Features of Actuate BIRT 2.0 Actuate BIRT 2.

0 delivers out-of-the-box integration for several commercial data sources as well as new functionality identical to the Eclipse BIRT project, its open source Eclipse Public License (EPL) equivalent. Similar to Actuate BIRT 1.0, Actuate BIRT 2.0 includes Actuate-backed licensing, maintenance, professional services and support. Key features of Actuate BIRT 2.0 include:

One Button Download With the click of a button report developers can quickly install and integrate BIRT with a variety of data sources. Re-Use Library A report component environment allows developers with a range of expertise to share their work within the organization and the open source community. Libraries contain report components or functions for reuse in multiple report designs. Page-on-Demand HTML A page-on-demand navigation mechanism enables the efficient viewing of large report documents over the internet. Response time for endusers is optimized, ensuring that web applications are built with acceptable performance. CSS Style Sheets External style sheets can be used across multiple report designs, making it easy to establish a common look across all reports in one application. Users can quickly change the design of many reports by editing a single style sheet. Scripting Editor In addition to scripting in JavaScript, Actuate BIRT supports the ability to code or script the behavior of reports using Java in a Java Code Editing perspective for BIRT reports. Large, Persistent Reports Report developers can generate a report and then distribute a URL to end-users who, with one click, can navigate through the pages in any order. All this is done without return trips to the database. Business intelligence (BI) mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting,[clarification needed] and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes.[1] BI technologies provide historical, current and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of business intelligence technologies are reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, process mining, complex event processing, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining and predictive analytics. Business intelligence aims to support better business decision-making. Thus a BI system can be called a decision support system (DSS).[2] Though the term business intelligence is sometimes used as a synonym for competitive intelligence, because they both support decision making, BI uses technologies, processes, and applications to analyze mostly internal, structured data and business processes while competitive intelligence gathers, analyzes and disseminates information with a topical focus on company competitors. Business intelligence understood broadly can include the subset of competitive intelligence.