JasperAnalysis is a part of Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite. Providing efficient data analysis capabilities, JasperAnalysis definitely is a worth considering option in Online Analytical Processing market.

Jaspersoft is one of the vendors which influence on Business Intelligence is undeniable. The title JasperAnalysis is an integral part of the Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite, being responsible for all functionalities connected anyhow with data analysis.

In its basis, JasperAnalysis can be used for:

• searching organization data for trends, anomalies, correlations, and dependencies which occur in there
• drilling, pivoting, filtering, and charting, equally well as other analysis methods and forms
• OLAP analyzing which requires high performance of the system

JasperAnalysis in practice

The core of JasperAnalysis is relational OLAP Server - a powerful machine which ensures the highest performance and, simultaneously, the highest level of data security. The cubes generated by the server are the result of defining semantic metadata mappings onto already existing relational sources of data, including data warehouses and data marts. To ensure that no errors occur during the analysis, JasperAnalysis is designed in a way which meets the requirements of the main industry standards, including MDX (Multi-Dimensional Expressions, which is a query language used in OLAP) and XML/A (XML for Analysis, which ensure a trouble-free cooperation between OLAP data provider and a client application).

This interface is based on Web applications, thereupon - with a one click within the JasperAnalysis Toolbar - they can, for instance, drill or pivot data, show and configure the charts, show or hide members, spans, and empty rows, or export the findings to any of PDF or MS Office Excel formats.

Report Management is another area which JasperAnalysis could be considered a pattern for the competitors in terms of security and simplicity.
The main capabilities in this area include:

• easily customizable and - if needed - replaceable web-based report and object management web-based interface,
• level of access differentiation is easily defined and can be set on reports, resources, and services
• single sign-on (SSO) which helps save much time on collateral actions
• prebuilt user directory and interface
• a wide set of different content types which may be saved
• wide search capabilities (searching for the reports by the chosen attributes, like author's name for instance)
• audit trail logging.

Forms and distribution options

What's quite important is the fact that you don't even need to run JasperAnalysis as a stand-alone system to benefit from the features listed above. The product is designed in a way that allows it to integrate with other applications seamlessly. Hereby, it's reasonable to mention that JasperAnalysis can integrate not only with core Business Intelligence applications, but also with authorization and authentication systems.

There are threefold distribution formats which JasperAnalysis is available in: from stand-alone WAR, source files to download, and automated installer requiring only one click to perform action.

JasperAnalysis resources

http://www.jaspersoft.com/sites/default/files/downloads/JasperAnalysis-ds.pdf - here is a data sheet devoted to JasperAnalysis. Here is where all the official information is included, nonetheless one shouldn't expect too many details in here as Jaspersoft have decided to provide only the basis. However, it's quite a good source of information about the JasperAnalysis as a whole, its components, distribution variants, and a few main features and benefits.

http://www.softscout.com/software/Document-and-Information-Management/Business-Intelligence/JasperAnalysis-Professional.html - if there was an abbreviation needed, the one provided by SoftScout (advertising itself to be a business software encyclopedia) seems a good one to check. Here's just an essence about JasperAnalysis - a few-word introduction explaining what it is and what it is used for, a list of features, and some of additional information about the product.

http://jasperserver.sourceforge.net/docs/3-5-0/JasperAnalysis-User-Guide.pdf - instruction with a little introduction. Here is a complete practical guide to JasperAnalysis with a lot of information devoted to AnalysisViews and - as well - to the Administration of the product. What's useful, there is a glossary in the very end of the guide where all the difficult terms are explained in a few words.