Apress To Publish New Definitive Guides On Market-Leading Open Source Business Intelligence Suite
LINUXWORLD CONFERENCE AND EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO (August 08, 2007) –
JasperSoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence, today announced that Apress, the leading publishing company for programmers and IT professionals, will publish two new authoritative guides to help developers maximize value from JasperSoft open source BI technology: “The Definitive Guide to JasperReports,” by JasperReports founder and architect, Teodor Danciu, and Lucian Chirita, also “The Definitive Guide to iReport” by iReport founder Guilio Toffoli. The guides provide comprehensive user-based focus on JasperReports, an open source Java pixel-perfect reporting system, and iReport, a Java rich-client production report designer.
“These new books are for both novice and experienced Java developers who want to better understand the fundamentals of open source BI, ” said Steve Anglin, Editorial Director of Java at Apress who collaborated with JasperSoft on the new titles. “From building a simple report with interactive charts to embedding JasperReports into host applications, the guides cover a wide range of material and are written by the experts who created these significant reporting and BI technologies.”
Known for their accurate, detailed insight into the industry’s most widely used software, the JasperReports and iReport books join other successful titles in the Definitive series, including “The Definitive Guide to POJOs,” “The Definitive Guide to Symfony,” and “The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5.”
“The Definitive Guide to JasperReports” covers such topics as delivering rich content onto the screen, to the printer, or into PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV and XML files and demonstrates how JasperReports can be used with a variety of Java applications to generate dynamic content. It also teaches developers how to embed JasperReports, handle complex reports, create integrated charting, and how to scale with high-performance report generation. The iReport guide discusses this intuitive and easy-to-use visual report builder/designer for JasperReports. It outlines the iReport and JasperReports installation process and walks through building a simple to use, report.
“We’re pleased to partner with Apress on publishing these resources to make sure both casual developers and active power users have the information they need to deliver open source BI applications into production,” said Danciu. “JasperForge represents the most active open source BI community, while commercial adoption of our software continues to our exceed expectations, proving there is a huge market need for these guides.”
JasperReports and iReport are part of the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, which delivers comprehensive tools for data access, data integration, analysis, and reporting.
For more information or to purchase the new JasperReports and iReport guides, see visit: http://www.apress.com . Electronic copies of “The Definitive Guide to JasperReports,” (ISBN: 1590599276) and “The Definitive Guide to iReport” (ISBN: 1590599284) are now available with hard copies to follow.
About Apress
Apress is a publishing company devoted to meeting the needs of programmers and IT professionals. Apress’ unique approach to computer book publishing grew out of conversations between Dan Appleman and Gary Cornell, Apress’ founders, who believe that too many programming books are of such low quality that they are a complete waste of time. More information is available at http://www.apress.com/.
About JasperSoft
JasperSoft is the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI). With more than 2.5 million downloads worldwide and more than 7,000 commercial customers in 96 countries; JasperSoft offers the most widely used open source business intelligence 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, an ETL tool for data integration, and a Java reporting library for scalable small, medium, and large enterprises, for use as either stand-alone or embedded business intelligence applications. JasperSoft is based in San Francisco and is backed by leading venture capital firms Morgenthaler Ventures, DCM, Partech International, Scale Venture Partners and SAP Ventures. More information is available at www.jaspersoft.com and www.jasperforge.org.
Source: JasperSoft