BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tools) is the world's most popular open source reporting tool. BIRT onDemand is a turnkey managed Cloud BI solution, designed to simplify your end user’s experience with complex data. Your existing applications are enhanced with transparent integration of analytical dashboards, interactive reports and stunning visualizations, all created in minutes.

1. The people behind BIRT ™
BIRT onDemand is a Platform as a Service (PAAS) offering
from Actuate that enables users to host their BIRT-based data
visualization apps in Actuate’s iServer environment. The BIRT
onDemand platform allows developers to unleash the power of
Rich Information Applications built with BIRT using the industry’s
premier information deployment platform, the BIRT iServer.
With a BIRT onDemand account, users gain access to the power
of the enterprise-level BIRT iServer, unleashing features such as
unmatched security, multiple format output (PDF, Excel or Word),
interactive viewing, Flash© data visualizations, and mobile access.
BIRT
A mobile client is already completely integrated with the BIRT
onDemand experience. When BIRT design or document is
onDemand
uploaded to an onDemand account, it can be quickly added to
a mobile client via the document’s context menu. If a business
Product
already has an iServer or iServer Express, it’s easy to deploy the
BIRT Mobile Framework for iServer and mobilize any BIRT content.
Summary The BIRT onDemand platform also provides the ideal environment
in which to deploy and test BIRT apps that can be downloaded
or purchased from the BIRT-Exchange.com Marketplace. Selected
apps are available for one-click install to your BIRT onDemand
account.
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2. Product Summary: BIRT onDemand
Overview onDemand account, it can be
quickly added to a mobile client via
BIRT onDemand is Available Now....Free!
BIRT onDemand is a Platform as a the document’s context menu. If a BIRT onDemand is currently available as a free trial on BIRT Exchange.
Service (PAAS) offering from Actuate business already has an iServer or While evaluating BIRT onDemand, please provide us with your feedback.
that enables users to host their iServer Express, it’s easy to deploy the
BIRT Mobile Framework for iServer and Also, let us know if you would to continue using BIRT onDemand for your
BIRT-based data visualization apps
mobilize any BIRT content. production deployment, or if you want more information on other options for
in Actuate’s iServer environment.
deploying the BIRT iServer platform within your own environment.
The BIRT onDemand platform allows
The BIRT onDemand platform also
developers to unleash the power of The commercial version of BIRT onDemand, with a projected availability of Q2
provides the ideal environment in which
Rich Information Applications built 2010, will include industry-standard security, additional enterprise level iServer
to deploy and test BIRT apps that can
with BIRT using the industry’s premier features and a secure data transfer layer to facilitate deployment of a variety of
be downloaded or purchased from
information deployment platform, the applications.
the BIRT-Exchange.com Marketplace.
BIRT iServer.
Selected apps are available for one-click All trial accounts include the following:
With a BIRT onDemand account, install to your BIRT onDemand account.
• 250 MB of BIRT application storage space
users gain access to the power of
All BIRT-based products run in • 50 MB of MySQL database storage (Community Edition)*
the enterprise-level BIRT iServer,
the Actuate Rich Information • Up to 10 user accounts
unleashing features such as
Applications-ready server • Complete web front end for accessing your apps and administering documents,
unmatched security, multiple
environment and benefit from data and users
format output (PDF, Excel or Word),
its unique Progressive Design • Free iPhone access to reports and apps
interactive viewing, Flash© data
Architecture, which empowers every
visualizations, and mobile access. * Database access is limited to web-based access for trial accounts. Commercial
user in the enterprise with access
to data presented in an application accounts will have remote database access through secure tunneling software.
A mobile client is already completely
integrated with the BIRT onDemand tailored to their own skill level
experience. When a BIRT design presented in an interactive, user-
or document is uploaded to an friendly interface.
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3. Product Summary: BIRT onDemand
Features • Allows free mobile access (iPhone©
and other handheld mobile devices)
BIRT onDemand offers many of the to user-defined apps
same features provided with a full • Accesses MySQL databases
iServer deployment, but without the • Includes free web-based editing tools
overhead. It can quickly be set up and to customize apps
run, enabling users to access their • Publishes apps from within Eclipse
information via an intuitive, easy-to- using a free BIRT onDemand plug-in
use web interface or on their mobile • Installs (in one click) into your BIRT
device. In addition, BIRT onDemand: onDemand account selected BIRT-
Exchange Marketplace apps
• Supports both commercial and open
source BIRT designs Additional services for BIRT onDemand
• Offers a free test drive of the hosted clients and commercial clients include:
BIRT iServer platform (BETA limits
• Application enhancement and
feature set)
modification services
• Hosts BIRT apps
• Application design and deployment
• Provides up to 10 user accounts (BETA)
services
Content uploaded to BIRT onDemand can include any BIRT
.rptdocument or BIRT .rptdesign, and be viewed anywhere:
in a browser, on an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad
or on almost any other handheld device.
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4. Product Summary: BIRT onDemand
Developers: BIRT Designer commercial products
Build. Test. Deploy. Done. from Actuate feature:
BIRT onDemand is a developer’s • Easy-to-use Windows interface
dream. It enables easy, fast access • Flash charts and gadgets
to the iServer environment and fast • Data connectors
deployment to end users without • JAVA/JavaScript support
the common configuration and
Once designs and reports have been
administration tasks required for
created in BIRT Designer or BIRT
setting up other systems; it simply
Designer Pro they can be uploaded
inherits system and security settings
to the BIRT onDemand web interface.
from the iServer.
Also available on the BIRT Exchange
Marketplace is a free plug-in that
Build
provides one-click publication
BIRT Designer software (required
from Eclipse BIRT designers to BIRT
for building BIRT designs) is readily
onDemand. Content can then be run
available. The software can be:
directly on the iServer via the web
• Purchased in commercial packages interface or mobilized to run on nearly
from Actuate any handheld device.
• Downloaded as an open-source
distribution of the popular Eclipse IDE
The free Actuate BIRT Mobile Framework
• Downloaded as a framework that can
be imported into an existing Eclipse IDE for iServer enables administrators to manage
• Downloaded as an SDK to embed into mobilization of BIRT report content.
a custom JAVA application
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5. Product Summary: BIRT onDemand
Test BIRT onDemand makes it possible
Developers can upload BIRT designs to deliver on demand BIRT iServer
and documents to their BIRT content to almost any handheld
onDemand account and run them device, including the iPhone, iPod
immediately and securely in the Touch and the new iPad using the
powerful BIRT iServer environment. BIRT Mobile for iPhone app, available
There isn’t an easier, less expensive free on iTunes. The BIRT Mobile
or faster way to run BIRT content and Framework for iServer makes it
test information apps anywhere. possible to deploy mobile content to
almost any other mobile device.
Deploy
Once the designs and documents
Done
have been loaded and tested, they are Once designs are deployed on the BIRT
immediately available to authorized onDemand platform, users can access
users. User access can occur via direct a true self-service environment that
access to the design or document provides immediate, hands-on access
file in the web-based interface or to their content. Further intervention
via mobilized content for access on by IT is unnecessary—users can
iPhones and other handheld devices. change designs, share them with
others, and even upload new designs
Once the BIRT Mobile Framework
and documents to a personal BIRT
Creating a BIRT onDemand account is easy, fast and free.
for iServer and/or the iPhone app
are installed, additional contact/ onDemand account without help. Go to BIRT-Exchange.com to learn more.
configuration is not necessary.
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6. Product Summary: BIRT onDemand
Users: BIRT Interactive Viewer
View. Review. Revise. Reuse. BIRT Interactive Viewer is Actuate’s
AJAX–powered, BIRT–based report
View
viewing tool that enables every user
Users with access privileges can invoke
to think beyond the current structure
either BIRT Interactive Viewer or BIRT
of a report and personalize it based
Studio to view their content or content
on task and need. Users who are not
shared with them by others. The BIRT
familiar or comfortable with standard
onDemand UI is so easy to use that
report authoring tools are able to use
it completely eliminates the costly
BIRT Interactive Viewer without costly
training that accompanies most BI
training within moments of being
(business intelligence) tools, increasing
introduced to its intuitive interface,
user adoption and productivity.
an inexpensive alternative to training
Review individuals who would use the tool on
a limited or casual basis.
Users can access BIRT onDemand
content via the Web and enable Features include:
Interactive Viewing or BIRT Studio,
• Report navigation: Allows panning,
which allow them to run reports
activity-sensitive cursor, drag-n-drop
immediately. Once a report is uploaded
to BIRT onDemand, it is available to
column positioning, incorporating Interactive Viewer can be enabled in BIRT onDemand,
interactive widgets, scrolling, grabbing
any user authorized to view it, making providing users with the ability to navigate, format,
gauge needles and selecting data
it fast and easy to access content they
series analyze data, create charts and more in their reports.
need to see. BIRT Studio users can build
• Report formatting: Provides controls
reports, preview them immediately,
for defining headers, labels, and
and send them out for review right on
page breaks; data formatting; and
the Web.
conditional formatting
Revise • Interactive report analysis: Gives users
the tools they need for analyzing
Users can utilize either BIRT Interactive
the data in a report, arranging the
Viewer or BIRT Studio to revise their
data to support the insight they are
reports or reports from others, based
seeking; displaying and organizing
on their access privileges.
report data sets; sorting a data
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7. Product Summary: BIRT onDemand
column in ascending or descending Reuse
order; organizing data into groups: BIRT content is safely stored once it
aggregating data; and calculating is uploaded and saved to the BIRT
numbers such as sums, standard onDemand iServer. It is also easily
deviations, rankings, and differences. shared by users of any skill level, from
• Charting: While some chart elements the casual user to the power user to IT.
are determined by a report template, Designs and templates created by more
BIRT Interactive Viewer can be used for skilled users can be shared, reused and
modifying certain chart elements such revised by others in the organization,
as chart format, subtype and data from the mail room to the board
BIRT Studio room. The Actuate BIRT environment
is conducive to true collaborative
BIRT Studio gives business analysts
reporting.
and power users the tools they need to
craft ad–hoc web reports by using pre–
defined BIRT report templates reports
and optional BIRT Information Objects.
BIRT Studio is the ad–hoc reporting
centerpiece of Actuate’s Progressive
Design Architecture.
Features indude:
BIRT Studio reports are based on templates created
• Re-usable templates and themes
by IT or developers, enabling business users to quickly
• Self-service report creation create the reports they need without having
• Fixed or modifiable report elements to write queries, connect data sources, etc.
• Report formatting
• Charts
• Query and analysis
• Calculations and summaries
• Filters
• Parameter prompts
• Easy data access
• Data preview
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8. Product Summary: BIRT onDemand
Benefits provides a variety of support options.
Users and developers can:
BIRT onDemand makes it possible to
• Get support by phone, online and in
access the power, scalability, security
online community forums on BIRT
and versatility of the iServer without
Exchange
the overhead. With BIRT onDemand,
• Use sample reports available on BIRT
users can:
Exchange
• Execute and view Rich Information • Purchase BIRT books online
Applications built on BIRT (Amazon.com or a local bookstore)
• Edit app designs and data online using • Sign up for regional or online formal
web tools by embedding DHTML on training
other web apps • Tap resources that help scale the
• Build, edit, update and interact with environment as the user base grows
data using desktop and web tools without the need to recreate BIRT
such as BIRT Interactive Viewer designs and report documents
and BIRT Spreadsheet
• Enable mobile viewing of BIRT apps
with BIRT Mobile Viewers for iPhone,
iPod Touch© and the new iPad© or the BIRT Interactive Viewer lets users modify default data
BIRT Framework for iServer, which
allows mobile deployment to almost
formatting, including realigning/hiding/showing/deleting
any handheld device and suppressing columns, setting text attributes and more.
• Deploy Actuate BIRT without the
hardware expense of a server
• Use BIRT iServer
• Access a controlled, secure
environment based on industry best
practices
In addition to easy access, Actuate
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9. Product Summary: BIRT onDemand
Deployment BIRT onDemand on the iPhone
Options Users can create a BIRT onDemand
account and upload any BIRT
There are two ways to use BIRT .rptdocument or BIRT .rptdesign file
onDemand: on the Web, or on almost (for versions up to Actuate 10 SP1 Fix3
any handheld device, including the (BIRT 2.3.2), mobilize it, and immediately
iPhone. view it using the BIRT Mobile for iPhone The BIRT Mobile
BIRT onDemand on the Web
Viewer. (Note: Support for BIRT 2.5 for iPhone
and access to the resource folder are
BIRT onDemand can be used with
planned for a future update.). Complete
Viewer app is
either your own server to deploy
instructions for accessing BIRT content available free
content to users inside and outside
the firewall, or be hosted entirely by
via BIRT onDemand can be found on from the iTunes
BIRT Exchange. Benefits and features
Actuate. There are benefits to each
of BIRT onDemand used with the new App Store©
scenario:
(free) BIRT Mobile for iPhone include: and can be
BIRT onDemand using your own • Immediate access – No administration downloaded
iServer: cuts down on licensing fees required
that would be required for iServer • Simple set up – Users can configure their
directly to your
licenses. Pricing is based on individual own environment to suit their needs iPhone,
usage; it’s possible to get started with • No software installation required–
BIRT onDemand for as little as $500.
iPod Touch
Immediate access to simple UI
• Easy upload – Users can upload their or iPad.
BIRT content hosted entirely on BIRT
onDemand: sidesteps the cost of the own content and immediately access
hardware required to run the iServer their own information via iPhone, iPod
software to host apps, files, etc., and Touch or iPad
the cost of purchasing iServer and • True self-service BI – No IT intervention/
the individual component licenses for involvement is required
each product, as pricing is based on * Please note that documents that rely
individual usage; it’s possible to get on Flash© visualizations will not render
started with BIRT onDemand for as properly, as the iPhone, iPod Touch and
little as $500. iPad do not currently support Flash
content.
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10. Product Summary: BIRT onDemand
The Progressive scheduling, versioning, and archiving
functions, allowing users to run both on-
Design Architecture demand and scheduled reports without
IT intervention but within IT-control
BIRT Mobile Viewer for iPhone is
• BIRT iServer Enterprise: highly scalable
the newest member of Actuate’s
implementation of Actuate services
progressive design architecture, which
which adds to BIRT iServer Express
brings the principles of open source to
e.Reports; multi-server, multi-project
information applications and encourages
support; high-availability clustering,
participation, iterative development
failover and load balancing; metadata
and modularity. BIRT Mobile Viewer for
caching; and enterprise management
iPhone drives business user self-service in
and tuning features
collaborative reporting. The progressive
• BIRT onDemand: Actuate’s Platform
design architecture includes:
as a Service (PAAS) offering, which
• BIRT Reports: web reports based on enables any user, anywhere, to access
open-source BIRT technology from enterprise information via the Web,
the Eclipse project, available without without downloading/installing
charge from BIRT Exchange. Actuate BIRT desktop products.
• BIRT Studio: self-service, ad-hoc web
These options provide an array of
report development within IT control
choices from which to create unique
• BIRT Interactive Viewer: end user report
information applications that appeal to
viewing and customization
• BIRT Mobile Viewer for iPhone: allows
any user. BIRT onDemand encourages user self-service
users to mobilize and carry corporate Within the progressive design while allowing for collaboration across all skill levels.
information wherever they go. architecture structure, BIRT designs
• BIRT iServer Express: single-server can be shared among highly
installation of iServer for easy and skilled developers, business users
fast deployment of BIRT and BIRT and consumers. This encourages
Spreadsheet options. BIRT iServer participation and supports an iterative
Express can be set up and running development environment, which
reports in one hour, enables the use of speeds development and adoption of
BIRT Information Objects, and includes information applications.
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11. Product Summary: BIRT onDemand
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
our offices worldwide.
For More
Information
To get more information about BIRT
onDemand, please contact an Actuate
expert 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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