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BIRT 360
BIRT 360 provides users with the tools they need to create self-service operational and analytical dashboards from BIRT content in order to visualize and analyze their business operations, with a 360-degree view of their business, without relying on IT. BIRT 360 dashboards can use the 250 Flash objects provided with BIRT Designer Pro, create new ones or import them from a third-party or Google. The gadgets are interactive, allowing users to manipulate buttons, gauges, etc. to easily create and view what-if scenarios; linked items reflect changes immediately.
BIRT 360 is implemented as a viewing service of the BIRT iServer.
Features Overview
Self-serve Dashboard Creation
The dashboards interface is designed for business users to allow them to create custom dashboard pages without IT intervention, save them and share them with other users.
- Determine Layout, Look and Feel – select layout from one column, two column, three column and free-form and then configure look and feel
- Drag-and-drop – intuitive design paradigm and easy data association
- Multiple Tabs – create one or more tabs in a dashboard
- Gadgets – select from a variety of gadgets or create new ones
- KPIs – create, select and reuse a KPI from another BIRT document
- Data Feed Lists – connect to any data source
- KPI Linker – automatically establishes communications between related KPIs on a single dashboard page
Self-serve Gadget Creation and Configuration
With BIRT 360 business users can create, select, reuse and configure gadgets for their dashboards.
- Gadget Interaction – sort, filter, change layout, add calculations, etc.
- Crosstab Gadgets – for complex dashboards
- Gadgets from BIRT Content – create new gadgets from existing BIRT content
- Parameterized Gadgets – create new report parameter gadgets
- Data Selector Gadgets – lists, radio buttons, check boxes, calendars and sliders
- Data Visualization Gadgets – charts, tables, gauges
- Generic Gadgets – HTML, Text, Image and multi-media gadgets
- 3rd Party Gadgets – import from third parties and Google gadgets
- Link Gadgets – link data selector and parameter gadgets to data visualization gadgets
Intuitive Operational and Analytical Dashboards
BIRT 360 dashboards enable users to consolidate KPIs on a single page as visual data exploration applications for continuous and effective KPI monitoring. They can be Operational Dashboards for continuous KPI monitoring or Analytic Dashboards for in-memory visual data analysis and exploration embedding the BIRT data analytics products
- Custom KPIs – user-created KPIs with automatic linking from data objects
- Interactive Gadgets – interact with gadgets to perform what if analyses
- Guided Environment – visually explore data conducive to easy adoption
- Drill-down/up analysis capabilities – to perform comparative and root cause analyses
- In-memory Analytics – embed BIRT Data Objects and BIRT Data Analyzer capabilities in the dashboard
