I’ve recently become a fan of the Eclipse Business Intelligence Reporting Tools (BIRT), which does almost exactly what you’re asking. With BIRT you define a SQL query that pulls your data, then you ...

* Building SQL reports with Eclipse BIRT By Steve Blass Q: Is there desktop software (preferably open source) that can easily generate reports from SQL databases connected to our network? We want to ...

Actuate, South San Francisco, joined Eclipse, the open-source tools group spun off from IBM earlier this year, as a strategic developer and board member. As part of its membership, Actuate will act as ...

Seeking to offer an industry standard for report development, the open source Eclipse Foundation on Monday is releasing Version 2.0 of its Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project.

One of the most interesting trends in computing over the last few years has been the increasing number of companies that sell proprietary software moving to embrace open source in some form. One of ...