By co-launching the open-source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project, Actuate wants to take away some of the complexity from hand-coding reports using JavaServer Pages.

Actuate, which sells reporting software, also said it has become a board member of the Eclipse open-source foundation and will dedicate at least seven engineers to the planned project.

Actuate initiated the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project in September 2004 to create an open-source reporting system for web applications, especially those based on ...

Not all communities are created alike. Nor should they be, as Actuate shows.

BIRT was published for community review Tuesday and is now in a 30-day review cycle, during which community members can provide feedback on the project, Coggins said.

BIRT iHub F-Type is based on Actuate’s flagship enterprise software for reporting the results of data analysis jobs, called BIRT iHub, which itself is based on the open-source BIRT project, co ...

The new Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project ultimately will give developers an open-source alternative to built-in reporting services found in Microsoft Visual Studio. "This ...

What may go unnoticed in next week’s Callisto release, a flurry of open source releases from the Eclipse Foundation, is BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tools), a project some consider the ...

By co-launching the open-source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project, Actuate wants to take away some of the complexity from hand-coding reports using JavaServer Pages.

Actuate executives on Tuesday said that BIRT would be the first open-source project dedicated to business intelligence and reporting. They said that BIRT project members would create reporting ...