1. Who is BIRT
Laurent Delvaux
BIRT Expert @ Zenika
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2. Who is Zenika
Conseil, Réalisation, Formation
par des experts
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3. Actuate Launches the BIRT Project
Actuate proposed and started Actuate Joins
Eclipse Foundation
BIRT as Strategic Developer
Business Intelligence and Board Member
and Reporting Tools Project
Adds BI and Reporting
… a top-level Eclipse project as Open Source Project
Professional open source
Primary development resources
funded by Actuate
Contributions from many sources
IBM, Innovent Solutions and community AUGUST
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4. Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools
A New Generation of Reporting and Data Visualization Technology
• Makes all report development easy
• Modern, web-page design metaphor
• Open and standards-based
• Flexible with rich programmatic control
• Full support for libraries and reuse
• Foundation for a range of reporting solutions
Simplicity Power
that makes BIRT to create
simple reports very complex
easy layouts
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5. BIRT Release History
Six Major Releases since Project Launch
September 2004 BIRT Project proposal accepted, and project launched
June 2005 1.0 Eclipse Report Designer, Report Engine, Chart Engine
December 2005 2.0 Support for a wide variety of common report types
June 2006 2.1 Advanced parameters, ability to join data sets, …
June 2007 2.2 Dynamic crosstab support, web services data source, …
June 2008 2.3 JavaScript Debugger, BiDi Support, Charts in Crosstabs, …
June 2009 2.5 Page Level Variables/Scripts, Parameter Scripts, Study Charts, …
• Ground-up initiative: Innovative approach to report layout and design
• Enterprise-class, designed to handle real-world problems
• Developed in the open with community feedback at all stages
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6. BIRT Momentum: Downloads
BIRT Downloads
“BIRT is one of the top 10
most downloaded
commercially supported
Thousands of downloads
More than 6.5 million
open source applications
downloads through
December 2008 and has a tremendous
growth curve over the last
two years.”
Andrew Aitken,
Managing Partner,
Olliance Group
BIRT technology is tried and tested in many applications
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7. High-Level BIRT Architecture
BIRT Report Designer
Eclipse Eclipse Chart
Report DTP, Designer
Designer WTP,…
Report Design Engine
XML
Report
Design
Report
Document
Generation Charting
Services Engine
Data Presentation HTML
Services Services PDF
Data
Excel
Word
Data PowerPoint
PostScript
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8. BIRT Viewer
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9. Chart Engine/Builder
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10. BIRT Designer
DEMO
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11. BIRT Example Key Capabilities
• Very Simple to Very Complex Reports Re-use and Developer Productivity
• Listings, cross-tab, dashboard, pixel-perfect, • Library support for publishing and sharing
charts … components
• Grouping, advanced aggregations, sub-totals, • Leverages common standards (SQL,
calculations HTML, JavaScript, Java, XML)
• Multi-section and sub-reports
• Conditional report sections and logic • Cascading Style Sheets
• Full programmatic control/scripting • Built-in debugger…
• Embedded images… Interactivity and Linking
• Comprehensive Data Access • Data driven hyperlinks
• SQL databases, Web Services, Flat Files, • Drill-through charts and graphics…
XML, scripted data sources …
• Multiple data sources in one report… Multiple Usage and Productivity Aids
• Graphical report design
• Output Formats • Query & metadata editors
• HTML, PDF, Excel, Word, PowerPoint…
• Internationalization of labels and text • Formatting Builder
• Bi-Directional language display • Grouping Builder
• Customizable cheat sheets and
templates…
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12. BIRT Report Gallery
Charts and Tables
Listing with Groups and Sub-Totals
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13. BIRT Report Gallery
Crosstab and Charts
Crosstabs
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14. BIRT Report Gallery
Forms
Calendar / Schedule
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15. BIRT Report Gallery
Sales Invoice
Dashboards
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16. BIRT Chart Gallery
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17. BIRT Chart Gallery
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18. BIRT Chart Gallery
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19. BIRT Project Users
AUDIENCE FEATURES
Easy
Content and Report developers Drag-and-drop authoring, charting
Advanced content developers Scripting, script API
Runtime integration developers BIRT Viewer and engine APIs
Complex
Custom design UI developers Design engine API
Extension developers BIRT extension points
Core development Eclipse development, open source
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20. Summary
A New Generation of Data Visualization Technology
• Top-level open source Eclipse project
• Free with commercial friendly license
• Powerful, extensible data visualization
technology
• Easy-to-use, web-centric design
metaphor
• Very active community with more than
6.5 million downloads
• Actuate extends and complements
BIRT with value-added technology
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21. Around BIRT with Zenika
& &
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22. Who is BIRT?
Solving Your Data
Visualization Needs with
Open Source
Q&A
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