Understanding BIRT Analytics Loader
BIRT Analytics Loader is a web-based application you use to create and execute processes that build databases for data mining and reporting. Using BIRT Loader, you can schedule the load processes to run at convenient times. As the diagram in Figure 1-1 shows, BIRT Analytics Loader is installed on a Tomcat web server.
Figure 1-1  
BIRT Analytics Loader supports connections to different data sources, relational databases, and text files, using database native drivers and ODBC connectors. The application builds processes that extract, transform, and load data, storing it in a proprietary format in a FastDB database. Actuate FastDB database is a file system database, managed by the FastDB engine. The engine runs as a service, named Dubnium Service. You can create multiple databases and select which one to be active.
Use BIRT Analytics to analyze and report from this data. Use BIRT Analytics Administration tool to synchronize the data, imported by BIRT Loader, with BIRT Analytics. Both applications, BIRT Analytics and BIRT Analytics Administration, are installed on a web server, Microsoft Internet Information Services.

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