The new Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project ultimately will give developers an open-source alternative to built-in reporting services found in Microsoft Visual Studio.

Actuate will act as the lead on the new Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project, the goal of which is to build a business reporting tool on the open-source Eclipse integrated ...

BIRT Project is an open source software project that provides reporting and business intelligence capabilities for rich client and web applications, especially those based on Java and Java EE.