Jaspersoft and Ingres Open Free 30-Day Enterprise Software Trial for Performance-Challenged BI Applications

SAN FRANCISCO, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Jaspersoft, maker of the world's most widely used business intelligence (BI) software, and Ingres, pioneers of the breakthrough analytic database, VectorWise, today announced Jaspersoft VM powered by VectorWise, a free trial software package that combines the Jaspersoft 4 Enterprise BI Suite and the VectorWise analytic database. With this offer, business intelligence professionals can access and analyze complex data at the speed of thought.  

Companies that run on or rely on data to do business need to extract insights as quickly as possible to maximize and monetize their data. This evaluation environment from Jaspersoft and Ingres delivers the record breaking speed of the Ingres VectorWise analytics database coupled with the power and utility of Jaspersoft's BI suite. Customers can load their data sets into the Jaspersoft VM powered by VectorWise evaluation environment and run near real-time BI analysis and reporting on large datasets giving companies the flexibility they need at an affordable cost.

"Business intelligence professionals are often hampered by too much data and complex calculations when they just need to get analysis to their managers," said Steve Shine, co-president at Ingres. "Jaspersoft VM powered by VectorWise enables BI professionals to deliver reports in seconds rather than minutes in order to better do their jobs."

The Jaspersoft 4 BI Enterprise edition is the most flexible, cost effective, and widely used BI software in the world, built for the most demanding business intelligence requirements. It includes additional capabilities such as data integration, online analytical processing (OLAP analysis), and audit logging as well as a multi-tenant SaaS deployment option. It also includes professional quality technical support and commercial licensing protection.

VectorWise, a record breaking database for interactive reporting, unlocks the power of modern commodity CPUs with a database engine that leverages vector-based processing and on-chip memory to provide dramatic performance gains over other databases.   No other database enables faster performance without requiring more hardware or extensive tuning. Customers and partners have reported 10-70X improvements.

"Jaspersoft VM powered by VectorWise is a complementary package for companies who have yet to leverage accelerated analytics applications or experience the modern, easy-to-use reporting capabilities in Jaspersoft BI," said Jim Bell, CMO of Jaspersoft. " With a few easy clicks, Jaspersoft and Ingres are enabling customers to reap the benefits of full BI deployments that run at amazing speeds."

Jaspersoft and VectorWise are hosting a 1-hour webinar titled "Speed is King in BI Reporting". Reserve your space today.

Online Resources

• Attend the Webinar: "Speed is King in BI Reporting"
• Register on the Jaspersoft website and download the Joint Virtual Machine
• Learn more about Vectorwise
• Learn more about the Jaspersoft BI Suite

About Ingres Corporation

Ingres is a leading provider of data management solutions enabling companies to derive the highest value from their data. Whether it is by supporting their business with transactional systems running mission critical workloads on Ingres DB, providing rapid insight from historical data using the record breaking VectorWise or innovating with applications in the cloud using SkySafe managed services, thousands of organizations around the world rely on Ingres' products and services to deliver disruptive price/performance. Ingres solutions are in use at more than 10,000 customers worldwide including Lufthansa, Philips, Lockheed Martin, Fujitsu, Irish Revenue, Sainsbury, Logica and many government and defense departments around the world. Ingres is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Leeds and Melbourne. www.ingres.com, Ingres, VectorWise, SkySafe, SkyInsight and SkyArchive are trademarks of Ingres Corporation. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

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-premises, 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 13 million product downloads worldwide, 160,000 production deployments and over 14,000 commercial customers in 100 countries. Its BI suite is advanced regularly by a development community of more than 200,000 registered members. For more information visit: http://www.jaspersoft.com and http://www.jasperforge.org.

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Jessica Swain
Atomic PR for Ingres
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