The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project is an open source software project that provides reporting and business intelligence capabilities for rich client and web applications, especially those based on Java and J2EE. 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. Image File history File links Eclipse-logo. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... The Eclipse Foundation leads the development of Eclipse, the open-source Java application platform and IDE. // In 2003–2004 the Eclipse Consortium, an unofficial consortium of software industry vendors led by IBM, founded The Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit legal entity to lead and develop Eclipse. ... A software release is the distribution, whether public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product. ... // An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function, type, or field of use. ... With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The Eclipse Public License (EPL) is a license for free software. ... A website (alternatively, Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a... ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Java is a programming language originally developed by Sun Microsystems and released in 1995. ... Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition or J2EE is a Standard (albeit with no ISO or ECMA standard) for developing distributed Multi-tier architecture applications, based on modular components running on an application server. ... The Eclipse Foundation leads the development of Eclipse, the open-source Java application platform and IDE. // In 2003–2004 the Eclipse Consortium, an unofficial consortium of software industry vendors led by IBM, founded The Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit legal entity to lead and develop Eclipse. ... A nonprofit organization (sometimes abbreviated to not-for-profit, non-profit, or NPO) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... The open source movement is an offshoot of the free software movement that advocates open-source software as an alternative label for free software, primarily on pragmatic rather than philosophical grounds. ...

The project's stated goals^[1] are to address a wide range of reporting needs within a typical application, 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. With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. ... On Line Analytical Processing, or OLAP, is an approach to quickly provide answers to analytical queries that are dimensional in nature. ...

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. Eclipse is an open source platform-independent software framework for delivering what the project calls rich-client applications (as opposed to thin clients, this means the clients perform heavy-duty work on the host running the application). ...

BIRT Report designs are persisted as XML and can access a number of different data sources including SQL databases, POJOs, XML and Web Services. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ... Depending on the context Pojo refers to the Swedish name for the Finish municipality Pohja in computer science, an acronym for Plain Old Java Object. ... A web service is a collection of protocols and standards used for exchanging data between applications. ...

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 Innovent Solutions, IBM, and InetSoft. The Actuate Software Corporation develops business intelligence tools, that are focused on enterprise reporting solutions. ... International Business Machines Corporation (known as IBM or Big Blue; NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. ...

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.

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External Links

• Eclipse BIRT project downloads
• Eclipse BIRT project home page