Jaspersoft Adds Web 2.0 Features to JasperForge
SAN FRANCISCO, May 12, 2009 — Jaspersoft, provider of the world’s most widely used business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that JasperForge has reached full production capabilities and has been upgraded to incorporate new Web 2.0 features that allow community members to extract, display, and share data that is specifically customized for them.
New features include an Ajax-based look and feel with search; updated enhancement and bug tracker; wiki and blog improvements; Google Gadgets; RSS support throughout the site; and real-time Activity Monitoring, among others.
The JasperForge Beta was announced in July 2008 in partnership with Essentia Corporation, which provides the underlying collaboration platform for the Forge. JasperForge is a next-generation community platform for facilitating software development and social exchanges among developers and organizations. With more than 90,000 registered community members and over 350 projects, the Forge is Jaspersoft’s engagement platform for facilitating the evolving requirements of the world’s largest open source BI community.
“We are pleased to see our partnership with Essentia coming to fruition in this next generation of tools,” said Brian Gentile, CEO of Jaspersoft. “Last July, we introduced the beta of a first-ever community platform, with a vision and roadmap for what that platform ultimately needed to be. Today, with the involvement of our community and a significant collaborative development effort, we’re seeing that vision become reality.”
Open source communities are changing and the Forges that support them need to evolve as well. No longer are Forges simply platforms for collaborating on software development. Business managers, developers and other third parties all contribute to building open source software and represent diverse needs for a collaboration platform. JasperForge has been built to address these requirements.
JasperForge employs a social networking approach that makes it easier than ever for users to join or start a project, interact with the community on Jaspersoft…
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