Success of reports can be measured by how well these reports are consumed;
oftentimes, if a report is successful, users will ask for more.
So the decision was made to create an open-source reporting platform; however, the
open-source market is a funny industry. So Actuate joined forces with an already
existing open-source development community??”the Eclipse Foundation??”to leverage
their existing framework as a base line for its application.
BIRT has grown due to support and feedback from the community. The developers
pay close attention to the groups out there, and listen for strengths and shortcomings
of BIRT in order to improve upon it. Unlike a lot of open-source projects that have
only part-time developers, BIRT has a team of full time developers, dedicated
to improving the BIRT platform as a whole. BIRT even has a few "evangelists,"
dedicated to promoting understanding and use of BIRT in the developer community.
Features of BIRT
What does BIRT stand for? Certainly it's not everyone's favorite fuzzy unibrowed
Muppet in the title slide. BIRT actually stands for Business Intelligence and
Reporting Tools. Although not as cute, doesn't the definition just fill you with the
same warm fuzzy feelings as a Muppet? It is an open-source report development
environment built on top of the Eclipse framework.
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