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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]