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// Jaspersoft’s experience with more than 100 successful cloud BI deployments has made us realize that a partnership, best-of-breed approach to cloud BI is the best way to go. BI as a service through on-demand SaaS (News – Alert) deployments are generally singular offerings that are overstretched, offer limited flexibility, and generally need to be built from the ground-up, resulting in costly down-time and high implementation costs. One of the best practices that we’ve established from our multiple launches is that customers need to have a cloud hosting-enhanced BI solution with a lean framework. Jaspersoft’s lean architecture based on web-based open standards coupled with experts in cloud management and BI consulting results in a proven solution than can meet a myriad of business needs. ..

More from an interview with Karl Van den Bergh, vice president of product strategy at Jaspersoft.

From Intelligent Enterprise -

In leveraging the new technologies, Jaspersoft has built a UI that runs in all the major browsers and uses a drag-and-drop approach to using business intelligence tools.

Users start with a list of domains, such as billing, inventory, sales, marketing or any other topic for analysis and reporting. Under each domain is a list of data items organized in a typical tree structure. After a user drags data items to the workspace on the right side of the UI and clicks “done,” the software automatically generates the SQL statements for querying data stores.

Once the queries have been generated, the retrieved data can be dragged onto a designer workspace for generating reports that can be saved in the Jaspersoft repository and then used in a variety of ways, such as in a PowerPoint presentation, Excel spreadsheet, a PDF document or email.