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Live Demo Environment for BIRT iServer

BIRT 360 Dashboards

Create your own operational or analytic dashboards using BIRT Gadgets or third party Google Gadgets.
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Live Excel Output

Export your BIRT reports to excel format that converts BIRT charts to live editable charts, BIRT crosstabs to Excel Pivot tables, saves all aggregations and calculations to excel functions, supports multiple worksheets/images and is compatible with Excel 2002, 2003 and 2007 formats. Experience this emitter in action and see how it exports the following sample BIRT Reports to a live Excel spreadsheets:
Run Sample Report with Charts | Export to Excel
Run Sample Report with Pivot Table | Export to Excel
Run Sample Report with functions | Export to Excel
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Dynamic Parameters

Associate a conditional clause with input parameter values to dynamically change the underlying query for a completely different report output. Take a look at sample BIRT report below and change the conditions in the parameter collection screen to ask many different questions from the same report.
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BIRT Studio

Use your web browser to create a BIRT report from scratch utilizing BIRT Data Objects, BIRT Information Objects or data sets in your BIRT templates.
Experience BIRT studio
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Union Data Set

Create a union of two or more data sets to create a single data set similar to a UNION ALL construct in SQL. Here is a live BIRT report using this joint data set capability.
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Scripting in Flash Charts and Gadgets

Invoke JavaScript code to dynamically modify the data and the display of flash charts and gadgets.
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Multiple Drill-Through Charts

Specify multiple drill-through paths in your BIRT charts to support multiple analysis options.Click on the pie chart in sample report to see these options.
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BIRT Data Object

Source your data from multiple and disparate data sources into a single data store and use it in your BIRT reports as a data source or use tools like BIRT 360 and BIRT Data Analyzer to slice and dice and drill down to details.
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BIRT Data Analyzer

Leverage an in-memory BIRT Object to change and pivot dimensions in data cubes as well as drill-up or drill-down hierarchies through a browser interface to explore trends in data.
Analyze a sample BIRT Object
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WYSIWYG Design Experience

Render your BIRT report output to several formats like HTML, PDF or Excel and keeping the layout consistent across these formats and with the layout in the design pane. Here is a sample BIRT report rendered into different formats:
Render Report as HTML
Render Report as PDF
Render Report as Excel
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BIRT Interactive Viewer

Change the alignment, format text, group data, move/show/hide or delete columns, aggregate data, set up page breaks etc on a standard BIRT report within your browser and save all modifications as a new BIRT design file for later viewing.
See sample BIRT report in interactive view mode
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POJO Data Driver for BIRT

Use Plain Old Java Objects as a data source in your BIRT reports.
Run sample report that utilizes this ODA
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Parameters for XML Data Sources

Design BIRT reports that retrieve only part of the XML file using new and existing parameters.
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Flash Integration

Use flash charts, gadgets and custom objects in your BIRT reports and export them as native flash content when the report is rendered in a PDF format.
Run Sample Report | Export as PDF
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Empty Charts

Display meaningful messages in chart output when no data is retrieved for a chart instead of a blank section.
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Information Console

Explore BIRT iServer end-user interface to browse live reports and run them on demand or schedule them to run at a later time.
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As you explore the environment, these additional resources will help you get a more in-depth understanding of BIRT iServer: