TIBCO™ JasperReports^® Server builds on TIBCO™ JasperReports^® Library as a comprehensive family of Business Intelligence (BI) products, providing robust static and interactive reporting, report server, and data analysis capabilities. These capabilities are available as either stand-alone products, or as part of an integrated end-to-end BI suite utilizing common metadata and provide shared services, such as security, a repository, and scheduling. The server exposes comprehensive public interfaces enabling seamless integration with other applications and the capability to easily add custom functionality.

The heart of the TIBCO™ Jaspersoft^® BI Suite is the server, which provides the ability to:

For business intelligence users, Jaspersoft offers TIBCO™ Jaspersoft^® OLAP, which runs on the server.

Jaspersoft OLAP runs within JasperReports Server. JasperReports Server itself builds on JasperReports, the world’s most popular open source Java reporting library. It provides a comprehensive family of Business Intelligence (BI) products, including robust static and interactive reporting, report server, data analysis, and data integration capabilities. You can use Jaspersoft OLAP as a stand-alone product or as part of an integrated end-to-end BI suite that utilizes common metadata and provides shared services, such as a repository, security, and scheduling. JasperReports Server exposes comprehensive public integration interfaces enabling seamless embedding into other applications as well as the capability to easily add custom functionality.

You can use the following sources of information to extend your knowledge of JasperReports Server:

JasperReports Server is a component of both a community project and commercial offerings. Each integrates the standard features such as security, scheduling, a web services interface, and much more for running and sharing reports. Commercial editions provide additional features, including Ad Hoc charts, flash charts, dashboards, Domains, auditing, and a multi-organization architecture for hosting large BI deployments.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Community and Commercial Editions

Jaspersoft OLAP is a component of our community project and commercial offerings. Jaspersoft integrates the standard features of JPivot and Mondrian with additional features, including an enhanced user interface, streamlined tool bars and icons, fast expand/collapse features, and consistent option panes. The commercial editions also include row-level data security, performance tuning, and profiling reports and views to identify optimization candidates.

This guide discusses all editions. Sections of the guide that apply only to the commercial editions are indicated with a special note.

User Descriptions and Document Maps

Because this ultimate guide is a comprehensive resource for users with many different needs, it includes information that may not apply to you or to your edition of Jaspersoft OLAP. The following audience descriptions and document maps can help you find the information that is most important to you.

Technical Business Analyst

Technical Business Analysts know their business, data, and processes; they are power users who generate business intelligence for others.

If you’re a Technical Business Analyst, refer to the following sections of this document:

System Developer

System Developers leverage Jaspersoft OLAP functionality in their own products. They extend and change its code, system configurations, and other low-level options.

If you’re a System Developer, refer to the following sections of this document:

System Administrator and Database Administrator

System Administrators install, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot Jaspersoft OLAP along with other systems in their environment.

Database Administrators (DBAs) administer database management systems (DBMS), and are familiar with both relational and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) databases. They plan, configure, tune, and maintain the schemas that store business data.

If you’re a System Administrator or DBA, refer to the following sections of this document: