Actuate Launches BIRT Education Classes.First to Deliver In-depth learning for Open Source Business Intelligence SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO South San Francisco, city (1990 pop. 54,312), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1908. South San Francisco has several industrial parks; its manufactures include medical supplies and equipment, foods, paint, paper products, consumer goods, and clothing. , Calif. -- Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ACTU ACTU Australian Council of Trade Unions ACTU AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri) ACTU Association of Catholic Trade Unionists ACTU Australian Capital Territory Union ), the world leader in Enterprise Reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. and Performance Management Applications that empower 100% of users to achieve breakthrough corporate performance, today announced new education offerings designed for developers and project managers to develop valuable skills in report development using BIRT. BIRT is a top level Eclipse Foundation The Eclipse Foundation leads the development of Eclipse, the open-source Java application platform and IDE. History In 2003–2004 the Eclipse Consortium, an unofficial consortium of software industry vendors led by IBM, founded The Eclipse Foundation, a project that addresses open source reporting and leverages a broad community of developers, commercial adopters, and interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. top-level Eclipse projects The following is a list of notable projects and plugins for the Eclipse IDE. Official Eclipse projects These projects are maintained by the Eclipse community and hosted by the Eclipse Foundation. . BIRT is built from the ground up for web applications, and designed to deliver ease-of-use and flexibility to report developers, who are typically not Java coders, as well as the functional power to meet the complex reporting needs of the most sophisticated real-world applications. The courses, entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: "Working with BIRT Report Designer" and "Integrating and Deploying BIRT" are available immediately. Each boasts Actuate's comprehensive, thoroughly tested curriculum and enables students to work hands-on with Actuate software. Each student receives a workbook work·book n. 1. A booklet containing problems and exercises that a student may work directly on the pages. 2. A manual containing operating instructions, as for an appliance or machine. 3. , which contains all of the exercises students will complete in class. Students also receive BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting, published by Addison-Wesley. The classes will be presented as eLearning classes, available for self paced learning in the second half of 2007, and will be added to Actuate's impressive lineup of eLearning course offerings, including the recently launched "e.Report Designer Professional" and "e.Report Developer" offerings. "Our BIRT curriculum is especially exciting because students are using BIRT software hands on, and picking up the latest collective innovations form the open source community," said Matt Kuckuk, vice president of e.Services for Actuate. "The quality of this course offering ensures that our customers' will develop skills that are not available as a formal curriculum anywhere else." These comprehensive courses deliver the foundational and curriculum for BIRT. Students learn to build enterprise reports using BIRT Report Designer and are introduced to the design tools and basic reporting concepts. Students develop reports that range from simple listing reports to complex reports using grouping, report parameters, multiple master pages, hyperlinks, and a variety of data sources. The advanced curriculum teaches experienced developers to build and deploy applications rapidly using BIRT scripting and BIRT Java APIs There are three types of Java Programming Language Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) :
For More Information For a detailed class description and to register for this class please visit: http://www.actuate.com/services/educationservices/courseofferings.asp. About Actuate Corporation: Actuate Corporation is the world leader in Enterprise Reporting and Performance Management Applications that empower 100% of users to achieve breakthrough corporate performance. Actuate provides the most scalable, reliable, flexible and high-performing reporting capabilities for every application in the enterprise. Customers use Actuate to deliver information in context to users inside and outside the firewall as Performance Management and Customer Self-Service applications A software application that allows a user to obtain information or complete a business transaction on the computer that has traditionally required the help of a human representative. Voice response systems and Web sites are widely used for self-service applications. See kiosk. , managed spreadsheet applications and Java reporting applications. Actuate has over 3,500 customers globally in a range of industries including banking, insurance, manufacturing, communications, and government. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco, Calif., with offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol ACTU. For more information on Actuate, visit the company's Web site at www.actuate.com. Copyright[c] 2006 Actuate Corporation. All rights reserved. Actuate and the Actuate logo are registered trademarks of Actuate Corporation and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and certain other countries. All other brands, names or trademarks mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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