Actuage BI Products : Interactive Web Reporting - Key Features

Interactive Web Reporting - Key Features
Actuate offers Interactive Web Reporting for any report developer, any user, any data and any size project.

• Based on Open Source Technology
• One Design Across Skill-Matched Tools
• Many Deployment Alternatives

Based on Open Source Technology

The Collaborative Reporting Architecture draws its strength from Open Source. The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project of Eclipse supplies the foundation technology within the Collaborative Reporting Architecture and its member products. Different report development products designed specifically for application developers, report developers, business analysts and business-users can share the same report design, allowing anyone to start the design process and anyone to complete it. Collaborative Reporting Architecture can be deployed and configured to address the needs of almost any type of reporting project.

Advantages of BIRT Open Source

• High Quality Software: BIRT technology advances in public forum drawing from the real-world experience of thousands of contributors.
• Abundant Development Resource: BIRT leverages a community of millions of Eclipse developers and users who are immediately familiar with the operation of the BIRT environments.
• Long Term Peace of Mind: Open Source ensures interoperability with future technology by supporting current and emerging Internet standards such as AJAX, XML and other Web 2.0 development styles.

One Design, Shared Across Skill-Matched Environments

Different report development products designed specifically for application developers, report developers, business analysts and business-users can share the same report design, allowing anyone to start the design process and anyone to complete it.

• Actuate BIRT Designer Professional: Enables professional application developers to build dynamic, interactive enterprise reports ready for deployment to end users and to create composite report design templates for BusinessReport Studio. This design environment includes a complete Eclipse IDE installation including a fully tested, commercially supported BIRT plug-in to provide maximum flexibility for engineers familiar with Eclipse.
• Actuate BIRT Designer: Enables report developers to build high-quality, interactive enterprise reports ready for direct deployment to users or to create composite report design templates for BusinessReports. The Actuate BIRT Designer is an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop report builder that offers the power of BIRT in a single, rich client package.
• BusinessReport Studio: Enables business analysts and power users to craft ad hoc web reports by using pre-defined BIRT Report templates reports and optional Information Objects. BusinessReport Studio is the ad hoc reporting centerpiece of the Collaborative Reporting Architecture.
• Interactive Viewing: Allows each report consumer to think beyond the current structure of the report and personalize it into his or her own perspective. AJAX-powered interactivity lets these users have the flexibility to modify and save report views, reducing the number of reports that need to be created. This flexibility rewards end-user initiative with fast results and the insight to drive corporate performance.

Collaborative Reporting is for Every Type of Reporting Deployment

Collaborative Reporting Architecture can be deployed and configured to address the needs of almost any type of reporting project.

• iPortal Workgroup Deployments: iPortal hosts Actuate BIRT, BusinessReport Studio and Interactive Viewing, and can be deployed independently for small workgroups or in conjunction with the Actuate iServer when enterprise caliber capabilities are required, including scale, access to Information Objects and multi-project support. JSR-168 portlets are also available to deploy content in standards-based portal environments.
• Embedded Java Reporting: iPortal, BIRT and BusinessReport can be embedded within larger Java applications to add on-demand and ad hoc reporting features to the application without creating a custom report architecture.
• iServer Enterprise Deployments: Enterprise reporting infrastructures rely on iServer to provide high scale, performance, reliability and security. iServer can also: supply Information Object metadata and data integration capabilities to reporting projects, schedule and manage report generation processes, scale to reach and support millions of users, host multiple Collaborative Reporting projects and provide corporate IT extensive capabilities such as archiving, logging management and integration interfaces.
• Actuate Information Objects: Enables data architects to leverage Actuate's Enterprise Information Integration (EII) - powered metadata to supply reusable data objects across the product line.

Source: For more information, please visit http://www.actuate.com/products/enterprise-reporting/interactive-web-reporting/key-features.asp