Features Overview
BIRT Designer Compatibility
BIRT Information Designer is compatible with BIRT Designers.
- Data access flexibility - supports the same data sources as the BIRT Designers.
- Component -based reuse - create components to be included in the BIRT report libraries for use in multiple reports.
Visual development environment
BIRT Information Designer is a highly graphical, visual development environment to create Information Objects that specify data sources, calculated fields, and meta-data names for fields and columns.
- Explicit query definitions - supports pre-setting specific queries and explicitly specifying how queries should execute and return results.
- Role-based access control - supports controlling which information users can receive, based user role and access privileges. Filters and conditions can be applied to allow personalized views of data for each user.