Jaspersoft Unveils New Community Platform at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference...

Jaspersoft Unveils New Community Platform at the O'Reilly Open Source
Conference (OSCON)
New, advanced JasperForge will support the accelerated growth of the largest,
most vibrant ecosystem in the business intelligence industry

PORTLAND, Ore., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- OSCON -- Jaspersoft Corporation,
the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI), today announced
the open beta of its new JasperForge, a next-generation community platform
that will support the open source BI community with tools that meet the
evolving needs of all community stakeholders -- from developers to business
users.
Open source communities are changing and the Forges that support them need
to evolve as well. No longer are Forges simply platforms for collaborating on
software development. Evolving patterns of open source adoption have brought a
new class of users to these platforms, representing diverse needs that reflect
their disparate backgrounds.
With millions of downloads, tens of thousands of registered members and
hundreds of JasperForge projects, the Jaspersoft open source community is one
of the largest in the world and has been on the front lines as requirements
have changed. Jaspersoft's original Forge was announced two years ago this
month, over which time its community has grown more than ten-fold.
"It is our top priority to foster collaboration and support the Jaspersoft
community -- both the software developers and the increasing number of
business users looking to share and build projects," said Brian Gentile, CEO
of Jaspersoft. "Our business intelligence focus puts us close to the business
users as well as to the developers looking to embed BI into their commercial
and IT applications. By working with these constituents, we're able to build a
Forge to support all members of this highly diversified community."
JasperForge uses EssentiaESP, a breakthrough community engagement platform
developed by Essentia. Essentia is a leader in next-generation platforms and
services for online communities and commerce and today is announcing details
about its offerings: http://www.essentiaserve.com.
Jaspersoft and Essentia together will present "Delivering a
Next-Generation Community Platform" at OSCON on Thursday, July 24 at 2:35 p.m.
PT. More details on the session can be found here:
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4736.
"We are very pleased to be partnering with Jaspersoft to define the
standard for a new generation of community forges," said Gopi Ganapathy,
president and CEO of Essentia. "Jaspersoft manages one of the largest and most
mature open source communities in software today, representing every potential
requirement for a Forge."
The new JasperForge uses a social networking approach to provide an
intuitive experience that makes it easier than ever for users to join or start
a project, interact with the community around it, and move that project
forward. By working with Essentia, Jaspersoft is able to take advantage of
distinct collaborative development, communications and social networking tools
that enable discussions, tagging, surveys, wikis, news, blogs, mailing lists
and more. Advanced banners, e-commerce and dynamic cataloging are also built
into the new forge.
Among the most significant new features:
-- Personalized experience with enhanced MyPages. Wikis, karma points,
monitoring, and customizable home pages are just a handful of the new features
and options from which users can pick and choose to build their own projects.
-- Ecosystem Enablement. To enhance the network effect of the new
Jaspersoft community, including customers and partners, members can use
built-in tools and project space, or easily link projects, tools, or artifacts
directly from the new JasperForge via an exclusive new Ecosystem Enablement
feature. With Ecosystem Enablement, users can loosely couple internal projects
with outside partners, the open source community of contributors and
reviewers, business partners, and suppliers -- all within the same community
and ecosystem.
-- Rich Content Management is now extended to every user, every tool and
every page in the new JasperForge. This capability ensures that Jaspersoft
delivers a consistent, sophisticated and modern user experience to all
community members and visitors.
JasperForge is home to 85,000 community members working on 277 projects in
51 languages. For more information about JasperForge visit
http://www.jasperforge.org.
About Jaspersoft Corporation
Jaspersoft offers the most widely used open source business intelligence
software in the world, with more than 3 million core project downloads
worldwide and more than 8,500 commercial customers in 96 countries. The
Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite includes products for production
reporting, operational reporting, dashboard-driven end-user query & reporting,
data analysis, and data integration for use with either stand-alone or
embedded business intelligence applications. Jaspersoft is based in San
Francisco and is backed by leading venture capital firms Morgenthaler
Ventures, DCM, Partech International, Scale Venture Partners and SAP Ventures.
More information is available at http://www.jaspersoft.com and
http://www.jasperforge.org.
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Page One PR for Jaspersoft
Direct: 503-746-7577
Cell: 503-867-2304
jennifer@pageonepr.com

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