Case Study: Scapa Technologies achieves industry-leading reporting and faster report creation with OpenText Analytics

Scapa Technologies Integrates BIRT Technology to Create Powerful Reporting for the Test and Performance Platform

Scapa Technologies, founded in 1998 in Edinburgh, is a venture-backed independent software vendor that provides the Scapa Test and Performance Platform for application performance testing and monitoring across sectors like telecoms, retail and financial services. Prior to 2005 Scapa’s proprietary reporting was limited, produced poor-quality reports, couldn’t handle large data volumes, and forced customers to build their own reporting solutions—creating a major sales objection and support burden.

Scapa integrated Eclipse’s open-source BIRT reporting engine—embedding its run-time, building hooks to generate report templates programmatically, and completing the work in six months—giving users flexible, high-quality reports (web/PDF) that handle complex, large datasets. The result was faster report creation, improved SLA monitoring, reduced development and support effort, 100% customer adoption of BIRT, and a stronger competitive position with plans to add Actuate iServer for enterprise scheduling and distribution.

Scapa Technologies

Dr. Michael Norman

CEO, Scapa Technologies