New, advanced JasperForge will support the accelerated growth of the

   largest, most vibrant ecosystem in the business intelligence industry



    PORTLAND, Ore., July 23 /EMWNews/ -- 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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