Maintaining momentum after an acquisition is easier said than done in the world of enterprise computing, especially when the purchasing company is a traditional vendor and the new team is coming from a startup environment with a fast-paced culture to match.  But Jaspersoft shows no signs of slowing down following its  recent sale to incumbent rival TIBCO for $185 million.

Just a few weeks after joining Palo Alto-based software giant, the embedded business intelligence (BI) provider is rolling out a new version of its flagship platform aimed at making it easier for corporate developers to put the power of analytics in the hands of their end-users.  The release marks the latest milestone in a roadmap that Jaspersoft has been pursuing since before the acquisition and had evidently been embraced by TIBCO.

“Most business users do not spend their day inside BI systems, nor do they want to,” Karl Van den Bergh, the head of customer relations and products for the software maker, told SiliconANGLE. “They spend their day in a CRM app or an ERP or a productivity suite, you name it; they got their preferred app. Our mission is to bring information intelligence inside the applications where people spend their day.”

Jaspersoft 5.6 represents a continuation of that vision.  The release introduces a built-in JavaScript framework for embedding interactive visualizations and reports into web applications  that extends the functionality of the platform beyond on-premise environments to the public cloud, a major strategic priority for TIBCO. The company has made no secret of its plans, revealing at the time of the buyout that it intends to bake  the firm’s technology into its managed Spotfire service.

Visualize.js, as the new tool is called, is an important stepping stone towards that goal.  It allows developers to embed the in-memory processing and custom data visualization capabilities of Jaspersoft’s open-source reporting server and analytics  into their applications through a set of interfaces that link up to a backend instance. That saves end-users the hassle of switching between tools while removing the unnecessary delays (not to mention the work)  involved in moving information back and forth each time.

The framework is complemented by new connectors for Hadoop, MongoDB and Cassandra that make it possible to query sources and combine the information from those systems for a more complete view of data. To help business analysts make sense of the results, version 5.6 also adds  new visualization types, including spider, bubble, and dual-level pie charts, in addition to improved zoom and search capabilities.

Rounding off the package are new “calculations and functions” that Jaspersoft says let users build their own algorithms for advanced analysis not supported out of the box.

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