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Extensible and Flexible Data Access and Handling
BIRT Designer Pro adds Flash capabilities, direct database drivers and other features, and is available through a stand-alone Windows installer or as a plug-in to your Eclipse IDE. BIRT Designer Pro supports all the features of the Eclipse BIRT Designers and is compatible with reports developed with them.
Extensible and Flexible Data Access and Handling
BIRT Designers extend the data source access options and enhance the way BIRT reports handle data.
Additional Data Source Support
BIRT Designers come with support for additional data sources:
- Built-in data drivers – MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Informix, MySQL.
- BIRT Report as a Data Source – one report can use another as a data source
- BIRT Data Objects as a Data Source – BIRT Designer Pro can use BIRT Data Objects as data sources.
Metadata Layer
BIRT Designers can work with the metadata layer that provides views of data consolidated from multiple data sources - described in plain business language.
- BIRT Designer Pro comes with the BIRT Information Designer to create the metadata layer.
- BIRT Information Designer is used to specify the objects of the metadata layer and to label them.
- BIRT Designer Pro and BIRT Studio can develop reports that use the metadata layer.
User and Role-based security within a report
BIRT Designer Pro BIRT Designers can work with BIRT Page Level Security for iServer Express product. This product offers the ability to determine which pages of a BIRT Report are available to a user without generating multiple documents. Page Level Security allows a single piece of content to be generated and deployed that addresses the secure information distribution needs of many users. BIRT Designers can work with BIRT Page Level Security for iServer Express product. This product offers the ability to determine which pages of a BIRT Report are available to a user without generating multiple documents. Page Level Security allows a single piece of content to be generated and deployed that addresses the secure information distribution needs of many users.
