Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTU), The people behind BIRT® and
the leader in open source Business Intelligence, today announced
the release of BIRT 360 and BIRT Data Analyzer. These new additions
to the product line deliver flexible, highly adoptable in-memory
analytics and dashboarding capabilities and are part of ActuateOne
(see press release titled ‘Announcing ActuateOne’). In keeping with
the core tenets of ActuateOne, the analytics and dashboarding
capabilities are based upon one design, one server and one user
experience to improve developer productivity and optimize the end
user experience within a unified environment. ActuateOne includes
release 11 of Actuate’s value added products for the Eclipse BIRT
open source project.
As data consolidation and analysis requirements arise –
increasingly a daily occurrence – new, dimensionalized datasets can
be created in minutes and leveraged using ActuateOne. Analysis and
data consumption requirements rarely adhere to a fixed structure
for long - as often necessitated by data-warehouse-centric
architectures. ActuateOne enables BI analysts and end users to
remain agile in their thinking, by offering an easily modified and
responsive user experience that allows end users to visualize and
analyze data without help from IT.
“The requirement to make information more available and
analytics easier to generate has increased the demand for
technology that can bridge across IT and business,” said Mark
Smith, CEO and EVP Research at Ventana Research. “ActuateOne brings
new innovation in the simplicity of assembly of information and
analytics that make Business Intelligence and Information
applications more effective for businesses to consume and generate
through its sophistication in areas like open source, scalability
and mobility.”
“By integrating and simplifying how data from multiple sources
is handled and unifying it for users, Actuate is able to transform
the work of the open source Eclipse BIRT community into enhanced
and extended functionality for BI and information applications,
both open source and commercial,” said Jay Lyman, enterprise
software analyst with The 451 Group.
“We are looking forward to incorporating Actuate release 11 OLAP
analysis into our Internet Laboratory Information Management System
(ILIMS), so that clients of Charles River Diagnostic Services
worldwide can dynamically and easily generate flexible summaries of
their test results and of other ILIMS data,” said William Shek,
Senior Scientific Director, Charles River Laboratories
International, Inc.
BIRT Data Analyzer: In-memory Analytics No Longer Limited to
Power Users
ActuateOne introduces BIRT-based analytics that dramatically
simplify data analysis, providing business users with a dynamic
cross-tab analytic interface to help them make better decisions.
BIRT Data Analyzer helps business users uncover trends, identify
anomalies and model scenarios for business forecasting and improved
understanding of their data.
The new, in-memory online analytical processing (OLAP) analytics
capabilities are the result of significant enhancements in release
11 of Actuate’s value added offerings for BIRT, which support the
entire spectrum of rich data visualizations, interactivity and
analysis. The ActuateOne architecture provides multiple ways to
embed and contextually deliver information to users to address
their analytics needs while promoting efficiency and productivity
through reuse.
BIRT 360: User-driven Analytic and Operational
Dashboards
ActuateOne adds BIRT 360, an integrated dashboard capability
that puts the power to create dashboards in the hands of users,
freeing up IT time and resources. BIRT 360 utilizes the popular
Google Gadget standard, thus enabling BIRT 360 to not only leverage
BIRT-based gadgets but also third-party Google Gadgets to create
mashup applications.
BIRT 360 provides users with two types of dashboards, both of
which enable any user to create visually rich, dynamic dashboards
on the fly:
- Operational dashboards:
Business users can interact with or drill-down on individual KPIs
to answer specific business questions. The dashboard interface is
designed for business users to allow them to create custom
dashboard pages without IT intervention and continuously monitor
KPIs for faster response to changing data.
- Analytic dashboards: BIRT
360 Analytic Dashboards are visual data exploration applications.
Combining a set of filter gadgets with a set of KPIs built using
rich visualizations, users are prompted to explore and drill-down
into data to gain insights into their business. BIRT 360 makes it
easy for business users to uncover trends and perform root-cause
analysis.
BIRT 360 also allows any combination of the above as well as
incorporating interactive BIRT reports, web pages and any other web
content that leverages the Google Gadgets standard. Using BIRT 360,
users are able to incorporate diverse information sources into one
highly visual and highly interactive dashboard.
“Live” Excel® spreadsheets
ActuateOne includes the ability to export BIRT content to Excel®
to create analysis-ready “live” spreadsheets. Business users can
now perform “what-if” analysis on the exported workbook. Users can
also choose to export the entire BIRT document or a single item
like a chart, table or crosstab to Excel, giving them the
flexibility to limit the data they want to analyze. Enhanced
capabilities of the Excel emitter include:
- Export BIRT charts as live,
editable charts in Excel - BIRT charts are converted to live Excel
charts with an associated data sheet containing the underlying
data. Hence, the business user can alter the visualizations as
needed or perform analysis by editing the exported data sheet and
instantly see the results of their analysis in the charts.
- Export BIRT crosstabs to Pivot
Tables in Excel – BIRT crosstabs are exported as pivot tables along
with a separate Excel data sheet containing the underlying data for
further analysis.
- Maintain aggregations and
calculations in Excel – Aggregations in the BIRT design are
converted to the corresponding Excel functions and formulas,
enabling users to see the impact of their ‘what-if’ analysis in the
spreadsheet. BIRT developers can leverage EasyScript, an Excel-like
scripting language, to create formulas and aggregations that are
converted to their corresponding functions in Excel.
“The ability of Actuate release 11 to support diverse user needs
with functionality such as in-memory analytics and operational
dashboards via a single BIRT-based content design should really
streamline development, resulting in faster deployment,” said Sunil
Kamerkar, Principal of Reporting House. “We’ve always enjoyed the
flexibility of BIRT, but these additions raise the bar in BIRT’s
appeal for the end users. With the new enhanced graphics, Flash®
Objects and personalized dashboards; we believe the demand for
release 11 among our client base will be strong to say the
least.”
“With ActuateOne’s one user experience, one design and one
server, we’re in a position to provide “instant on” analytics,
visualization and interactivity,” said Pete Cittadini, CEO and
President, Actuate. “By simply turning on ActuateOne to underpin an
existing system created using open source BIRT, an enterprise IT
department not only realizes all of the benefits and production
reliability risk reduction that iServer is famous for. They also
realize significant cost reduction by empowering end users to be
self sufficient.”
Pricing and Availability
ActuateOne includes release 11 of Actuate’s value-added products
for the BIRT open source project, including the latest release of
BIRT iServer and two new options, BIRT 360 and BIRT Data Analyzer.
ActuateOne will be ready to ship by the end of September and will
be generally available in October, 2010. Pricing is available in
Named User, Unlimited User CPU Core and flexible Work Unit
models.
To Find Out More
To learn more about ActuateOne visit www.actuate.com/ActuateOne.
To get more detail on the new features in release 11 visit:
www.actuate.com/products or register for the upcoming web seminar
titled ‘Game Changing BI: One Design, One Server, One User
Experience’ by visiting www.actuate.com/A11Webinar.
Actuate – The people behind BIRT
Actuate founded and co-leads the Eclipse BIRT open source
project. ActuateOne is a unified suite of products for rapidly
developing and deploying BIRT-based custom Business Intelligence
applications and information applications. Applications built with
ActuateOne provide one user experience regardless of task or
skill level; are supported by one server for any deployment
including cloud and are built with one BIRT design that can
access and integrate any data source - including high volume print
streams. ActuateOne adds rich data visualizations, including
interactivity, dashboards, analytics, and deployment options to web
and mobile BIRT applications, helping organizations drive revenue
through higher customer satisfaction and improved operational
performance.
Actuate has over 4,600 customers globally in a diverse range of
business areas including financial services and the public sector.
Founded in 1993, Actuate is headquartered in San Mateo, California,
with offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the
symbol ACTU. For more information, visit the company’s web site at
www.actuate.com or visit the BIRT community at
www.birt-exchange.com
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