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Jaspersoft BI "works with windows 2008"
Jaspersoft announced that their Business Intelligence Suite achieved "Works with Windows Server 2008" certification.
Jaspersoft has worked together with Microsoft and just released an Excel connector, though not under an open source license. Their products are developed on the Java platform.
Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite 2.1 released
This new release of Jaspersoft's JBIS focuses on better usability and end-user functionality. Programmability has been enhanced for extended embeddability for OEMs and Operational BI solutions, with complete public Java and Ajax APIs. From the press release, here are the highlights of this version:
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- In the web browser based ad hoc report designer, users can now create reports containing custom formulas, charts and crosstabs with drag-and-drop (AJAX) , as well as reports combining charts and other report types;
- For programmers and ISV/OEMs, there is a fully supported complete public Java API; a new “ad hoc launcher” API to drive ad hoc query and analysis functionality from another application; new web services for scheduling; and a simplified methodology for custom data source implementation;
- Dashboarding via JSR-168 Portlets allowing users to build dashboards in portals such as Liferay, which is now bundled with JBIS;
- Data access security for data warehouses, which allows a user’s profile to dictate what data the user can see in the warehouse;
- Expanded data integration capabilities in JasperETL including a new multi-user repository, new monitoring tools, and support for slowly-changing dimensions in data warehouses;
- Improved out-of-the-box experience with multiple dashboard samples, enhanced wizards, additional ad hoc report themes and a new “Welcome” page with enhanced user tools
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The suite is built on multiple components: JasperAnalysis, JasperETL, JasperServer, JasperReports, and iReport report designer. All have an open source edition available from JasperForge
This follows the release Pentaho's own BI suite, version 1.6.
