Why JasperSoft

Presenters Ben Rimmasch Darren Greer Doug Greer Rajini Mamidi Senior Technical Consultant Darren Greer Technical Consultant Doug Greer CA Clarity PPM Solutions Architect Rajini Mamidi Atul Kunkulol Functional and Technical Consultant

Agenda What is Jaspersoft and Why do I need it? Adhoc Reporting (Quick Review) Domains Dashboards (Quick Review) Getting Started with Studio Basic Reporting in Studio Advanced Reporting in Studio Security

What is Jaspersoft and Why do I need it?

Reporting There are multiple ways to produce reports in CA PPM Grid Portlets Cheaper to build and maintain Data Extracts to Excel Tabular or Cross Tab Reporting but not free format Limited images or coloring capability Business Objects Reporting Webi Adhoc Reports and User Friendly tool Not integrated in Clarity Depends on the Universe (which has no custom fields/objects) Customization to Universe could be expensive

Reporting Business Objects Crystal Reports Xcelsius Complex reporting capability Could take upto 4 times more hours than creating a portlet Export to PDF, Word, Excel Xcelsius Rich interactive Dashboards Could take upto 5-10 times more hours than creating a portlet Cannot be accessed through Mobile device(needs flash)

Reporting Data Extracts for Third Party Reporting Solution BI Solutions like Tableau or Cognos Stale data (may be once a week updated) More failure points during weekly runs During upgrades it could take a lot of time to change/test

Why Jaspersoft? Business Objects current version will be on life support soon. The next version of Clarity will not support Business Objects CA introduced Jaspersoft in ver 14.2 as a replacement to BO.

Similar concepts as BO Business Objects Jaspersoft Universe Domain Crystal Designer Jaspersoft Studio Webi Adhoc Reports Xcelsius Dashboards Infoview/CMC App Jaspersoft Server

What is better? Adhoc Reporting Create pixel perfect studio reports Supports visual layout of reports that can include tables, charts , crosstab, images. Graphically display summarized data in Dashboards easily Export to multiple formats Schedule reports and email the report file to non-clarity user Integrated within Clarity. Can access multiple datasources/webservices New DWH has more facts and also includes Custom Objects/Fields

What needs work? Jaspersoft Studio lacks some basic functionality Dashboards No out-of-box dashboards available with 14.2 Weak dashboard reporting tool in Jaspersoft 5.6 Ad hoc Reporting Can only report data from Domain which relies on DWH Cannot report from multiple Domains Data Warehouse The data is not real time We are still evaluating how long it would take for the Load DWH job to run. Mixed results so far. We are still evaluating how long it would take for a DWH to run

Jaspersoft Suite

Jaspersoft Suite Jaspersoft Reporting Library Jaspersoft Studio Open Source Reporting Library Contains APIs Jaspersoft Studio Graphical desktop application Create complex reports Has plugin to connect to Jaspersoft server CA provides license key for the professional version Currently Clarity supports 5.6 version of Jaspersoft Studio The UI is built on top of eclipse platform.

Jaspersoft Suite JasperReports Server Web Application embedded in Clarity Dashboards Ad Hoc Reports Domains Report Library Administration and Security

Jaspersoft Embedded in Clarity Jaspersoft Server

DEMO Demo of Adhoc Reports (5 mins) Demo of JasperServer (5 mins)

Migrating from BO to Jaspersoft Crystal Reports, Xcelsius, WEBI Reports and Universes cannot be migrated to the new version Steps before creating a new report - Review the current set of OOTB reports. Find something similar to what you need. Validate if it is possible to create an Adhoc Report Studio report recreation SQL statements can be reused to rebuild the new studio report Images can be saved in repository Use templates for consistent formatting