Files created by BIRT Designer Professional or BIRT Studio are displayed on the dashboard using report or Reportlet gadgets. Using BIRT files brings interactivity and rich visual displays of BIRT applications to the dashboard environment.

For example, BIRT Designer Professional offers several Adobe Flash objects for visualizing data, supports charts in multiple image formats, offers drill through hyperlinks, enables full-page output formats such as Adobe PDF, and supports custom business logic solutions. These features are available using report or Reportlet gadgets to display BIRT files in the dashboard.