SAN FRANCISCO (January 20, 2011) – Jaspersoft, makers of the most widely used Business Intelligence (BI) software in the world, today announced the appointment of Joseph Rozenfeld as the senior-most engineering executive in the company. Rozenfeld previously founded and served as CTO of Skytide, a digital media performance management company. Prior to that, he was the founding engineer, manager and lead architect of Arbor Software, the first commercial OLAP engine vendor. At Jaspersoft, Rozenfeld will oversee the engineering teams responsible for advancing the next-generation of the Jaspersoft BI suite.

“I’m thrilled to join Jaspersoft’s team and help ensure they continue to be the strongest technology leader in open source business intelligence,” said Rozenfeld. “Jaspersoft has a proven track record of meeting business intelligence challenges and the company is well-positioned to offer the most unique and robust BI solutions for shifting IT requirements.”

Rozenfeld brings to Jaspersoft expertise in developing leading-edge technologies and successfully bringing them to market. His 20-year track record includes numerous CTO and engineering positions where he drove technical strategy. He also headed software development, product and engineering teams at various technology companies ranging from early stage start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Rozenfeld’s experience also includes senior positions at ChainCast Networks (EVP of Engineering and CTO), Argonautica (VP of Engineering), and Media Guarantee (VP of Engineering).

“Joseph brings enormous experience in business intelligence, analytics, database and data warehousing,” said Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile. “He will be instrumental in helping Jaspersoft scale to the next level of growth as we evolve our product to meet the ever-changing needs IT departments face in this era of cloud computing and big data.”

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ABOUT JASPERSOFT

Jaspersoft provides the most flexible, cost effective and widely deployed Business Intelligence suite in the world, enabling better decision making through highly interactive, web-based reports, dashboards and analysis. Leveraging a commercial open source business model, Jaspersoft provides end-to-end BI capabilities at a fraction of the cost of other vendors. The BI suite includes pixel-perfect enterprise reporting, ad hoc query, dashboards, OLAP and in-memory analysis, and data integration. Jaspersoft is the only BI vendor that enables companies to adapt to the new, virtualized world by providing a complete spectrum of on-premise, multi-tenant SaaS and cloud-based deployment options for both embedded and standalone business intelligence. Unlike traditional BI vendors, Jaspersoft is built on a modern, lightweight, standards-based architecture and offers greater vendor independence thanks to its open source codebase. Unlike niche BI vendors, Jaspersoft represents a safe choice with tens of thousands of production deployments across a wide range of industries.

Jaspersoft’s open source business intelligence software has more than 12 million product downloads worldwide, 160,000 production deployments and over 13,500 commercial customers in 100 countries. Its BI suite is advanced regularly by a development community of more than 190,000 registered members. For more information visit: http://www.jaspersoft.com and http://www.jasperforge.org.

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