September 14, 2008
Jaspersoft numbers
I chatted Friday with marketing VP Nick Halsey of Jaspersoft, which is probably the most successful open source business intelligence company. (That’s based just anecdotally, on mentions. I’d put Pentaho #2, with Talend commonly getting mentioned along with the two BI vendors for its ETL.) I’ll go straight to the numbers, per Nick, before talking in a separate post about what Jaspersoft actually sells.
Highlights include:
- Revenue run rate in the double-digit millions.
- 40% sequential growth most recent quarter. (I didn’t ask whether there was any reason to suspect seasonality.)
- 130% annual revenue growth run rate.
- “Not quite” profitable.
- Several hundred commercial subscribers, at an average of $25K annually per, including >100 in Europe.
- 9,000 paying customers of some kind.
- 100,000+ total deployments, “very conservatively,” counting OEMs as one deployment each and not double-counting for OEMs’ customers. (Nick said Business Objects quotes 45,000 deployments by the same standards.)
- 70% of revenue from the mid-market, defined as $100 million – $1 billion revenue. 30% from bigger enterprises. (Hmm. That begs a couple of questions, such as where OEM revenue comes in, and whether <$100 million enterprises were truly a negligible part of revenue.)
- Windows > Linux for downloads, Linux > Windows for production deployments (but not by much).
- MySQL #1 overall target, Oracle #1 target for “Professional” edition (i.e., those subscribers). SQL Server also strong. Small but non-zero demand for DB2.
- Company founded in 2005, based on true community/open source efforts that had been going on since at least 2001.
- Paying customers from 96 countries. Product translated into 44 languages. (5 by the company, 39 by the community.)
- Red Hat and MySQL/Sun “recently” added as “major” OEMs. I would guess, therefore, that OEM revenue is growing rapidly.
Categories: Analytic technologies, Business intelligence, Jaspersoft, Market share and customer counts, Open source, Pricing
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[…] were so many numbers in my introductory call with Jaspersoft that I’ve split them out in a separate post. With that out of the way, here’s what’s really going on, per Nick […]
Curt, this information is misleading at best in my opinion: “Company founded in 2005, based on true community/open source efforts that had been going on since at least 2001.” I was looking for citeable information and found this (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9735719-16.html?tag=mncol;txt):
“JasperSoft was originally founded as Panscopic Software in 2001. I joined the company in February 2004 and led the open source transition which resulted in the launch of JasperSoft in April 2005.”
The open-source transition — the “efforts that had been going on since at least 2001” — refers to Panscopic’s acquisition of JasperReports, which had until then been a totally independent effort.
It appears that the folks who founded Panscopic and the folks who transformed it into JasperSoft are no longer associated with the company.
Seth
Oops… That quotation was of former JasperSoft CEO Paul Doscher.
Seth,
Thanks for contributing the info!
Best,
CAM
Thanks for this info!
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