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BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting, Second Edition (c) by Addison-Wesley
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The type of the release is: eBook
In the PDF format with ISBN: 0321580273 and Pub Date: July 27, 2008
The size of the release is: 03 disks x 2.88mb
And released on: 09/19/2008


The world-wide developer community has downloaded over three million
copies of BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) from the
Eclipse web site. Built on the open-source Eclipse platform, BIRT is a
powerful reporting system that provides an end-to-end solution, from
creating and deploying reports to integrating report capabilities in
enterprise applications. The first in a two-book series about this
exciting technology, BIRT, Second Edition: A Field Guide to Reporting is
the authoritative guide to using BIRT Report Designer, the graphical
tool that enables users of all levels to build reports, simple to
sophisticated, without any programming. BIRT, Second Edition: A Field
Guide to Reporting is an essential resource for users who want to create
presentation quality reports from day one. The extensive examples,
step-by-step instructions, and abundant illustrations help new users
develop their report design skills quickly. Power users can find the
information they need to make the most of the product’s rich set of
features to build complex and compelling reports. By the time you finish
this book, you learn the following and more
- Design effective business and corporate reports that convey
information through images, charts, tables, and cross tabs
- Build reports using data from a variety of sources, including
databases, XML documents, spreadsheets, and web services
- Enliven reports with interactive features, such as hyperlinks,
Tooltips, and highlighting
- Create consistently styled reports and collaborate with other report
designers through the use of templates and libraries of reusable
elements
- Localize reports for an international audience This second edition,
revised and expanded, adds updated examples and covers all the new and
improved product features, including
- Cross tabs and OLAP cubes
- New chart types, including Gantt, bubble, tube, and cone charts
- Web services as a new data source
- New report output formats, including doc, ppt, xls, and PostScript
- The capability for reports to reference CSS
- Localization of report parameter and data values

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