Preface

BIRT is an open source business intelligence and reporting tool, built on top of the Eclipse Framework. BIRT is used by developers for building reports that can best represent data and tell a story of that data that is easy to follow. In addition, BIRT can be integrated into a product, to allow that product to provide reporting capabilities. This book will walk the user through the basics of building reports with BIRT and introduce them to the various sections of the BIRT environment.