JasperSoft Announces New End-To-End Open Source Business Intelligence Architecture
Experts Behind Proven JasperReports Technology Deliver Affordable, Efficient Decision-Making Power to Everyone
SANTA CLARA, Calif., MYSQL USERS CONFERENCE 2006, April 24 / / -- JasperSoft Corporation, the leader in open source business intelligence, today announced JasperIntelligence, a new open source business intelligence (BI) architecture designed to bring data integration, reporting and analysis to everyone, from customers and business professionals to functional managers up to CEOs.
JasperIntelligence builds off of the company's mature JasperReports technology and its new BI server, JasperServer (see today's companion release titled "New Open Source BI Server Available from JasperSoft"), making it the most trusted, comprehensive open source BI solution available on the market. In the next few weeks, JasperSoft will be releasing the next component of the JasperIntelligence family, JasperAnalytics.
JasperAnalytics will bring a new level of powerful analysis capability to applications and business processes to directly enable business professionals to leverage their data for more insightful decision-making. Commercial extensions are immediately available that bring enterprise-class scalability and features to meet the requirements of larger organizations.
"More and more business application developers, especially those working in Java are turning to open source BI software," said Eric Rogge, an analyst at Ventana Research. "Our recent research on open source BI revealed that lower cost and greater deployment flexibility were leading reasons for using it rather than commercially available BI products. In fact, the large majority of the respondents already had commercial BI products in house, yet chose to use open source BI."
JasperSoft's architecture allows businesses to capitalize on BI's full potential by providing the right information to workers to improve decision- making capabilities. JasperSoft's comprehensive BI solution achieves this by easily integrating with operational systems and leveraging open source to control costs and scale to support multiple users within an organization.
For example, using JasperIntelligence, a small- to mid-sized manufacturing company could reduce redundant inventory and increase sales in targeted regions by moving from manual analysis with generic spreadsheets to automated business reports for all relevant staff. JasperServer easily integrates with existing sales and inventory databases to extract relevant data and transform it into meaningful reports using JasperReports. Everyone at the company -- sales, marketing, financial, purchasing, and operations staff -- would have access to the reports they need, whenever they need them and in whatever format they prefer, including web-based, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and PDF formats.
The main components of JasperIntelligence are:
-- JasperReports -- the world's most widely used open source reporting technology with more than 10,000 deployments in 50 countries;
-- JasperDesigner -- the world's most widely used open source reports designer;
-- JasperServer -- a new 100 percent Java BI server with full support for PHP, Perl, Python and other scripting languages, providing production-grade reporting to web-based applications;
-- JasperAnalytics -- an open source analytics engine that allows users to explore trends, patterns, anomalies and correlations in data by allowing dynamic "slice and dice," pivot, filter, chart, and drill-down on a "cube" of data in real-time;
-- JasperETL -- an open source ETL engine that allows organizations to easily access and integrate data into data warehouses and data marts, providing an integrated view of information for business users; and
-- JasperDecisions -- commercial technology that provides increased functionality.
"Open source is the key to solving people's frustration with complex, inflexible and overpriced BI solutions from large proprietary software vendors that have taken their customers' IT systems hostage," said Paul Doscher, CEO of JasperSoft. "Customers want BI for everyone in their organization. JasperSoft is committed to giving businesses freedom of choice with JasperIntelligence, an affordable, open and extensible BI architecture that empowers everyone within an organization, from workers sitting in the board room to those in accounts receivables."
JasperIntelligence represents a family of products that will continue to be released over the upcoming months. These different open source projects can be used as individual modules or together to deliver only that functionality required to maximize to effectiveness of the user.
Availability
JasperSoft products are freely available as open source and can be downloaded at www.jaspersoft.com/ . Commercial licenses for JasperSoft products are available. The company also provides a complete set of support and services options for any size organization.
With more than 10,000 deployments, greater than one million downloads, and more than 3,000 commercial customers benefiting from JasperSoft's technology and services, JasperSoft is the most popular open source BI company on the market today.
About JasperSoft
JasperSoft (www.jaspersoft.com) is the leader in open source business intelligence (BI). With more than one million downloads and 10,000 corporate deployments in 50 countries, JasperSoft offers the most widely used open source BI software in the world. The company's JasperIntelligence architecture is comprised of open source server, report design, analytics, and commercial software for scalable enterprise applications. JasperSoft is based in San Francisco and is backed by leading venture capital firms Morgenthaler Ventures, Doll Capital Management, Discovery Ventures, and Partech International.
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