Using BIRT Analytics
BIRT Analytics is a web application, data repository, and set of web services that support analysis and forecasting of big data. In today’s business climate, business users must be able to address the problems presented by big data, drawn from both structured and unstructured sources. BIRT Analytics supports selecting, grouping, analyzing, and presenting big data in a way that makes it actionable. BIRT Analytics enables a business user to process massive amounts of data, predict business outcomes, and make informed decisions. By making better decisions faster, business strategists can deliver vibrant and informative visual analysis of inherent trends in big data.
BIRT Analytics consists of three key components:
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The main user interface described in this manual, Using BIRT Analytics.
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BIRT Analytics Loader, a tool described in Using BIRT Analytics Loader. BIRT Analytics Loader extracts, transforms, and loads records from multiple external data source to FastDB, the BIRT Analytics data repository.
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Admin, a toolset described in Administering BIRT Analytics. Admin technology supports administering access and privileges for each module and component of BIRT Analytics.
Using BIRT Analytics describes how to use Actuate BIRT Analytics technology to carry out dynamic analyses. Using BIRT Analytics includes the following sections:
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Understanding BIRT Analytics. This section introduces Actuate BIRT Analytics and provides information about the application’s home page.
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Understanding BIRT Analytics work areas. This section describes the BIRT Analytics work areas: Data Explorer, Data Tree, and Scratchpad.
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Working with your data. This section describes how to select your data for analysis using BIRT Analytics fundamental tools.
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Analyzing your data. This section describes how to analyze data.
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Visualizing your data. This section describes how to create appealing data analysis visualizations.
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Identifying and predicting data trends. This section describes how to use BIRT Analytics to mine data.
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Managing campaigns.This section describes how set up and run a business campaign using BIRT Analytics.
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Scheduling tasks. This section describes how to automate tasks and events using BIRT Analytics.
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Glossary. This section provides definitions of terms used in the BIRT Analytics product and documentation.
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