I read on Twitter recently that talking about “mobile BI” will soon sound silly.  We don’t talk about “mobile email” or “mobile calendaring”, so why should our access to critical data through reports and analytic views be any different?  It shouldn’t.
The traditional BI vendors have recently put much energy into delivering mobile access techniques in [...]

We’ve been thinking and talking about this since 2006, fundamentally driven by the belief that the Eclipse community deserves best-in-class reporting and unfettered access to a complete BI suite that doesn’t necessarily require a commercial license.  To do this right, we always knew that our flagship report design tool (iReport) would need to be re-built [...]

I’ve written before about the genuine renaissance open source software represents and the vast implications that openness provides. I admitted that computer science, based on its relative unwillingness to share great ideas, has lagged behind other hard sciences in its understanding of how and where value is created.
I’ve also written about the principles of [...]

I’ve spent many hours talking to customers who are driven to respond assertively to the many business challenges and opportunities presented to them nowadays.  Top on their list is harnessing the deluge of data available to them to make more timely, fact-based decisions, which I’ve written about previously.  Their businesses depend upon it.  So, [...]

This year, Jaspersoft was proud to start a new tradition - an awards program designed to recognize excellence in Jaspersoft implementations by customers and members of our open source community. In our search for the most creative and effective deployments, we found that Jaspersoft BI touches almost every industry sector: Telecommunications, Computer Software and Technology, [...]

The connected world of the internet has given rise to a new software development paradigm - built on open, web standards and expecting access to resources and services that weren’t previously or formally integrated.  Geoffrey Moore projects this trend into the modern organization by simply stating “Tectonic shifts are occurring in today’s enterprise IT environment, [...]

Big data is a popular topic these days.  Though often misunderstood and commonly misrepresented, few deny that the volume and variety of data types now available to an enterprise is skyrocketing.  In a separate article on the TDWI web site, I’ve tried to describe the likely sources of value to be derived from this deluge [...]

During the past few years, Jaspersoft has (mostly) quietly hosted a wide number of local “meet ups” called JasperDirections. These evening events bring together several of our closest partners along with attendees from our community and customer base. The results have been fantastic, as we’ve hosted nearly 30 JasperDirections events around the world in the [...]

In my last post I focused on the emerging trends that will drive the next generation of data analysis. I cited four substantial shifts in both the technologies and customer uses that will be amplified in the next several years. I also mentioned that these trends and technologies are surely influencing our [...]

I’m commonly asked this question in a variety of circles and on several continents.  I consider it one of the more interesting aspects of my job to have these types of predictive, future-oriented conversations with a wide variety of people:  customers, partners, technologists, journalists, analysts, consultants, entrepreneurs, financial analysts, researchers, and [...]