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Any User. Any Data. Any Deployment. Actuate iPortal Actuate iPortal is the next generation, standards-based portal environment for hosting and accessing report content from Actuate. iPortal offers every member of the organization—from Java developer, to analyst, to end user—an easy-touse interface in which to access Actuate content. Users can review Actuate BIRT Report content, assemble ad hoc BusinessReports and generate pure Excel files from e.Spreadsheet. iPortal content is offered with AJAX interactivity and available through standard JSR-168 portlets. With iPortal, organizations and projects of any size can leverage the power of Collaborative Reporting. Product Brochure Product Brochure: Actuate iPortal Overview iPortal is the next generation, standards-based portal environment for hosting and accessing report content from Actuate. iPortal offers every member of the organization—from Java developer to analyst to end user—an easy-to-use interface in which to access Actuate content. Users can review Actuate BIRT Report content, assemble ad hoc BusinessReports and generate pure Excel files from e.Spreadsheet. iPortal content is offered with AJAX interactivity and available through standard JSR-168 portlets. With iPortal, organizations and projects of any size can leverage the power of Collaborative Reporting. Collaborative Reporting Architecture iPortal is an integral member of the Collaborative Reporting Architecture, which brings the principles of Open Source to reporting applications, including participation, iterative development and modularity. iPortal is the technologic hub for Collaborative Reporting. It hosts and provides portlets for: • Actuate BIRT Reports, web reports based on the open‑source BIRT technology • Actuate BusinessReports for ad hoc web report development • Interactive viewing to allow end users to customize or tailor a report to meet their own perspectives • e.Spreadsheet to generate rich, interactive spreadsheets These diverse options provide an array of choices from which to create unique reporting applications that appeal to any type of user. Within the Collaborative Reporting Architecture, BIRT-based designs and spreadsheets can be shared among high-skill report developers, business users and consumers who access iPortal. This encourages participation and enables an iterative report development process, which speeds development and adoption of the reporting application. Deployment Flexibility iPortal is open and standards-based. It includes a self-contained application and reporting server, report and spreadsheet generation engines and J2EE standard portlets for delivery of interactive content from these engines through the portal. iPortal’s engines, content and portlets support deployment into any JSR-168–compliant portal server such as IBM WebSphere Portal Server or BEA WebLogic Portal Server. As a self-contained, modular package, iPortal gives organizations deployment flexibility. It is an ideal choice for Java applications and workgroup environments when deployed independently, and it provides full access to all Actuate iServer features and options when configured for enterprise deployment. iPortal uses AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), the state of the art for web interactivity, in BusinessReport Studio, Interactive Viewer and the iPortal interface to provide seamless interactivity with report designs and content. Java Application Deployment iPortal can be embedded within or integrated to Java applications. It is an excellent solution for Java projects hoping to avoid hand-coding reports in Java, JavaScript and HTML for the application. Instead, developers use graphical design environments to define the reports or spreadsheet blueprints that are published in iPortal for inclusion and execution with the application. No Java coding is required to create these designs or run these reports, which accelerates the reporting application’s time to market. Workgroup Deployment iPortal lets end users access report content, launch BusinessReport Studio or generate spreadsheets. From an end user’s perspective, using iPortal, reviewing BIRT Reports in the Interactive Viewer or assembling BusinessReports requires no training. 2 Product Brochure: Actuate iPortal iPortal Reporting Options • Design sharing allows developers of templates to offer them commercially to other organizations. • Design sharing through the open source community allows millions of independent developers to contribute to reusable component libraries. BusinessReports: Ad Hoc Web Report Development Actuate iPortal enables delivery of reports built in the Actuate BIRT Designer, Actuate BusinessReport Studio and Actuate e.Spreadsheet Designer. The Interactive Viewer adds view-time report modification. Actuate BIRT Reports Actuate BIRT Reports is a flexible, 100 percent pure Java reporting environment for building and publishing reports against data sources ranging from typical business SQL databases, to XML sources, to in‑memory Java objects. Actuate BIRT is based on the Open Source Eclipse Business Intelligence Reporting and Tools (BIRT) project and benefits from the rich capabilities of the Eclipse platform and a very active community of users. Application developers use the Actuate BIRT Designer Professional to craft powerful web reports that run in iPortal against the BIRT Reports option. BIRT Reports can be opened and viewed in the Interactive Viewer, which allows end users to personalize their reports. Actuate BIRT Designs are used as templates for BusinessReport Studio’s ad hoc report definition and can be shared between developers and environments. This ability to share a common design format across skill-specific environments offers significant advantages over other products or platforms: • Technical and non-technical users can use the common design to negotiate report requirements. • Designs can evolve iteratively, through an agile development process, shortening each report’s time to market. Actuate BusinessReports includes an easy-to-use, web-based report designer called BusinessReport Studio for business users and a powerful and scalable server-side engine to generate its corresponding reports. Based on standard JSP (JavaServer Pages) and AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) technology, the BusinessReport Studio provides a zero-footprint solution to author reports. The servercentric architecture of BusinessReports provides a collaborative environment where business users can share their report designs or formatted report documents with other users in the organization. BusinessReports makes information self-service to everyday business users possible and effective. eSpreadsheet: Business Data the Way Users Want It—in Excel Actuate e.Spreadsheet is a unique spreadsheet generator that creates highly refined, dynamic Excel spreadsheets from iPortal. Actuate e.Spreadsheet Designer is an easy-to-use environment for creating spreadsheet blueprints that can access any data source and multiple sources at the same time. These data-driven spreadsheet designs are used to generate and distribute pure Excel files from iPortal to end users. End users receive dynamic spreadsheet workbooks with pre-constructed worksheets, live formulas, charts and pivot tables already defined and populated. Users spend less time building spreadsheets and more time using them. iPortal’s e.Spreadsheet engine can also be used to read spreadsheets, perform application calculations or perform other custom application functions. 3 Product Brochure: Actuate iPortal Interactive Viewer Report content from BIRT Reports and BusinessReport Studio is delivered through an interactive report viewer that allows consumers to modify, personalize and restructure data within the web report. The Interactive Viewer is powered by AJAX to provide utmost flexibility to end users. While viewing a report, users can manipulate the report data through application of additional filters, sorting criteria or new calculations. They can change the axis of analysis by modifying the grouping criteria or even identify trends by applying conditional formatting. Interactive Viewer allows report designs to last longer because they offer many perspectives to each user. The Actuate iPortal can be deployed as a standalone report generator or embedded within your favorite J2EE Portal via JSR-168 portlets. Summary iPortal drives enterprise reporting costs down by leveraging the versatility of the Java development community while offering that community the ability to craft applications that support a wide range of reporting requirements. With iPortal, organizations now have the technology necessary to deploy and grow reporting applications through an open, iterative design and production process that speeds time to value for end users while reducing the burden of development and maintenance for IT. Actuate Corporation 2207 Bridgepointe Parkway Suite 500 San Mateo, CA 94404 Tel: (888) 422-8828 Web: http://www.actuate.com 4