1. Why JasperSoft

2. 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

3. 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

4. What is Jaspersoft and Why do I need it?

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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

8. 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.

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

12. 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 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

13. 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

14. Jaspersoft Suite

15. 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.

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

17. Jaspersoft Embedded in Clarity
Jaspersoft Server

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

19. 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