1 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Actuate 9 Technical Overview and Product Update Paul Clenahan VP, Product Management Actuate

2 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Product Update: Agenda  Overview  Open Source  Business Intelligence and Reporting  Performance Management

3 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Commercial Open Source Actuate 9 Product Suite Embedded Reporting Engine Enterprise Reporting Workgroup Reporting Performancesoft e.Report Analytics iServer Services Report Scheduling & Management Notification & Distribution Clustering & High Availability Security & Application Integration iServer Services Report Scheduling & Management Notification & Distribution Clustering & High Availability Security & Application Integration BIRT Reports BusinessReport e.Spreadsheet iPortal Information Objects BIRT Reports BusinessReport e.Spreadsheet iPortal BIRT Reports e.Spreadsheet Eclipse BIRT

4 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Recent Releases Open Source BIRT 2.1.2Maintenance ReleaseFeb, 2007 BIRT 2.2Major ReleaseJun, 2007 BIRT 2.2.1Maintenance ReleaseSep, 2007 A Busy 12 Months! Business Intelligence and Reporting Actuate 9Major ReleaseSep, 2006 Actuate 9 SP1Service PackDec, 2006 Actuate 9 SP2Service PackJul, 2007 Performance Management Performancesoft Track 1.2Minor ReleaseJan, 2007 Performancesoft Views 7.2Minor ReleaseApr, 2007 Performancesoft Track 1.3Minor ReleaseJun, 2007

5 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Commercial Open Source Actuate 9 Product Suite Embedded Reporting Engine Enterprise Reporting Workgroup Reporting Performancesoft e.Report Analytics iServer Services Report Scheduling & Management Notification & Distribution Clustering & High Availability Security & Application Integration iServer Services Report Scheduling & Management Notification & Distribution Clustering & High Availability Security & Application Integration BIRT Reports BusinessReport e.Spreadsheet iPortal Information Objects BIRT Reports BusinessReport e.Spreadsheet iPortal BIRT Reports e.Spreadsheet Eclipse BIRT

6 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Open Source Reporting: Eclipse BIRT Over 1 Million Downloads as of June, 2007 BIRT = Business Intelligence and Reporting Technology Open source initiative as part of the Eclipse Foundation Founded, organized and led by Actuate Project launched in October, 2004 Next generation technology Eclipse-based Report Designer Web-centric design metaphor Open Source with rapid adoption Standards based Open XML design format Project Highlights

7 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Eclipse BIRT 2.2 Dynamic Crosstab Support New Aggregation Builder Layout Preference Link to External CSS files Ability to use Styles in highlight rules Style support for Table of Contents Report Parameter Changes Property Editor Enhancements New Advanced Properties XML Source Editor Enhancements New Chart Types Improvements to Existing Charts New simple chart API XLS Emitter Word Emitter PPT Emitter Postscript Emitter Web Service ODA Flat File Data Source Updates Joint Data Set Improvement Dynamic Connection Profiles Application Context access BIRT Web Project Wizard BIRT Tag Library BIRT Chart Deployment ODA Project Wizards Report Examples View New Chart Examples View Open Source BIRT Report 2.2 New Features Part of Eclipse “Europa” simultaneous release Released on June 27, 2007, simultaneously with 20 other Eclipse projects Support for a wider range of report types and easier report development New chart types and more control over charts New output formats to common office tools New data sources and improved data access Easier application integration and extension development

8 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Eclipse BIRT 2.2 Crosstabs

9 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Eclipse BIRT 2.2 Crosstabs Dynamic Crosstab Support New Report Item on palette Drag and drop creation Multiple level support Built on cube engine …many features Quickly and Easily Incorporate Crosstabs in BIRT Reports

10 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Eclipse BIRT 2.2 Output Formats New Output Formats Microsoft Excel Microsoft Word Microsoft PowerPoint PostScript

11 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Commercial Open Source Actuate 9 Product Suite Embedded Reporting Engine Enterprise Reporting Workgroup Reporting Performancesoft e.Report Analytics iServer Services Report Scheduling & Management Notification & Distribution Clustering & High Availability Security & Application Integration iServer Services Report Scheduling & Management Notification & Distribution Clustering & High Availability Security & Application Integration BIRT Reports BusinessReport e.Spreadsheet iPortal Information Objects BIRT Reports BusinessReport e.Spreadsheet iPortal BIRT Reports e.Spreadsheet Eclipse BIRT

12 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Report Producers Report Consumers Collaborative Reporting Architecture Actuate BIRT BusinessReports Interactive Viewing Printed Output Power Users & Business Users Casual Users, Customers & Partners Application Developers, Data Architects & Report Designers Application Developers, Data Architects & Report Designers Web-based ad hoc reporting Web-based personalization Client/Server web-report development Common Report Design Common, BIRT-based design format Skills-specific environments for every user Open: Eclipse, Java, portlets, XML, AJAX Design sharing & interactive viewing for everyone

13 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Actuate BIRT Product Line Actuate BIRT Report Interactive Viewer Web tool for exploring and manipulating report documents Answer ad hoc business questions without writing a report Actuate BIRT Options for iPortal and iServer Ready-to-go deployment servers for BIRT Reports Scheduling, security, notifications, report management, … Actuate BIRT Report Designers Desktop tools for professional IT developers and power users Open Source BIRT plus, one-click installer and data adapters Actuate BusinessReport Studio Web tool for BIRT report creation by business users Simple to use yet powerful template based model

14 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Collaborative Reporting Architecture: Actuate 9 SP2 Updates Responding to Early Adopter Feedback on Actuate 9 BusinessReport Studio Support for reports with multiple detail lines Enhanced column header and label control Interactive Viewer Wider filtering flexibility with compound filters Easily select and act on multiple columns More control over chart properties

15 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Collaborative Reporting Architecture: Actuate 9 SP2 Updates More control over printed report layout in BusinessReports Improved generation of PDF output for printing “Scale to page size” for wide reports Better Support for Printed Reports

16 Actuate Corporation © 2007 e.Reports: Brochure Quality Reporting Conditional formatting Developer Productivity Improvements Conditional formatting without writing code Range of IDE enhancements Improved Text Handling, Graphics and Charts for Brochure Quality Reports Full justification / keep next / keep together / soft hyphenation in dynamic text Improved custom component creation New Bubble Chart support Information Objects Integration New Query Export tool to quickly prototype an Information Object Information Object Designer now bundled with e.Report Designer Pro

17 Actuate Corporation © 2007 e.Reports: Output to PowerPoint Fully editable – Users can add annotations or amend content

18 Actuate Corporation © 2007 e.Spreadsheet: Automated Spreadsheet Generation Support for large end-user populations and less technical report developers SmartSheet Security – “Page level security” but with finer granularity Each user only sees the report components for which he/she is authorized Updated, easier to learn and more powerful user interface Listing Wizard: Enables users to quickly create simple listing reports New Report Functions for easier development and internationalization support Extended security control in Actuate 9 SP2 with Dynamic Cell Locking Cell locking can now be controlled on a user by user basis

19 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Performance Improvements BusinessReport Studio BIRT Reports Interactive Viewer BIRT Reports Information Objects e.Spreadsheets Significant Performance Tuning in Actuate 9 SP2 User Responsiveness and Throughput

20 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Collaborative Reporting Benchmark Test conducted at IBM’s leading edge lab in San Mateo, CA Environment was 8-node iServer cluster, total 64 CPU cores Near-perfect scalability up to 64 cores for batch generation, transient generation, standard viewing and interactive viewing 1.8 billion report pages generated per day! Support for 43,000 active users viewing cached reports Support for 10,000+ active users running on demand reports Support for 10,000+ active users interactively viewing reports Support for 1,000 active users of BusinessReport Studio 43,000 active users is equivalent to a 430,000 to 4,300,000 user population, depending on typical concurrency rate

21 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Collaborative Reporting Benchmark Standard Viewing Capacity and Throughput

22 Actuate Corporation © 2007 BIRT Exchange Community Site Centralized Knowledge Hub for BIRT Developers Access Demos. Tutorials, Tips & Techniques, Documentation, … Easy for users to contribute content, share knowledge Enables developers to be more productive and build applications faster Share Report designs Code samples Technical tips Download Documentation Software Find Search, Sort Rate Comment

23 Actuate Corporation © 2007 Summary Learn More… Technical Summary of New Features: e.Support > Products > New Features BIRT Exchange: Enterprise Reporting: Actuate 9 SP2 Community: BIRT Exchange Open Source: BIRT 2.2