BIRT Report designers are easy to use visual report development tools that meet a comprehensive range of reporting requirements, from sharing reports with other users to embedding reports in Rich Internet Applications. The report designers create reports that are easily integrated into web applications. All BIRT Report Designers include a component-based model for reuse; ease of use features; support for a wide range of reports, layouts and formatting; programmatic control; and data access across multiple data sources.
BIRT Report Designers include facilities to access and create access to various types of data sources, include data from multiple data sources in a single report, and perform functions on that data.
BIRT Report Designers support the reuse of report components and designs. They encapsulate presentation, business logic and data access for easier maintenance and so that development roles and responsibilities can be distributed based on skill level.
BIRT Report Designers provide task-specific editors, builders, wizards, cheat sheets and other tools within a visual design paradigm so that creating BIRT reports is easy for report, web, Java, eclipse, and PHP developers.
The BIRT Report Designers offer programmatic control of data access and transformation and report layout and rendering with support for a varying range of tools starting with an API and JavaScript and extending to Java and the Eclipse IDE.
Two BIRT report designers offer advanced developers the ability to extend the capabilities of BIRT to meet the needs of specific applications and organizations. These extensions can be used by developers using any of the BIRT report developers.
BIRT Report Designers produce rich-content reports with integrated text and graphics that end users can view, navigate and parameterize in a variety of formats and languages.