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1Actuate Corporation © 2007
Actuate 9 Technical Overview and Product Update
Paul ClenahanVP, Product ManagementActuate
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Product Update: Agenda
Overview
Open Source
Business Intelligence and Reporting
Performance Management
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CommercialCommercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Actuate 9 Product Suite
Embedded Reporting Engine Enterprise ReportingWorkgroup Reporting
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Notification & DistributionClustering & High Availability
Security & Application Integration
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Recent Releases
Open Source
BIRT 2.1.2 Maintenance Release Feb, 2007
BIRT 2.2 Major Release Jun, 2007
BIRT 2.2.1 Maintenance Release Sep, 2007
A Busy 12 Months!
Business Intelligence and Reporting
Actuate 9 Major Release Sep, 2006
Actuate 9 SP1 Service Pack Dec, 2006
Actuate 9 SP2 Service Pack Jul, 2007
Performance Management
Performancesoft Track 1.2 Minor Release Jan, 2007
Performancesoft Views 7.2 Minor Release Apr, 2007
Performancesoft Track 1.3 Minor Release Jun, 2007
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CommercialCommercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Actuate 9 Product Suite
Embedded Reporting Engine Enterprise ReportingWorkgroup Reporting
PerformancesoftPerformancesoft
e.R
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iServer ServicesReport Scheduling & Management
Notification & DistributionClustering & High Availability
Security & Application Integration
iServer ServicesReport Scheduling & Management
Notification & DistributionClustering & High Availability
Security & Application Integration
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Open Source Reporting: Eclipse BIRT
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Over 1 Million Downloadsas of June, 2007
BIRT = Business Intelligence and Reporting Technology
• Open source initiative as part of the Eclipse Foundation
• Founded, organized and led by Actuate
• Project launched in October, 2004
• Next generation technology
• Eclipse-based Report Designer
• Web-centric design metaphor
• Open Source with rapid adoption
• Standards based
• Open XML design format
Project Highlights
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Eclipse BIRT 2.2
• Dynamic Crosstab Support
• New Aggregation Builder
• Layout Preference
• Link to External CSS files
• Ability to use Styles in highlight rules
• Style support for Table of Contents
• Report Parameter Changes
• Property Editor Enhancements
• New Advanced Properties
• XML Source Editor Enhancements
• New Chart Types
• Improvements to Existing Charts
• New simple chart API
• XLS Emitter
• Word Emitter
• PPT Emitter
• Postscript Emitter
• Web Service ODA
• Flat File Data Source Updates
• Joint Data Set Improvement
• Dynamic Connection Profiles
• Application Context access
• BIRT Web Project Wizard
• BIRT Tag Library
• BIRT Chart Deployment
• ODA Project Wizards
• Report Examples View
• New Chart Examples View
Open Source BIRT Report 2.2 New Features
Part of Eclipse “Europa” simultaneous releaseReleased on June 27, 2007, simultaneously with 20 other Eclipse projects
Part of Eclipse “Europa” simultaneous releaseReleased on June 27, 2007, simultaneously with 20 other Eclipse projects
• Support for a wider range of report types and easier report development
• New chart types and more control over charts
• New output formats to common office tools
• New data sources and improved data access
• Easier application integration and extension development
• Support for a wider range of report types and easier report development
• New chart types and more control over charts
• New output formats to common office tools
• New data sources and improved data access
• Easier application integration and extension development
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Eclipse BIRT 2.2 Crosstabs
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Eclipse BIRT 2.2 Crosstabs
Dynamic Crosstab Support
• New Report Item on palette
• Drag and drop creation
• Multiple level support
• Built on cube engine
• …many features
Quickly and Easily Incorporate Crosstabs in BIRT Reports
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Eclipse BIRT 2.2 Output Formats
New Output Formats
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• PostScript
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CommercialCommercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Actuate 9 Product Suite
Embedded Reporting Engine Enterprise ReportingWorkgroup Reporting
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iServer ServicesReport Scheduling & Management
Notification & DistributionClustering & High Availability
Security & Application Integration
iServer ServicesReport Scheduling & Management
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Report Producers Report ConsumersReport Producers Report Consumers
Collaborative Reporting Architecture
Actuate BIRT BusinessReports Interactive Viewing PrintedOutput
Power Users & Business UsersPower Users & Business Users
Casual Users, Customers & PartnersCasual Users, Customers & Partners
Application Developers, Data Architects & Report Designers
Application Developers, Data Architects & Report Designers
Web-basedad hoc reporting Web-based personalization
Client/Server web-report development
Common Report Design
Common, BIRT-based design format
• Skills-specific environments for every user
• Open: Eclipse, Java, portlets, XML, AJAX
• Design sharing & interactive viewing for everyone
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Actuate BIRT Product Line
Actuate BIRT Report Interactive Viewer
Web tool for exploring and manipulating report documentsAnswer ad hoc business questions without writing a report
Actuate BIRT Options for iPortal and iServer
Ready-to-go deployment servers for BIRT ReportsScheduling, security, email notifications, report management, …
Actuate BIRT Report Designers
Desktop tools for professional IT developers and power usersOpen Source BIRT plus, one-click installer and data adapters
Actuate BusinessReport Studio
Web tool for BIRT report creation by business usersSimple to use yet powerful template based model
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Collaborative Reporting Architecture:Actuate 9 SP2 Updates
Responding to Early Adopter Feedback on Actuate 9
BusinessReport Studio
• Support for reports with multiple detail lines
• Enhanced column header and label control
Interactive Viewer
• Wider filtering flexibility with compound filters
• Easily select and act on multiple columns
• More control over chart properties
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Collaborative Reporting Architecture:Actuate 9 SP2 Updates
• More control over printed report layout in BusinessReports• Improved generation of PDF output for printing• “Scale to page size” for wide reports
Better Support for Printed Reports
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e.Reports: Brochure Quality Reporting
Conditional formatting
Developer Productivity Improvements
• Conditional formatting without writing code
• Range of IDE enhancements
Improved Text Handling, Graphics and Charts for Brochure Quality Reports
• Full justification / keep next / keep together / soft hyphenation in dynamic text
• Improved custom component creation
• New Bubble Chart support
Information Objects Integration
• New Query Export tool to quickly prototype an Information Object
• Information Object Designer now bundled with e.Report Designer Pro
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e.Reports: Output to PowerPoint
Fully editable – Users can add annotations or amend content
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e.Spreadsheet: Automated Spreadsheet Generation
Support for large end-user populations and less technical report developers
• SmartSheet Security – “Page level security” but with finer granularity• Each user only sees the report components for which he/she is authorized
• Updated, easier to learn and more powerful user interface• Listing Wizard: Enables users to quickly create simple listing reports
• New Report Functions for easier development and internationalization support
• Extended security control in Actuate 9 SP2 with Dynamic Cell Locking• Cell locking can now be controlled on a user by user basis
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Performance Improvements
BusinessReport Studio
BIRT Reports Interactive Viewer
BIRT Reports
Information Objects
e.Spreadsheets
Significant Performance Tuning in Actuate 9 SP2
User Responsiveness and Throughput
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Collaborative Reporting Benchmark
• Test conducted at IBM’s leading edge lab in San Mateo, CA
• Environment was 8-node iServer cluster, total 64 CPU cores
• Near-perfect scalability up to 64 cores for batch generation, transient generation, standard viewing and interactive viewing
• 1.8 billion report pages generated per day!
• Support for 43,000 active users viewing cached reports
• Support for 10,000+ active users running on demand reports
• Support for 10,000+ active users interactively viewing reports
• Support for 1,000 active users of BusinessReport Studio
• 43,000 active users is equivalent to a 430,000 to 4,300,000 user population, depending on typical concurrency rate
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BIRT Exchange Community Site
Centralized Knowledge Hub for BIRT Developers
• Access Demos. Tutorials, Tips & Techniques, Documentation, …
• Easy for users to contribute content, share knowledge
• Enables developers to be more productive and build applications faster
Share• Report designs• Code samples• Technical tipsDownload• Documentation• SoftwareFind• Search, Sort• Rate• Comment
www.birt-exchange.comwww.birt-exchange.com
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Summary
Learn More…
• Technical Summary of New Features: e.Support > Products > New Features
• BIRT Exchange: www.birt-exchange.com
Enterprise Reporting: Actuate 9 SP2
Community: BIRT Exchange
Open Source: BIRT 2.2
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