Visual Design : BIRT Designer Pro uses the familiar development paradigms of the Eclipse environment, web-page designers, and desktop publishing products.

Property Editor : Provides centralized access to commonly modified attributes of each report element, including visual properties.

Scripting : The default data access, data transformation and report layout behavior can be modified via flexible scripting.

Dynamic Cross Tabs : Cross tab elements can be added to reports without knowing the number of columns ahead of time.