Jaspersoft Internationalized

“JasperSoft support for globalization is consistent with our roots in the worldwide, open source development community and our strategy to provide open, standards-based BI computing solutions for organizations of any size,” said Paul Doscher, CEO of JasperSoft. “As the leading provider of open source Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, JasperSoft is committed to promoting industry-wide standards that will ultimately benefit end-users around the world.”

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The skinny on EnterpriseDB

The first thing that EnterpriseDB has done is to introduce Oracle compatibility. The aim here is to allow Oracle applications to run against EnterpriseDB without change; so all of your PL/SQL, all of user defined functions and datatypes, all of your triggers and so on, will all run against EnterpriseDB without change. In practice, of course, this is not perfect. The company estimates that around 75% of its Oracle migrations (it also has customers that have migrated from SQL Server, DB2 and MySQL) have required no changes at all but there remains a rump of 25% that do need some changes, typically when these companies are using RAC or the OCI interface or other advanced Oracle features, though we can expect EnterpriseDB to address these issues in future releases.

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Top 10 "Free" BI Applications

Sourceforge.net is a repository of free open source software, and a lot of it applies to e-business. We’ve compiled this list of the top 10 most popular business intelligence (BI) applications available on the site. Click on the product name to get more information and download links straight from Sourceforge.

JasperReports: “JasperReports, the market leading open source business intelligence and reporting engine. This project is being moved to http://www.jasperforge.org/. This project is the home for all things Jasper, Reports, Analysis, Server, and Intelligence.”

Pentaho: ” A complete business intelligence platform that includes reporting, analysis (OLAP), dashboards, data mining and data integration (ETL). Use it as a full suite or as individual components that are accessible via web services.”

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Intalio Donates BPMN Technology to Eclipse

Intalio, which prides itself as “The Open Source BPMS (Business Process Management System) Company,” announced Nov. 28 that it has donated its BPMN process modeler to the Eclipse Foundation, and the technology is now available under the Eclipse Public License and is part of the Eclipse STP (SOA Tools Platform) project.

Officials at Intalio, of Redwood City, Calif., said the contribution of its BPMN process modeler follows the company’s donation of its Eclipse Modeling Framework model comparator to the Eclipse Foundation earlier this year.

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Pentaho Introduces Web-Based Ad Hoc Query and Reporting

 With Pentaho’s new open source metadata capabilities, administrators can define a layer of abstraction that presents database information to business users in familiar business terms. Administrators identify relationships between tables in the database, create business-language definitions for complex or cryptic database tables and columns, set security parameters to limit data access to appropriate users, specify default formatting for data fields, and provide additional translations for business terms for multi-lingual deployments. Business users can then use Pentaho’s new ad hoc query capabilities to choose the specific elements they would like to include in a given report, such as order quantities and total spending by customer grouped by region.

The new web-based query interface uses AJAX technology to provide a highly interactive, easy to use, scalable front end. The application’s metadata layer was built using the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) standard created by the Object Management Group (OMG) designed to allow for interoperability with existing metadata stores as well as third-party databases, metadata repositories, and ETL tools. Pentaho’s metadata-driven query engine uses JDBC and ANSI standard SQL to allow for the broadest possible choice of proprietary and open source databases including Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and others. Pentaho’s metadata will also be accessible in the near future from Pentaho’s open source graphical report designer, and the Pentaho Design Studio.

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Open Source Business Intelligence Leader JasperSoft Now Supports Oracle Platforms

ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ — JasperSoft Corporation, market the leader in open source business intelligence (BI), today announced that it offers certification, support and professional services for JasperIntelligence(TM) Professional with the Oracle® Database 10g and Oracle® Application Server 10g. In addition, JasperSoft has joined the Oracle® PartnerNetwork to extend the reach of JasperIntelligence within the Oracle community. Oracle has a strong lead in the database market and a growing presence in the J2EE application server market, which will help create new sales opportunities around the globe with Fortune 500 businesses for JasperSoft. JasperIntelligence Professional is a comprehensive suite of fully supported BI products providing data access, analysis, and reporting that enable BI for everyone. JasperIntelligence Professional includes JasperReports, the world’s most popular open source Java reporting software, as well as the JasperServer Professional interactive report server and the JasperAnalysis Professional OLAP server.

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JasperSoft Launches the Professional Edition of JasperAnalysis

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ — JasperSoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence, today launched JasperAnalysis Professional, an OLAP analysis engine that extends the functionality of their JasperIntelligence Professional open source business intelligence (BI) suite. JasperSoft also announced updated versions of other applications in their suite, including JasperServer Professional, iReport design tool, and JasperReports reporting library. JasperServer Professional comes with a new web-based drag and drop Ad Hoc reporting interface. JasperAnalysis allows a wide range of people in businesses to quickly explore trends, patterns and anomalies in their data. The product is designed to be easy to use via an intuitive web-based user interface for everyday business users, as well as provide the power required by business analysts. Analysis capabilities include on-the-fly drill, pivot, filtering, and summarization of data. Information can also be visualized using a wide range of chart types and options. JasperAnalysis is based on a relational OLAP architecture, so the data resides in standard RDBMS systems, and is based on the OLAP de facto standards XML/A and MDX that are widely used by other leading BI vendors, allowing the product to be integrated into existing infrastructure and leverage existing IT staff skills. Components of the JasperIntelligence suite that JasperAnalysis is a part of have been downloaded more than 1.6 million times and used in more than 10,000 deployments worldwide.

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Pentaho Marks Second Anniversary with 1.5 Million Downloads

ORLANDO, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pentaho Corp., creator of the world’s most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today celebrates its second anniversary with over 1.5 million downloads since the inception of the company, recent selection as SourceForge.net Project of The Month for October, and recognition by Forbes magazine as a “revolutionary” in the software industry. In only two years, Pentaho and the Pentaho community have redefined and expanded the BI industry with a professional open source business model that addresses the need for reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining and data integration without the expense and shortcomings of proprietary BI solutions. Today, Pentaho’s projects are downloaded more than 100,000 times a month, representing more users than the installed bases of proprietary BI stalwarts Business Objects, Cognos and Hyperion combined. Those downloads have translated into production applications like reporting and analysis of sales performance, dashboards monitoring key performance indicators in organizations around the world, and include a number of implementations in large-scale production environments.

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Pentaho beefs up open source OLAP

Pentaho Corp continues to hammer out rapid upgrades to key components of its evolving open source business intelligence suite. The company has now launched Mondrian 2.2, which is an OLAP open source project set up in 2001, and which Pentaho took over as chief steward and project owner of last November and integrated it into the Pentaho BI Suite as an “Analysis Services” component.

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Open Source Firms Optaros And Pentaho Announce Strategic Partnership

Optaros, an open source software consulting and integration firm announced a strategic partnership with Pentaho, provider of open source business intelligence (BI) software. The alliance enables Optaros to integrate Pentaho’s enhanced analysis capabilities with its enterprise-class next generation internet (NGI) applications, providing companies with a complete set of tools for achieving their business goals.

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