BIRT Analytics provides many ways to analyze data. The analyses make it possible to get new perspectives on your organization’s information by crossing various fields, searching for characteristics that are or are not shared by groups, identifying suitable targets for each purpose, showing the evolution over time of different variables, and grouping values in different clusters.
BIRT Analytics supports the following types of data analysis: Crosstabs, Venn diagrams, Bubbles, Evolutions, Profiles, Maps, and Pareto. You can save the definition of the analyses (the means of generating them) for reuse and/or export them as PDF, CSV or BIRT (.rptdesign) files. Analyses exported as BIRT files can be edited in BIRT Designer and published on the BIRT iHub platform as well as in BIRT iHub F-Type.
When you run a saved analysis, any changes in the data appear in the current result of your analysis. You can also share your analyses with other users and user groups.
Analysis tool bars
The main window of each Analysis tool presents a tool bar. Although most operations are available to each analytics tool, some tools have fewer operations than others. In particular, the Evolution, Map and Pareto tools have neither the Export nor the Convert operations in their toolbar. The Convert operation is also not available in the Venn and Profile tools. The following list presents all available toolbar options:
Calculate: Tool for calculating the analysis results in accordance with the set parameters.
Export: Tool for exporting analysis results after they have been calculated. Depending on the type of analysis, the output format will be a CSV file (Comma Separated Values file) or a BIRT file (.rptdesign).
Exporting Charts: The image icon displayed in the Chart view lets you export a chart as an image file.
Export icon: Clicking on the Export icon, located on the upper right-hand side of the tool window, lets you export your analysis as a PDF file.
Exporting a Crosstab to FastDB: It is also possible to export a Crosstab analysis directly to the FastDB engine, creating a new table in the database. This is done by selecting the new option “Analytic DB” from the dropdown list of the “Export” tool found in the Crosstab toolbar.
Clear: Tool for clearing the configuration window of the analysis, leaving it empty.
Convert: Tool for converting one type of analysis to another. For example, in certain cases, you can convert a Crosstab analysis into a Bubble, an Evolution, or a Map analysis.
Save: Tool for saving the analysis in a personal folder. If the analysis in question has been saved previously and a change has been made, the existing one will be overwritten and the changes recorded.
Save as: Tool for saving the analysis in a personal folder. Here, if you select “Save as”, no existing analysis will be overwritten and the file will be saved as a different analysis.
Calculate: Tool for calculating the analysis results in accordance with the set parameters.
