What is BIRT?

Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) is an open source reporting platform sponsored by the Eclipse Foundation. BIRT consists of an report designer based in eclipse and a runtime component for running reports. BIRT provides OLAP reporting, charts, tables, list, and crosstabs. Report can be viewed in HTML and exported to various formats including Excel, PDF, csv, MS Word, PowerPoint, and more.

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