Jaspersoft and Infobright Partner to Provide Simple, Powerful Open Source Analytics...

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Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:01am EDT

Jaspersoft and Infobright Partner to Provide Simple, Powerful Open Source
Analytics for Everyone

Joint open source project offers the first end-to-end open source BI, ETL, and
data warehouse 

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 --
Jaspersoft, provider of the world's most widely used business intelligence
(BI) software, and Infobright, the open source data warehouse company, today
announced the general availability of the first open source project to feature
end-to-end BI, extract-transform-load (ETL), and data warehousing
capabilities. 

The project is available for download at the JasperForge
(http://www.jasperforge.org/infobright) and will be demonstrated at this
week's MySQL Conference & Expo in booth #300. 

The companies today are also announcing that Bi3 Solutions, provider of on
premise and virtual on-demand BI and Collaborative Performance Management
solution, has chosen the BI project to build an end-to-end BI suite. Read more
about this deal here: http://www.jaspersoft.com/nw_press.html.
 
Designed from the bottom up using open standards and offering transparency
with open source code, Jaspersoft and Infobright are providing customers with
a complete set of BI tools that produce easy-to-understand data; a
simple-to-manage, scalable data warehousing platform; and powerful analytics
that inform critical business decisions.  Infobright and Jaspersoft solutions
are optimized for MySQL software, enabling millions of MySQL users worldwide
to deploy a BI platform that leverages the affordability and flexibility of
open source software. 

This project is especially valuable for customers who face increasingly tight
budgets but need to advance important BI initiatives without expending the
upfront costs associated with proprietary software.  To help keep costs low,
Jaspersoft and Infobright are offering registered JasperForge members of this
project a 20 percent discount when they choose to upgrade to a commercial
subscription. 

"The ability to compete on analytics used to be an option for only the world's
largest companies. Now, thanks to the maturity of open source technologies and
strong partnerships among vendors, businesses of every size can use analytics
to increase their competitive position in the marketplace," said Brian
Gentile, CEO and president of Jaspersoft. "This partnership with Infobright
will allow businesses of every size to implement full-featured reporting and
analytics that help them increase efficiencies and revenues."

"Open source software is a critical part of today's enterprise environment,
and this joint project between Infobright and Jaspersoft makes a feature-rich,
end-to-end BI solution with powerful data warehousing capabilities immediately
available for use," said Miriam Tuerk, CEO of Infobright. 

Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile and Infobright CEO Miriam Tuerk together will
present at the MySQL Conference & Expo this Wednesday (April 22 at 10 a.m. PT)
on how the best businesses are using analytics to thrive in good times and
bad. For more information on the session, please visit the MySQL Conference
description for their presentation.

About Infobright 
Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, has pioneered the
development of self-managing data warehouse software. The critical need for
business intelligence, coupled with the dramatic growth of corporate data, has
outpaced IT's resources and budget within many companies. Infobright's
technology solves this problem by delivering a highly scalable analytic data
warehouse that reduces ongoing management by up to 90 percent and costs
significantly less than other data warehouse solutions. Infobright's solution
is being used by companies in online marketing, financial services,
telecommunications and other industries to provide rapid access to critical
business data with unmatched operational simplicity. For more information,
please visit http://www.infobright.com.

About Jaspersoft Corporation
Jaspersoft's open source business intelligence suite is the world's most
widely used BI software, with more than 8 million total downloads worldwide
and more than 10,000 commercial customers in 96 countries. The company's
Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite provides a web-based, open and modular
approach to the evolving business intelligence needs of the enterprise.
Jaspersoft's software is rapidly updated by a community of more than 90,000
registered members working on more than 350 projects, which represents the
world's largest business intelligence community. More information is available
at www.jaspersoft.com and www.jasperforge.org.

All names referred to are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective owners.

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    Jennifer Cloer
    Page One PR for Jaspersoft
    503-746-7577 (o)
    503-867-2304 (m)
    Jennifer@pageonepr.com
    Laurie Gibson
    Kickstart Consulting for Infobright
    pr@infobright.com, or
    lgibson@kickstartconsulting.com
    +1(650) 969-0764





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Jennifer@pageonepr.com, for Jaspersoft; or Laurie Gibson of Kickstart
Consulting, +1-650-969-0764, pr@infobright.com,
lgibson@kickstartconsulting.com, for Infobright
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