Friday, 2 March 2007

JasperSoft, MySQL AB Partner to Deliver BI Solutions to the ISV/OEM Market

JasperSoft, a provider of open source Business Intelligence, and MySQL AB, developer of open source database, have rolled out Jasper for MySQL: OEM Edition, a suite of operational reporting products that includes an interactive report server, a graphical report creation tool, and a pixel-perfect reporting system with dashboards, tables, crosstabs and charts.

The two companies have signed a joint reseller agreement that allows MySQL to offer the new product to its commercial ISV and OEM customers. JasperSoft will also have the right to resell MySQL's database solutions as part of the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite.

"MySQL is partnering with JasperSoft to provide our OEM customers with a superior reporting solution for their embedded database applications," said Mark Burton, MySQL AB's executive vice president of Worldwide Sales. "This new product will give our OEM customers and their end users an integrated way to quickly and easily get more value out of their business data."

According to the company, key features of Jasper for MySQL include:

• Ad hoc reporting with a web-based drag-and-drop interface using advanced DHTML and AJAX technology
• Traditional report output in PDF, HTML, XML, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word (RTF) formats
• Report scheduling and distribution with time-zone selection, recurrence, begin and end dates, e-mail notification and embedded links
• Localisation support for English, French, German, Italian, and Japanese
• Embeddability into other software applications
• Secure report repository
• iReport drag-and-drop graphical report designer with library of chart types including meter, thermometer, multi-axis charts, and integrated barcode support
• JasperReports report system to produce complex, printer-ready output with large report support limited only by disk storage resources