I’ve spent a meaningful number of days in 2011 traveling the globe. Following on from our JasperWorld conference (February, San Francisco) and other events in the United States, I’ve met with customers and spoke at conferences in Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Germany, Holland, Austria, London and Paris. In all my conversations, what I’m struck by [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Today Jaspersoft makes available the fourth major generation of its business intelligence platform and I couldn’t be more proud. I’m proud because we’ve taken the time, with this major new release, to make significant architectural improvements that a software company rarely (if ever) takes the time to do. In fact, we’ve re-written the upper third [...]

Yesterday, Jaspersoft announced JasperReports Server Professional Edition, our first commercial offering built precisely for those who require sophisticated reports, designed and developed professionally - and scheduled and delivered interactively. This new offering is architected to match the substantial rise in interest for affordable reporting for both stand-alone and embedded uses - in organizations of all [...]

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 [...]

Delivering deeper data analysis, in formats more consistent with end-user expectations, has been a passion at Jaspersoft for several years.  This passion will continue because making analytics, up to and including the sophisticated multi-dimensional type, more accessible and usable must be the goal of the BI provider who claims “pervasiveness” as [...]

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 [...]