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 [...]

One of the best parts about being CEO of Jaspersoft is that I get to meet with so many customers and community members.  I always learn something interesting. One of my favorite examples of Jaspersoft in action is at Fat Spaniel.  You have to love that company name, right?  Let me tell [...]

[This post returns us to my Jaspersoft 3.7 Enterprise Edition features series, after two short posts on important, timely Community matters. To catch you up, my earlier posts on this topic provided an overview of Jaspersoft 3.7 and a dive into its new integrated, in-memory analysis features.]

Many of the most important industry prognosticators [...]

We have been working toward in-memory analysis capabilities, within JasperServer, for a couple of years. With our previous major release, Jaspersoft 3.5, we made an important declaration: in-memory analysis techniques are going to be a very important part of our future product direction. Being an open source BI company means a commitment to innovative [...]

Yesterday we shared our news about Jaspersoft 3.7 and the new Enterprise Edition. It was a big day.
It’s worth going into a little more detail today about what the difference is between the product suite news and the new Enterprise package. I’ll briefly provide an overview of the features of each and in the following [...]

Today marks an important day in the BI industry: for the first time, CIOs and IT managers can get all of the most powerful BI features in one package at an incredibly affordable price. Of course, such an advancement should be delivered by an open source BI vendor.

Jaspersoft is unveiling two things [...]

This time, it’s personal
One of the sure hallmarks of successful web-based applications is providing the user with ability to customize the application experience to suit his or her specific interests and needs.  Such customization not only tailors the system to the unique use-case of the user, but, done properly, it actually extends the capabilities of [...]

With a release later this year (2009), Jaspersoft is planning to change the licenses on the open source projects as follows:

JasperReports from LGPL version 2 to LGPL version 3
iReport from GPL version 2 to GPL version 3
JasperServer and JasperAnalysis from GPL version 2 to Affero GPL version 3

The Jaspersoft projects use components with a variety [...]