The list of 5 open source reporting software packages are :
- Business Intelligence and reporting tools
- Pentaho Community Edition
- Jaspersoft Community
- SpagoBI
- ClicData Personal
The points for these softwares to be the best for BI/DSS
reporting are :
- first of all they are free
- They all get updated time to time making it more user friendly
everytime
- They all provide many analytical tools
- As many community experts are associated with them ;large no.
of open source goodness like extensions,plugins are also
available
- And,they also provide cloud base insights
Among these I choose Business Intelligence and reporting tools
as it was easy to handle :-
- As it gained support from IBM which has integrated BIRT with
one of its major reporting tools – and other industry
mainstays.
- BIRT uses flexible, flavorful Java to dig for data and generate
reports for large organizations.
- Its tools can dive into all sorts of different databases – XML,
SQL, JDO datastores.So any which way you manage your data is likely
to work for BIRT.
- A huge array of customization controls and extensibility
options makes BIRT a easy handling software.