About Using BIRT Analytics
BIRT Analytics provides fast, free-form visual data mining and predictive analytics. BIRT Analytics combines easy-to-use data discovery and data mining tools with powerful and sophisticated analytic tools.
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:
*Actuate BIRT Analytics user interface, a web application that is used to carry out dynamic analyses
*BIRT Analytics Administration, a set of tools that supports administering user access and privileges
*BIRT Analytics Loader, a tool that extracts, transforms, and loads records from an external data source to FastDB, the BIRT Analytics data repository
Using BIRT Analytics describes how to use Actuate BIRT Analytics technology to carry out dynamic analyses. Using BIRT Analytics includes the following sections:
*Understanding BIRT Analytics. This section introduces Actuate BIRT Analytics and provides information about the application’s home page.
*Understanding BIRT Analytics work areas. This section describes the BIRT Analytics work areas: Data Explorer, Data Tree, and Scratchpad.
*Working with your data. This section describes how to select your data for analysis using BIRT Analytics fundamental tools.
*Loading and analyzing data. This section describes how to analyze data.
*Visualizing your data. This section describes how to create appealing data analysis visualizations.
*Identifying and predicting data trends. This section describes how to use BIRT Analytics to mine data.
*Managing campaigns.This section describes how set up and run a business campaign using BIRT Analytics.
*Scheduling tasks. This section describes how to automate tasks and events using BIRT Analytics.
*Glossary. This section provides definitions of terms used in the BIRT Analytics product and documentation.