Competitive Advantages

Superior Designers


  • Web-design metaphor - Powerful report authoring tools which supports every user and reporting style. Report design environments require minimal training and are similar to web-page design tools with grid-layout and drag-and-drop functionality for quick and easy report creation.
  • Power of a development environment – Reusable framework built on the open source Eclipse BIRT foundation that provides the flexibility required to create information applications with reusable data and report components, easy to use design tools, programming environment, and multi-project support.
  • Wizard, Helpers and Builders – Report and query builders, quick-start guides, wizards, script debuggers, documentation and support built into every report authoring tool.
  • Standards – Java, JavaScript and Eclipse standards based architecture that blends the open technologies from the Eclipse BIRT project with the scalability, performance and reliability of the iServer, programmability of JAVA and JavaScript and the interactivity of Flash and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) across a common infrastructure.

Improved End User Experience


Visually rich information applications provide end-users interactive, personalized content. Users can interact with and morph reports into personalized views that can be saved for future use.

  • Web 2.0 to data visualizations – Actuate brings Web 2.0 technologies such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex and AJAX to data visualizations
  • BIRT Interactive Viewer – AJAX–powered, BIRT–based report viewing tool enables every user to think beyond the current structure of a report and personalize it in an intuitive, zero-training environment.

Embedded, Departmental and Enterprise Deployments


BIRT integrates seamlessly within commercial and custom built applications to support embedded, departmental or enterprise-wide deployments. With APIs for data access, security, web services, parameter passing, SOA integration, portal integration and content publishing, Actuate is able to add significant value to applications while blending existing infrastructure.

  • Component Reuse – Best-in-class reusability and object oriented development. Previously created data, report objects, libraries, templates and themes can be seamlessly embedded into applications to encourage modularity and iterative development.
  • Departmental Deployment – Start scheduling and securing reports for a community of users on a regular basis. Deliver personalized, secure reports to a community of users daily, weekly or on demand in a variety of formats such as print, PDF, email or on a cell phone or PDA.

Want to learn more?

To get more information about open source, please contact an Actuate expert at 1-800-884-8665 (US & Canada) or contact us by email or visit our BIRT community site BIRT-Exchange.com.