BIRT 360 Dashboards product summary, features, benefits, design, deployment options, and more

1. The people behind BIRT ™
BIRT 360:
User-Configurable Operational
and Analytic Dashboards
The latest Actuate release introduces BIRT-based dashboards
to its suite of commercial products. BIRT 360 is a browser-
based, zero-footprint application that uses the popular
Google Gadget framework, allowing users to not only
leverage BIRT-based gadgets but also third-party Google
Gadgets to create mashup applications. These dashboards
include:
• Operational Dashboards for continuous KPI monitoring
• Analytic Dashboards for in-memory visual data analysis
and exploration
BIRT 360 was built to ensure an unparalleled user experience,
providing visual data exploration functionality and guided
analytic applications for less-experienced users.
BIRT 360 ActuateOne is a product suite for rapidly developing and
deploying custom BI Applications and Rich Information
Product Applications that leverage BIRT, a leading open source Eclipse
project founded and led by Actuate. BIRT is the premier
Summary development environment for presenting data from multiple,
disparate data sources in compelling visualizations to users.
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2. Product Summary: BIRT 360
Overview ActuateOne is a product suite for
rapidly developing and deploying
The latest Actuate release introduces custom BI Applications and Rich
BIRT-based dashboards to its suite Information Applications that leverage
of commercial products. BIRT 360 BIRT, a leading open source Eclipse
is a browser- based, zero-footprint
project founded and led by Actuate.
application that uses the popular
Google Gadget framework, allowing BIRT is the premier development
users to not only leverage BIRT- environment for presenting data from
based gadgets but also third-party multiple, disparate data sources in
Google Gadgets to create mashup compelling visualizations to users.
applications. These dashboards
include: Applications built with ActuateOne
provide users with one user
• Operational dashboards for experience regardless of task, tool
continuous KPI monitoring or skill level; are supported by one
• Analytic Dashboards for in-memory server with a set of services to
visual data analysis and exploration support any deployment and are
built with one design using BIRT.
BIRT 360 was built to ensure an BIRT 360 provides users with unprecedented features,
unparalleled user experience, ActuateOne provides organizations
providing visual data exploration with agile, self-service access to any including self-service dashboard creation,
functionality and guided analytic data source or document print stream, customization and sharing.
applications for less-experienced users. with a quick time to market and the
ability to grow with success.
As with other BIRT content, BIRT 360
dashboards are fully compatible
with other BIRT content and can be
embedded in other applications.
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3. Product Summary: BIRT 360
Operational Dashboards Google Gadget Specification-
With BIRT 360, business users can based Dashboard Container
interact with or drill-down on BIRT 360 is fully compliant with the
individual KPIs to answer specific Google gadget specification, and
business questions. The operational can host any Actuate or third-party
dashboards interface is designed gadgets inside a single dashboard or
for business users to allow them to enable any Google gadget container
create their custom dashboard pages to host Actuate gadgets. This facilitates
without IT intervention. rapid creation of mashup applications
that combine services from Actuate
Analytic Dashboards and non-Actuate products.
BIRT 360 analytic dashboards are
visual data exploration applications. Compelling Adobe Flash®-based
Combining a set of filter and slicer Data Visualizations
gadgets with a set of KPIs built using By incorporating Adobe Flash,
rich visualizations, users are prompted Actuate offers a wide range of data
to explore and drill down into data visualizations for business users to
to gain insights. BIRT 360 makes it choose from when developing their
KPIs.
The new Gadget Gallery in BIRT 360 provides users
easy for business users familiar with
a dataset to create new analytic with easy access to a vast catalog
dashboards. of drag-and-drop data visualizations.
• Dashboards show a list of connectors,
making them easy to use for less-
skilled users
• Visual data representation
• Drill-down/up analysis
• Crosstab support
• Pre-built or
• User constructed
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4. Product Summary: BIRT 360
Features • Choose existing KPIs: Allows users
Actuate Release 11 presents users to choose any KPI from an existing
with configurable dashboards, BIRT Gadget Gallery, existing BIRT
enabling them to create a dashboard documents, new KPIs constructed
using Actuate BIRT content or outside using BIRT 360 or any third-party or
content: Google gadget.
• Share KPIs: Save and share KPIs;
BIRT 360 Operational Dashboards they’re stored complete in the
For operational dashboard users, BIRT encyclopedia. Share complete
360 provides monitoring, linking, dashboards with other users for
sharing, and user self service in effective collaboration.
operational dashboard creation and • Create and share dashboards and
usage: mashboard applications: assemble
applications from Actuate BIRT
• Continuously monitor KPIs: Lets end
content, Google Maps, etc. This
users interact with or use drill-down
information can be linked within the
capabilities on individual KPIs to
answer questions with a 360-degree
dashboard for additional insight into BIRT 360 allows developers to customize the UI,
the data
view of their business
• Choose gadgets: the new Gadget
seamlessly integrating the dashboard
• Create dashboards with multiple
pages: users can view multiple
Gallery ships with a set of existing with other corporate web content.
data visualizations (gadgets), to
perspectives of the same data.
which IT can add frequently used/
• Link KPIs: Provides true self-
requested items. Examples could
service environment for creating
include:
custom dashboard pages; KPI
• Corporate KPIs grouped by function
linker automatically establishes
such as sales, marketing, etc.
communications between related
• User-generated KPIs
KPIs on a single dashboard page
• Pre-existing KPIs
using drag-and-drop construction.
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5. Product Summary: BIRT 360
BIRT 360 Analytic Dashboards BIRT 360 also features new create,
Actuate BIRT 360 analytic dashboards display and usage options for both
allow users to create their own operational and analytic dashboard
dashboards, using their own or other users. In the Gadget Gallery, which
KPIs, in order to perform comparative replaces the previous gadget sidebar,
and root-cause analyses and to spot users can:
anomalies: • Create new gadgets from any report
• Create KPIs: users can create KPIs, or reportlet
automatically linking them to data • Specify a shared use gadget – “all”
objects • Subscribe to gadgets
• Create dashboards with multiple • Specify a single (operator) user
pages: users can view multiple • Populate the gadget gallery
perspectives of the same data. themselves
• Visually explore data: BIRT 360 gives • Specify parameters (hardwire) or
users a guided environment, which is • Use parameters to update
conducive to easy software adoption information across all gadgets with
• Perform comparative and root cause “new selector;” they can also see new
analyses: Users can link disparate parameter as a new gadget
data sources to create comparative • Use enabled operations to make
dashboards. Linked items can provide changes directly to a report in a
insight into root causes of issues, dashboard BIRT 360 allows business users to create their own KPIs and
allowing users to correct underlying • Browse out to Google, or other sites visually explore data in an interactive,
and pull in non-Actuate content
problems. user friendly interface.
• Create dashboards: Gadgets in (gadgets)
dashboards can include many
different dashboard types (charts,
etc.) that can help users quickly spot
trends and anomalies
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6. Product Summary: BIRT 360
Benefits • Functionality – Easy and interactive
UI makes gadgets not only popular—
The BIRT 360 engine makes full use they offer instant adoption
of the new Actuate 11 architecture, • Selection – BIRT Designer ships
providing in-memory analysis though with more than 250 gadgets; in
intelligent use of memory and disc addition, users can browse out of the
caching. This benefit is available in application and import virtually any
both 32- and 64-bit environments: third-party Google gadget
• In a 64-bit environment, there is no True user self service
memory cap—everything runs in
Actuate BIRT 360 enables users to
memory.
consolidate KPIs on a single page for
• In a 32-bit environment, data is
continuous and effective monitoring:
swapped between disc and available
memory to speed up processing. • Lets end users interact with or use
drill-down capabilities on individual
Actuate BIRT 360 provides users with
KPIs to answer questions.
gadgets and a Gadget Gallery that
• Provides true self-service environment
meet expectations:
for creating custom dashboard pages;
• Presentation – Functional, attention- automatic KPI linker automatically
getting gadgets allow users to establishes communications between
immediately understand what the related KPIs on a single dashboard When an action is selected,
data mean page using drag-and-drop for example, clicking a spending category in the list,
• Ease of use – True drag-and- construction.
• Allows users to choose any KPI from
the entire dashboard of metrics changes
drop functionality and easy data
association make the interface user an existing BIRT document, new KPIs to reflect that category.
friendly and user usable constructed using BIRT 360 or any
• Interactivity – Many gadgets actually third-party Google gadget.
allow users to physically manipulate
buttons, gauges, etc. to easily
create and view what-if scenarios;
linked items reflect those changes
immediately
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7. Product Summary: BIRT 360
The Progressive • BIRT iServer: enables the use of BIRT
Information Objects, and includes
Design Process scheduling, versioning, and archiving
BIRT 360 is the newest member functions, allowing users to run both
of Actuate’s progressive design on-demand and scheduled reports
architecture, which brings the without IT intervention but within
principles of open source to IT-control. This highly scalable
information applications and implementation of Actuate services
encourages participation, iterative provides multi-server, multi-project
development and modularity. BIRT support; high-availability clustering,
360 drives business user self-service in failover and load balancing;
collaborative reporting. The progressive metadata caching; and enterprise
design architecture includes: management and tuning features
• BIRT onDemand: Actuate’s Platform
• BIRT 360: Operational and analytic as a Service (PaaS) offering, which
user-created dashboards for a enables any user, anywhere, to access
360-degree view of the business in a enterprise information via the Web,
true self-service environment. without downloading/installing
• BIRT Data Analyzer: In-memory BIRT 360 is part
Actuate BIRT desktop products.
analytics application that helps of the ActuateOne
These options provide an array of products line,
business users uncover trends,
choices from which to create unique which provides
identify anomalies and model
information applications that appeal every user in the
scenarios. enterprise
• BIRT Reports: web reports based on to any user.
with the tools
open-source BIRT technology from Within the progressive design required to make
the Eclipse project, available without architecture structure, BIRT designs sound business
charge from BIRT Exchange. can be shared among highly decisions
• BIRT Studio: self-service, ad-hoc web skilled developers, business users based on current,
report development within IT control and consumers. This encourages available data.
• BIRT Interactive Viewer: end user participation and supports an iterative
report viewing and customization development environment, which
• BIRT Mobile Viewer for iPhone: allows speeds development and adoption of
users to mobilize and carry corporate information applications.
information wherever they go.
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8. Product Summary: BIRT 360
Deployment
Options
BIRT 360 is designed to be used with
BIRT iServer. It effortlessly delivers
personalized BIRT report content to all
authorized users.
System
Requirements
Overall system requirements vary with
options chosen. For a system analysis
based on your specific needs, please
contact an Actuate expert at 1-800-
914-2259 (US & Canada) or contact us
by email. You can also contact one of Applications built with ActuateOne provide users with one
our offices worldwide.
user experience regardless of task, tool or skill level; are
For More supported by one server with a set of services to support
Information any deployment and are built with one design using BIRT.
To get more information about BIRT ActuateOne provides organizations with a quick time to
360, please contact an Actuate expert market and the ability to grow with success.
at 1-800-914-2259 (US & Canada)
or contact us by email. You can also
contact one of our offices worldwide.
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