Business Continuity Solutions Featured Article

Actuate (News - Alert) Corp. announced the latest iteration of its Performance Management solution titled, “BIRT Performance Scorecard 9.”

 

A true Rich Information Application, or “RIA,” BIRT Performance Scorecard 9 fully integrates BIRT to bring the simplicity and collaboration of consumer internet applications to the Performance Management process, company officials said.

 

The new version features BIRT Scorecard Exchange, a business to business site that grants BIRT Performance Management practitioners free access to best practices, frameworks, pre-built measurement criteria and community links.

 

According to Actuate officials, the BIRT Performance Scorecard 9 offers customers a completely new user interface, flash-based dashboard charts. In addition, it also offers expanding number of newly designed out-of-the-box BIRT reports.

 

What’s more, BIRT Performance Scorecard 9 includes BIRT Scorecard Exchange, a collection of Actuate libraries and customer best practices. Company officials said that this enables users to access and share pre-built solutions to improve organizational performance.

 

And, BIRT Scorecard Exchange comes with templates and measures that can be used as frameworks to pre-populate best practices and common category measures when organizations want to start with best in class performance management. Company officials said that organizations can subsequently translate any strategy or performance measurement paradigm into tangible metrics.

 

Plus, BIRT Performance Scorecard 9 continues to expand its integration with the BIRT iServer platform by enhancing the packaged Web Services and Information Objects for access to performance management data stored in the application.

 

Additional new features include rich new user interface and architecture using latest Web 2.0 technology; dynamic visualizations using Flash based charts; new back-end architecture using SQL Server Express as the Standard Database Repository; Rich Text Editing in Commentary including support for hyperlinks; and more.

 

With BIRT Performance Scorecard 9, featuring the new BIRT Scorecard Exchange, organizations can get on the path to higher performance, Nobby Akiha, senior vice president, marketing at Actuate, said.

 

“Using the simple, flexible and intuitive framework, coupled with best-in-breed tools and technologies offered with BIRT Performance Scorecard 9, organizations will gain the insight they need to succeed today,” he added.

 

BIRT Performance Scorecard 9 is expected to be generally available by the end of December 2009.