JasperWorld 2011 focuses on cloud and mobile BI

Jaspersoft plans to tie together its open-source business intelligence products this year as companies look towards the notion of "self-service BI", chief executive Brian Gentile told ZDNet UK ahead of JasperWorld 2011 which is currently taking place in San Francisco.

The company says that over the course of this year it will focus on expanding its cloud offering and mobile access to meet the changing demands of the business intelligence landscape.

"Eighty five percent of the enterprise is untouched by business intelligence (BI) and this is what Jaspersoft has always stood for – it's about reducing barriers that have been in place for the last decade," Gentile told ZDNet UK ahead of the event. "The aged proprietary BI vendors' models and architectures are poorly suited, at best, for this new world. They're inflexible, costly... and not designed for cloud computing or web-based delivery. For them to adjust will be impossible, and customers are understanding that now."

Key parts of Jaspersoft strategy revolve around products such as the recently announced Jaspersoft 4, expansion of its Jaspersoft Live cloud BI platform and its Jaspersoft Big Data Connectors that allows native reporting of Hadoop, various NoSQL data as well as massively parallel processing (MPP) analytic databases, Gentile said at the event in San Francisco.