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2. Pimp your BIRT Reports Actuate BIRT The Platform for a New
Generation ofRich Information Applications 3. Why Use BIRT for
RIAs? [Competitive advantage is vital] we are all one big
competitive family Drive Loyalty Drive New Revenues We need to
improve customer experience to retain clients We know clients are
leaving and taking business to competitors because of our poor
information presentation and UI We want to grow our business
customers by up-selling additional products, like interactive
dashboards. Maintain Parity and Competitive Advantage We are far
behind our competitors in this area and this release is about
catching up Our application contains everything unlocking that
information is what we need to do 4. BIRT-based Rich Information
Applications
- Information in context of task
- multiple, complex sources
- Highly personalized functionality
- Simple, guided interaction
Rich Information Applications Deliver a Rich
InformationApplication My Yahooto Track Stocksvs. DIYExcelto track
Stocks Dont deliver aToolto the end consumer 5. Discover The
Possibilities Based onThe Information Workplaceconceptby Erica
Driver and Connie Moore, Forrester Collaborative Quick Visual
Interactive Everywhere Principles of Rich Information Applications
6. VISUAL Content must be engaging and readily understandable DEMO
7. Visual BIRT Content Engages Users
- 266 Flash objects included
Animated VisualizationsInformation is Compelling 8. INTERACTIVE
Answer the question that has not yet been asked DEMO 9. Content
Must be Interactive
- Encourages users to seek new perspectives
- Creates self-sufficient users
- Use changes to drive requirements
when users become smarter, they change their questions When
presented with information, users become smarter 10. COLLABORATIVE
Break traditional barriers betweendevelopers and end users 11.
Traditional Development Models Do Not Work
- I cant give you the data until you tell me what you want.
- Fill out the business justification form.
- Deployments stall andbecome expensive
End Users I cant tell you what I want until I see the data.
Theyre not responsive, Ill do it myself. Iteration and change are
discouraged and become expensive IT and Power User tools create
silos that prevent collaboration 12. COLLABORATIVE Break
traditional barriers betweendevelopers and end users DEMO 13. BIRT
Creates a Common, Collaborative Application FrameworkIT Producers
Content Consumers
- Skills-matched environments for every user & consumer
- Progressive development model encourages change
- One BIRT design, endless possibilities
Common BIRT Design BIRT Studio Power Users & Business Users
Web-basedad-hoc BIRT Designers Application Developers,Data
Architects &Report Designers Client/Server web 2.0 content
development Casual Users, Customers & Partners Dashboards BIRT
Interactive ViewingPrint Web-based personalization 14. QUICK Create
highly functional, integrated applications rapidly 15. Quick to
Find Experts: Huge Developer Community
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- >1,000,000 downloads per quarter
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- Developer & commerciallyfriendly license
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- Sponsors must buildcommercial products
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- Professionally staffed experts
Thousands of downloads More than 8 million downloads through
2009 BIRT Biannual Downloads 16. Simplicity BIRTPower Simplicity
that makes simple tasks easy Power to create very complex
applications
- Easy, web-centric visual design
- Component-based development
- Multiple data sources & data sets
- Programmatic control with Java & JavaScript
Visual Designer, Engine and Viewer
- > 1 million downloads per quarter
- Community-vetted features, quality
- Complementary products & services
Quick: World Class Development Maintain very high levels of
developer productivity 17. Quick: Deployment Flexibility BIRT+
Flash Widgets + IV Implementsecurity & management Publish rich
Scorecards andPerformance Management apps Publish richapps
outsidethe firewallSecure andsupport millionsof users
Scale,performance, reliability, security Embedded Applications
Engage usersand let them drive rich apps BIRT+ iServer Express +
Views Department Applications BIRT+ iServer Enterprise Enterprise
Applications BIRT Open Source+ JavaScript + SQL Free Open Source
Tools Other Open Source Vendors Actuate Traditional BI Vendors 18.
Quick To Trust:Actuate iServer is Industry Leader in dependability
& Scalability
- iServer supports high availability & scalability for
mission-critical applications with large user communities
High-availability Automatic clustering Job control Load
balancing Automatic failover Multi-project support Information
Objects & Caches Application Scheduling & Management
Security & Application IntegrationPerformance Management Web
Services APIs Alerts & Distribution Clustering & High
AvailabilityInformation Console BIRT iServer Enterprise Global
standard for scale, performance, reliability and security 19.
Successful Applications Must Be Agile
- Successful applications attract features andmust change
- Users requirements drive early need for development processes
to be agile, reusable and iterative
Successful applications attract more users and must scale
Increasing features and user load requires scalable platform that
is dependable, flexible and predictable Success = Features +
Scalability 20. EVERYWHERE Place the contentwhere your users are
DEMO 21. Seamlessly Integrated Within Environment
- Multi-layered security model
- Standard and JavaScript portlets
- Seamlessly integrates user security
- Live documents & spreadsheets
- Mobile devices like iPhone & Blackberry
- Integrate Marketing & Upsell opportunities
- Simple, guided interaction & help
Present Content Seamlessly in the palm of your hand in customer
portals even in blogs 22. 23. Discover the Possibilities How can we
make these possibilities a reality? Collaborative Quick Visual
Interactive Everywhere 24. Actuate BIRT Technology Family
Complementing and Extending Eclipse BIRT Deployment Tools
High-Scale Distribution Development Tools User Interactivity Engage
users with rich, interactive content Skill-specific tools for
developersand users Manage, schedule, secure, run and distribute
Load-balanced,high availability for 100,000s of users Eclipse BIRT
Meet corerequirements BIRT Interactive Viewer Actuate BIRT Viewer
Actuate BIRT Designers iServer Express iServer Enterprise
Deployment Kits Actuate BIRT Studio 25. Q&A 26. APPENDIX 27.
BIRT Technology Family open sourcefromeclipse.org
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- Open-source desktop development tools
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- Power users & professional developers
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- Web tool for ad-hoc accessby business users
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- Open-source runtime report &charting engines
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- Commercial BIRT runtime components
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- Quickly run and view BIRT content
- Actuate Interactive Viewer for iServer
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- Explore and customize BIRT content
28. Actuate BIRT Designers for Developers
- Information Object Designer
- Commercial data connectors
Eclipse BIRT All in One EclipseBIRT RCP
- Fundamental to all Actuate designers
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- Multi-source & multi-dataset
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- Role & task specialization
Brochure-quality Multi-format output Web-based design Easy to
use Java & JavaScript Extensible APIs Open Source Designers
& Java Engine Commercial Designers & Java Engine BIRT
DesignerPro BIRT Designer Easy install Great documentation Powerful
IDE for RIAs 29. BIRT Advantages Produce Reports in the Form Users
Want
- Output to Multiple Formats
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- Reduces requirements gathering
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- Supports agile development practices
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- Reuse improves productivity
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- Assemble reports from libraries of components, themes and
templates
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- Designs can be saved and opened in any BIRT Designer
Collaborative Architecture BIRT-driven design sharing drives RIA
evolution 31. Actuate BIRT Spreadsheet for Excel Users
- Spreadsheet design metaphor
- Live, analysis-ready spreadsheets
- Supports all Excel functionality
- Dynamically adjusts to data
- Embed engine to iServer Enterprise
AutomatedSpreadsheets The only complete platform for designing,
automatically generating and distributing Excel spreadsheets over
the web to any size user community Pure Excel.No plug-ins.No Fuss
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- Time and event-based scheduling
- Automated email distribution of reports
- Report management, versioning and control
- Restrict access to individual pages of reports
- Web-based UI to run, view and share reports
Actuate iServer Publish reports for secure, scalable access
Server that schedules, distributes and manages BIRT reports 33.
BIRT Product Line from Actuate BIRT iServer and BIRT iServer
Express Global standard for scale, performance, reliability and
security BIRTPerformance Scorecard BIRT OnPerformance e.Reports
BIRT StudioBIRT Smartsheet Security BIRT Page Level Security BIRT
Designers & Viewer BIRT Interactive Viewer Eclipse BIRT
Designers and Engine BIRT Spreadsheets BIRT Mobile 34. Content
AnywhereActuate Integration APIs
- Standard development languages (Java, SQL, VB, JavaScript,
PHP)
- Fully standards-compliant (SOAP, XML, HTTP, JSR-168)
- Componentized, modular reporting servicesView, Factory, Info
Mapping Services, Message Distribution Service
- Web Services API has 60+ calls to iServer functions
- Reporting & Spreadsheet Calculation Engine as a
Service
- JavaScript API & reportlets for presentation
- Interactive Viewer & Parameter APIs
JSAPI places BIRT content anywhere 35. Rich Information
Application Platform iServer Data Sources RDBMS Flat Files SAP,
PeopleSoft Mainframe/Legacy Web Services XML
DatabasesWarehousesMartsODSLegacySystems Application Integration
Services JSAPI, SOA and Web Service APIs Enterprise Information
Integration Services Information Access Common Driver Framework,
ODBC, JDBC,Web Services Metadata & Data Transformation
TransformCalculateQuerySecurity InformationConsole
PortalsPortletsScorecardsJSAPIPersonalized
ContentiPhoneDashboardsBlackberryBIRT Interactive Viewer Analysis
VIewer BIRT Studio Scorecard DHTMLPDFXLSAJAXReportlets
CSVTXTDOCXMLPPT Encyclopedia LDAP Security Integration
Centralized Administration Content Generation Services e.Reports
Analytics BIRT Spreadsheet BIRT Ad-hoc BIRTContent Design Tools
e.Report Designer Pro Information Objects Designer BIRT Spreadsheet
Designer BIRT Studio Eclipse BIRTDesigner Actuate BIRTDesigner Pro
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