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OpenReports vs The Competition

I started the OpenReports project to provide an application that could generate dynamic reports, specifically JasperReports, through a browser based interface. Over the last 4 years, OpenReports has grown significantly, in both scope and popularity, largely without any open source competitors.

In the last year or two, the open source business intelligence market has changed a great deal with JasperSoft, Pentaho, and Actuate introducing open source bi tools that compete, at least in some aspects, with OpenReports. Despite the publicity given to these companies and their products, OpenReports has continued to do well and even seems to be gaining popularity.

Now that OpenReports 1.0 has been released and work has started on the next generation of OpenReports, it would be interesting to get some feedback from people who are choosing among the various open source bi tools.

What factors are most important to you when choosing an open source bi tool? Features, stability, ease of use, maturity? Or is the support and backing of a well funded company such as JasperSoft or Pentaho the most important factor?

6 comments May 3rd, 2006

OpenReport Next Generation?

Now that OpenReports 1.0 has been released, it’s time to start thinking about the future of OpenReports.

The development of the next generation of OpenReports will be driven largely by community feedback and contributions. If you have a feature request or a bug you would like fixed, please submit them to the OpenReports project on SourceForge.

If you would like to become part of the OpenReports development team, the best way to get started is to fix a bug or implement a new feature and post your changes as a patch to the SourceForge project. As always, some documentation or background information is helpful.

4 comments April 23rd, 2006

OpenReports 1.0

After 4 years of development and numerous 0.x releases, OpenReports 1.0 was finally released on Monday!

With this release, OpenReports has matured into a stable, feature rich, and easy to use web reporting application that can fulfill the reporting requirements of most businesses.

I would like to thank everyone who has provided feedback and contributed to the project over the last 4 years. OpenReports is stronger and more active then ever thanks to your help.

Add comment April 21st, 2006