing the proliferation of multiple silos of Excel® workbook data.

• e.Report: Provides the most discerning users with brochure-quality, on-demand reporting documents designed for presentation.

BIRT Performance Scorecard can use briefing books to display and evaluate performance data,

and can be customized to help users better manage measures, locations, maps, reports, and links.

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One User Experience: BIRT Viewer, BIRT Interactive Viewer, BIRT Studio, BIRT 360, BIRT Mobile and BIRT Analytics

BIRT ViewerThe BIRT Viewer offers the functionality of the open source Eclipse BIRT Sample Viewer and adds performance and usability improvements for more demanding BIRT reports. It also handles interactive Flash® objects for faster data visualizations, presents content more quickly with progressive report viewing and temporary file management, and easily integrates security. This viewer is URL-compatible with the Eclipse BIRT Sample Viewer and can access the same reports.

The BIRT Viewer presents content from within the Actuate BIRT environment and can be launched from the Actuate Information Console, a direct URL from a browser or dashboard, or while developing content within Actuate BIRT Designer Pro and Actuate BIRT Studio. This allows users in a variety of scenarios to view BIRT content from within

their own perspective. Within these perspectives, users can perform all basic viewer functions:

• Scroll a report page • View the table of contents • Navigate a multipage report • Export data • Link to a report page • Export content • Print a report • Use hyperlinks present in a report • View Flash charts and gadgets

In addition to basic functionality, the BIRT Viewer:

• Handles Web 2.0-style reports and data visualizations

• Presents BIRT content quickly via progressive report viewing

• Works with all BIRT report deployment options

• Provides security integration with single sign-on integration for applications or via repository authorization integration

To learn more about BIRT Viewer, please visit: Actuate.com. To compare BIRT Viewer with other viewing products, download this comparison table.

Actuate Mobile HD takes mobile BI to the next level

by leveraging the native attributes of large format mobile viewing devices .

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BIRT Interactive ViewerBIRT Interactive Viewer is an AJAX-powered, BIRT-based interactive viewing tool that enables every user to think beyond the current structure of a report and personalize it based on task and need. Users who are not familiar or comfortable with standard report authoring tools are able to use BIRT Interactive Viewer without costly training, within moments of being introduced to its intuitive interface—an inexpensive alternative to training individuals who might use it on a limited or casual basis.

BIRT Interactive Viewer adds value to the BIRT product line by giving users interactive viewing.

• Allows virtually anyone to access, personalize and customize a BIRT report without affecting underlying data.

• Gives users immediate access to information and an immediate return for their efforts, in effect teaching them how to use the basic BIRT tools.

• Shifts IT focus from report generation activities to higher-level priorities; ease of use shortens cycles between report design and completion.

• Introduces BIRT open source-based products to the entire enterprise, paving the way for future BIRT development and deployment.

Actuate 11 enhancements to BIRT Interactive Viewer include:

• More efficient background performance

• Easier personalization • Added interactivity on crosstabs

For a complete description of BIRT Interactive Viewer, please visit: Actuate.com or download the BIRT Interactive Viewer datasheet.

Interactive Viewer lets users modify default data formatting, including realigning/hiding/

showing/deleting and suppressing columns, setting text attributes and more.

View the Interactive Viewer demo.

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BIRT StudioBIRT Studio is a web-based tool deployed through the Actuate platform. It is accessed from a web browser, and does not require installation of client software. This product is built on the Java-based Actuate BIRT engine from the Eclipse open source development project and is compatible with all Eclipse BIRT applications.

BIRT Studio is a self-service, ad-hoc query and report design tool for business users that enables them to access data and create reports without direct IT intervention, but within IT control. Developers create BIRT-based templates in BIRT Designer Pro for BIRT Studio users.

Self-Service Query and Reporting

BIRT Studio is for organizations seeking to improve corporate performance. By introducing easy-to-use, self-service web report creation tools to meet the needs of business and power users, organizations enable decision makers to access the vital information they need.

Past efforts to equip business users with self-service tools have failed due to application complexity and training requirements. Consequently, IT departments continued to be inundated with requests for new reports, resulting in huge backlogs and less time for work on strategic initiatives. BIRT Studio lets end users create and edit their own reports in an intuitive, graphical web interface that fuses the best features of previous versions of Actuate with new Web 2.0 technologies, facilitating information access by authorized users outside the firewall.

Web-based BIRT Studio provides true user self-service, enabling any user to design and share a BIRT report

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Key Features

BIRT Studio provides report authors and consumers with easy access to the tools they need to create the reports they want. New features and enhancements in the latest Actuate BIRT release include:

• Dynamic ad-hoc parameter support – Invokes an intelligent parser that automatically updates underlying queries based on the value supplied for a parameter.

• Crosstabs – Allows users to design and review data along different dimensions; business users start with a crosstab template and use pre-defined BIRT Data Objects to create crosstab reports.

• Flash Charts – Adobe Flash® provides interactivity to BIRT Studio charts and adds an additional chart type to BIRT Studio. Actuate BIRT architecture ensures that the resulting Flash visualizations output is interactive.

• Summary Tables – BIRT Studio provides a new summary table.

• Support for BIRT Data Objects – BIRT Studio users can use new BIRT Data Objects as data sources for their BIRT designs.

• Support for Top/Bottom-N filter within groups – Improves the filter support in BIRT Studio by enabling

BIRT designers to insert Top N/Bottom N filters both at the overall table level as well as individual group levels.

• Ability to aggregate computed columns – Aggregation support has been added to calculated columns. BIRT designers can now summarize computed columns using any of the supported aggregate functions

Key Benefits

• Empowers business users with the ability to create ad-hoc reports

• Enables report consumers to analyze reports

• Reduces reporting bottlenecks in IT and improves requirements understanding between IT and end users

• Reduces costs with zero training and support expenditures

• Increases ROI • Provides design flexibility • Gives users easy access to underlying

data by using business friendly terms • Allows for deeper analysis across

more data sets Increases efficiency and decreases user fatigue

• Allows users to more clearly define data and import only what they need into a report

• Provides higher-level views of data

For a complete description of BIRT Studio, please visit: Actuate.com or download the BIRT Studio datasheet.

BIRT Studio allows users to work from an existing template and select or modify report elements,

format reports, create charts, add data and preview the report as it is created.

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BIRT 360The latest Actuate release introduces BIRT-based dashboards to its suite of commercial products. BIRT 360 is a browser- based, zero-footprint application that uses the popular Google Gadget framework, allowing users to not only leverage BIRT-based gadgets but also third-party Google Gadgets to create mashup applications. These dashboards include:

• Operational dashboards for continuous KPI monitoring

• Analytic Dashboards for in-memory visual data analysis and exploration

BIRT 360 was built to ensure an unparalleled user experience, providing visual data exploration functionality and guided analytic applications for less-experienced users.

As with other BIRT content, BIRT 360 dashboards are fully compatible with other BIRT content and can be embedded in other applications.

Operational Dashboards

With BIRT 360, business users can interact with or drill-down on individual KPIs to answer specific business questions. The operational dashboards interface is designed for business users to allow them to create their custom dashboard pages without IT intervention.

Analytic Dashboards

BIRT 360 analytic dashboards are visual data exploration applications. Combining a set of filter and slicer gadgets with a set of KPIs built using rich visualizations, users are prompted to explore and drill down into data to gain insights. BIRT 360 makes it easy for business users familiar with a dataset to create new analytic dashboards.

• Dashboards show a list of connectors, making them easy to use for less-skilled users

• Visual data representation• Drill-down/up analysis• Crosstab support• Pre-built or• User constructed

Google Gadget Specification-based Dashboard Container

BIRT 360 is fully compliant with the Google gadget specification, and can host any Actuate or third-party gadgets inside a single dashboard or enable any Google gadget container to host Actuate gadgets. This facilitates rapid creation of mashup applications that combine services from Actuate and non-Actuate products.

Actuate BIRT content can be blended with content from other sources—even Google Gadgets—

into an integrated analytic or operational dashboard using BIRT 360.

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Compelling Adobe Flash®-based Data Visualizations

By incorporating Adobe Flash, Actuate offers a wide range of data visualizations for business users to choose from when developing their KPIs.

BIRT 360 Benefits

The BIRT 360 engine makes full use of the new Actuate 11 architecture, providing in-memory analysis though intelligent use of memory and disc caching. This benefit is available in both 32- and 64-bit environments:

• In a 64-bit environment, there is no memory cap—everything runs in memory.

• In a 32-bit environment, data is swapped between disc and available memory to speed up processing.

• Actuate BIRT 360 provides users with gadgets and a Gadget Gallery that facilitate rapid construction: º Presentation – Functional, attention-getting gadgets allow users to understand what the data mean º Ease of use – True drag-and-drop functionality and easy data association make the interface user friendly and usable º Interactivity – Many gadgets actually allow users to physically manipulate buttons, gauges, etc.

to easily create and view what-if scenarios; linked items reflect those changes immediately º Functionality – Easy and interactive UI makes gadgets not only popular—they offer instant adoption º Selection – BIRT Designer ships with more than 250 gadgets; in addition, users can browse out of the application and import virtually any third-party Google gadget

True user self service

Actuate BIRT 360 enables users to consolidate KPIs on a single page for continuous and effective monitoring:

• Lets end users interact with or use drill-down capabilities on individual KPIs to answer questions.

• Provides true self-service environment for creating custom dashboard pages; automatic KPI linker automatically establishes communications between related KPIs on a single dashboard page using drag-and-drop construction.

• Allows users to choose any KPI from an existing BIRT document, new KPIs constructed using BIRT 360 or any third-party Google gadget.

For a complete description of BIRT 360, please visit: Actuate.com or download the BIRT360 datasheet.

Analytic dashboards allow users to drill down to any level of detail required to fully understand

the meaning of their data.View the BIRT 360 demo.

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BIRT MobileBIRT Mobile options can be used with all BIRT (both open source and commercial) options, BIRT Spreadsheet and BIRT Performance Management products, providing easy interoperability and upgrades as an organization grows and requirements change.

• BIRT Mobile Viewer for iPhone: BIRT Mobile Viewer for iPhone is a designed-from-the-ground-up, native application that can be used with any BIRT iServer product or with Actuate’s new Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, BIRT onDemand. This app effortlessly delivers personalized, real BIRT report content to all authorized users wherever they are, whenever they need it. BIRT Mobile also offers native apps built for iPad and iPod Touch.

• BIRT Mobile Viewer for BlackBerry: The BIRT Mobile Viewer for BlackBerry is a native BlackBerry application that allows you to view your mobilized BIRT reports from the iServer or BIRT onDemand. This application remembers your iServer login information, optimizes your BIRT content display for the phone, and allows management of your mobilized content subscription.

Having your BIRT content at your fingertips, wherever you are, will allow you to be more informed and make better business decisions.

• BIRT Mobile: Actuate’s BIRT Mobile solution, a rich information application, is designed to meet the needs of organizations within financial services, the Global 9000, and any company that must provide current, personalized business information to a mobile workforce.

BIRT Mobile Viewer for iPhone is a fully functional, native app that can be used with the iPhone®, iPod Touch® or iPad®. Anyone with an iPhone and BIRT can immediately see BIRT content in a familiar, easy-to-navigate format. This new app:

• Delivers rich, data-driven BIRT content directly into the hands of iPhone users, regardless of where they are

• Provides iPhone-centric features such as orientation awareness, touch navigation, email and phone dialing

• Offers a zero-cost mobile information delivery solution that is freely available on the iTunes App Store

• Serves as a building block for BIRT-powered iPhone applications

• Generates immediate ROI, giving business users what they need, when, where, and how they want it

BIRT Mobile Viewer for iPhone lets anyone with an iPhone and a BIRT onDemand account immediately see BIRT

content in a familiar, easy-to-navigate format.View the BIRT Mobile demo.

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• Eliminates platform issues via the native iPhone Viewer

• Offers on-device report navigation features

• Extends the reach of BIRT applications far beyond the boundaries of the web browser

• Reduces costs and time to market • Increases the productivity and

decision-making ability of mobile workers

• Securely delivers in-office information to mobile workers with minimal (or no) IT effort

• Places the power of Actuate’s rich information applications in the hands of users wherever they are, whenever they need it

• Integrates seamlessly with the Actuate BIRT Suite; the BIRT Mobile Viewer for iPhone is the next logical step in your BI plan

Organizations adopting BIRT Mobile enjoy the following business benefits:

• Device-independent information access and viewing on multiple handheld devices, extending the value of those mobile devices

• An extended rich information application experience that stretches beyond the confines of an office or Internet connection, making critical information available at the right moment

• Consolidated reports in smartphone and wireless PDA-compatible formats

• Seamless conversion of corporate information for use on mobile devices, providing the convenience of an instant-on mobile platform that minimizes or eliminates the need to carry and boot up a laptop

For a complete description of BIRT Mobile, please visit: Actuate.com or download the BIRT Mobile Viewer for iPhone datasheet.

BIRT Mobile includes iPhone-centric features such as orientation awareness, touch navigation,

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BIRT AnalyticsActuate 11 introduces new BIRT analytics tools that dramatically simplify data analysis, providing business users with tools to help them make better decisions. BIRT Data Analyzer helps business users uncover trends, identify anomalies and model scenarios, including “what if” scenarios, for business forecasting and improved understanding of their data.

This new, in-memory online analytical processing (OLAP) analytics product line is the result of enhancements to the core BIRT engine, which supports the entire spectrum of rich data visualizations, interactivity and analysis. BIRT technology architecture provides multiple ways to embed and contextually deliver information to users to address their analytics needs while promoting efficiency and productivity through reuse.

The new BIRT analytics line includes the following intuitive data analysis tools: BIRT Data Objects, BIRT Data Analyzer and BIRT 360 (dashboards).

BIRT Data Objects

BIRT Data Objects are in-memory datasets constructed from disparate enterprise data sources. These datasets can be used by BIRT Designer or Actuate BIRT business user tools such as BIRT Studio, BIRT 360 or BIRT Data Analyzer for a variety of self-service functions ranging from ad-hoc report creation to ad-hoc data analysis.

• Agile data access – Data can be tapped and combined from multiple, disparate data sources.

• Flexible modeling – Data can be modeled as one or more flat datasets or multi-dimensional structures.

• Granular data security – Support for many levels of security.

• In-memory data federation – In-memory datasets belonging to one or more BIRT Data Objects can be linked to enable in-memory data federation.

• Operational data linking – In-memory datasets in a BIRT Data Object can be further linked to additional Actuate and non-Actuate content.

BIRT Data Objects are available to products across the entire Actuate BIRT platform, including access for on-demand or parameterized reports, ad-hoc queries, dashboards, interactive viewing and the new BIRT-based analytic tools.

BIRT Data Analyzer helps business users uncover trends, identify anomalies and model scenarios,

including “what if” scenarios, for business forecasting and improved understanding of their data.

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BIRT Data Analyzer

BIRT Data Analyzer is a zero footprint, browser-based OLAP tool created for business users. The product’s highly intuitive analysis interface, combined with the scalable reach of BIRT technology, make it possible for organizations to deploy analysis capability to users at all levels in the organization.

This tool allows users with varying skill levels to:

• Describe data in multiple dimensions • Categorize information • Quickly, easily and interactively

analyze data in BIRT Data Objects • Create comparative analysis reports

with multiple dimensions • Identify trends in data by reviewing

information as a chart or other visualization

• Spot anomalies in data visually, by looking for measures that dip, etc.

• Perform root cause analysis using the ability to link analytic data to operational data

BIRT Data Analyzer adds true analytics features to BIRT, giving business users multiple ways to view their business information:

• Makes analytics accessible º UI designed specifically for business users º Zero training required º Interface makes it easy to model new analysis-ready datasets

• Allows multiple usage scenarios º Analyze datasets available in the encyclopedia º Analyze datasets embedded in BIRT documents

• Produces results that can be shared º Operationalize analysis results by sharing BIRT Data Objects with other users º Link analyses to operational data

• Optimizes performance º Support for both 32-bit and 64-bit modes º Reuse datasets across many users and applications

• Gives users agile data access º Build datasets from multiple enterprise data sources º Drill through to operational datasets º Drill through to new in-memory datasets across machines º Drill through to new in-memory datasets across cloud implementations

For a complete description of BIRT Analytics (BIRT Data Objects and BIRT Data Analyzer), please visit: Actuate.com or download the BIRT Analytics datasheet.

BIRT Data Analyzer adds true analytics features such as conditional formatting to BIRT, giving business users

multiple ways to view their business information.View the BIRT Data Analyzer demo.

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One Design: BIRT Designer ProBIRT Designer Pro is a report development tool used to create business intelligence and information applications deployed through Actuate’s rich information-ready server environment and accessed via a web browser. The power behind BIRT Designer Pro is the Java-based Eclipse open source project, BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools).

BIRT Designer Pro is a modern, 100% Java BI and information application developer product. This development tool is easy to use, supports extensive customization, and creates reusable components, interactive web reports and dashboards. BIRT Designer Pro includes the BIRT open source runtime report engine, a charting engine, JDBC drivers for commercial databases such as Oracle and DB2, and connectors to Actuate’s BIRT iServer features. BIRT Designer Pro also includes a complete Java and JavaScript development environment, a massive library of BIRT Flash Objects and a built-in BIRT Information Objects designer perspective.

BIRT Designer Pro produces designs that can be executed immediately within the development tool and published to the Actuate iServer to support a variety of deployment options in conjunction with the complete Actuate platform. Deploying BIRT Designer Pro on BIRT iServer allows IT to create BIRT-based applications while providing templates to business and power users who author their own reports using data from nearly any source. Their work can be shared and modified in Actuate’s interactive, collaborative environment.

An enterprise-level BIRT iServer deployment of BIRT Designer Pro adds a full complement of storage, security, user management and administrative features for very large deployments inside and outside the firewall.

BIRT Designer Pro provides any organization with immediate benefits, including increased developer productivity and an improved user experience.

BIRT Designer Pro uses the familiar development paradigms of the Eclipse environment, web-page

designers, and desktop publishing products.

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Increased developer productivity

• Many report deployment options – publishes to BIRT Information Console, BIRT iServer or BIRT onDemand

• Publishing flexibility – publishes content as reusable templates for use in BIRT Studio and as templates that can be shared with others for further refinement

• Script in JAVA and JavaScript• Debug reports• Create and use extensions• View other Eclipse perspectives• View applications as they are built

with consistent WYSIWYG interface and output

• Invoke the BIRT Information Object Designer perspective to create BIRT Information Objects and BIRT Data Objects

• Familiar development environment – Available as an Eclipse plug-in or a standalone version, Actuate BIRT enables developers to create content in a familiar environment

• Multi-purpose, versatile development tool – Appropriate for almost any project, including simple reports, data warehousing projects, dashboards, batch report development, etc.

Improved user experience

• Variety – produces multiple report types including lists, grouped lists, tables and charts, x-tab reports, dashboards, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files with live Flash content and other applications

• Embedded BIRT Flash Objects – exports live Flash content to PDF files, inheriting all of the interactivity originally contained in a Flash Object

• Output format – allows adding an emitter to output content in any custom format.

• Excel output – provides live, analysis-ready Excel output

For a complete description of BIRT Designer Pro, please visit: Actuate.com or download the BIRT Designer Pro datasheet.

With BIRT Designer Pro’s Dynamic Cross Tabs, cross tab elements can be added to reports without knowing

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One Server: BIRT iServerBIRT iServer is a scalable, world-class server for generating, managing and securely delivering reporting and analytic content to 100 percent of an organization’s users. BIRT iServer provides the industry’s most complete and powerful infrastructure for disseminating interactive, actionable business information to employees, customers and partners. In addition, BIRT iServer integrates information from any data source and application to serve both internal and external users.

Rich Information Applications (RIAs) that include iServer let users access BIRT, BIRT Interactive Viewer, BIRT Studio, BIRT 360, BIRT Analytics and BIRT Spreadsheet options and to create and deliver resulting applications via a web-based user interface. With BIRT iServer, organizations can deploy the widest variety of content, from simple lists to information-driven RIAs running inside and outside the firewall.

All BIRT-based products run in the Actuate RIA-ready iServer environment and benefit from its unique Progressive Design Architecture, which empowers every

user in the organization with access to data presented in an application tailored to their skill level in an interactive, user-friendly interface.

BIRT iServer features the industry’s most open, standards-based architecture for integration with all web services, enterprise applications, back end data sources and e-business applications and platforms.

• Provides native 64-bit in-memory data analysis

• Fully compatible/configurable with Cloud, PaaS and SaaS implementations (BIRT onDemand)

• Allows for organizations to phase-in services based on project size/needs

• Support for third-party RDBMS for encyclopedia metadata

• Front end – BIRT Information Console easily, seamlessly integrates BIRT content with the look and feel of any website, embedding frameless Actuate Reportlets™ and BIRT Flash Objects within any unstructured web page

• Back end – supports live data access from any source, across any corporate infrastructure and firewall environment

• BIRT Information Integration option – directly and concurrently accesses multiple, heterogeneous data sources and transforms that data into meaningful business information in real time

iServer allows users to save, schedule and run content in a secure, simple UI, built to be intuitive and user friendly.

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• URL-based architecture, SOAP-based Web Services API – provides integration with both J2EE and Microsoft .NET environments and support for open web standards, allowing any BIRT iServer functionality to be embedded into even the most complex enterprise environment rapidly and smoothly

Out of the box, BIRT iServer includes the following functionality:

• Schedules, runs, presents, delivers and stores content for sharing with other users

• Controls user- and role-based access to content

• Provides integrated or stand-alone access to report creation applications and services

• Includes data drivers for popular data source types and tools to develop access to custom data sources

BIRT iServer includes the following system features:

• Serves as the framework to support optional BIRT Information Objects, Actuate’s metadata layer

• Hosts end user options such as presentation of Actuate BIRT Reports and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets generated by BIRT Spreadsheet, ad hoc web reports authoring within BIRT Studio, report customization with BIRT Interactive Viewer, BIRT

Data Analyzer, BIRT 360 and e.Report • Provides internationalization

of UI and report content, accommodating other languages, cultural contexts, data conventions and time zones

• Unparalleled scalability – serves a virtually unlimited number of users

• High availability for 24x7 operation – provides full-time operation with easy maintenance and management

• Automatic clustering, job control and load balancing – optimizes system resources

• Easy content distribution – generates content for large populations without creating extra system administration or software upgrade costs

• Express content – delivers completed pages as the report is being generated

• Page-on-demand for direct-to-page navigation and viewing – ensures that end users get the mission-critical information they need the instant they need it

These functions are accessible via the BIRT iServer web interface for end users and via its Web Services API for administrators.

For a complete description of BIRT iServer, please visit: Actuate.com or download the BIRT iServer datasheet.

The Actuate BIRT iServer features a Web Services APIthat enables administrators to create, schedule and run

jobs. Administrators can add a new user and configure security, privileges, and more for each individual end user.

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ConclusionThe ActuateOne suite of Business Intelligence and information application tools brings together the ultimate BI toolset, enabling any organization to build and deploy mission-critical business intelligence and rich information applications to any user, anywhere, with a variety of tools based on one user experience, supported by one server and built with one design using BIRT. ActuateOne provides organizations with the flexibility to integrate existing systems, access any data source and deploy to any device.

ActuateOne is recognition of a single, common architecture for development and deployment that meets the dynamically changing needs

of information consumers.