The Free Business Intelligence Package of Jaspersoft includes functions such as reporting, data analysis (OLAP), and data integration (ETL). This free Business Intelligence Suite can be said to be a collection of a few tools such as the JasperServer, JasperReports, JasperAnalysis, the JasperETL and the , iReport in one powerful pack.

Now, lets talk briefly about what this Free Enterprise Business Intelligence Package contains. It can be said to contain around five basic tools. Among them, the JasperServer is a high-performance standalone and embeddable report server that provides non-technical business users, with powerful features such as, the drag and drop ad hoc report building, drag and drop dashboarding – with live-refresh, and mash-ups with external content, a rich business metadata layer for easy ad hoc query, integrated and in-memory data analysis, built-in charting and integration with third-party visualization tools, self-service parameterized web reporting, report scheduling, a secure report and metadata repository, access to any data source including relational, XML, Hibernate, EJB, POJO, and other powerful and flexible features such as the row and column level data security.

The Free Enterprise BI software also includes the JasperServer tool. This consists of open web technology like the XML, JDBC, Hibernate, Java, and the Web Services , and is implemented as a lightweight, pure Java server application that offers excellent data and user scalability. The JasperServer comes bundled with MySQL, Tomcat and the Liferay Portal.

The next tool down the line, would be the Jasper Analysis tool. It is a relational online analytical processing server, with an easy-to-use web-based user interface and integration with the Microsoft Excel. JasperAnalysis includes the Jaspersoft OLE DB for OLAP,and the Connect utility with it.

Next would be the Jasper ETL tool. This tool helps in graphically design, schedule, and execute data, extract, transform, and load ETL operations for business intelligence projects, such as the operational data stores (ODS), data marts, and data warehouses.

The Jasper Server is one of the most powerful and widely used embeddable Java reporting library for report designers and developers. This tool includes in itself the iReport. The iReport can be said to play the part of a graphical report designer.

This visual report designer was specifically designed for JasperReports and, is used for designing complex reports. iReport gives administrators and report designers total control over the contents as well as, the look and feel of every report. Moreover it supports features such as the print-ready pixel-perfect production reporting, integration and embedding APIs and Web Services, and has a user modifiable and extensible source code.

The Free Jasper Soft BI Tools is a targeted towards the enterprise departments, small and mid-sized businesses, and independent software vendors (ISVs) around the globe. You can download the free business intelligence software package, that will provide you with state of the art functionalities,which over time would not only strengthen your overall business, but also helps you build and prove your value as you go up the ladder.

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