Agile BI: Lightning Fast Report Development &

Data Analysis

Tyler WilchekMarketing Manager

Jinfonet SoftwareRockville, MD

Greg HarrisProduct Engineer

Jinfonet SoftwareRockville, MD

Agenda

• Company Introduction

• Agile BI

• JReport Suite

• Visualization, JDashboard

• Customer Examples

• Demo

• Q & A

Jinfonet Software

• Our Mission:To simplify information delivery and data visualization for enterprise applications.

• About Jinfonet Software:–Privately Held, Self-funded, Debt-free

–Profitable with Significant Re-investment in R&D

–Over 160 Java Developers Continue to Enhance JReport

–First to Offer Embedded Reporting for Java Apps in 1998

GovernmentSoftware / Consulting

Healthcare / Healthcare Insurance

TelecomConsumer /

ManufacturingFinancial Services

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Customers who Have Implemented Operational BI with JReport

JReport: Power Made Accessible

JReport Core Concepts

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Aberdeen Group: Agile BI (March 2011)

• Pressures

– Growing volumes of source data and data sources

– More demanding environment for decision making

• Actions

– Enable business users to be more self-sufficient

• Capabilities

– Process to collect and formulate end user needs

– IT and analytics skills decentralized

– BI executes directly against operational data

– Fully interactive reports and charts

• Enablers

– Dashboards

– End-user ad hoc tools

JReport: Agile BI

“66% of BI requirements change between a daily and monthly basis”

– 2010 Study Conducted by Forrester Consulting

Quick to Develop and Deploy

– Intuitive report designer

– Connect to any data source

– Quick and easy to deploy reports to end users

Easy for End Users

– Self-service reporting

– Modify existing reports

– Easily create new reports

– Instant complex dashboards

JReport Integration

User Interface:

• Customizable, intuitive, powerful, native look-and-feel, interactive reporting for the business users

Embedding:

• Integrates with application’s business logic and user interface

Data:

• Accesses any data source available to or in the application

Management:

• Deploy with the application, easy to maintain

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JReport’s embedded Java architecture delivers the fastest, most seamless reporting experience

JReport Designer

Catalog:

• Shared report resources include data sources, formulas, summaries, business views and cube meta-data

Page Reports:

• Quickly create pixel perfect reports for printing such as brochures and invoices. Multiple reports can be created and scheduled in a single template.

Web Reports:

• Create interactive web reports for great visualization of the data

Library Components:

• Quickly create AJAX and Flash components for users to drag and drop into dashboards

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JReport Designer

Report Wizards:

• Wizards allow developers to quickly create complex reports including queries, charts, tables and crosstabs

Data Sources:

• Access any data source including JDBC, ODBC, Web Services, XML, flat files. Java objects and more

Multiple Data Sources:

• Reports can get data from any number of disparate data sources and multiple reports can run from a single query

Agile Iterative Design:

• User feedback and collaboration can easily be accomplished with JReport Designer and JReport Studio

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JReport Server

Pure Java:

• Provides platform independence from laptops to mainframes

• Rich API allows full integration into all Java applications

• Integrate into your application with a single war file

Report Services:

• On-demand, scheduled and burst reports allow total flexibility for running and distributing reports

Version System:

• Reports can get data from any number of disparate data sources and multiple reports can run from a single query

Flexible Security:

• Built in our external security supports LDAP, Active Directory and all custom security features with Single Sign On

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JReport Server Live: Two Web Report Types:

Web Layout Report vs. Page Layout Report

On screen filter and control

Chart navigation

Table navigation

Page navigation

Pixel perfect

Paper sized

Why Visualize Data

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Make sense of overwhelming amounts of Data

“Ask Questions” of your Data

Actionable information at your fingertips

Quick decisions and immediate action

JReport Visualization

Rich Internet Application (RIA)

• Easy-to-use tools for developing rich, interactive applications

• End-users access and interact with dashboards and reports and create ad hoc reports from the browser

• Drag and drop to build complex dashboards from pre-defined components

Dashboards, Charting and Tables

• Tabular layout with synchronized auto-refresh components

• New bullet, gauge, bubble, sparkline charts

Quick Interactions

• Users can easily modify their data view and perform “what-if” analysis with on screen filters and cascading parameters

• Expand and collapse grouped data, and convert chart and table types

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JDashboardDashboard Portal:

• End users can quickly create and save dashboards

• Drag and drop pre-built components on your dashboard canvas

• Automatic auto-synchronize all components using filter and slider controls

Flash and AJAX:

• All charts and gauges can be rendered in either Flash or AJAX formats to support all client browsers including mobile

Fully Interactive:

• Explore data, drill, filter, sort and change dimensions to fully realize data understanding

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provide this service to the member banks and one of the key features all banks promote.

TargetUse JReport in a Product Lifecyle Management tool from Siemens called Teamcenter. The reporting was not good

enough so they replaced it with JReport.

Siemens PLM Software announced that the Teamcenter software portfolio had surpassed over 3 million licensed users.

Please Join Us for our next Webinar

Top 10 Countdown: Visualize Data for Quick Analysis

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

2:00 PM (EST)

Q & A

Please type questions in chat box for moderator review

Web: http://www.jinfonet.com

E-Mail: gregharris@jinfonet.com

Sales: Sales@jinfonet.com

Phone: 240-477-1000