Both BIRT Designer and BIRT Designer Pro provide the tools IT and developers need to create templates and reports that can be accessed within the Actuate framework and used by both business and end users.

• Creates rich, Web 2.0-style reports and data visualizations
• Follows a web-based design metaphor
• Gives users wizards, editors and builders for easy report creation
• Includes a complete library of more than 250 embeddable BIRT Flash Objects
• Features a component-based model for reuse across products, reports and dashboards
• Offers extensible and flexible data access and handling
• Uses standards-based programmability
• Provides BIRT Page Level Security - The only effective way to manage report scalability is through BIRT Page Level Security, a patented technology for accessing personalized report content without burdening the system with excess documents, queries or IT interference. BIRT Page Level Security generates a single-server document that includes security rules for each recipient and offers significant performance, security and maintenance advantages over report bursting techniques.
  
  
  • Executes one query executed against original sources
  • Uses one server-side report document, constructed and indexed according to user permissions
  • Sends every user a personalized report that includes only their permitted pages
  • Lets every user select a preferred file format (Web, PDF, Word, and PowerPoint)
  • Includes powerful developer tools

Actuate’s Rich Information Application-ready, open source-based BI tools can be deployed in any pre-existing or new development project to create a progressive, collaborative reporting environment that allows developers, report writers and end users to create and/or use applications rich in interactivity, depth, span and complexity. With BIRT at its core, the Actuate suite of open source-based BIRT products creates an environment that is virtually boundless; an infrastructure in which to build and deploy Rich Information Applications without Limits.™

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Want to learn more?

To get more information about BIRT, please contact an Actuate expert at 1-800-914-2259 (US & Canada) or contact us by email. You can also contact one of our offices worldwide or visit our BIRT community site BIRT-Exchange.com.