The Market Leader in Open Source Business Intelligence

JASPERSOFT LAUNCHES JASPER4SALESFORCE ADVANCED REPORTING
SOLUTION ON SALESFORCE.COM’S APPEXCHANGE

Open Source Business Intelligence Leader offers 10 Free Reports to All Salesforce.com Customers

SAN FRANCISCO — January 9, 2007—JasperSoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence, today launched Jasper4Salesforce™, an on-demand version of the world’s most popular open source reporting and business intelligence solution. Jasper4Salesforce delivers advanced reporting, charting, and report management that is fully integrated with and optimized for salesforce.com. Jasper4Salesforce is available immediately on salesforce.com’s AppExchange, and there is no additional software to install and no training required.

“Jasper4Salesforce brings the advanced functionality and flexibility of open source BI to Salesforce AppExchange in a true on-demand package,” said Paul Doscher, CEO of JasperSoft. “We’ve seen a tremendous response in the marketplace from users who have praised the advanced functionality and high performance of our new product, and its seamless integration with salesforce.com. The excitement around the beta of Jasper4Salesforce on AppExchange led to 1,000 self-service customer demonstrations and more than 40 beta installations in three months.”

Heald College, the oldest career college in the western United States with an $80 million annual operating budget, recently purchased Jasper4Salesforce for data analysis and reporting of their recruitment pipeline. 

"Jasper4Salesforce enabled us to create a complex report that previously we could only make by combining several Salesforce reports that we ran, downloaded, and then modified in Excel,” said Eric Rajasalu, senior vice president of business development at Heald. “The old process took one person at each campus several hours to complete. Now we just run the report in less than a minute. Amazing!"

Jasper4Salesforce is already helping many salesforce.com consulting and systems integration partners deliver better solutions to their customers.

“Jasper4Salesforce provides a lot of reporting capabilities that extend native Salesforce functionality,” said Alana Kaselitz, principal and founder of Echo Lane, a leading salesforce.com systems integration service provider. “Jasper4Salesforce's ability to create, schedule, run, and email reports out to designated people within an organization has been a huge win! It has been a powerful tool for our consulting business and will continue to help our clients get more value out of their Salesforce implementation.”

Jasper4Salesforce offers a powerful, web-based ad hoc query and report designer with a drag-and-drop interface for business end-users, which lets customers find the data they need from any combination of standard and custom objects and fields in Salesforce and easily create tabular, chart, and cross-tab reports. Even more advanced reports can be developed through the use of the powerful iReport graphical report designer, which allows customers to develop, run and deploy Jasper4Salesforce reports from their desktop, and easily upload report definitions to Jasper4Salesforce. It can output pixel-perfect reports in seconds and supports advanced reporting features such as run-time report parameters, drill-down, and custom formulas.

Other key features in Jasper4Salesforce include:

• Advanced reporting capability that extends the features built into standard salesforce.com applications — including access to any data within Salesforce, run-time report parameters, drill-down capabilities, and custom formula and filter support;
• Advanced layout control — page-based reporting and pixel perfect layout in HTML, PDF, Excel, and Word/RTF;
• High performance report execution — average report execution time of under five seconds;
• Report management and sharing — reports can be stored in Jasper4Salesforce for use across the customer’s organization, or kept privately for each user;
• Data security — Jasper4Salesforce respects data security rules that customers have defined for their Salesforce data;
• Pre-built reports — a growing library of ready-to-run reports including salesperson productivity, sales pipeline, conversion rate by territory, and campaign effectiveness;
• Support and services — Jasper4Salesforce is backed with a professional support team and global partners who can help customers satisfy their information needs 24/7.

Continuous Innovation
As a true on-demand application, seamless automated updates will provide an ongoing stream of enhancements such as report scheduling, automatic distribution of reports via email or as documents within Salesforce, localization, and integration with non-Salesforce data.

Introductory Pricing and Availability
Jasper4Salesforce subscriptions are available immediately at http://www.jaspersoft.com/j4sf. Jasper4Salesforce can be evaluated within any customers’ Salesforce environment at no-charge for up to 15-days. Special introductory pricing starts at $20 per user per month with a minimum of five users for the Basic edition, which includes 48-hour customer support response time and 12x5, live phone support. Special introductory pricing for the Premier edition starts at $30 per user per month and includes 2-hour response time and 24x7 live phone support for mission critical applications.

In addition to the paid subscription options, JasperSoft is applying its open source community principles to this new product by providing a free library of pre-built reports that can be run by any Salesforce customer at no charge.  Access to the free reports is easy. Simply sign up for the 15-day free evaluation, and should you choose not to subscribe to Jasper4Salesforce, you will be granted unlimited access to the free report pack for the duration of your Salesforce subscription.

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