Bold Reports vs Eclipse BIRT

Bold Reports is a reporting platform for creating, managing, embedding, and distributing paginated reports. It supports RDL and RDLC natively, including reuse of existing SSRS reports. Its tools include a web Report Designer, Viewer, Writer, and Server for authoring, viewing, exporting, and managing reports. The platform lists 27 built-in data connectors and access to more than 250 additional systems through CData. Reports can be scheduled hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly, then delivered by email, file location, FTP or SFTP, or Amazon S3. Listed export formats include PDF, Excel, Word, HTML, PowerPoint, CSV, and XML. SDKs support embedding in JavaScript, Angular, React, Blazor, and ASP.NET Core. Deployment options include web, API, Linux, Windows, and self-hosted environments. Security features include role and site permissions, per-site data isolation, encrypted stored credentials, and TLS 1.2 or later. The maker identifies SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 and says the platform supports GDPR and HIPAA requirements. Pricing is by custom quote, with a 30-day trial and no free plan.

Eclipse BIRT creates textual reports and visual charts from data drawn from databases, files, Java, JavaScript, and web services. Its Eclipse-based report designer, runtime, and charting engine can work together, while the charting engine can also be used on its own. The designer offers a drag-and-drop layout view, data and resource explorers, a script editor, and chart and expression builders. Reports can connect to JDBC, XML, web services, and flat files; one report can combine multiple sources using inner or outer joins. Data can be sorted, summarized, filtered, and grouped, including by sums or percentages of totals. Supported report forms include lists, charts, crosstabs, letters, documents, and compound reports. The engine can produce HTML, paginated HTML, Word, Excel, PostScript, ODT, ODS, ODP, and PDF, and export data to CSV. Designs use open XML and can be embedded in desktop or web applications, especially those using Java and Jakarta EE. BIRT is free open-source software under the Eclipse Public License (EPL), with Linux, macOS, Windows, web, API, and self-hosted availability.