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Beporting is important to just about any organization, whether they need to track sales trends, adhere to regulatory requirements like Sarbanes-Oxley or HIPAA, or turn raw database information into charts and tables. All this and more are possible using Eclipse's Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool, best known as BIRT. While BIRT on its own is a powerful resource, one leading company, Actuate Corp., has built upon the project's capabilities to create even more powerful business solutions. Actuate's BIRT-based products remain close to Eclipse's roots, contributing both code and knowledge to the popular opensource project. In fact, Actuate leads the BIRT project and was the driving force behind the initial project proposal.
"We're doing a lot with the Eclipse Foundation's BIRT top-level project and open source community, and we're building value on top of that," says Paul Clenahan, Actuate's vice president of product management. "From a commercial standpoint, we're building upon the backbone of BIRT to provide additional functionality that users frequently need in addition to what's included in the open source project."
The BIRT open source project addresses a key challenge that developers face when building applications that gather data and...