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Interactive Reporting BIRT

The document presents an overview of Eclipse BIRT, a top-level Eclipse project focused on business intelligence and reporting tools. It highlights BIRT's architecture, ease of use, and the active community behind it, with over 6.5 million downloads. Additionally, it emphasizes the technology's capabilities in data visualization and its integration with various applications.

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Interactive Reporting BIRT

The document presents an overview of Eclipse BIRT, a top-level Eclipse project focused on business intelligence and reporting tools. It highlights BIRT's architecture, ease of use, and the active community behind it, with over 6.5 million downloads. Additionally, it emphasizes the technology's capabilities in data visualization and its integration with various applications.

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Interactive Reporting with

Eclipse BIRT

Abhisek Sinha
Product Manager, Actuate

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Agenda

• Background
• The Emergence of the BIRT Project
• BIRT Architecture
• Getting to Know BIRT: Demo
• BIRT Design Gallery
• Summary

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Business Intelligence and Reporting

Purchase Account
Orders Transaction Histories
Most applications have some type of
Budget Supplier Sales data visualization need…
Variance Status Commision
And the simple problems are easy, but…
Online and Daily Work
Printed Order
Statements Task Lists Real-world data visualization is
challenging…
Shipping Defect • Gather the data
Manifests Invoices
Tracking
• Perform calculations, sort, group,
Network Assets aggregate, total…
Outage Under
Frequency Management • Present information professionally
Utility
Deviation from Bills 360° …and meeting user demand is crucial to
Service Level Customer
Objectives Views the success of an application
Sales Website
Commissions Traffic Analysis
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Actuate Launches the BIRT Project

Actuate proposed and started Actuate Joins


BIRT Eclipse Foundation
as Strategic Developer
Business Intelligence and Board Member
and Reporting Tools Project
… a top-level Eclipse project Adds BI and Reporting
as Open Source Project

Professional open source


Primary development resources
funded by Actuate

Contributions from many sources


IBM, Innovent Solutions and community AUGUST

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BIRT Momentum
Downloads

BIRT Downloads
“BIRT is one of the top 10
4,500 most downloaded
4,000 commercially supported
Thousands of downloads

More than 6.5 million


3,500 open source applications
downloads through
3,000 December 2008 and has a tremendous
2,500
growth curve over the last
two years.”
2,000
Andrew Aitken,
1,500
Managing Partner,
1,000 Olliance Group
500
0
2005 2006 2007 2008

BIRT technology is tried and tested in many applications


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Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools

A New Generation of Data Visualization Technology


•
Makes all data-driven content development easy
•
Modern, web-page design metaphor
•
Open and standards-based
•
Flexible with rich programmatic control
•
Full support for libraries and reuse
•
Foundation for a range of solutions

Simplicity Power
that makes to create
simple
BIRT very complex
layouts easy layouts

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High-Level BIRT Architecture

BIRT Designer

Eclipse Eclipse Chart


Designer DTP, Designer
WTP,…

Design Engine

XML
Design

Document
BIRT Engine
Generation Charting
Services Engine

HTML
Data Presentation
PDF
Data Services Services
Excel
Word
Data PowerPoint
PostScript
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High Level BIRT Architecture: APIs

BIRT Designer

Eclipse Chart
Custom Designer
DTP, UI Designer
WTP,… Chart UI API

BIRT Engine

XML
Design
Engine API

Document
BIRT Engine
Generation Charting
Services Engine
Scripting API Chart Engine API

HTML
Data Presentation
PDF
Data Services Services
Open Data Access Emitter API Excel
Word
Data PowerPoint
PostScript
8
…
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Getting to Know BIRT

DEMO

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BIRT Design Gallery

Charts and Tables

Listing with Groups and Sub-Totals

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BIRT Design Gallery

Crosstab and Charts

Crosstabs

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BIRT Design Gallery

Forms

Calendar / Schedule

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BIRT Design Gallery

Multi-Language and Bi-Directional

Dashboards

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BIRT Chart Gallery

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BIRT Chart Gallery

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BIRT Chart Gallery

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Resources
BIRT Exchange Community Site

Centralized hub for BIRT developers


• Access demos, tutorials, tips and techniques, documentation…
• Enables developers to be more productive and build applications faster
• Marketplace for applications
Explore
• Search/sort
• Rate, comment
• Forums
Download
• Documentation
• Software
• Examples
Contribute
• BIRT designs, code
• Technical tips
[Link] • Applications
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Summary

A New Generation of Data Visualization Technology

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Top-level Eclipse project
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Powerful, extensible data visualization
technology
•
Easy-to-use, web-centric design
metaphor
•
Very active community with more than
6.5 million downloads
•
Actuate extends and complements
BIRT with value-added technology

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Interactive Reporting with
Eclipse BIRT

Q&A
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