Actuate Deployment Alternatives

Each deployment, from embedding BIRT within a Java application to delivering high-performance customer self-service applications, grows from the same source: the Eclipse BIRT open source project. Actuate products add interactivity, Excel content and the experience of Actuate to support large and small deployments, budgets and timelines.

Actuate is perfect to embed within larger Java applications to supply printing, reporting and information visualization capabilities. Actuate is perfect for software vendors and savvy developers alike, and supplies a variety of embeddable and stand-alone content generation, viewing, presentation and delivery solutions.

Open Source BIRT

Open Source Eclipse BIRT: Embedded deployments begin with Eclipse BIRT open source report development tools and Java deployment engine for self-sufficient developers building their own content delivery systems. Eclipse BIRT open source includes design tools, report and chart rendering engines and a BIRT report viewer, each with extensive APIs and instructions for how to provide core printing and information presentation features within applications.

Actuate Java Components

Commercial BIRT & BIRT Spreadsheet Engines: Embedded choices continue with Actuate content generation engines for Web 2.0 content and Excel Spreadsheets. Actuate offers a commercial content generation engine for BIRT reports and also a spreadsheet generation and manipulation engine called BIRT Spreadsheet Designer Engine and API.. Each integrates seamlessly into Java applications, allowing them to provide advanced functionality while supporting common output formats such as web reports, PDF documents and Excel spreadsheets.

BIRT Viewers:

Actuate BIRT Viewers embed easily within larger Java Applications. Actuate offers a variety of commercial BIRT viewing components for improved viewing performance (BIRT Viewer), report interactivity (BIRT Interactive Viewer), and embeddable ad-hoc authoring (BIRT Studio). Each offers new degrees of freedom to every user, and adds vital, high-value features to applications.

BIRT Deployment Kit

The BIRT Deployment Kit: This is a self-contained deployment package for providing on-demand reports and dashboard and interactive content to users or within applications. The BIRT Deployment Kit automatically creates parameter selection pages and offers a lightweight file system-based repository for storing reports and designs. This eliminates the common work associated with running or hosting BIRT and BIRT Spreadsheet engines.

BIRT iServer

BIRT iServer Express: For projects that require additional functionality such as scheduling, document versioning and dashboard features, BIRT iServer Express is a single-server information delivery system that sets up quickly and is simple to manage. BIRT iServer Express includes many traditional BI server features such as an integrated metadata layer, a customizable information console, and an extensive API library to ensure that it will seamlessly fit within the department.

BIRT iServer Enterprise: The Actuate flagship is an industrial-strength content delivery server, used by the largest information self-service systems in the world. BIRT iServer Enterprise can host multiple projects within a center of excellence, and can create and serve BIRT, e.Report and BIRT Spreadsheet content at breathtaking rates. BIRT iServer Enterprise offers flexible configuration, while providing high-availability features such as clustering, mult-tier architectures, fail-over, load balancing and archiving. BIRT iServer Enterprise is best when the information matters most. It can be found in the data centers of the largest financial services organizations, governments and other information-powered industries.

Common Technologies Across Deployments

Common throughout all these deployment alternatives are the following core technologies and capabilities:

• BIRT Interactive Viewing, BIRT Flash Objects and BIRT Studio 
• BIRT Spreadsheet with unmatched live spreadsheet generation and management
• Extensive integration and management capabilities to ensure that Actuate blends seamlessly into the host application and environment
• Actuate deployment experience to ensure that every project implementation ends in success.