Actuate Corporation and Zend Technologies have teamed up to allow PHP developers to quickly add reporting capabilities to web applications using Actuate BIRT.
The collaboration between Zend and Actuate has resulted in new capabilities in the 3.0 version of the Zend Platform. Zend Platform 3.0 allows PHP developers to quickly integrate reporting capabilities, including charting, to web applications by calling Actuate BIRT reports via the Zend Java Bridge. Web application developers are often faced with strong end-user demands for reports that integrate and summarize application data.…
After reading the great article Deploying BIRT from Jason Weathersby I decide to create a little example on how to use BIRT Report Engine API (RE API) with Apache Struts framework.
Tribix 2.1.0 final - Extended emitters for BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) provides a set of extended emitters for BIRT 2.1.0 final or above.
It comes along with a PPT (MS PowerPoint) emitter preview release. You can now export all your reports made with the BIRT Reporting System to Excel, or even preview them in PowerPoint.
This version does support fixed-column-width sheet output and image export to Excel which are great news since my last post about Reporting Tools.…
For those who wanted a XLS emitter for a long time, finally here may be a chance to taste. Thanks the Apache POI project and the new layout engine of BIRT 2.0, we can now easily create a XLS emitter though it looks obviously not that fancy yet.
You can see the full article here.…