05/05/2008

JasperSoft Corporation, a specialist in open source business intelligence (BI), today announced that the company and global systems integrator Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) have extended their alliance. Through this extension, Unisys becomes a reseller of JasperSoft’s Business Intelligence Suite.

ebizQ received the following:

Unisys will add JasperSoft’s suite of business intelligence and reporting applications to its enterprise-class open source solutions offerings. As part of the expanded relationship, Unisys will now offer its customers systems integration services, deployment services and technical services for the JasperSoft BI Suite. Unisys will also incorporate JasperSoft-based reporting and analytics into projects that include several JasperSoft prepackaged applications.

“Unisys has seen increasing demand for the price and performance that open source solutions deliver,” said Anthony Gold, vice president and general manager, Open Source Business, Unisys. “We’ve recently concluded rigorous performance testing of the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite in real-world conditions and proven its enterprise readiness. We’ve also deployed JasperSoft’s products at several enterprise customers, including federal agencies and global telecommunications providers.”

José Morales, vice president of business development at JasperSoft, said, “As larger enterprises and government organizations increasingly turn to open source to take advantage of its reliability and price performance, they are relying on world-class systems integrators such as Unisys to deliver the solutions they need.” “Together Unisys and JasperSoft can bring customers highly scalable enterprise-caliber business intelligence solutions BI.”