A strategic planning and performance management system used by Metrics Management. Metrics Management dashboards display Balanced Scorecard measurements showing how well the activities of a company meet its objectives in terms of vision and strategy.

The part of a chart that contains the main chart data, typically, the most important data in the chart. Every chart uses a base chart. Some charts also include data plotted on a second y-axis.

A series that Metrics Management compares against a comparison series to calculate index values for a measure. A view contains one base series and can contain multiple comparison series.

A unit of time displayed on a time-scale axis in a chart.

In Metrics Management, a period, following the completed period, for which users can enter estimated or incomplete data. An asterisk (*) marks this period in data tables.

A segment of text written in multiple languages, at least one of which reads from right to left (RTL) and one of which reads from left to right (LTR). When RTL text, such as Arabic, mixes with LTR text, such as English, in the same paragraph, each type of text is written in its own direction.

In BIRT Analytics, the practice of analyzing, exploring, filtering, loading, segmenting, and studying massive quantities of data. Big data analysis uses statistics to describe qualities and predict trends in these data repositories.

See Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT).

See Actuate BIRT Analytics.

A set of Eclipse plug‑ins and Java archive (.jar) files that supports using Java to design, deploy, and distribute charts. BIRT Chart Engine also supports embedding charts into an application.

A sample database used in tutorials for BIRT Designer Professional. This package provides the sample database in Derby, Microsoft Access, and MySQL Enterprise formats.

A Java Component that supports accessing, running, and viewing BIRT reports in a file system.

A background operating system program available for Windows and Linux. This service controls the processes running on BIRT iHub System, starting and stopping the application container, the System Console, Information Console, and BIRT iHub System executable files. This service uses Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to manage communication among these processes.

A set of services providing content generation, management, and distribution capabilities plus a series of separately purchasable options.

The available options for BIRT iHub are:

A separately licensed option that supports deploying, running, and viewing BIRT reports. This option is a prerequisite for Actuate Page Level Security option.

A set of Eclipse plug‑ins, Java archive (.jar) files, web archive (.war) files, and web applications that supports deploying BIRT charting, reporting, and viewing capabilities as a stand-alone application or on an application server.

An Eclipse platform extension including a set of plug‑ins, engines, applications, and application programming interfaces (API) that support the design and deployment of a business report.

See Interactive Viewer, and Viewer.

An expression for use in a uniform resource locator (URL) to locate a report element. For example, a table of contents uses a bookmark to navigate to a report item such as a table heading. In a dashboard, a bookmark opens a Reportlet in a gadget.

In BIRT Designer Professional, a place marker in a program being debugged. At a breakpoint, execution pauses so the report developer can examine and edit data values.

In Metrics Management, a collection of measures and locations, organized by individual sections, which appear as tabs in the book.

See ellipsis.

In Metrics Management, a comparison series of data that represents a goal. Metrics Management typically compares actual series data against target data for a specific period to produce an index value.

An analytics, application development, and reporting platform built on Eclipse, the industry standard for open source software development. BIRT provides a complete solution for selecting data and presenting the results in a variety of formatted document types.