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Rapid Report Creation for Developers with Simplified Deployment and End User Interactivity
Actuate's BIRT products offer the features needed to develop and deploy reports that meet all of an organization's information needs. The product line offers:
- A solid foundation built on one of the most advanced and widely adopted open source reporting technologies, Eclipse BIRT
- A scalable report repository to support efficient and secure deployment of reports to end users
- Support for a spectrum of reporting needs including IT reporting, web-based ad-hoc reporting and end user reporting
- Tailored, skill-specific report design environments for developers and end users
- A Common BIRT report design format across multiple tools to support efficient, collaborative report development by different types of users
- AJAX interactivity and style sheet support for modern, web-oriented reporting
Actuate's BIRT product line consists of three technologies:
Actuate BIRT Key Features Actuate BIRT is an easy-to-use, visual report development environment that offers programmatic extensibility to meet any reporting requirement. It adds pre-packaged data drivers and a simplified installer to the Eclipse BIRT code base. Actuate BIRT's features support productive development, rich layout, as well as complex report logic and data access.
Productivity Features
- Eclipse Plug-In - Actuate BIRT is available as a plug-in to the Eclipse environment (in addition to a stand-alone version) so developers can create reports from a familiar environment
- Wizard Driven - Multiple, efficient wizards guide report developers through normally complex report design tasks
- WYSIWYG layout - Drag-and-drop layout of report components makes for faster report development
- Object-oriented Reporting - Libraries and templates that hold common report components allow for efficient reuse and reduce the report maintenance burden, while also allowing for separation of development tasks
- Reusable Styles - Commonly used layout and formatting choices can be defined in reusable styles that can be applied to multiple reports
Report Formatting Features
- Palette of Components - The design environment offers a rich choice of layout elements including grids, tables, images, charts, and more
- Choice of output formats - Reports can be delivered as HTML or PDF, and can be extended to support other output formats
Extensibility Features
- Scripting support - Custom scripting to incorporate complex business logic and data access into report designs
- Complex report layout - APIs permit the introduction of new visual components into reports and new attributes for existing components
- Flexible charting - Pluggable architecture for incorporating custom charts and new graphic formats into the charting engine
Actuate iPortal Key Features  Actuate iPortal is a J2EE report delivery application that automatically adds interactive features to BIRT reports while simplifying deployment.
- Automatic, AJAX-based Interactivity - The Interactive Viewer feature of iPortal automatically adds interactive report customization features to BIRT reports
- End user analysis - End users can apply filters, change sorting and grouping, add new calculations and apply conditional formatting while viewing BIRT reports
- Save personalized views - Users can save their modifications so that they will be automatically applied the next time the report is run
- Pre-packaged Interfaces - Actuate iPortal provides out-of-the-box web pages that allow users to browse a repository of reports and capture user-input parameters for report generation
- Scalable architecture - Actuate iPortal is designed to scale to thousands of users
Actuate BusinessReport Studio Key Features Actuate BusinessReport Studio is a web-based ad-hoc reporting tool that empowers users with the features necessary to create their own reports.
- Zero-footprint report designer - BusinessReport Studio is purely browser-based, with no client software to install
- Flexible report creation - End users can specify columns for reports, specify their visual styles and create charts
- Controlled data access - IT-provided templates regulate data access while still allowing users the flexibility to create the report designs they need
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