BIRT Analytics Loader organizes data loading activities into projects. Projects are logical descriptions of how to extract, load, and transform the data into the target database. A BIRT Analytics Loader User (non-administrator) works with only the projects they create. The BIRT Analytics Loader Administrator can access projects that other users have previously shared with the administrator.

A project that completes a typical Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process includes completing each of the following activities, as illustrated in Figure 2‑1: