JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite™

The JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite builds on JasperReports, the world’s most popular
open source Java reporting library, and provides a comprehensive family of Business
Intelligence (BI) products providing robust production reporting, interactive reporting, data
analysis, and data integration capabilities. These capabilities are available as either stand-
alone products, or as part of an integrated end-to-end BI suite utilizing common metadata
and shared services like security, repository, and scheduling. The JasperSoft BI Suite
exposes comprehensive public integration interfaces enabling customization, extensibility,
and seamless embedding into other applications for businesses, OEMs, and ISVs.

End-To-End BI Suite Easy to Use

The JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite spans the JasperSoft is usable by non-technical business end-
continuum of Business Intelligence (BI) users by providing intuitive user interfaces:
requirements, providing robust production reporting,
interactive reporting, data analysis, and data  iReport/JasperStudio –graphical report designer
integration capabilities. These capabilities are  Web 2.0 AJAX based self-service Ad Hoc query &
available as either stand-alone products, or as part of reporting for non-technical business users
an integrated end-to-end BI suite utilizing common
metadata and shared services like security,
 Dashboarding and Portal support
repository, and scheduling.  OLAP – drill, pivot, filter, visualizing
 Report Management repository & browser
 Managing users, roles, and preferences
 Interactive report parameter prompts
 Scheduling and distribution

Seamless Embeddability & Extensibility

JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite Products
Shared Services
A set of common services are provided, including:
 Security Services: built-in authentication and
authorization, or single sign-on integration with
external security systems such as LDAP.
 Repository Services: robust, scalable, and secure
RDBMS-based storage for a broad range of
content and metadata.
 User Interfaces: All web user interfaces are built
on top of the underlying public integration
interfaces and are ready-to-use as-is, or they
can be easily customized, extended, or entirely
replaced.
 Scheduling Services: built-in scheduling service
provides for offline execution of large or periodic
tasks such as standard reports.
JasperSoft is designed for seamless integration or
embedding into existing applications and IT
infrastructure such as authentication and
authorization directories, external scheduling
systems, and external logging systems. This enables
JasperSoft to fully leverage existing IT infrastructure
investments, while also making these built-in services
available to customers as required.
 The core of the platform is a comprehensive set
of public Java APIs that provide an abstraction
mechanism to integrate a variety of business
intelligence engines, backed by a metadata
repository with secure access control.
 JasperSoft also provides SOAP and Web Services
interfaces, allowing remote and seamless
integration with other Java and non-Java
environments.
 Programming environment specific Web Services
wrappers for languages such as C/C++ and PHP.
Platform Support
JasperSoft is supported on a wide-range of open
source and commercial operating system, database,
and application server platforms. Tomcat, MySQL
and Liferay Portal are available bundled into optional
pre-integrated installers.
JasperReports – Report Library
JasperReports is the world’s most popular open
source Java reporting library. Designed for
developers, it can be easily embedded into any Java
application to deliver sophisticated print or web
reporting. You can also use it to create output to files
for further processing in applications like Excel. For
users with more sophisticated report management
requirements, reports designed for JasperReports can
be easily imported into the JasperServer interactive
report server.
Web and Pixel Perfect Reporting Library
JasperStudio, powered by iReport, is a powerful
graphical report designer for JasperReports and
JasperServer that enables you to create almost any
kind of report imaginable. Reports are built from a
number of independently defined and formatted
sections. JasperReports delivers information to
wherever you need it: onto the screen, onto the
printer, and to other applications. Output formats
include PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV, RTF (Word), TXT or
XML files. Many JasperSoft customers use Microsoft
Excel for further manipulation of the report data.
JasperReports provides an embeddable Java Swing
viewer for viewing report output and the report
design.
Data used to populate a report may be supplied
either as input parameters from a parent application,
or a from a data source defined within JasperReports.
JasperReports includes JDBC-wrapped data providers
for Relational Databases (RDBMS), JavaBeans (EJB,
Hibernate), plain old Java objects (POJO), and XML
data sources. Also, custom data source providers can
be easily added.
An extensive array of chart types is supported
through its built-in comprehensive charting
capabilities. Reports can contain hyperlinks, enabling
you to create OLAP-style drill-down reports.
A comprehensive set of built-in variables and
calculations are provided, and these can be extended
with custom expressions.
JasperReports is fully internationalized and supports
Unicode, locales, and multi-lingual report definitions.
JasperServer – Report Server
Designed for business users and developers,
JasperServer builds on JasperReports to provide a
stand-alone and embeddable interactive report
server, enabling delivery of mission critical
information on a real-time or scheduled basis to the
web, to the printer, or to a variety of file formats.
Through its support for easy to use self-service
interactive reporting, JasperServer enables users to
meet their own reporting needs, without burdening IT
or software application developers.
Self-Service Ad Hoc Reporting
JasperServer includes the following capabilities:
 Intuitive self-service Web 2.0 AJAX query &
reporting user interface – tables, crosstabs and
charts.
 Easy to use and secure web-based repository
manager interface for non-technical end-users.
 JasperStudio, powered by iReport, a powerful
integrated graphical report design tool.
 Easy to use interactive reporting — report
parameter prompts can be easily defined, and
present end-users with an intuitive user interface
for controlling interactive aspects of reports such
as filtering, sorting, or grouping of the report.
 Flexible pixel-perfect report layout, support for a
wide range of output channels (pdf, html, xls,
csv, rtf, txt, and xml), comprehensive charting,
drill-down analysis, internationalization, and
unlimited report size via report virtualization.
 Report scheduling, report versioning, and
automated email distribution of reports in
multiple output formats, as attachments or links.
 Built-in Liferay Portal, and JSR-168 compliant
portlets.
JasperAnalysis – OLAP Analysis
JasperAnalysis provides data analysis (also known as
online analytical processing, or OLAP) capabilities to
business users. It can be used to explore trends,
patterns, anomalies, and correlations in data by
allowing users to dynamically ―slice and dice‖, pivot,
filter, chart, and drill-down data in real-time.
JasperAnalysis Interactive Data Analysis
JasperAnalysis includes an integrated relational OLAP
server and web-based user interface application:
 JasperAnalysis Server: a robust and secure
relational OLAP (ROLAP) server. JasperAnalysis
Server ―cubes‖ are created by defining semantic
metadata mappings onto existing relational data
sources such as a data marts, data warehouses,
or operational databases. Relational OLAP
leverages the performance and scalability of the
underlying relational database, and allows use of
standard DBA skills to manage the ROLAP data
store. Cube and analytic report definitions can
be securely stored in the JasperSoft repository.
Data can be secured at the row and column
(dimension or measure) level, so business users
only get access to authorized information.
 JasperAnalysis User Interface: an easy to use
web-based OLAP user interface application for
non-technical end-users and analysts. It provides
an intuitive slice & dice interface to drill, pivot,
and visualize the data, and includes charts,
alerts, and drill-through to the underlying
transactional detail.
JasperAnalysis is compliant with the leading OLAP
industry standards: MDX, a query language for OLAP,
and XML for Analysis (XML/A), a Web Services
interface intended to standardize data access
interactions between a client application and an OLAP
data provider over the Web.
JasperETL – Data Integration
JasperETL provide data integration (also known as
extract-transform-load, or ETL) capabilities.
JasperETL can be used to merge data from multiple
sources into a single consistent store for reporting
and analysis.
JasperETL provides dramatic improvements in
productivity, manageability, and scalability compared
to traditional manual coding of data loading and
transformation processes.
Figure 5: Visual
JasperETL Graphical ETL
A typical usage of JasperETL is to move data from
multiple normalized transactional data stores,
through a data cleansing/improvement process, and
into operational data stores, data marts or data
warehouses. For example, JasperETL can be used to
load data stores for reporting with reporting tools
such as JasperReports and JasperServer, and to
populate data marts and data warehouses for
analysis using OLAP tools such as JasperAnalysis.
JasperETL provides a powerful Eclipse RCP-based
graphical designer which includes a Business Modeler,
Job Designer, Transformation components, Code
Viewer, Metadata configuration, Repository
integration, Job execution, and Job scheduling. The
graphical Job Designer includes transformation
components to perform various operations such as
slowly changing dimensions, data transformation on
any field type, field concatenation & interchange, field
filtering using constants, data rejection, formatting,
lookups, sorting, de-duping, merging, and
aggregation.
Transformations can be optionally performed as
either ETL or E-LT operations. With E-LT, processing
is pushed-down to the underlying RDBMS, in contrast
to the more traditional ETL approach where
processing takes place in the middle-tier server.
JasperETL supports a wide range of over 30 data
sources and targets, including JDBC, delimited text,
positional text, LDIF, XML. Custom data source
components can be added to provide access to
unusual or legacy data sources and targets.
The Professional edition includes a repository for
sharing ETL resources across multiple developers,
and a remote job monitoring application.
Product Editions
The JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite family of
BI products is available in two editions: Professional
and Open Source. The Professional edition is
available as a low-cost Standard or Premium level
subscription.
The Open Source edition provides basic functionality
for open source developers and technology
enthusiasts who want to add reporting and analytics
to their existing applications and operational
processes. It is distributed under the GPL open
source license.
The Professional edition builds on the open source
edition and provides professional technical support,
additional product features, the right to embed in
commercial applications, a professionally managed
release cycle, modifiable source code, certified
platform support for commercial application servers,
databases, and operating systems from IBM, BEA,
Oracle, MySQL, RedHat, Novell, Sun, HP and others.
This product is distributed under a Commercial
license with legal indemnities.
A Better Way to Create Software
Through its sponsorship of Open Source Business
Intelligence projects such as JasperReports, iReport,
JasperServer, JasperAnalysis, and JasperETL,
JasperSoft is enhancing the open source offerings
available to the world, and providing extremely low
cost of entry for organizations wishing to deploy or
integrate business intelligence solutions.
We author and release JasperSoft BI Suite Open
Source edition products to a community of thousands
of reporting and BI experts and developers, who use
the software, provide feedback and develop
extensions. We use revenues from our commercial
customers to fund the development and release of
new functionality for our development community.
By providing commercial support, we also offer
customers and partners the comfort of technical
support, commercial licensing, indemnity, and the
project acceleration that comes from expert training
and consulting services.
Subscription Services
JasperSoft offers annual subscriptions for JasperSoft
Business Intelligence suite products. For more
detailed information email sales@jaspersoft.com or
visit our website at jaspersoft.com. Subscriptions
include high value items such as:
 Certified platform support
 Advanced product features
 Technical Support up to 7x24
 Legal indemnity
 Training
 Commercial License grant
 Advanced product documentation
 Access to the Support Portal
Commercial Licensing
JasperSoft BI Suite products are offered as open
source software under the GNU Public License (GPL).
If you are not distributing JasperSoft products in a
commercial product, you may freely install and use
them, or modify them to suit your needs. For
embedding in commercial products for distribution or
on-demand software as a service (SaaS), and for
customers who prefer the reassurance, commercial
licensing is available from JasperSoft. The
commercial license is part of the subscription service
offering described above.
Training
JasperSoft conducts regular online training classes.
These classes were developed by the architects of the
JasperSoft BI Suite products. Training can also be
delivered at your location using your own data, email
sales@jaspersoft.com for more information. The
classes are practical, with hands-on examples, and
enable engineers to be productive with JasperSoft
immediately.
Professional Services
If you are new to reporting and Business Intelligence
and need more direct assistance, JasperSoft
Professional Services consultants can work with you
to evaluate your needs and help you develop optimal
reporting solutions. Also, if you are migrating to
JasperServer, JasperAnalysis, or JasperETL,
JasperSoft consultants are ready to help architect
and implement the most efficient solution for your
organization.
For further information about any of these support
and services offerings, please visit the JasperSoft
web site, email us, or call us.
JasperSoft Headquarters:
303 Second Street, Suite 450 North
San Francisco, California 94107, USA
phone: +1 415 348 2380
Email: sales@jaspersoft.com
JasperSoft Europe:
Ground Floor
Block K, Eastpoint 5027
D3 Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Phone: +353 87 638 4830
Email: sales-emea@jaspersoft.com
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