Technical Overview and Product UpdatePaul Clenahan<br />Over 1 Million Downloads<br />as of June, 2007<br />Open source initiative as part of the Eclipse Foundation<br />Founded, organized and led by Actuate<br />Project launched in October, 2004<br />Next generation technology<br />Eclipse-based Report Designer<br />Web-centric design metaphor<br />Standards based<br />Part of Eclipse “Europa” simultaneous release<br />Released on June 27, 2007, simultaneously with 20 other Eclipse projects<br />Support for a wider range of report types and easier report development<br />New chart types and more control over charts<br />New output formats to common office tools<br />New data sources and improved data access<br />Easier application integration and extension development<br />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<br />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<br />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<br />* Actuate Corporation © 2007<br />Drag and drop creation<br />* Actuate Corporation © 2007<br />New Output Formats<br />Open: Eclipse, Java, portlets, XML, AJAX<br />Design sharing & interactive viewing for everyone<br />* Actuate Corporation © 2007<br />Web tool for exploring and manipulating report documents<br />Answer ad hoc business questions without writing a report<br />Actuate BIRT Options for iPortal and iServer<br />Ready-to-go deployment servers for BIRT Reports<br />Scheduling, security, email notifications, report management, …<br />Actuate BIRT Report Designers<br />Actuate BusinessReport Studio<br />Simple to use yet powerful template based model<br />* Actuate Corporation © 2007<br />Collaborative Reporting Architecture:<br />BusinessReport Studio<br />Enhanced column header and label control<br />Interactive Viewer<br />Easily select and act on multiple columns<br />More control over chart properties<br />* Actuate Corporation © 2007<br />Collaborative Reporting Architecture:<br />Improved generation of PDF output for printing<br />“Scale to page size” for wide reports<br />Better Support for Printed Reports<br />* Actuate Corporation © 2007<br />Range of IDE enhancements<br />Improved Text Handling, Graphics and Charts for Brochure Quality Reports<br />Full justification / keep next / keep together / soft hyphenation in dynamic text<br />Improved custom component creation<br />New Bubble Chart support<br />New Query Export tool to quickly prototype an Information Object<br />Information Object Designer now bundled with e.Report Designer Pro<br />* Actuate Corporation © 2007<br />* Actuate Corporation © 2007<br />SmartSheet Security – “Page level security” but with finer granularity<br />Each user only sees the report components for which he/she is authorized<br />Updated, easier to learn and more powerful user interface<br />Listing Wizard: Enables users to quickly create simple listing reports<br />New Report Functions for easier development and internationalization support<br />Extended security control in Actuate 9 SP2 with Dynamic Cell Locking<br />Cell locking can now be controlled on a user by user basis<br />Support for large end-user populations and less technical report developers<br />* Actuate Corporation © 2007<br />User Responsiveness and Throughput<br />* Actuate Corporation © 2007<br />Collaborative Reporting Benchmark<br />Test conducted at IBM’s leading edge lab in San Mateo, CA<br />Environment was 8-node iServer cluster, total 64 CPU cores<br />Near-perfect scalability up to 64 cores for batch generation, transient generation, standard viewing and interactive viewing<br />1.8 billion report pages generated per day!<br />Support for 43,000 active users viewing cached reports<br />Support for 10,000+ active users running on demand reports<br />Support for 10,000+ active users interactively viewing reports<br />Support for 1,000 active users of BusinessReport Studio<br />43,000 active users is equivalent to a 430,000 to 4,300,000 user population, depending on typical concurrency rate<br />* Actuate Corporation © 2007<br />Collaborative Reporting Benchmark<br />* Actuate Corporation © 2007<br />Easy for users to contribute content, share knowledge<br />Enables developers to be more productive and build applications faster<br />Share<br />BIRT Exchange: www.birt-exchange.com<br />Community: BIRT Exchange<br />0<br />10,000<br />20,000<br />30,000<br />40,000<br />50,000<br />0816243240485664
