Jaspersoft Announces Web 2.0 BI Software

by Lisa Hoover - Jun. 17, 2008Comments (5)

Open source business intelligence firm Jaspersoft is announcing the availability of Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite v3 Professional Edition. More than just an upgrade from the previous version, v3 adds entirely new functionality to its BI software through the use of interactive Web 2.0 interfaces, drag and drop capabilities, mashups, and more.

Nick Halsey, Vice President of Marketing at Jaspersoft says the software was under development for about six months and nearly five thousand people helped QA v3's candidate releases.

Though deploying the software isn't difficult, Halsey says there are different learning curves associate with the product's intended use. "As a standalone solution (for a data warehouse application, for example) it is extremely easy to get started using the product. When it installs it even includes all of the various infrastructure products you might need, including a MySQL database, Tomcat application server, Liferay portal, etc., and after install you wind up on a JasperServer home page with links to demos, documentation, and other helpful tools. All of the user interface components are implemented using Web 2.0 technology such as AJAX and DHTML, so the user experience is a simple drag-and-drop environment.

However, if you are a programmer planning to embed or integrate Jaspersoft into another application (which is very popular given our modular J2EE architecture, full Java API, and support for Web Services and SOA), then you have a little steeper learning curve as you come up to speed on the various ways you can programmatically leverage the product suite to add business intelligence to your app."

Other new features in the Jaspersoft v3's cross-application browser-based software suite include:

  • An interface driven by Ajax, Dynamic HTML, and other Web 2.0 technologies
  • Web-based domain designer
  • An ad hoc dashboard builder to create key performance indicator gauges that update in near real-time
  • An enhanced repository manager
  • Point and click ad hoc data access via a new data source abstraction layer “Domain” and query generation engine
While the older Community Editions of previous products will remain available, the company will only sell the v3 Professional Edition. Annual subscriptions range from approximately $4,000 for a 2 CPU server with unlimited users to about $45,000 for an all-you-can-eat enterprise subscription with unlimited use.

 


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Why is this a big deal? I think every application will/should have similar (AJAX, DHTML) features in the next 12-18 months.

The BI guys should (and probably have) looked at the Google Analytics interface - that's where all reporting interfaces should trend toward - simple, clean, interactive and USEFUL...

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It's true that Web 2.0 technologies are talked a lot about (even hyped), but not used very effectively in practice. We've worked very hard to ensure the user actually benefits from our use of AJAX, DHTML, etc. with truly easy to use, intuitive features. You should go check out our software (even just a demo) and then tell us if it is 'no big deal'. As long-time BI and open source fanatics, we feel strongly that what we've created breaks some new ground.

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I did check out the demo and it is pretty slick (and USEFUL). The thing that worries me about "BI" is the fact that its purely driven by data from other apps and reporting is becoming a key component of any enterprise app offering - so over time why/how would the smaller BI vendors be able to sustain their niche esp. since we can safely assume that enterprise app vendors will surely forward integrate into this space...

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Hi, Well, you talk about open source BI, but as far as I know, the superb JasperSoft BI suite v3 with domains, ad hoc querying and so is not open source, its completely commercial. It's actually cheaper than BO or Cognos but still... domains are not as powerful as BO’s Universes. Any way, I’ve just tested the commercial v3 and I found it really good, many useful new functionalities. Great job guys. just continue this way Amine

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