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BIRT Designer Pro
BIRT Designer Pro has been updated with multiple developer productivity tools, including:- Impact and Dependency Analysis
- Identify and assess the impact of database changes within BIRT projects
- Create Information Object metadata locally on a desktop
- Create and publish BIRT Designs, Data Objects and Information Object metadata as part of the same project.
- Simplified publishing to BIRT iServer, BIRT onDemand and Cloud
- Create BIRT 360 dashboards
- Share, schedule, scale and secure work
- Instantly publish content to mobile devices
- Integrate apps with or into other systems
- Offer work to peers, projects and other businesses via the BIRT Marketplace
- New Data Source Access
- Hadoop / Hive JDBC connector
- Salesforce.com connector
- Support for Relative Time Periods
- Current Period (Current Month, Current Qtr from 3 years ago, etc.)
- Period to Date (YTD, QTD from 2 Years ago, MTD from 3 Qtrs ago, etc.)
- Trailing N Periods (Trailing 30 days, Trailing 2 Qtrs from 2 Years ago)
- Next N Periods: (Next Year, Next Qtr, etc.)
- Derived Cube Measures
- Calculate measures based on other BIRT cube measures
- Compute on the fly (not materialized in cube)
- Provide transparency to cube consumers
- Apply to x-tabs in BIRT Designer Pro
In addition, BIRT Designer Pro adds to the BIRT open source designer Flash® and HTML5 capabilities, direct database drivers and other features, and can be installed using a stand-alone Windows installer or as a plug-in to your Eclipse IDE. BIRT Designer Pro supports all the features of the open source Eclipse BIRT Designers and is compatible with the reports developed using open source tools.
- Identify and assess the impact of database changes within BIRT projects
- Create Information Object metadata locally on a desktop
- Create and publish BIRT Designs, Data Objects and Information Object metadata as part of the same project.
- Create BIRT 360 dashboards
- Share, schedule, scale and secure work
- Instantly publish content to mobile devices
- Integrate apps with or into other systems
- Offer work to peers, projects and other businesses via the BIRT Marketplace
- Hadoop / Hive JDBC connector
- Salesforce.com connector
- Current Period (Current Month, Current Qtr from 3 years ago, etc.)
- Period to Date (YTD, QTD from 2 Years ago, MTD from 3 Qtrs ago, etc.)
- Trailing N Periods (Trailing 30 days, Trailing 2 Qtrs from 2 Years ago)
- Next N Periods: (Next Year, Next Qtr, etc.)
- Calculate measures based on other BIRT cube measures
- Compute on the fly (not materialized in cube)
- Provide transparency to cube consumers
- Apply to x-tabs in BIRT Designer Pro
Value-Add Features of Actuate BIRT Designer Pro
All BIRT Designerscan enjoy the functionality of the Eclipse IDE such as creating and manipulating Eclipse projects, working with source code control, and invoking other tools such as Java development tools. JavaScript, Java and Eclipse-like IDE capabilities can be used to further control report layout, data access, data transformation and report rendering. BIRT Designer Pro is available through a standalone Windows installer or as a plug-in to the existing Eclipse IDE.
Web 2.0 Style Reports and Data Visualization
Design content as web pages, add both HTML5 and Flash visualizations, build libraries of pre-defined charts, gadgets and maps.
Extensible, Flexible Data Access and Handling
Adds commercial drivers for databases, using a reports as a data sources, a metadata layer, an in-memory caching capability, data source evolution tools, and user- and role-based security within a report.
Meta Data Layer Builder
BIRT Designer Pro includes a visual design perspective used to create Information Objects, a metadata layer, Information Objects that simplifies and federate business user-appropriate views of data which is queried by BIRT reports.
Actuate-Specific Extensions
Includes easy installation, additional documentation and quick report publishing to BIRT iServer.
Shared Features with Eclipse BIRT Designers
Web 2.0 Style Reports and Data Visualization
BIRT Designers produce rich, highly interactive and navigable reports with formatting, graphic, and conditional display options to meet complex requirements.
Web-based design metaphor
BIRT Designers use the drag-and-drop design paradigm of familiar development tools such as web-page designers and desktop publishing products for easy report development.
Wizards, editors and builders
BIRT Designers offer task-specific editors, builders and helpers such as wizards and cheat sheets that make it easy for developers of all skill levels to create reusable templates and reports.
Component-based model for reuse
BIRT Designers support component, library and template reuse.
Extensible and flexible data access and handling
BIRT Designers efficiently integrate data from multiple data sources, transform the data and manipulate the data based on business logic.
Standards-based programmability
BIRT Designers offer programmatic control using standard languages and interfaces for nearly every aspect of report layout, data access, data transformation and report rendering.
Localization and i18n
BIRT Designers can create reports in a variety of languages and are available in different languages.
