Kagura is an open source project created by base2Services. It is a flexible simple reporting platform that allows reports to be delivered in a speedy manner, without cumbersome designer UIs intended for a less technical market.
This page contains more information on the project.
Aim
The aim of Kagura is to produce a simple and fast reporting framework, which can be used widely and customised heavily.
Why
Currently Reporting frameworks are either seriously under developed or proprietary in nature, and all of them are greatly ambitious in functionality and aim to be "usable" by non-technical users. As a result they often require the use of clunky UIs that require additional training and come with additional constraints. With Kagura we decided to go the opposite direction, and to provide a reporting framework which does as little as possible, and is to be used by bolting it on to other components, frameworks or larger projects. Which we hope to allow it to be a reporting tool which will allow a developer to embed something quickly into their application, and allow rapid development until they get something usable.