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Eran
Eran

Reputation: 22030

BIRT/Jasper/Pentaho - Ad hoc reports?

I'm currently evaluating the main FOSS report generators. One of the features I'm looking for is the ability to manipulate the presentation of data when the report is presented on the browser:

The idea is to let the users play with the results presented to them, without having to create a new report or modify the underlying query. So:

  1. Does any of the FOSS versions support such features? (I know some commercial versions do, but at this point it's not what I'm looking for)
  2. If (#1 == false), are there any side open-source projects that provide such features?

Would love to get answers regarding either BIRT, JasperReport of Pentaho.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4308

Answers (3)

add9
add9

Reputation: 1503

OpenReports have some ajax functionalities on web reporting. I am pretty sure that you can use JSF + Jasper Reports to generate a dynamic web report as well.

hope this helps

Upvotes: 2

Eduard Korenschi
Eduard Korenschi

Reputation: 236

Actually. I did some similar research and couldn't find any software doing true ad hoc reports. OpenReports used to be a good enough thing, but it seems discontinued. What Jasper and birt report servers offer (in the oss version) is more of a reporting template repository and some scheduling / automatic reports. For the ad hoc features you have to get the paid version.

Upvotes: 3

Hendy Irawan
Hendy Irawan

Reputation: 21434

BIRT has a community edition simple report server sample called BIRT Runtime that you can deploy on Tomcat.

However as a web application, its functionality is not comparable to JasperReports Server.

Actuate however, does provide a flagship commercial BIRT Report Server.

Upvotes: 2

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