[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 [...]

I could not continue to simply sit by and watch the ongoing delay by the EU with regards to the Oracle/Sun Microsystems deal. I’ve sent the following letter to Neelie Kroes, commissioner for competition, EU, and wanted to share it here as well.  Your comments are welcome.
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Attention: Neelie Kroes
Commissioner for Competition
European Union
I’m writing to urge [...]

Substantial advancements are underway proving that open source software, at every level of the stack, is becoming mainstream in the U.S. Federal Government. Speaking at this week’s GOSCON Conference in Washington, the acting DoD CIO, David Wennergren, spoke about the new departmental understanding that open source software which manifests in commercial form is legitimate and [...]

Note: This blog post also appears as a guest post on the blog at my alma mater, Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. But I also wanted to share it with JasperForge readers.
It occurred to me recently that the open source movement is really nothing less than a renaissance.  Perhaps that [...]

I don’t often discuss Jaspersoft’s specific products in this blog, preferring to offer ideas and insights on the trends that are shaping the world of business intelligence. Today, though, I want to highlight the fact that we’ve launched a substantial new version of our flagship reporting tool that raises the bar in the [...]

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 [...]

Building the world’s most vibrant BI community is at the core of our every thought at Jaspersoft.  I’ve written before about how seriously we take this responsibility and how our investments (time and money) are lined up to support it, from our new JasperForge to our measurement and metric system called the Community Vibrancy Index [...]