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• Coates Hire pilots computer vision safety spotter

  “The ultimate goal,” says Bigmate’s general manager Brett Orr, “is to stop people getting seriously hurt, or worse.”

• Tibco scoops up analytics vendor Jaspersoft for $185 million

  Tibco has acquired Jaspersoft for US$185 million in a deal that will give it a widely used embedded BI (business-intelligence) suite to sell alongside its existing Spotfire analytics product.

• Jaspersoft wants to attract new users with kinder, gentler BI features

  Open-source business-intelligence software vendor Jaspersoft continues to refine its software to make it easier to use for a wider audience.

• Jaspersoft BI suite gets a new visualization engine

  With the commercial release of version 5 of its self-named reporting and analysis suite, Jaspersoft has revamped the software's visualization engine, doing away with an Adobe Flash-based visualization engine in favor of one using HTML5 Web standards.

• Vendors releasing same software on parallel tracks

  Plenty of companies sell proprietary software: Microsoft, Apple and Oracle, for example. And many companies, such as Red Hat and IBM, make money by selling support, hosting or consulting for open-source software. But what's less known is that companies can release their software as open-source while also selling a commercial version of the same product.

• Jaspersoft adds Apple iPad toolkit

  Open-source BI (business intelligence) vendor Jaspersoft is joining the ranks of companies adding support for Apple's wildly popular iPad.

• Open-source analytics options grow

  The options for open-source data warehousing and analytics grew on Tuesday, with a number of announcements from Infobright, Jaspersoft and Ingres.

• Oracle's Java direction a 'worry' says Jaspersoft CEO

  Jaspersoft CEO and former Java development evangelist Brian Gentile has expressed concern over Oracle's stewardship of the programming language since it acquired Sun Microsystems saying it's a worry how the software giant is treating open source projects.

• Jaspersoft rearchitects BI stack

  Anticipating greater use of BI (business intelligence) on the Web and in the cloud, Jaspersoft has rebuilt its software using a standards-based Web architecture.

• Open-source BI project gains momentum

  The open-source BI (business intelligence) project BIRT has surpassed 10 million downloads and 1 million developers, project sponsor Actuate announced on Wednesday.

• Open source projects under microscope

  The world's best open source projects are going to be under close scrutiny in an effort to determine which one is the biggest game changer in the market.

• Ingres integrates Salesforce CRM with BI appliance

  Ingres has announced the latest release of its Icebreaker BI appliance is integrated with Salesforce CRM for improved access to sales data.

• Jaspersoft version 3.5 adds in-memory analysis to BI tool

  Jaspersoft is adding integrated in-memory analysis functions and SaaS capabilities to Version 3.5 of its BI tool, released on Wednesday. The move opens the way for application service providers to use it to offer hosted BI services.