Faiveley Transport Opts for Jedox and Jaspersoft in Developing its Business Intelligence Platform

By Jedox Ag, PRNE
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

FREIBURG, Germany, September 22, 2010 - Jedox, one of the primary publishers of Business Intelligence
software and Open Source Performance Management solutions in Europe, has
announced today that Faiveley Transport, one of the leading global suppliers
of railway systems and services, has selected Jedox and Jaspersoft for the
implementation and management of its joint Business Intelligence platform,
with Jedox and Jaspersoft solutions eventually being rolled out across the
entire group.

Faiveley Transport is a French company with
international operations provided by its 45 production sites worldwide
(France, Germany, China, India, Brazil, United Kingdom, USA, etc.).

As part of the rollout of its Lawson M3 ERP software, Faiveley
Transport is seeking a Business Intelligence solution so as to provide a
complete overview of the group's business activities and the performance of
its business units.

Following a call for tenders launched to traditional key
players in the Business Intelligence sector, Faiveley selected the solution
proposed by Jedox and Jaspersoft.

The first applications using PALO, the Business Intelligence
solution created by Jedox, are currently being rolled out in Faiveley
Transport's data warehouse; these applications cover planning and analysis
requirements for "Supplier Claims" and Financial Management.

Amongst the projects, Faiveley Transport will additionally use
PALO software in budget preparation.

The objective is for the daily performance of Faiveley
Transport to be managed by several hundred PALO users, doing planning, budget
preparation, forecasting, reporting, dashboards and data analysis via a Web
browser or Excel via Citrix.

For its reporting requirements, Faiveley Transport has
additionally opted to roll out Jaspersoft in order to provide all of its
entities with special-purpose dashboards and reporting tools.

Faiveley Transport has opted for Smile in the implementation
and integration of Jedox and Jaspersoft solutions.

The Open Source choice

Whilst Faiveley Transport was particularly impressed by the
involvement of different teams in providing the design and solution for its
project, the Open Source dimension was additionally a key factor in making
its decision due to cost efficiency and also the performance levels it could
offer. Jedox and Jaspersoft solutions, as they are based on Open Source
components, were designed to be integrated into third-party tools. Open
Source components can be installed on any operating system supporting a Java
application server and enable the development of flexible, rapid,
easy-to-implement and high-performance BI tools in any commercial
environment.

"Thanks to Business Intelligence solutions designed by Jedox
and Jaspersoft, we have been able to easily roll out a high-performance BI
tool which meets all of our requirements. In addition to the quality of their
teams, we were particularly impressed by the Open Source aspect which offered
us perfect interoperability between their solutions and our own IT
infrastructure," explained Mr Xavier Devault, IT Director at Faiveley
Transport.

"We are particularly proud to be able to count Faiveley
Transport amongst our clientele and to be entrusted with this contract. This
represents an opportunity for us to bolster our position on the French market
as well as being proof that the BI market is developing and that Open Source
key players are increasingly important," stated Mr Thierry Dupiot, Country &
Sales Manager for France with Jedox.

"We have indeed observed that an increasing number of large companies are
calling upon Open Source solutions and notably in the Business Intelligence
sector, which is our own area of expertise. Their choice can be explained on
the one hand by less costly solutions and, on the other, by the visibility
which we are able to offer in the future for their product as a dedicated
software publisher," concludes Mrs Maria Willait, EMEA Sales Executive with
Jaspersoft.

About Jedox

Jedox, headquartered in Freiburg/Germany, with an office in France, is
one of the leading suppliers of Open Source-based Business Intelligence and
corporate performance management solutions in Europe.

Palo for Excel extends planning, analysis and reporting processes with
Excel to a cost efficient Business Intelligence Solution. Whilst the Excel
User Interface remains, Palo's central data storage logic avoids the well
known spreadsheet hell.

Palo for Excel includes the powerful OLAP Server Database, plus the
Microsoft Excel Add-in.

The Palo Suite contains all the Jedox standard applications - OLAP
Server, Palo Web access, ETL Server and Palo for Excel - in an extensive
platform that can be customised to the client's specific needs. The platform
consists entirely of open source products and thus provides a high-end BI
solution completely free of license. The Palo Suite accommodates the entire
range of Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management
requirements including planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting,
dashboarding and analysis. The Palo Suite is fully compliant with the web and
available as a Software as a Service. Companies successfully using Palo
solutions include Bayer, Clariant, Nycomed, Otto Group, media group
Süddeutscher Verlag and Vodafone. Jedox has personnel of 60 as well as 100
partners globally.

About Jaspersoft Corporation

Jaspersoft's open source business intelligence is the world's most widely
used BI software, with almost 11 million product downloads worldwide and more
than 13,000 commercial customers in 100 countries. Jaspersoft provides a
web-based, open and modular approach to the evolving business intelligence
needs of the enterprise and is the only BI vendor enabling true multi-tenancy
while providing a common platform for on-premise, virtualized, SaaS and Cloud
deployments.. Jaspersoft's products span the continuum of core BI
requirements, including production reporting, operational & embedded
reporting and analysis, interactive end-user query & reporting, dashboards
and mash-ups, data analysis, and data integration. Its BI software is updated
constantly by a development community of more than 150,000 registered members
working on more than 350 projects, which represents the world's largest
business intelligence community. More information is available at
www.jaspersoft.com and www.jasperforge.org.

    Contact:
    Jedox AG
    Leif Mergener
    Phone: +49(0)761-15147-214
    leif.mergener@jedox.com

Contact: Jedox AG, Leif Mergener, Phone: +49(0)761-15147-214, leif.mergener at jedox.com

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