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| <h2>Press Release</h2> |
| <h2 ALIGN="CENTER"><strong>Actuate, IBM, Pentaho, Scapa Technologies and Zend Commit to Eclipse BIRT 2.0</strong></h2> |
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| <li>Eclipse BIRT 2.0 Expected to Accelerate Business Intelligence and Reporting Adoption |
| Among Java and PHP Developers</li> |
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| <p><strong>OTTAWA, CANADA January 23, 2006 </strong> The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the |
| implementation of a universal development platform, today announced broad support from industry leaders for the |
| new Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project version 2.0, released on January 20, 2006. |
| Actuate, IBM, Pentaho, Scapa Technologies and Zend have announced support for BIRT 2.0 and/or plans to extend |
| their Eclipse-based products with Eclipse BIRT 2.0 to meet their business intelligence and reporting needs. |
| Eclipse BIRT 2.0 includes a new re-use library environment that is expected to expand the BIRT ecosystem through |
| creation of reporting component hubs developed by service providers, education providers, online portals, and |
| news forums, that will spring up around this vibrant platform. </p> |
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| <p>BIRT 2.0 adds large persistent reports with page-on-demand for end-users. It also extends the web-style |
| drag-and-drop report development paradigm with new analytical report types, expanded charting facilities, and |
| debugging facilities for Java as well as JavaScript scripting. Supporting companies anticipate that these |
| improvements in functionality and usability will speed adoption among Java developers and expand BIRTs usage into |
| a broader community of report developers.</p> |
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| <p>The features in BIRT 2.0 will allow a new ecosystem to develop around Business Intelligence and Reporting, |
| said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. The ability to add and extend reporting |
| components will allow developers to easily create specialized and reusable components for report builders. This |
| should accelerate the number of commercial companies building Eclipse-based products, and the number of VARs |
| developing Eclipse-based solutions.</p> |
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| <p>Release 2.0 extends the reach of BIRT to many production web applications whose developers might not have |
| previously considered open source reporting, said Mark Coggins, senior VP of engineering at Actuate. It provides |
| a robust, thread-safe execution engine that can handle the data and user scale requirements of reporting in real |
| world Java applications. In fact, our tests have shown that BIRT can handle reports of well over a million rows |
| (about 20,000 pages) with linear response time and bounded memory usage. </p> |
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| <p>"The Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Project will deliver extensions to use BIRT 2.0 in January |
| to extend TPTP test and performance data reporting capabilities, said Tyler Thessin, director of the |
| Intel Performance Libraries Lab and project lead of the Eclipse TPTP Project. And future TPTP releases |
| will continue to grow a comprehensive set of BIRT-based reports. Compelling features provided in BIRT 2.0 |
| promise an excellent opportunity for rapid acceptance and align with TPTP expansion beyond Java, such as |
| delivering capabilities for testing and analyzing C/C++ applications." </p> |
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| <p>"Weve been following the BIRT project for months," said John Kellerman, manager of Eclipse strategy |
| at IBM. "The release of BIRT 2.0 is a significant milestone for the project, both in terms of features and the |
| potential for increased adoption. We are looking forward to participating in the BIRT project." </p> |
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| <p>We expect BIRT 2.0 to help drive adoption of our open source BI offering planned for 2006, said Richard |
| Daley, CEO of Pentaho. The usability improvements, including charting and scripting, should expand the user |
| community to include report developers as well as Java developers. The performance improvements, specifically |
| for large reports in HTML and PDF formats, make the tool attractive to virtually any type of reporting |
| application.</p> |
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| <p>In the open source world, many would contend that the community behind a given project is at least as |
| important as, if not more so, than the project's source code, said Stephen OGrady, vice president of RedMonk. |
| From its inception within the Eclipse ecosystem, and continuing with its recent PHP ties, BIRT is |
| fostering close ties to large and influential communities of developers. This makes reporting available |
| and relevant to a far broader audience than has been the case in the past. </p> |
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| <p>"Scapa uses BIRT 1.0 APIs to programmatically generate reports on application testing and |
| performance, said Mike Norman, CEO of Scapa Technologies. With BIRT 2.0 and the community of BIRT |
| users, additional report components will become available that we can leverage. This will allow our |
| customers to create better reports on the performance of their mission-critical systems." </p> |
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| <p>We are excited to be a part of broadening PHPs ecosystem with BIRT 2.0, said Andi Gutmans, co-founder |
| and VP technology at Zend. We believe that reporting in the PHP world has tremendous potential. The |
| enhancements in BIRT 2.0, particularly CSS support, make it an attractive tool for broad adoption by |
| the 2.5 million PHP developers. </p> |
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| <p><strong>New BIRT 2.0 Features</strong><br> |
| BIRT 2.0 includes a number of new capabilities designed to broaden the ecosystem and user community, improve |
| report designer usability, and enhance performance. Below are some of the key new features included |
| in the January 20, 2006 release of BIRT 2.0. |
| <ul> <br> |
| <li>Re-Use Library A report component environment allows developers with a range of expertise to share their |
| work within the organization and the open source community. Libraries contain report components or |
| functions for reuse in multiple report designs. </li> |
| <li>Page-on-Demand HTML- A page-on-demand navigation mechanism enables the efficient viewing of large report |
| documents over the internet. Response time for end-users is optimized, ensuring that web applications |
| are built with acceptable performance. </li> |
| <li>CSS Style Sheets External style sheets can be used across multiple report designs, making it easy to |
| establish a common look across all reports in one application. Users can quickly change the design of |
| many reports by editing a single style sheet. </li> |
| <li>Scripting Editor BIRT supports the ability to code or script the behavior of reports using a perspective for |
| Java Code Editing for BIRT reports. </li> |
| <li>Large, Persistent Reports Report developers can generate a report and then distribute a URL to end-users |
| who, with one click, can navigate through the pages in any order. All this is done without return trips |
| to the database. </li> |
| <li>Improved Charting Facility, Scripting BIRT 2.0 includes a wizard for building common usage charts and |
| advanced capabilities for including detailed charts within a report design. </li> |
| </ul> </p> |
| <p>A more detailed summary of whats new in BIRT 2.0 is available at |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/birt/index.php?page=project/notable2.0.html">www.eclipse.org/birt/</a></p> |
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| <p><strong>About the Eclipse Foundation</strong><br> |
| Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and |
| application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the |
| software development lifecycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for Java, C/C++ |
| and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development. A |
| large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions |
| and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform.</p> |
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| <p>The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full |
| details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at <a href="http://www.eclipse.org">www.eclipse.org.</a></p> |
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| <strong>Press Contact</strong><br> |
| Chantal Yang/Laura Ackerman<br> |
| Schwartz Communications<br> |
| 781-684-0770<br> |
| eclipse@schwartz-pr.com <br> |
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| <li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/birt">BIRT Home page</a></li> |
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