Actuate’s modular, services-oriented development technology maximizes utility and deployment flexibility while minimizing the overhead associated with information delivery projects including system integration, development tool training costs, security models, portal integration, internationalization, formatting output and server management.
Project developers, IT and end users enjoy the consistency established by Actuate in leveraging a common set of report and spreadsheet definitions and generation engines across a wide variety of deployments:
The Embedded Java Reporting Kit:
iPortal, BIRT, Interactive Viewer, BIRT Report Studio and e.Spreadsheet can be seamlessly embedded within larger Java applications to provide users with advanced reporting, printing, formatting and spreadsheet generation features. The Embedded Java Reporting Kit:
- Presents on-demand spreadsheets and BIRT reports to multiple users over the Web quickly, easily and at a low cost
- Provides a Web-based UI to browse, select, and run reports on demand
- Lays the foundation to add end-user interactivity to existing reports and allow end users to create their own reports
iServer Express Deployments:
iServer Express is a streamlined implementation of iServer technology for deploying BIRT and e.Spreadsheet applications. Unlike other server environments, iServer Express was designed for flexibility and provides reliable and secure server functions while delivering Information Object metadata and data integration capabilities. iServer Express:
- Allows report end users to easily schedule their own report runs without training and provides administrators with additional scheduling options such as setting schedules based on a combination of events, business rules or calendars
- Provides hierarchal role-based security with multi-level access permissions
- Offers a range of integration options to control the look and feel of reports, provide services to other applications and leverage existing infrastructure such as LDAP directories or existing portal environments
- Facilitates extensive data source access including built-in ODBC, JDBC, XML, flat files, POJO and other scripted data sources, and makes use of Web services APIs. The Eclipse Data Tools Open Data Access (ODA) framework can be used to add additional custom data access methods
- Includes a Web-based administrative interface that ensures full product control, along with the ability to automate tasks via command line utilities or a complete Web Services API. Utilities for system monitoring, availability, recovery and report management are also provided.
- Incorporates internationalization capabilities that accommodate different languages, cultural contexts, data and time zones. A single report server can automatically deliver the report server UI and its reports in multiple languages.
- Helps BIRT reports leverage the ad hoc and end-user reporting capabilities of the BIRT Interactive Viewer and BusinessReport Studio products
- Can be set up and running existing BIRT and e.Spreadsheet reports in less than an hour
iServer Enterprise Deployments:
iServer provides high-scale performance, reliability and security, and supplies Information Object metadata, multi-server and multi-project capabilities to enterprise collaborative reporting projects.
iServer Enterprise includes all the features of iServer Express, and adds the following enhancements.
- A direct and simple upgrade path from iServer Express
- Support and management of brochure-quality e.Reports, the most advanced reporting environment available
- Multi-server deployment flexibility by separating iPortal presentation services from iServer’s content generation and management functions
- Near-linear scalability, delivering reports to a nearly unlimited number of users both inside and outside the firewall
- Automatic clustering and load balancing to optimize the performance of each project
- Security and manageability for enterprise deployments
- support for multiple failover and standby modes
- Multi-project support, ideal for consolidating IT services from multiple departments
- Support for Actuate Analytics personalized OLAP cubes delivered to thousands of users
- Support for Actuate Query, a wizard-based ad hoc data query tool to maximize the utility of data presented through Information Objects
In each of these deployment scenarios,
interactive Web reporting and
spreadsheet report designs and components from one deployment are fully compatible with other deployments; they can scale across or up or down, which means that an initial project implementation can add complementary reporting capabilities, grow its user community, or expand its reach to support the needs of multiple projects by extending its original infrastructure without the need for replication or duplication.
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