Actuate First to Provide Support for Eclipse BIRT 2.3

 

Support, Services and Value-added Software Geared up to Support BIRT 2.3, Part of the Eclipse Ganymede Release 

 

San Mateo, Calif., – June 30, 2008 – Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the leader in delivering Rich Internet Applications Without Limits™, today announced that effective immediately, Actuate is providing full support for Eclipse BIRT 2.3, the latest version of the Eclipse open source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools project. BIRT 2.3 is part of Ganymede, a coordinated release of 23 different Eclipse open source projects that was made available on June 25. 

Actuate is providing support for organizations that build applications using BIRT 2.3 with the following simultaneously released products and services: 

BIRT 2.3 is available for download on BIRT Exchange at http://www.birt-exchange.com/modules/wfdownloads/ and includes the following key features:

    • BIRT JavaScript Debugger and improved JavaScript Editor
    • Crosstab enhancements, including scripting and derived measures
    • Crosstab support for displaying measures as horizontal or vertical Charts
    • Bi-directional support for all output formats, with the ability to mix within one report
    • Horizontal Page Breaks for tables and crosstabs to prevent cluttered printouts and excessive scrolling
    • Prototype integration of the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) Project SQL Graphical Query Builder


BIRT 2.3 represents a total of over 1.6 million lines of code, addresses over 250 enhancements, is fully integrated into the Eclipse and Java internationalization/localization infrastructure and is tested for 23 locales including Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Arabic and Hebrew.  The product also includes updated online documentation created by professional technical writers, as well as demos, code snippets, an example database and articles on common usage scenarios.

To learn more about BIRT, please visit BIRT Exchange at http://www.birt-exchange.com/.

Actuate - The BIRT Company™

Actuate founded and co-leads the BIRT open source project, which is used by more than 2.5 million developers around the globe and serves as the foundation of the ActuateOne® platform. Applications built on ActuateOne deliver more business and consumer insights to more people than all BI companies combined — ensuring organizations are ready for the exponential growth of Big Data and the proliferation of touch devices.

The ActuateOne platform empowers developers to rapidly develop custom, BIRT-based business analytics and customer communications applications. ActuateOne applications built with one BIRT design can access and integrate any data, including unstructured sources. They provide one user experience regardless of skill level and are supported by one platform for any cloud, hybrid, on-premise, web or touch device deployment.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Actuate has over 5,000 customers globally in a diverse range of business areas including financial services, technology and the public sector. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol BIRT. For more information, visit www.actuate.com or engage with the BIRT community at www.birt-exchange.com.

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