Jaspersoft announces new advisory board

Jaspersoft's Growth and Market Position Attracts Industry Visionaries to
Advisory Board 

Business and technology leaders will advise the provider of the world's most
widely used business intelligence software

SAN FRANCISCO, January 14, 2009 - Jaspersoft, provider of the world's most
widely used business intelligence (BI) software, today announced its
Advisory Board for 2009. The Board will provide counsel and perspective as
Jaspersoft concludes the most successful year in the company's history. 

With its business growing at nearly 75 percent year-over-year, total product
downloads approaching 8 million, and more than 100,000 production
deployments of its software recorded, Jaspersoft has transcended the
characteristics of young open source software companies to become a trusted
global BI partner. 

The Advisory Board is comprised of open source visionaries who will help the
company maximize the benefits of its open source development and delivery
model, further accelerating the adoption of Jaspersoft's business
intelligence software worldwide and demonstrating the next level of
achievement for the commercial open source software model. 

The Jaspersoft Advisory Board members are Matt Asay, vice president of
business development at Alfresco and Chairman of the Open Source Business
Conference (OSBC); Bob Bickel, consultant and former executive vice
president at JBoss; Mark Burton, vice president, MySQL Global Software
Practice, Sun Microsystems; Barry Klawans, co-founder of Jaspersoft and
current consultant for a variety of open source companies; and Lawrence
Rosen, open source software expert, attorney and author, and founding
partner of Rosenlaw & Einschlag.

"Jaspersoft's open source strategy enables the fastest delivery and easiest
access to self-service BI and Web 2.0 tools that meet the needs of a
changing enterprise workforce," said Brian Gentile, CEO of Jaspersoft. "This
stellar Advisory Board represents the best and brightest in defining how the
open source model can allow companies to leapfrog software incumbents in
functionality, value and support. Their counsel and our sound business model
will accelerate Jaspersoft's growth in the year ahead."

Jaspersoft's products are built on a modern architecture that can quickly
adapt to the expectations of the changing enterprise environment. 

Jaspersoft's open source software is rapidly updated by a community of more
than 90,000 members, which makes the company inherently equipped to address
the need for Web 2.0 capabilities in the enterprise.  Older BI platforms
simply can't evolve fast enough to provide the features that today's
workforce expects. 

"As open source moves from 'nice to have' to 'must have' in a recessionary
economy, it's critical that there be strong open source companies to meet
enterprise application requirements," said Matt Asay, Alfresco. "Jaspersoft
does this by bringing down the cost and increasing the value of business
intelligence solutions, and I'm proud to assist it as an advisor."

"Business intelligence will be one of the key drivers for corporate and
government success over the coming decade," said Bob Bickel. "Jaspersoft is
founded on the principles of opening up this technology to allow for broader
and deeper use. It is exciting to see the growth in adoption as the company
moves forward to fill this huge market need."

"I am very encouraged by the progress of open source software. We have seen
the operating system and infrastructure layers of the software stack
disrupted by open source players, and I believe that analytics and business
applications will follow suit," said Mark Burton, vice president, MySQL
Global Software Practice, Sun Microsystems. "I see Jaspersoft as the leader
in open source reporting and analytics and look forward to using my
experiences with MySQL, as well as the data warehousing and analytics
knowledge gained from my time at Informatica, to assist Jaspersoft."

"I believe that 2009 will be the year when open source business intelligence
goes mainstream," said Barry Klawans. "Multiple factors, including the
world's economy, the move towards delivering more business solutions via the
web, and the maturing of the open source BI tools will prompt business users
to stop looking at open source products as a way to squeeze better prices
out of the established proprietary vendors and will instead start looking at
them as the next wave of BI tools."

"Jaspersoft exemplifies the best of commercial open source, available to all
with comprehensive services, warranties and indemnity, excellent product
documentation, and a development team committed to creating outstanding
business information tools. This is software and a business model that
works," said Lawrence Rosen.


About Jaspersoft Corporation

Jaspersoft's open source business intelligence <http://www.jaspersoft.com/>
suite is the world's most widely used BI software, with nearly 8 million
total downloads worldwide and more than 10,000 commercial customers in 96
countries. The company's Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite provides a
web-based, open and modular approach to the evolving business intelligence
needs of the enterprise. Jaspersoft's software is rapidly updated by a
community of more than 90,000 registered members working on more than 350
projects, which represents the world's largest business intelligence
community. More information is available at  <http://www.jaspersoft.com/>
www.jaspersoft.com and  <http://www.jasperforge.org/> www.jasperforge.org.