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Ben Mathew

Sep 18, 2026

13:19
But could you share with our listeners the history of Jasper Soft?
13:23
Yeah, yeah.
13:24
And this is one of those genuine feel-good stories, right? And that starts small and then blossoms into something.
13:31
So way back in 2001, so we are actually at our 25th anniversary this year.
13:36
Back in 2001, a Romanian engineer... named Theodore Danciu was building a Java application and ran into the same wall that a lot of developers hit at the time, right? The proprietary reporting tools or tool at the time, Crystal Reports, you know, was expensive and painful to integrate for his technology stack.
13:58
So he built his own open source reporting engine.
14:00
He called it Jasper Reports.

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20:29
But we're seeing it already in the present, right? In the age of AI, how will BI evolve? Perhaps particularly how will self-service analytics, self-service BI, how will that evolve and change?

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