| In the spirit of Web 2.0 organizations worldwide have | | | | organization. |
| begun charting their performance for all to see, using | | | | The potential of data visualization in an enterprise is |
| online interactive dashboards replete with pie charts | | | | great. In an effort to understand it organizations are |
| and color-coded diagrams that measure and track | | | | reaching out to open source technology providers as a |
| progress in different parts of the enterprise. Interactive | | | | cost-effective and flexible means for organizations to |
| mashups, dashboards and data visualizations increase | | | | get started with rich information dashboards, reporting, |
| visibility into every part of the enterprise from human | | | | analytic tools and applications to all users inside and |
| resources, to finance to strategic initiatives. | | | | outside the firewall. |
| Enterprise mashups and data visualization are | | | | BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tools) is the |
| becoming increasing popular because of their ability to | | | | leading technology that empowers organizations to |
| support new "Web 2.0 like' application requirements | | | | create, customize and deploy enterprise mashups and |
| instead of traditional HTML-based web portal software | | | | interactive reporting for faster decisions and better |
| resulting in faster development and a rich, interactive, | | | | business decisions. BIRT today is the most widely used |
| user driven experience. Data visualizations offer a new | | | | open source BI software with more than 8 million |
| way to speed up the process of bringing together | | | | downloads worldwide. BIRT is the premier |
| critical information from multiple disparate information | | | | development environment to present in compelling |
| systems and empowering non-technical business | | | | ways via the web on any device. |
| users to interact with information that drive the | | | | |