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JASPERSOFT ANNOUNCES JASPER4SALESFORCE SUMMER '07 RELEASE ON SALESFORCE.COM'S APPEXCHANGE

The Leader in Open Source Business Intelligence is the Most Installed Sales Analytics Product on the AppExchange

San Francisco-August 29, 2007 JasperSoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence, today launched Jasper4SalesforceT Summer '07 Release, with significant product enhancements to create, manage, share and distribute powerful, flexible and feature-rich reports from directly within Salesforce. Jasper4Salesforce continues to lead the Sales Analytics category on salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace, maintaining the greatest number of installs of all products in the category.

Jasper4Salesforce Summer '07 Release is based on the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, the world's most popular suite of open source business intelligence products. Jasper4Salesforce provides advanced on-demand reporting for Salesforce, including the ability to create, save, and share interactive parameterized reports across an entire organization. Jasper4Salesforce can report on any combination of standard and custom objects and fields, provide exception reports, leverage custom fiscal periods defined within Salesforce, and schedule and automatically distribute reports. With a Web 2.0 drag-and-drop, ad hoc report editor, Jasper4Salesforce provides Salesforce users the capability to create pixel-perfect, ready-to-print reports. Jasper4Salesforce Summer '07 is available immediately on the AppExchange.

"We are experiencing tremendous momentum in the marketplace from users who have experienced the advanced functionality and high performance of our new Jasper4Salesforce Summer '07 product," said Nick Halsey, vice president of marketing for JasperSoft. "We're pleased to have the most installed Sales Analytics product on the AppExchange, with over 3,000 self-service demonstrations and hundreds of installations to date."

"The thousands of installs of hundreds of different on-demand applications clearly demonstrate the incredible momentum of the AppExchange as the world's on-demand application marketplace," said George Hu, Chief Marketing Officer, salesforce.com. "Now, customers can deploy Jasper4Salesforce from the AppExchange with just a few clicks, providing users with the ability to easily create, schedule, run, and distribute complex reports while saving valuable time and resources."

Heald College, the oldest career college in the Western United States, recently selected Jasper4Salesforce to reduce the cost and time spent creating critical reports for measuring the success of its admissions and enrollment process within Salesforce.

"The reports enabled by JasperSoft technology have taken us light years ahead of where we were," said Eric Rajasalu, senior vice president of business development at Heald. "It has had a huge impact on the entire business by providing capabilities and features that extended the value of Salesforce. The old process took 12 people totaling 50 hours each week to create the report. Now, the process is completely automated and takes less than 15 minutes."

New features in Jasper4Salesforce Summer '07 include:

•  Scheduling and automatic distribution of reports
•  Automatic linking from reports to the underlying Salesforce objects
•  Reporting using custom fiscal periods, as defined in Salesforce
•  Ad hoc creation of exception reports (e.g. opportunities without activity)
•  Seamless integration with JasperStudio, powered by iReport, for advanced report authoring
•  Enhanced user experience for multi-object, ad hoc reporting
•  Enhanced usability leveraging field labels as defined in Salesforce
•  Application security enhancements based on third-party application threat and vulnerability testing
•  Enhanced user roles including new author and administrator roles, putting more control in the hands of customers
•  Significant scalability enhancements to grow with organizational needs
•  Migration to a managed package on the AppExchange providing a more upgradeable package that will not conflict with other Salesforce customizations, assures the ability for leveraging future package extensions, and enhances JasperSoft's ability to provide world-class support

Salesforce Platform and the AppExchange
Salesforce Platform is the on-demand platform for the next generation of business applications. Salesforce Platform reinvents traditional customization and integration and enables the creation of a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond client/server computing. The Salesforce Platform allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace, enabling all the innovation that the Salesforce Platform unleashes to benefit the entire on-demand community.

The AppExchange economy continues to expand as thousands of salesforce.com customers have installed thousands of on-demand business applications available on the AppExchange, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.

For more information about Jasper4Salesforce, register for the Jasper4Salesforce Success Kit by going to: www.jaspersoft.com/success. JasperSoft will be exhibiting during the 2007 Salesforce.com User and Developer Conference, "Dreamforce Expo" in San Francisco, September 16-19. Visit JasperSoft at booth #821. http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/expo

About JasperSoft
JasperSoft is the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI). With more than 2.5 million downloads worldwide and more than 7,000 commercial customers in 96 countries; JasperSoft offers the most widely used open source business intelligence software in the world. The JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite is comprised of an interactive reporting server, graphical and ad hoc report design interfaces, OLAP analysis, an ETL tool for data integration, and a Java reporting library for scalable small, medium, and large enterprises, for use as either stand-alone or embedded business intelligence applications. JasperSoft is based in San Francisco and is backed by leading venture capital firms Morgenthaler Ventures, DCM, Partech International, Scale Venture Partners and SAP Ventures. More information is available at www.jaspersoft.com and www.jasperforge.org.

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1. A variety of quartz with the brilliance of a precious jewel like a crystal. Said to provide stability, security, balance.
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