BIRT
by OpenText Corporation | Founded 2004, Ottawa, Canada
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- Big Data Analytics Tools
- Automated Reporting Tools
- Big Data Visualization Tools
- Business Intelligence Tools
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- Data Discovery Tools
- Data Management Tools
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- Qualitative Data Analysis Software
- Self-Service BI Tools
- Visual Reporting Tools
What is BIRT?
Industry Specialties: Serves all industries.
It’s an open-source project on Eclipse and is an acronym for Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools. It lets organizations extract and transform data for business analysis. Its Report Designer enables visual report-building within interactive dashboards. The runtime component executes the reports once ready.
Embedded into a range of business interfaces, it enables custom design layout, data access and scripting to present report output over the web. It supports charts, crosstabs, using multiple data sources within the same report, re-using queries within reports and addition of custom code.
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BIRT Pricing
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- Still gathering data
- Pricing Model
- Still gathering data
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BIRT Benefits and Insights
Why use BIRT?
Key differentiators & advantages of BIRT
- Customize Easily: Customize as needed to embed dashboards and visualizations into host business systems. Directly access the code, thanks to an open-source approach.
- Blend Data From Multiple Sources: Incorporate information from a wide range of sources into a single source. Uncover business opportunities and potential risks by surfacing previously hidden data trends and associations.
- Create Reports: Uncover insights and patterns through data summaries by organizing, filtering, sorting and grouping specified data sets.
- Build Presentations: Prepare reports for presentation with a selection of visualization options. Make the visuals easy to understand by inserting tables, charts, explanatory text and more.
- Share Data Insights: Email reports directly to other people or embed into other systems that include business websites and platforms, the Microsoft Suite and more.
Industry Expertise
BIRT supports a range of industries with its open-source reporting technology but is especially utilized in the tech industry.BIRT Reviews
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Key Features
- Data Explorer: Build connections to data sources and view them together with business assets and data cubes.
- Access and blend various datatypes from a range of sources, including POJOs, JDO datastores, SQL Databases, JFire scripting objects, XML and web services.
- Pull in more data than before by extending the available sources with Eclipse’s Open Data Access framework.
- Accesses Hadoop data using Hive Query Language. Ingests data from distributed databases like Cassandra through APIs.
- Pulls data from LDAP, report documents and Java objects. In addition to Salesforce, it can ingest information from LinkedIn, Facebook and GitHub.
- Report Designer: Supports a wide range of reports, layouts and formatting, with reuse of designs and elements. Create report layouts, connect to data sources and produce XML-based report designs.
- Navigator: Create a new Report Design Project or a new BIRT file within a project through the navigator. View all the projects in the workspace and create multiple file types such as a design file, template file, library file or report document.
- Sample Report Viewer: View reports in a sample web application before publishing them online. Generate and export them in HTML, PDF, CSV formats. Print locally or on the server and rerun them when needed with new parameters.
- BIRT Report Engine: Query data sources and merge the query results into the report layouts created by the Report Designer. Produce the report output in a wide range of formats that include Microsoft Office, HTML, PDF, postscript and open document formats. This feature is also available in the BIRT Web Viewer.
- Data Visualizations: Create data visualizations with task-specific editors, builders and wizards and integrate into web systems.
- Charts: Choose from a vast library of pie charts, Gantt charts, pyramid charts, scattergrams and many more, with multiple subtypes, such as a bar chart with options of side-by-side, stacked and percent stacked. Create charts in 2D, 2D with depth and 3D formats.
- Crosstabs: Present data in two dimensions (sales or hits) with the cross-tabulation or matrix feature.
- Palette: Drag and drop elements from the palette into the visualization layout. Add rich text to the report, including HTML formatting integrated with dynamic data. Aggregate business metrics with more than 30 built-in SQL operators.
- Customization: Make report data easy to understand with support for internationalization, including bidirectional text. Easily replace static report elements — report labels, table headers and chart titles — with localized text.
- Lists: Present data methodically through simple data lists by grouping related data together.
Limitations
At the time of this review, these are the limitations according to user feedback:
- Doesn’t have an open-source report server.
- Doesn’t provide map integration.
- Doesn’t provide a wide range of pre-configured data types.
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