It’s not always easy to determine what end users who interact with data really need. The answer depends on the person you speak to –…

Companies today are seeing the advantages of offering bills, notices, and account statements through secure customer portals. But it is clear that businesses are not the only…

If you think BIRT Data Objects (BDOs) are just for ad hoc queries, we have news for you: BDOs are much more than simply another semantic metadata layer. Unlike conventional metadata,…

“Can I have two different series types in a single chart in BIRT?” Questions seem to come up on this subject fairly often. The answer:…

Editor’s note: If you already have BIRT Viewer Toolkit (BVT), the information in this blog post will help you make it your default viewer. If…

We all know data science is an important (and growing) field, but most of us don’t have the time or money to study it full-time…

In BIRT there are several ways we can connect to data. Some of these methods are out of the box such as MySQL while others…

You have an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) migration project underway, but you’re not happy with the current indexing structure of your archives. It turns out…

Earlier this month Actuate released the new BIRT Viewer Toolkit (BVT) for the BIRT developer community. The BVT makes integration into your project a breeze…

What does it take to migrate a document from one ECM (Enterprise Content Management) system to another? Careful planning, the right technology components, and experienced…

I responded to a forum post the other day about having a “tabbed” output so that the user could choose what section of the report…

I was doing some work with JSON this weekend and I thought it might be fun to build a scripted data set from a JSON…