Jaspersoft Releases New Community Edition, Joins Open Source For America

by Lisa Hoover - Jul. 22, 2009Comments (1)

It looks like Jaspersoft is making good use of the funding it received a few months ago. The business intelligence (BI) software maker has announced a major update to its Community Edition with new features designed to help customers better analyze data, easily create user-friendly reports, and more.

Jaspersoft Community Edition 3.5 new features include:

* Improved data visualization with Gantt charts, chart themes, and multiple scriptlets per template
* Upgraded Mondrian (OLAP engine) and support for new
scalar functions in MDX
* Updates and improvements to the schema workbench
used for creating and testing OLAP schemas
* Report governors to limit report run times or number of pages

Jaspersoft is a software vendor worth watching because, unlike businesses that simply toss around the term "open source" for its marketing appeal, this company takes an active role in the open source community as a whole. Jaspersoft is a founding member of the Open Source Channel Alliance, and the Open Solutions Alliance, and it maintains a forge for FOSS developers. Company CEO Brian Gentile, a vocal supporter of open source in government, announced today that Jaspersoft is now involved in the Open Source for America project, aimed at encouraging the use of open source software at the U.S. Federal level. (Red Hat has also announced that it has joined Open Source for America, and the initiative will be officially announced at OSCON today.)

"Open Source for America represents the next logical step forward in helping our Government demonstrate some of the most storied and valuable principles of open source: transparency and collaboration," says Gentile. He encourages anyone in the FOSS community to contact him with "ideas for how the U.S. Government should use open source software to better build our democracy."