Jaspersoft and Amazon Web Services

We just published a research note looking at the value of Jaspersoft and Amazon Web Services. It’s an interesting piece and you can get it here. In short, Jaspersoft’s business intelligence server is available through the AWS marketplace. We found a number of benefits for customers but the most interesting may be the pricing model and what it means for technology.

We’ve all watched the evolution from on premise, where you “own” the solution, to on demand, where you “rent” the solution. There may be a few hold outs but the numbers are relentless and we can declare SaaS the winner. But hold on a minute. The Jaspersoft AWS paring takes the next logical step for SaaS from “rent” to pay-as-you-go. With Jaspersoft and AWS you get the elastic computing of Amazon with a $0.40 per hour price for Jaspersoft. Pay when you need it, as you need it. It’s a reasonable and flexible solution that changes the software pricing model. It makes sense and it’s not hard to imagine we’ll see this pricing model as an alternative from many SaaS providers in the near future.