Innovent Solutions Blog

Getting Started with the BIRT-Spring-Boot-Starter

Introduction The Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) is an open source framework that allows developers to build production ready reports. BIRT provides a basic WebViewer to deploy reports, but this solution is not ideal as a production ready system. The WebViewer does not support security, content management, email,... Read more →

Quick Reporting From the Cloud With Lambda and Pentaho

We were recently engaged by a charitable foundation to come up with a simple way to generate Pentaho reports on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. The charitable foundation had already created the reports with Pentaho, but preferred not to deploy a full Pentaho BI Server on an EC2 instance.... Read more →

SuccessFactors & BIRT: Filters & Parameters, where to begin?

In my Intro to SuccessFactors reporting with BIRT post I mentioned Filters were an option when using the Report Builder within SuccessFactors, but they are also a useful tool when working with BIRT reports. It is easy to confuse when or rather where is the most effective place to utilize... Read more →

Using Parameters with a Scripted DataSet

The ability to use Parameters with a BIRT report can be a wondrous thing. However if you are both new to BIRT and have to use a scripted source like IBM’s Maximo integration, you might find yourself apprehensive on where to begin. Let’s take a look at person_details.rptdesign, an existing... Read more →

Intro to SuccessFactors reporting with BIRT

Those new to reporting in SuccessFactors may not realize that there are a few options when it comes to reporting on SuccessFactors data. Some business requirements will be met by using Report Builder and others will require the use of BIRT. Report Builder gives basic table type report structure. After... Read more →

GitHub: The new location for the Update site for BIRT custom functions and controls

In a world that celebrates efficiency, people are always looking for new and improved ways to streamline their work and automate redundant tasks. Usually in the world of BIRT that translates to utilizing templates and libraries. But what about the time spent in the Expression Builder? If you find yourself... Read more →

BIRT 4.5.0 Training

Innovent Solutions has updated its BIRT Training Course to the latest version of BIRT 4.5.0. Additionally, we have added a new section that focuses on the use and creation of Templates and Libraries. Utilizing templates and libraries is often overlooked, but the simplicity and power of this standard BIRT feature... Read more →