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There have been an ever increasing number of public organizations and private non-profits -- including medical institutions and educational facilities -- making the move to open source or hybrid open-proprietary software solutions.

Of course there are a number of compelling reasons for this trend beyond the frequently cited savings or escape from vendor lock-in. One of the reasons that the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine chose Bluenog to provide its content management system, web portal and business intelligence software was the flexibility that open source software offered in integrating with its legacy systems and infrastructure.

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:

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.

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.