1 Actuate Corporation © 2009 Actuate Confidential ActuateONE Server Technology for Cloud Environments Jeff Morris VP Product Marketing Actuate Corp

1Actuate Corporation © 2009

Actuate Confidential

ActuateONE Server Technology for Cloud Environments

Jeff Morris

VP Product Marketing

Actuate Corp.


BIRT is Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools

Actuate BIRT recognized as a Leader in open source

Business Intelligence

Actuate BIRT is the only Leader in

“The Forrester Wave:™Open Source

Business Intelligence (BI),Q3 2010”

Actuate are the people behind BIRT

BIRT is Eclipse open source



10.4M

Actuate11

BIRT Project Timeline

Founded Eclipse BIRTOpen Source

Project

BIRT becomes foundation

for Actuate 9 product line

1M 4M

BIRT downloads

BIRT1.0

BIRT2.1

BIRT2.3

BIRT Exchange

Actuate10

Actuate9

BIRT2.5

BIRT2.0

BIRT2.2

6.5M

BIRT2.6

BIRTIndigo

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Actuate11SP2

BIRT onDemand

BIRT is centerpiece of ActuateOne one design, one server,

one user experience


Actuate CustomersFinancial Services at the Core


Why Customers Choose BIRT

ONE open deployment platform that confidently grows with success

ONE easy, open source, web-based design• integrates multiple data sources• speeds development while lowering costs

Easy, yet powerful

content development

Predictable scalability

Tremendoususer

experience

ONE unified user environment that encourages self-service &

self-sufficiency

Anydata source

Document archives

as data sources



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Actuate is Selected by World’s Leading Organizations

Other sectors

• Blue chip companies• Major deployments to customers• Proven self service reporting

System Integrators• Open API’s, flexible & powerful• In use everywhere

Governments• Over 200 Agencies worldwide• Covering Federal & State & Local• Used by nearly ever Federal Agency

• 22 of Top 25 Global Commercial Banks• Million’s of users • Industry leader

Financial Services

OEM Applications & Partners • Embedded in 100’s of applications• In use everywhere

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Why BIRT?

Why do people use Actuate BIRT?• iServer: Scalability, Security• Federated data access in real time• Proven: 1 Million Developers• Rapid deployment & TCO• Page level security

End Users:• Zero training• Native MS office output • Interactive viewer – users can

Modify their reports without going

Back to Development• Collaborative, reusable components



What Is ActuateOne?

USER AGILITY AND SELF-SERVICEFAST TIME TO MARKET

Scalability for growth within any topology SaaS On-Premise Cloud

Interactive content

End-user dashboards

Analytics

Ad-hoc reports

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ANYDATA

SOURCE

DB’s &DW

DocArchives

WebServices

Finance

PrintStreams

ONE SERVERActuate iServer

Inside

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firewall

USERS

ONE BIRT DESIGNEclipse open-source core

ONE USER EXPERIENCE



Cloud Computing Drivers and Benefits

Trends1. IT organizations increasingly

moving to cloud infrastructure2. Primarily to private clouds

Business Drivers• Low barriers to entry and exit

(easy to terminate contracts)• Public clouds – avoid cap-ex on hardware/software/services/maintenance• Hybrid clouds – add/remove capacity cheaply• Private clouds – streamline existing infrastructure, low total costs over time• Data consolidation

Technology Drivers• Fast, low-cost broadband availability• Computing has become a commodity • Web systems demonstrate reliability• Reuse and standardization• Better, more flexible architectures

Benefits• Business agility• Environmentally friendly• Increased business continuity• Increased scalability• Disaster recovery• Modular security• Zero single points of failure

Scalability for growth within any topology SaaS On-Premise Cloud



Actuate’s view of Cloud Computing

• Convergence of virtualization and outsourcing of clustered computing environments as computing demand grows

Improved resource utilization as application and environmental complexity increases

Outsource location

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Reduced operating costs as application and environmental complexity increases


Attributes of Cloud Deployments

Enterprise Infrastructure location Internet

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Actuate Support for Centers of Excellence

Enterprise COE• High-availability cluster• Reuse across projects• Predictable scalability

• Proven linearity• Highest # of users• Largest # of pages

• CPU-based licensing


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IT-created “Computing Centers of Excellence” consolidate similar applications across the organization.• Reduce redundancy• Improve reliability and availability• Allocate costs according to usage• Enjoy higher degrees of reuse



ActuateOne One iServer Binary

Scheduling and distributionDocument management

Usage loggingAlerts and Subscriptions

SecurityHigh Availability

Multi-tenantTuning

Elastic Provisioning

ONE SERVERPhased-In Services

Scalability for growth

On-Premise Cloud On Demand

ACTUATE 113rd Party RDBMS for Encyclopedia Metadata

Cloud SupportWork Unit Licensing

In-memory 64 Bit Analytics


Benchmark Executive Summary

For all report generation and viewing, BIRT iServer demonstrated NEAR-LINEAR SCALABILITY against the de-facto standard SPECint Index

• 24,430 pages/second or 2.1 billion report pages generated per day• Total user populations of 40K to 4 million can be support for on-demand viewing of reports• 9,000 active users performing interactivity on reports• BIRT iServer maximizes capacity to provide best-in-class performance and scale. The performance of the

BIRT iServer increased linearly through an increase in hardware performance

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SPECint ActuateOne Performance Benchmark(parallel lines demonstrate linear scalability)

SPECInt Index for machine

On-Demand Viewing pages/second

Interactive Viewing pages/second

BIRT PDF @100 pages/second

BIRT Batch @100 pages/second


IT-Friendly, Multi-Tiered Architecture

Development Tier: IT builds reports, blueprints, metadata, & templates for different reporting styles

Storage & Data Tier: Dedicated, secure storage locations for accessing data, storing project & report content

Production Tier: Single, scalable cluster for generating report and analytic content

Presentation Tier: Tier for accessing & presenting reports, analytics, dashboard & ad-hoc content to users

Client Tier: Users consume content according to their analytic objective

ClientTier

(Web Browsers)

IEFirefox

Storage, Data Access & Integration Tier

DevelopmentTier

Mobile

i EMVF1 F2

i EMVF1 F2

iEII

EMVF1 F2

iEII DO

EMVF1 F2

iServer

Content Caching & Production

Tier

Presentation (Web/Portal)Dashboard

Tier

MgmtConsole

ICIC

Information Console

DO

EII DO EII DO



Actuate Information Objects & Data Objects

Other Apps

ATMtransactions

Data Warehouse

Investment Account

BankAccount

Customer Information

XML XML

XML

Combined Customer Accounts

Investment History

Customer Profile

Enterprise Customer Object

XMLXMLXML XML

Actuate iServer

• Common metadata layer to describe all data sources

• Common data access and integration layer to integrate and access data from any enterprise data source

• Re-usable objects to boost developer productivity

• Normalized data views that present query results to BIRT Data Objects

BDO



Portals Portlets Scorecards JSAPI Personalized Content iPhone Dashboards Blackberry

BIRT InteractiveViewer

BIRT 360Studio

BIRTData Analyzer

Actuate BIRT Data Objects Architecture

RDBMS Flat FilesSAP, PeopleSoft Mainframe/Legacy Web ServicesXML

<XML><XML>

Databases Warehouses/Marts Operational Data Stores Legacy Systems

Sales FinanceHR Partners Inventory

BIRT 360 Dashboard

MaterializedBIRT Data Marts

Transient BIRT Data Marts

BIRT iServer

Data Sources

InformationConsole

BIRT Engine


Enterprise scalability

Multi-project support• Per-project security,

portal & content

Embeddable technology

Multiple API’s• Feature mgmt API’s • Integration API’s• Data access framework

Actuate Features Appropriate for Hosted Applications


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Server features appeal to service providers,software vendors and internet-exposed applications.

Expand scalability to multiple projects, and very high volumes of users and content


Interactive Self-Service over the Internet

BIRT Mobile for iPad & Android Tablets

BIRT Data Analyzer Analysis-ReadyExport to Excel

BIRT 360:Dashboards

Interactive Viewer

Ad Hoc BIRT Studio



Design Once > Multiple Outputs


Private Cloud• RDBMS –powered

encyclopedia• Stateless iServer

image support• Dynamically

add/remove nodes• Flexible licensing

Center of Excellence Hosted SaaS

Actuate in Virtualized Environments


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hDesigned for cloud infrastructure to exploit cloud-computing efficiency



3rd Party RDBMS for Encyclopedia Metadata – Drivers and Benefits

Customers wanted…1. To leverage their existing

RDBMS expertise in the

administration of an iServer

2. The ability to report on

Encyclopedia metadata.

3. To expedite cluster restart

time in large, shared tenant

environments

Benefits

1. Less administration costs• Use existing in-house DB expertise• Multiple volumes can use same DB

2. Easier maintenance & upgrades to

iServer• Looser coupling between iServer and

DB• Updates of iServer does not require

metadata to be offline

3. Enhanced performance, scalability, and

robustness• Startup and shutdown of iServer fast• Multiple volumes online nearly

instantaneous

4. Simplified failover of clusters• Multiple encyclopedia services on

separate nodes per volume



Actuate iServerSOA-Based Architecture

Content Factory

ViewService

Scheduler

Message

Distributor

Information ObjectsEII Data Integration

Encyclopedia

Message Distribution ServiceDispatches work to each service

Content Factory ServiceExecutes queries and prepares content

View ServiceDelivers content securely in format requested by user

Encyclopedia ServiceStores designs and content objects in encyclopedia disk partitions, secures access to content, and manages metadata

SchedulerSchedules the productionand delivery of content

Information Objects and EIICentralizes, abstracts, integrates and re-uses data across reports, reducing load on transaction systems

Administration ServicesControl user security, logging, archiving, server admin

Admin



3rd Party RDBMS for Encyclopedia Metadata

Pre iServer 11

DHTMLXMLPDF

ExcelWord

Credentials

BIRT

Designers

DeveloperOne User

Experience

ProprietaryDB

Metadata

OneDesign

Scheduler

DataSources

CachedViews

FilePartition

Documents

Internet

Factory

Service

Encyclopedia

Service

MessageDistribution

Service


ViewService



3rd Party RDBMS for Encyclopedia Metadata

iServer 11

DHTMLXMLPDF

ExcelWord

Credentials

BIRT

Designers

Developer

Third-Party RDBMS

Metadata

OneDesign

Scheduler

DataSources

CachedViews

FilePartition

Documents

Factory

Service

Encyclopedia

Service

MessageDistribution

Service


ViewService

One User

Experience

Internet


Private Cloud

Public Cloud• AWS-based• Multi-instance,

multi-tenant• Big data

Center of Excellence Hosted SaaS

Actuate and BIRT onDemand


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Actuate 11 and Cloud Support

• G9000 experience efficient use of cloud infrastructure via Actuate 11 platform

1. Elastic cluster which supports varying the # of instances in response to varying loads.

2. Multi-tenant deployment flexibility enables using the same encyclopedia metadata DB for > 1 customer.

3. New licensing model – Work Unit model meters use of iServer services based on the amount of work units consumed.

• BIRT onDemand provides the power of BIRT as a PaaS offering including support for mobile access to BIRT content



Internet LAN

Actuate 11 iServer DeploymentSingle-Node Architecture

ApplicationServer Tier

VIP

InfoConsole

InfoConsole

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Storage Tier

iServer Tier

M Message Distribution ServicesF Factory ServicesV View ServicesE Encyclopedia ServicesI Information Object ServicesC Info Object Caching ServicesS Scheduling and Admin Services

Transient Storage

WebServices

API

JDBC

InfoConsole

InfoConsole

InfoConsole

InfoConsole

InfoConsole

InfoConsole

FilePartition

Documents

iServer 11Fire

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Shared DiskArrays / SAN

EncyclopediaTier

1 node1 volume

Metadata

Third-Party RDBMS

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In-memory analytics



iServer Node 1

LAN

E1

S V C

F M I

Actuate 11 iServer DeploymentCluster Architecture

VIP

InfoConsole

Fire

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iServer Tier

WebServices

API

JDBC

InfoConsole

InfoConsole

InfoConsole

FilePartition

Documents

Fire

wa

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Shared DiskArrays / SAN

Server AreaNetwork

iServer Node 2

F M I

S V C

E2

2 nodes1 volume

Metadata

Third-Party RDBMS

Internet


Storage Tier

EncyclopediaTier



LAN

Actuate 11 iServer DeploymentCluster Architecture

VIP

InfoConsole

Fire

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WebServices

API

VOLUME 2

InfoConsole

InfoConsole

InfoConsole

FilePartition

Documents

Fire

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2 nodes2 volumes

FilePartition

Documents

VOLUME 1

100% uptime 24x7x365


Storage Tier

iServer Tier

EncyclopediaTier

Internet

Metadata

Third-Party RDBMS

Metadata

Third-Party RDBMS

Server AreaNetwork

iServer Node 2

F M I

S V C

E2

iServer Node 1

E1

S V C

F M I



Multi-tenant Deployment Flexibility in Actuate 11

Database Schema 1

Volume 1 Metadata

Database Schema 2

Volume 2 Metadata

Dedicated metadata db configuration: 1 metadata database/schema to 1 volume

Database Schema

Volume 1 Metadata

Volume 2 Metadata

Shared metadata db configuration: 1 metadata database/schema for N volumesDefault configuration out of the box


onDemand in Amazon Web Services EC2



Multi-Tenant Hosting: hosted on-premises or cloud-based deployments*

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ActuateOne, Version 11 Features Features marked with are enabled via license key

Eclipse BIRT Design

Actuate BIRT Viewerw/MS Office & PDF export

ActuateInteractive

Viewer

Page-Level Security

Actuate StudioAd-hoc reports

Data AnalyzerAd-hoc Analysis

Actuate 360Ad-hoc & Analytic

Dashboards

BIRT Data ObjectIn-Memory Cache

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Actuate iServer

Scheduling; Encyclopedia; Metadata; Data Integration; API’s; Archiving; Security; Clustering; Administration…


Key Actuate innovations:• Stateless iServer & IC images• Dynamically add/remove, &

configure nodes• Flexible Capacity-based

Work Unit licensing• Lead by example w/ BoD

ActuateOne in the CloudCloud-Based Data Access, Scalability & Efficiency

ActuateCluster

iServer

iServer

iServer

iServer

Encyc. Files Encyc. DB

Info Console

Info Console

Info Console

Cloud Sources

SF.com,DB.com…

Internal DBs

PrivateSources

Open Source ETL

onDemand PaaS

AmazonRDS

BatchPrint

Email

SmartPhones & Tablets

BIRT Spreadsheets

BIRT PerformanceScorecards

BIRT Information Applications

Archives

BIRT Analytics

High-Availability & Security in the Cloud• Public, Private or Hybrid Cloud

• Multi-tenant, multi-instance virtualized environment

• IPSEC instance to instance security

• OS-encrypted File System w/RAID

• Replicated encyclopedia DB

• Replicated source DBs

Any Data• Hadoop / Hive • Direct connect over trusted IP• Access via Secure JDBC, Xenos, API or Web Services• ODAs for Amazon, Salesforce.com, Database.com



ActuateOne

USER AGILITY AND SELF-SERVICEFAST TIME TO MARKET

Scalability for growth BIRT onDemand SaaS On-Premise Cloud

Interactive Viewer Dynamic content

BIRT 360 End-user dashboards

BIRT Data AnalyzerIn-memory analytics &analysis ready Excel

BIRT Studio ad-hoc reports

PRINT ONLINE MOBILE

Zero training self-service

HTML PDF XLS DOC PPT

Scheduling and distribution

Document access & transformation

Usage logging

Alerts, error handling and subscriptions

Security

High availability

Multi-tenancy

Performance Tuning

Elasticprovisioning

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DATASOURCES

DB’s &DW

DocArchives

WebServices

Finance

PrintStreams

ONE SERVERActuate iServer

AgentsPartners

Customers

AnyEmployee

RepAnalyst

ManagerExecutive

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Easy to use

Multiple data sources

Powerful IDE

1 Million developers

Commercial data connectors

Flash widgets

Reuse libraries

ONE BIRT DESIGNEclipse open-source core

ONE USER EXPERIENCE


ANY Source • ONE Design • ONE Server • ONE User Experience

ONEBIRT

Design

ONEiServer

ONEUser

Experience

Data Sources

ONESystem of

Record

Agenda


Contact Us

To learn more about BIRT, contact Actuate:Phone: 1-650-645-3126Email: [email protected]

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