Both BIRT Designer and BIRT Designer Pro provide the tools IT and developers need to create templates and reports that can be accessed within the Actuate framework and used by both business and end users.
* Creates rich, Web 2.0-style reports and data visualizations
* Follows a web-based design metaphor
* Gives users wizards, editors and builders for easy report creation
* Includes a complete library of more than 250 embeddable BIRT Flash Objects
* Features a component-based model for reuse across products, reports and dashboards
* Offers extensible and flexible data access and handling
* Uses standards-based programmability
* Provides BIRT Page Level Security - The only effective way to manage report scalability is through
BIRT Page Level Security, a patented technology for accessing personalized report content without burdening the system with excess documents, queries or IT Interference. BIRT Page Level Security generates a single-server document that includes security rules for each recipient and offers significant performance, security and maintenance advantages over report bursting techniques.
Product features include:
* The BIRT open source runtime report engine
* BIRT Interactive Viewer application
* A robust charting engine
* JDBC drivers for commercial databases such as Oracle and DB2
* Connectors to BIRT iServer features
* A massive library of BIRT Flash Objects
