The Eclipse Foundation has announced Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) 2.0

An open source business intelligence (BI) project has been updated for PHP developers attracting - in the process - support of Zend Technologies.
The Eclipse Foundation has announced Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) 2.0, which has been extended to support cascading style sheets (CSS).

Zend, which last year worked with IBM, Intel, Oracle and SAP over optimization of PHP, particularly welcomed support for CSS. Co-founder Andi Gutmans said CSS would make BIRT 2.0 "an attractive tool for broad adoption by the 2.5 million PHP developers."
PHP has seen something of a revival among developers in recent years, particularly those in business and enterprise shops, as it is deployed as part of the low-cost Linux, Apache and MySQL operating system, web and database stack. Also announcing support for BIRT were Actuate, IBM, Pentaho and Scapa Technologies.


New and Notable BIRT 2.0

General
New BIRT Viewer
JavaScript/Java Events And Report Debugging
Runtime Data Source Property Binding
Chart Builder and SVG Output
Templates
Libraries
XML ODA
URL Builder
Multi-pass Aggregate, Sorting and Filtering
Improved Report Performance and PDF Fidelity
Dynamic Parameters/Cascading Parameters
Expression Builder
Importing of Style Sheets
Report XML Editor
Passing of External Object to Custom Data Sources
Stored ProceduresCLOB/BLOB Support