Open Source Business Intelligence

BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) enables Java developers to add powerful reporting capabilities to applications using an easy-to-use visual designer and runtime components for report and chart generation. Actuate offers value-added products and services for organizations that are using BIRT:

Actuate BIRT is based on Eclipse BIRT and provides the convenience of a one-button install, and, with a current subscription, Actuate-backed indemnification, maintenance, professional services and support

Ad-Hoc & Interactive Reports products add AJAX-based interactive, ad-hoc web reporting capabilities to BIRT-based reports

Actuate's Deployment products allow for the distribution of BIRT reports in a variety of configurations, from embedding them in applications, to distributing them to small workgroups, to delivering them to users across the enterprise and beyond.

The Open Source BIRT report design format is also the foundation for the Collaborative Reporting Architecture in Actuate. This breakthrough architecture offers skill-specific reporting environments for IT report developers, power users and end-users, while facilitating design sharing between these roles and interactivity within each report. The result is a breadth of reporting applications that can be developed and maintained with a degree of efficiency that’s not possible with any other business intelligence solution.

BIRT Today
Today, BIRT is one of the most widely adopted open source-based business intelligence and reporting technologies with millions of downloads and 750,000 developers. It also has a large, active and growing developer community representing all types of organizations. It is licensed under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). Major technology companies such as IBM, Cisco, S1 and ABS Nautical Systems have incorporated BIRT into their product lines.

Today, the complete Actuate product line draws on BIRT as a key component. ActuateOne, Actuate’s premier product suite, leverages BIRT as its sole design environment for building Business Intelligence Applications and information applications. The BIRT Performance Scorecard application from Actuate embeds BIRT to distribute KPIs and Metrics to the enterprise, and the Xenos Enterprise Server transforms legacy documents and data that can be fed into BIRT.

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