PARIS and SAN FRANCISCO, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --
- JasperSoft Also Launches Innovative, Community-Based Translation
Project on JasperForge.Org, With 22 Languages Under Development
JasperSoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business
intelligence, in response to overwhelming global demand, today announced the
globalization of the entire JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite.
JasperSoft is now fully internationalized, enabling delivery of localized and
translated versions of its popular business intelligence solutions to any
country in the world. JasperSoft also supports fully localized reports,
including locale-sensitive formatting of data, string translation, time-zone
conversion, and sorting, so that a single report definition can meet the
language and locale needs of geographically and linguistically diverse global
users. With full support for Unicode encodings as well as traditional
region-specific encoding systems such as Japanese Shift-JIS, JasperSoft can
handle information for all of the world's languages.
"JasperSoft support for globalization is consistent with our roots in the
worldwide, open source development community and our strategy to provide
open, standards-based BI computing solutions for organizations of any size,"
said Paul Doscher, CEO of JasperSoft. "As the leading provider of open source
Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, JasperSoft is committed to promoting
industry-wide standards that will ultimately benefit end-users around the
world."
The Unicode Standard is a character coding system designed to support the
worldwide interchange, processing, and display of the written texts of the
diverse languages and technical disciplines of the modern world. In addition,
it supports classical and historical texts of many written languages. The
Unicode standard has been adopted by computing leaders such as Apple, BEA,
HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Sun, among others. It is required by
modern standards such as XML, Java, ECMAScript (JavaScript), LDAP, CORBA 3.0,
and WML and is the official way to implement ISO/IEC 10646.
In support of globalization capabilities, JasperSoft is also announcing
the launch of JasperBabylon, a JasperForge.org project where developers can
collaborate on localization projects. Already, 22 language translations have
been initiated as part of the JasperBabylon project, with more on the way.
With more than two million product downloads from over 200 countries
around the world, over 20,000 deployments, and 23 global partners, JasperSoft
leads the market for open source business intelligence, bringing
enterprise-quality open source business intelligence tools to organizations
of all sizes and budgets. The global appeal of the JasperSoft Business
Intelligence Suite is underscored by its download demographics, which are
almost equally distributed between North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and
the rest of the world. A lightweight Java architecture and public integration
interfaces allows JasperSoft BI solutions to be easily integrated into
existing applications. Today, JasperSoft has more than 5,000 customers in 81
countries, from small businesses to Global 2000 enterprises, including
Harland Financial, L3 Communications, Siemens, TIMCO, Tomax, University of
Nebraska, Visage Mobile, and Walgreens.com. JasperSoft maintains a global
presence with sales, support, and development offices in California, New
York, North Carolina, Ireland, Italy, Romania, India, and Australia.
With globalization support, the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite
solutions can now be localized and translated for use in any market and
language, including Chinese, Cyrillic, Hindi, Japanese, and more. JasperSoft
is making available to developers, partners, and customers guidelines on how
to localize JasperSoft products for any market. Jaspersoft will also release
downloadable localization packs that can be easily installed with any
existing JasperSoft product deployment.
In its implementation of globalization support, JasperSoft made it easy
for administrators to deploy localized Business Intelligence. When a user
completes a JasperServer or JasperAnalysis login, the JasperSoft application
recognizes the user's preferred locale and time zone. This can be set in
various ways, including detecting a user's login locale from a Web browser,
selecting from a list on the login page, or though API calls when JasperSoft
solutions are embedded in other applications.
The first localized products from JasperSoft will be available in
Japanese in February 2007. Other localized products will be available shortly
thereafter.
About JasperSoft
JasperSoft is the market leader in open source business intelligence
(BI). With more than two million downloads worldwide and more than 5,000
commercial customers in 81 countries, JasperSoft offers the most widely used
open source BI software in the world. The JasperSoft Business Intelligence
Suite is comprised of an interactive reporting server, graphical and ad hoc
report design interfaces, OLAP analysis, and a Java reporting library for
scalable small, medium, and large enterprises, for use as either stand-alone
or embedded BI applications. JasperSoft is based in San Francisco and is
backed by leading venture capital firms Morgenthaler Ventures, Doll Capital
Management, and Partech International. More information is available at
www.jaspersoft.com and www.jasperforge.org.
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Craig Oda
Page One PR (for JasperSoft)
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