1. Self-Service Reporting on Hadoop using Actuate BIRT Welcome
to the Webinaron
2. What to expect from this Webinar? 1 Actuate BIRT An
Introduction 2 BIRT Architecture 3 Advantages of Actuate BIRT 4
Actuate BIRT & Hadoop 5 Q & A
3. Actuate BIRT An Introduction
4. IBM started Eclipse Foundation to develop an Open Source IDE
In 2004, Actuate started BIRT Project Key Features iServer
(Scalable, Secure, Enterprise-Class Java Server) BIRT History
Actuate developed commercial extensions to Open Source BIRT -
Current release is Actuate V11 Interactive Viewer (End User
customizations to reports) Additional databases / Data Sources
Additional Objects (Flash Objects / Charts / Gadgets) Page Level
Security, Dashboards, In- memory Analytics
5. Actuate BIRT Makes all data driven content development easy
What is Actuate BIRT? Modern, web-page design metaphor Open &
Standards - based Flexible with rich programmatic control Full
support for libraries & reuse Foundation for a range of
Solutions
6. BIRT Architecture
7. Eclipse & Actuate BIRT? Eclipse BIRT Actuate BIRT
Eclipse BIRT Source Foundation Design & Component re-use
Programmability Integration APIs, ODAs & Emitters Embedded BIRT
engine in Java application JDBC, POJO, Web services data connectors
Basic formats PDF, Word, PPT, Excel, XML, HTML Multi-Source &
Multi-Dataset Joins Actuate BIRT Commercial Upgrades Data Direct
JDBC & Oracle, DB2, SQL Server drivers BIRT Data Objects
(in-memory OLAP) Deployment on BIRT Studio including BIRT Mobile
Page level security Flash objects that make chart visually
appealing Faster accurate viewer
8. Data Access from a Reporting Perspective A Report can access
data from the following data sources Relational Database through a
JDBC driver Hadoop Data Flat File Text or CSV XML Document Web
Services Other sources like Java Objects (through a custom
driver)
9. Actuate BIRT Advantages
10. Advantages Maturity Model Map & Implementation Plan
Easy to use Development Tool Multi-Source Data Handling Dependable,
Reliable, Scalable Server BIRT Mobile BIRT on Demand
11. Why use Actuate BIRT on Hadoop?
12. Top Big Data Challenges Data Integration Disparate Sources
Different Sources The 3 Vs Determine the Top Business Problem Cross
pollination of skills Build CoEs Architecting a Big Data System
Data Related Envisioning Challenges How to start with the right
project? How to build the right team? Quality of external hires?
What it takes to train existing staff? How to retain talent?
Organization Related
13. Factors to consider when selecting BI tool for Hadoop
14. Thank You To know more on how Actuate BIRT can enhance Big
Data Projects, please email us at [email protected]
www.ellicium.com