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Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV, or CalDAV, is an Internet standard allowing a client to access scheduling information on a remote server. It extends WebDAV (HTTP-based protocol for data manipulation) specification and uses iCalendar format for the data. The protocol is defined by RFC 4791. It allows multiple client access to the same information thus allowing cooperative planning and information sharing. Many server and client applications support the protocol.

[edit]History

The CalDAV specification was first published in 2003 as an Internet Draft submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) by Lisa Dusseault. In March 2007, the CalDAV specification was finished and published by the IETF as RFC 4791, authored by Cyrus Daboo (Apple), Bernard Desruissaux (Oracle), and Lisa Dusseault (CommerceNet). CalDAV is designed for implementation by any collaborative software, client or server, that needs to maintain, access or share collections of events. It is developed as an open standard to foster interoperability between software from different implementers.^{[clarification needed]}

[edit]Specification

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The architecture of CalDAV (partially inherited from the underlying specifications) organizes the data (events, tasks, free-busy info, notes) in directories (collections), where multiple items (resources) reside. The resources and collections can be accessed by one or more users, using standard HTTP and DAV semantics to detect conflicting changes, or to provide locking.

For access control the concept of ACLs are used, so each operation (view, edit, delete etc.) can be denied or granted per user. Therefore the specification requires that CalDAV servers must support "WebDAV Access Control Protocol" (RFC 3744). The calendar resources must use iCalendar format, which allows the server to understand and process the data. Parsing theiCalendar items is necessary, because the server has to support a number of calendaring-specific operations such as doing free-busy time reports and expansion of recurring events. With this functionality, a user may synchronize his or her own calendar to a CalDAV server, and share it among multiple devices or with other users. The protocol also supports non-personal calendars, such as calendars for sites or organizations.

[edit]Implementations

[edit]Clients

• Agendav, a web open source caldav client
• Apple iCal—On August 7, 2006, Apple announced that Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" would include iCal 3.0, an application that supports the CalDAV access and scheduling standards.^[1] Mac OS X Server 10.5 Leopard includes iCal Server, which implements the CalDAV access and scheduling protocols.^[2] The iCal Server has been released under an open source license as theDarwin Calendar Server.^[3] On March 17, 2009, Apple Computer announced that CalDAV would be included in the iPhone 3.0 SDK.
• Atmail, a complete client and server implementation, with support for a wide range of desktop clients and mobile devices.
• CalendarSync for Android^[4]
• CalDAV-Sync for Android^[5]
• Caldav Sync, FOSS sync adapter for Android^[6]
• CalDavZAP, open source HTML5+JavaScript CalDAV client (web application)^[7]
• Chandler
• eM Client
• Evolution
• The Mozilla Calendar Project applications (Lightning, a plugin for Thunderbird, Seamonkey internet suite and Sunbird (a standalone version) also support CalDAV calendars.
• Mulberry
• Accounts & Calendar for the Nokia N9

[edit]Servers

• Apache caldav module caldav module for Apache servers
• Atmail, a complete client and server implementation, with support for a wide range of desktop clients and mobile devices.
• Baïkal, an open-source and lightweight CalDAV+CardDAV server based on SabreDAV API; the database used is SQLite (non intrusive, lightweight, easy installation and backup)
• Bedework: an open-source enterprise calendar system that supports public, personal, and group calendaring.^[8]
• ContactOffice supports CalDAV using iCal 3.x
• CommuniGate Pro multiplatform Unified Communications server which supports CalDAV
• DAViCal is an open source calendaring server that uses the CalDAV format compatible with multiple calendaring clients.^[9]
• EGroupware, a web-based open source groupware server, contains support for CalDAV since version 1.8
• EVO Mail Server, a mail server software, supports CalDAV since version 2.0.100
• Kerio Connect (formerly Kerio MailServer) - supports CalDAV since version 6.5
• OpenLink Virtuoso, a hybrid middleware and database server, since version 6.5 (Commercial Edition) and 6.1.5 (Open Source Edition)
• OpenLink Data Spaces, a data integration framework and suite of associated Web applications
• Oracle Beehive, a unified communication and collaboration software solution, supports a number of open standards including CalDAV.^[10] This allows Beehive to work with a number of calendaring clients including Apple iCal, Mozilla Lightning, and Mozilla Sunbird.^[11]
• ownCloud, a software suite that provides a location-independent storage area for data (cloud storage).
• Radicale, a Python CalDAV and CardDAV server.
• SabreDAV, a WebDAV framework for PHP, supports CalDAV since version 1.2.^[12]
• SOGo, SOGo is fully supported and trusted groupware server with a focus on scalability and open standards.^[13]
• Synchronica, a developer of mobile push email and synchronization solutions announced that their Synchronica Mobile Gateway and Synchronica Mobile Backup products are both fully compatible with the CalDAV standard, allowing compatibility across a wide range of calendar applications.^[14]
• Tryton, an Open source platform for business solution, supports CalDAV server since version 1.4^[15]
• Zimbra

[edit]Online-Services

• Fabasoft Folio Cloud
• fruux, a synchronization service, supporting CardDAV^[16] and CalDAV^[17]
• Google Calendar supports CalDAV using iCal 3.x^[18] and Mozilla Sunbird 0.8+.^[19] As of September 16, 2013, Google Card API support will only become available for whitelisted developers.^[20]
• Memotoo, a synchronization service, supporting CalDAV
• Yahoo! Calendar supports CalDAV using iCal 3.x.^[21]
• EGroupWare, a synchronization service, supporting CalDAV, CardDAV for Mac Clients, Thunderbird, Mobil phones

[edit]See also

• Comparison of CalDAV and CardDAV implementations
• Calendar
• CardDAV
• GroupDAV, an effort to create a simplified, straightforward protocol for calendars as well as contacts.
• iCalendar
• Scheduling OSID defines a software interface abstraction for calendaring protocols
• SyncML
• vCalendar
• WebDAV

[edit]References

1. ^ iCal at Apple Mac OS 10.5.
2. ^ iCal Server, Apple Mac OS 10.5.
3. ^ Calendar Server, Darwin.
4. ^ CalendarSync
5. ^ CalDAV-Sync
6. ^ Caldav Sync discussion at F-Droid forum
7. ^ CalDavZAP
8. ^ bedework, Bedework Calendar System
9. ^ DAViCal, DAViCal CalDAV Server
10. ^ Oracle Beehive Collaboration Platform, Support for CalDAV
11. ^ Oracle Beehive CalDAV Clients, Oracle Beehive 1.5
12. ^ SabreDAV Download, SabreDAV
13. ^ SOGo, SOGo
14. ^ Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV), Synchronica.
15. ^ Tryton News, Tryton
16. ^ http://carddav.calconnect.org/implementations/providers.html
17. ^ http://caldav.calconnect.org/implementations/providers.html
18. ^ Google Calendar, CalDAV support using iCal.
19. ^ Introduction to CalDAV Support
20. ^ [1]
21. ^ Yahoo! Calendar, What is CalDAV sync?

[edit]External links

• CalDAV Resource Site
• CalConnect, The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium
• WebDAV Resources
• Baïkal, an open-source and lightweight CalDAV+CardDAV server

[edit]RFCs

• RFC 2616 – HTTP
• RFC 3744 – WebDAV Access Control Protocol
• RFC 4791 – CalDAV
• RFC 4918 – WebDAV
• RFC 5545 – iCalendar
• RFC 5546 – iTIP

The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project is an open source software project that provides reporting and business intelligencecapabilities for rich client and web applications, especially those based on Java and Java EE. BIRT is a top-level software project within the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit consortium of software industry vendors and an open source community.

The project's stated goals are to address a wide range of reporting needs within a typical application,^[1] ranging from operational or enterprise reporting to multi-dimensional online analytical processing (OLAP). Initially, the project has focused on and delivered capabilities that allow application developers to easily design and integrate reports into applications.

The project is supported by an active community of users at BIRT Exchange and developers at the Eclipse.org BIRT Project page.

BIRT has two main components: a visual report designer within the Eclipse IDE for creating BIRT Reports, and a runtime component for generating reports that can be deployed to any Java environment. The BIRT project also includes a charting engine that is both fully integrated into the report designer and can be used standalone to integrate charts into an application.

BIRT Report designs are persisted as XML and can access a number of different data sources including JDO datastores, JFire Scripting Objects,POJOs, SQL databases, Web Services and XML.

[edit]History

The BIRT project was first proposed and sponsored by Actuate Corporation when Actuate joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer on August 24, 2004.^[2] The project was subsequently approved and became a top-level project within the Eclipse community on October 6, 2004^[3] The project contributor community includes IBM, and Innovent Solutions.

In 2007 IBM's Tivoli Division adopted BIRT as the infrastructure for its Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) product. TCR produces historical reports on Tivoli-managed IT resources and processes.

The initial project code base was designed and developed by Actuate beginning in early 2004 and donated to the Eclipse Foundation when the project was approved.

[edit]Versions

[edit]References

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[edit]Bibliography

[edit]External links

• Eclipse BIRT project downloads
• Eclipse BIRT project home page
• BIRT at samaxes
• BIRT Exchange: Community site for sharing code, report designs, tips
• BIRTReporting.com: Forum and educational guides, news and tutorials on BIRT Reporting
• Tivoli Common Reporting home page

Business intelligence tools are a type of application software designed to retrieve, analyze and report data. The tools generally read data that have been previously stored, often, though not necessarily, in a data warehouse or data mart.

[edit]Types of business intelligence tools

The key general categories of business intelligence tools are:

• Spreadsheets^[1]
• Reporting and querying software: tools that extract, sort, summarize, and present selected data
• OLAP: Online analytical processing
• Digital dashboards
• Data mining
• Data warehousing
• Decision engineering
• Process mining
• Business performance management
• Local information systems

Except for spreadsheets, these tools are sold as standalone tools, suites of tools, components of ERP systems, or as components of software targeted to a specific industry. The tools are sometimes packaged into data warehouse appliances.

[edit]Open source free products

• Eclipse BIRT Project
• RapidMiner
• SpagoBI
• R
• KNIME
• TACTIC

[edit]Open source commercial products

• Jaspersoft: Reporting, Dashboards, Data Analysis, and Data Integration
• Palo (OLAP database): OLAP Server, Worksheet Server and ETL Server
• Pentaho: Reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining and workflow capabilities
• TACTIC: Reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining and integration, workflow capabilities

[edit]Proprietary free products

• InetSoft
• MicroStrategy
  • MicroStrategy Reporting Suite
• QlikTech
  • QlikView

[edit]Proprietary products

• SADIG Business Intelligence tool
• ActiveReports
• Actuate Corporation
• Advanced Business Solutions
• ApeSoft
• Birst
• BOARD
• Business Analyze
• Cloud9 Analytics
• ComArch
• Data Applied
• Decision Support Panel
• Dundas Data Visualization, Inc.
• Dimensional Insight
• Grapheur, implementing the reactive business intelligence (RBI) approach^[2]
• IBM Cognos
• IDV Solutions Visual Fusion
• InetSoft
• Informatica
• Information Builders
• InfoZoom
• Intellicus
• Izenda
• Jackbe
• Jreport
• Klipfolio Dashboard
• Lavastorm
• LIONsolver
• List & Label
• LogiXML
• Microsoft
  • SQL Server Reporting Services
  • SQL Server Analysis Services
  • PerformancePoint Server 2007
  • Proclarity
  • Microsoft BI
• MicroStrategy
• myDIALS
• Oracle
  • Hyperion Solutions Corporation
  • Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition
• Panorama Software
• Pentaho
• Pervasive DataRush
• PRELYTIS
• ProcessEdge
• QlikView
• SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence
  • Business Objects
  • OutlookSoft
• SAS
• Siebel Systems
• Spotfire (now Tibco)
• Super Office Analyze
• Sybase IQ
• Tableau Software
• TARGIT Business Intelligence
• Teradata
• Thomson Data Analyzer
• XLCubed
• Yellowfin Business Intelligence
• Zoho Reports (as part of the Zoho Office Suite)

[edit]References

[edit]External links

• BusinessWeek Magazine: Giving the Boss the Big Picture: A dashboard pulls up everything the CEO needs to run the show (February 2006)
• Bloomberg Businessweek: "Business Intelligence Software's Time Is Now" (March, 2009)