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As OStatic's own Sam Dean puts it, Business Intelligence (BI) applications are used to better understand historical, current and future aspects of business operations. Open source BI company Jaspersoft released two new editions of its Java reporting tool JasperReports Pro today that include a whole slew of new features and upgrades, so if you've been considering giving business intelligence software a try, now might be a good time to start.

New features in JasperReports Professional include:

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:

Earlier this week I wrote about ways museums are turning to open source software as one way to deal with declining attendance and lack of funding to cover operational costs. Of course, there's more to running a nonprofit organization than managing collections or scheduling volunteers to run exhibits.

Web-based open source constituent management solution Orange Leap (CMS) helps nonprofits maintain and manage relationships with the patrons, sponsors, and community members whose donations help keep their doors open.

Open source business intelligence (BI) company Jaspersoft and application performance monitoring software vendor Hyperic announced today a deepening of their ongoing relationship. JasperServer Professional Edition will be embedded in the new Hyperic Operations IQ to give IT teams an in-depth look at metrics and service levels.

Before dismissing the news as just another corporate partnership, consider that these kinds of match-ups are the very thing software vendors are likely to begin offering as companies get more serious about monitoring the bottom line.

The Open Source Alliance (OSA) published its Annual Predictions Survey this week. It serves up the opinions of business leaders about Obama's impact on IT, where they think the technology market is headed, and why it's a bad idea to put projects on hold until the economy turns around.

The survey asked the CEOs of several companies around the world to look ahead at various issues near and dear to the hearts of the people within the tech sector and open source community. Respondents were asked to predict one software winner and loser in the year ahead, and also think about what kinds of business models are likely to emerge in the coming months.

Open source business intelligence company Jaspersoft announced at OSCON today that it has ramped up its community project development platform. JasperForge 2.0 boasts several new features including more personalized tools and customizable home pages, while also giving a nod to the social networking tools an increasing number of developers find useful. I caught up to Nick Halsey, VP of Marketing to find out more about the new features, why he thinks the JasperForge community has grown so fast, and what sets this platform apart from other Forges available to the open source community.

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.