Having the right piece of knowledge at the right time is pure gold in business.  I rarely speak with a commercial Jaspersoft customer without hearing a fascinating anecdote about how they are using our BI tools to make new insight emerge quickly and affordably within their organization.  Of course, this is what we are in [...]

Congratulations to Matt Geise, who was just named Jaspersoft’s Open Source Community Development leader.  Matt’s job is to build, nurture, and enable a thriving Community of open source business intelligence software fanatics.  It’s a big job and Matt is just the right person to lead our next generation of work with the Jaspersoft Community.
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It was July 2008 when we initially launched what is today our modern JasperForge community web site. How proud we were. Shiny new features all designed to make our community members more capable, engaged, and productive. Now, we’re just as proud of the new version of JasperForge that made its debut a few weeks ago.

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I believe that, over time, Jaspersoft’s distinction will be less about it being an open source software company and more about its abilities as a great business intelligence software company.  I expect declining distinction for our open source-ness will partly occur because the success of open source software and the benefit it brings the community [...]

I’ve been enthralled with Oracle’s acquisition of Sun since the day it was announced, because of what it represents to the foundation of open source software.  My very first blog post on this matter, in April of last year, focused on the hearts and minds of the developer, in this case through two of Oracle’s [...]

Jaspersoft Community: Welcome to the new JasperForge! We are thrilled to provide this much more advanced Forge platform and expect it to deliver the on-going foundation we know is required to sustain the largest, most vibrant ecosystem in the business intelligence industry. Your active use of this Forge combined with feedback on what you like and what [...]

Jasper4Salesforce Launch
Phew! We just finished up the Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference - over 5,000 people from around the world. JasperSoft had a booth as we were launching Jasper4Salesforce, a complete “on demand” reporting solution for salesforce.com, which I lead the development of. High points of the development were:
Using the latest version of JasperIntelligence open source in [...]

JasperSoft released a bunch of news articles this week to correspond with LinuxWorldExpo, so I got a chance to brief with a bunch of journalists and analysts on the news. I was a bit surprised at how frequent questions about JasperForge were, since JasperForge was not one of the news items released this week. [...]