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Where can I get more basic information about BIRT? [message #167102]

Fri, 02 June 2006 11:51

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: schmidtmarkus.com.arcor.de

Hope, I'm posting in the appropriate portal.

I am writing a student paper on Open-Source-BI-Tools but IŽm relatively
new to this topic. I was wondering, where I can get basic informations
about BIRT. Information like "What DBs are supported", "What kind of
interfaces are used for data integration (JDBC of course, also ODBC?, OLE
DB for OLAP?, Hyperion Essbase?)", "How does BIRT handle Metadata?", "Can
you generate Reports automatically (f.e. every week, or e.g. as a warning
on the basis of a very bad management ratio)". I try to answer dozens of
such questions but I am really having difficulties to find reliable
answers.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Where can I get more basic information about BIRT? [message #167155 is a reply to message #167102]

Fri, 02 June 2006 15:53

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: bill.ames.illinois.gov

This is a good article that you may like to reference in your research:
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-06-06-a.html the article in itself is
good, but there are some helpful links at the bottom as well.

This really isn't an answer to your questions, but you should be able to
find all you want on www.eclipse.org/birt I would look at the install,
tutorial, integration and release notes to get most of what you are after.
You can even look at
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/ref/rom/index.html for detailed info.

Re: Where can I get more basic information about BIRT? [message #167163 is a reply to message #167102]

Fri, 02 June 2006 16:11

Eclipse User

I'd say best place to start is the web site:

http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/

this has TONS of information on BIRT. I'd spent some time here, also
perhaps start with

http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/intro/

and these movies you can watch

http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/tutorial/

- Mike

Markus wrote:
> Hope, I'm posting in the appropriate portal.
>
> I am writing a student paper on Open-Source-BI-Tools but IŽm relatively
> new to this topic. I was wondering, where I can get basic informations
> about BIRT. Information like "What DBs are supported", "What kind of
> interfaces are used for data integration (JDBC of course, also ODBC?,
> OLE DB for OLAP?, Hyperion Essbase?)", "How does BIRT handle Metadata?",
> "Can you generate Reports automatically (f.e. every week, or e.g. as a
> warning on the basis of a very bad management ratio)". I try to answer
> dozens of such questions but I am really having difficulties to find
> reliable answers.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>

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