When comparing BIRT vs Datapane, the Slant community recommends Datapane for most people. In the question“What are the best reporting and business intelligence (BI) tools?” Datapane is ranked 11th while BIRT is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose Datapane is:
Report generation is open source and has integrations into the Python visualisation libraries
Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking
Pros
Pro Open source integration
Report generation is open source and has integrations into the Python visualisation libraries
Pro Flexible report components
Has support for a lot of rich components (pivot table, drilldown, interactive maps, etc.) which allows some much more flexible reports
Pro Good for teams who use Python and SQL
Lets you do the typical BI and reporting bits in Python and SQL in your own environment
Pro API-first
You can use the API from your other data infrastructure (Colab, Jupyter, Sagemaker, etc.)
Cons
Con Not for teams who want drag-and-drop
Doesn't have a drag and drop component for building charts etc. - it expects you to do the analysis in Python and SQL.