BIRT Reviews & Product Details

It's open-source tool, where we can create some simple reports if you know sql & some Javascript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a steep learning curve compared to power BI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It works with IBM Tririga to allow direct reporting of that data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's challenging to debug. I don't think the use / development is well documented.

I think I fault IBM' for the obscurity / lack of documentation in Tririga Form reporting with BIRT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being able to see all of the data in the way I would like it to be displayed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The setup is very complex and not user-friendly. Also, getting a report set up properly can be challenging. It does require a bit of an understanding of database structure and how the TeleStaff database is specifically set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is Open-source and sponsored by Eclipse Foundation which accounts for credibility, this is number one. There are many features that make BIRT a powerful platform and highly popular among other BI & Reporting players, for example, Multi-pass aggregates, Templates, Flexible Charting wizards, XML as Data sources, and Libraries. With the latest BIRT 2.0, it now supports CSV output, HTML pagination & Table of Contents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI is still traditional and surely demands a revamp to enhance the User Experience, as the product should be a fit in all angles, performance, experience, features, robust & scalable, security, and ease-of-use. Apart from the UI part, I don't find anything else which needs to be optimized or changed as of now. But there is a scope of improvement always. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BIRT is very flexible. It can connect to all different types of datasets, you can configure your queries to control how your report is displayed, and you can design many different kinds of reports/documents from Charts to Letters! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is pretty heavy, Java-based, and not as lightweight as some other open source tools such as iReports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Obviously I like the cost. Free. But more than that, I like the functionality. I like that it is a full-featured reporting tool with an amazing charting engine. After testing several other tools, this one is the simplest to use. It has an eclipse-based designer tool that can be used to not only design reports, but to run them as they would run in production. It also has a server that is easily installed onto Apache Tomcat or other java servlet container. I like that I do not have to pay double for both production and test environments. I like that I can have as many instances as I want and I wont go broke! It has libraries to centralize things like database connection so they are defined once and used on many reports. It can take data from more sources than I have ever seen before, including web services and Java POJO classes (and I have used them!). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am admittedly nervous that development has slowed on the project, but not so nervous that I would worry. It is open source, after all, so the code will always be available, and I have never really needed any commercial support or services to run it! Even with the recent lack of development, it is head and shoulders better than any other open-source tool I have used. Another thing I found to be puzzling initially was that It is a bit too easy to 'break' the report through changing queries and report item naming, but as I got to know the tool I learned how to fix or avoid all of those issues quite easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to develop reports irrespective of database.

Flexibility with any of ERP or other products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You need basic conceptual knowledge to develop it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how I can structure report layout, how intuitive creating a query for data set is. I like how it can be transform in several formats Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How limited query commands can be. Errors aren’t always explicit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can get explore plathora of features here in BIRT ones you get a hang of it. Easy to understand the basics rest one need to explore and learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It helps you in getting your work done but at the same time snatching away the chance to learn the coding front, well that's how a tool works! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The simplicity of the table to visualization transformation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

scenario for adding joined queries is a little tricky to implement, there is still the possibility of custom implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.