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Jasper Announces Reporting Engine For SugarCRM
TMCnet Contributing Editor
JasperSoft Corporation, an open source business intelligence firm, has announced JasperReports for SugarCRM, which company officials are billing "the first open source reporting engine for the SugarCRM Sugar Suite."
The new product, available for download on SugarExchange, provides a library of pre-set, transactional reports that run with Sugar Suite, offering users the ability to generate customer interaction-based reports.
Since releasing JasperReports for SugarCRM in late March, company officials claim, the product has been downloaded over 15,000 times, "making it a high-ranking SugarForge project, and earning both a SugarForge Editor's Pick and the SugarForge Project of the Month for June."
SugarExchange, SugarCRM's new marketplace for Sugar Suite extensions, is set for launch in early July.
Industry observer China Martens has reported that SugarExchange "has just entered public beta testing and is currently featuring downloadable software from open-source business intelligence company JasperSoft, said Clint Oram, co-founder of SugarCRM."
Expanding upon the Sugar Suite ability for advanced ad-hoc, multi module reporting, JasperReports focuses on transactional reporting displayed in multiple visual formats for ease of use. "Combined," Jasper officials say, "JasperReports with Sugar Suite ensures that everyone within a company -- including sales, marketing, financial, purchasing, and operations staff -- has access to the reports they need, whenever they need them, and in the format they prefer, including Microsoft (News - Alert) Excel, Microsoft Word, PDF, and web-based formats."
For example, companies using Sugar Suite to track customer data can now easily view their quarterly sales pipeline graphically with charts supported by detailed text reports for further analysis.
Martens reports that Oram "drew a distinction between SugarForge, a developer-centric site, and the new SugarExchange, which will function as a consumer-focused Web site for downloading extensions to CRM applications."
Some of SugarCRM's "less technically savvy customers," Martens says, "found SugarForge difficult to navigate and had trouble figuring out which of the 200 open source projects on the site were ready for use in their organization, Oram said. SugarExchange will only feature finished pieces of software, not works in progress."
David Sims is contributing editor for TMCnet. For more articles please visit David Sims’ columnist page.
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