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BitNami and Jaspersoft Deliver Cloud-based Business Intelligence for SMBs
March 18, 2011 No CommentsSOURCE: BitNami
BitNami, which simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively, virtually and in the cloud, and Jaspersoft, the world’s most widely used business intelligence platform, announced today that they have partnered to bring open source business intelligence to the cloud. Businesses of all sizes can now deploy the JasperReports Server Community Edition open source report server on the Amazon EC2 Cloud with the click of a button using BitNami Cloud Hosting.
BitNami Cloud Hosting is a platform that simplifies the deployment and management of web applications on the cloud. It provides one-click application deployment, automatic incremental backups (with a schedule set by the user), simple server resizing, server scheduling, monitoring and other features that enable businesses to deploy an enterprise-grade business intelligence solution without engaging significant IT resources. A BitNami-enabled deployment of JasperReports Server can be up and running in just a few minutes and scaled up or down to meet changing requirements. Customers can easily customize the setup and save the images as templates, ready to be cloned and restored as necessary, providing further time savings.
“We have been working closely with Jaspersoft for several years to make their commercial offering easy for customers to deploy,” said Daniel Lopez, BitNami CTO. “We are excited to extend our partnership and provide our BitNami Cloud Hosting users with access to an excellent open source BI solution for the cloud.”
JasperReports Server is perfectly tailored to the cloud with an easily customizable GUI and agnostic data source support. The commercial edition also includes multi-tenant capabilities..
“We are pleased that BitNami is offering Jaspersoft Community Editions in the cloud for instant access to powerful open source business intelligence,” says Andrew Lampitt, Senior Director of Technology Alliances at Jaspersoft.
