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 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 Loader describes how to use BIRT Analytics Loader to collect data from various sources, transform the data depending on business needs, and load the data into a destination database.
This document is a guide for ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) developers who understand basic concepts in working with data and are familiar with the data structure. Technical concepts and explanations about how to accomplish common activities are included in the following chapters. For more detailed information about any of the subjects discussed, see the complete set of Actuate documentation included with Actuate software or contact your database administrator.
Using BIRT Analytics Loader includes the following sections: