Jaspersoft and MapR Partner

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 18 — Jaspersoft, the Intelligence Inside applications and business processes, today announced a partnership with MapR Technologies, Inc., the leader in Hadoop technology for Big Data deployments, whereby Jaspersoft’s business intelligence (BI) offering is now integrated with the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop.

“Customers can now combine MapR with Jaspersoft either on-premises or hourly in the Cloud through Amazon Web Services,” said Jon Posnik, vice president of business development, partners, and alliances at MapR.  “This powerful and flexible combination addresses customers’ needs for Hadoop reporting and analytics.”

MapR is available as an option within Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR). Jaspersoft and MapR are both available on a pay-per-hour basis on the AWS Marketplace, providing developers with flexible and cost effective ways to use Big Data, reporting and analytics.

“Customers using MapR and Jaspersoft can avoid upfront costs for Big Data hardware, data platform, or reporting and analytics software,” said Jim Bell, chief marketing officer at Jaspersoft. “This is an ideal combination for customers and crucial to developers looking to get fast insights from their Big Data assets.”

With this MapR integration, Jaspersoft is now available for all versions of Amazon EMR and remains the first and only reporting and analytics solution offered at a utility-based pricing model on the AWS Marketplace (AWS) and through the Cloud.