Key Highlights
- A municipal technology provider partnered with OptiSol to migrate their legacy Oracle Reports 12c environment to Jasper Reports using the Jasper Conversion Tool (JCT), enabling an automated and structured transition.
- The legacy Oracle reports posed cost, flexibility, and maintenance challenges, with end-of-support and encoding issues impacting performance and global usability of the client.
- OptiSol’s Jasper Conversion Tool (JCT) enabled seamless migration by automating report conversion, preserving business logic, and ensuring integration with modern systems.
- Our solution enabled significant cost savings, accelerated report generation, and a scalable, future-ready reporting infrastructure through a cloud-optimized Jasper migration.
Problem Statement
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End-of-Life Risk: The client’s existing Oracle Reports 12c was nearing its end-of-support date. Without vendor updates or patches, they risked system vulnerabilities, security issues, and compliance failures.
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Rising Operational Costs: Maintaining Oracle’s licensed reporting platform involved substantial fees for licensing, infrastructure, and dedicated support, significantly inflating IT budgets.
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Maintenance Overheads: The legacy reporting environment had redundant code, outdated configurations, and dependencies that made every update or change a time-consuming and error-prone task.
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Lack of Flexibility: Customizing reports or adapting them to new workflows was limited within the Oracle ecosystem, which made innovation and scaling very difficult.
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Encoding Limitations: Reports containing special characters or multiple languages often displayed incorrectly, leading to misinterpretation of data and user dissatisfaction across global teams.
Solution Overview
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Automated Report Conversion: OptiSol leveraged its Jasper Conversion Tool (JCT) to scan and analyze Oracle RDF files, automating up to 70% of the migration process. This included transforming queries, data models, parameters, and layouts into Jasper-compatible formats.
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Special Character Handling: A key enhancement in the migration was the incorporation of advanced character encoding logic. This ensured accurate rendering of special symbols and non-English languages across all reports.
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Business Logic Translation: JCT was configured to identify, clean, and convert Oracle-specific PL/SQL logic into Java-equivalent components. This preserved the business rules while making the codebase leaner and easier to maintain.
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Tailored Report Design: OptiSol customized the output reports in Jasper to align with the client’s internal branding, data visualization standards, and workflow-specific requirements like dynamic charts, drilldowns, and real-time filters.
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Seamless Integration & Optimization: The migrated reports were integrated with the client’s existing ERP and cloud systems, while performance tuning ensured that data retrieval and report generation were significantly faster and more scalable.
Business Impact
About The Project
A prominent municipal services technology provider relied on Oracle Reports 12c for their operational reporting needs. However, with the platform’s end-of-support date nearing, the client faced growing risks from outdated systems, high maintenance costs, and limited flexibility. They sought a future-ready reporting solution that could modernize their infrastructure, reduce costs, and ensure reporting continuity.
OptiSol stepped in with its Jasper Conversion Tool (JCT), which enabled a structured, semi-automated migration from Oracle Reports to Jasper Reports. This included custom enhancements for special character handling, logic translation, and UI refinement. The project resulted in faster, more accurate reports, a significant drop in licensing costs, and a scalable system ready for future expansion without disrupting business operations.
FAQs:
What is OptiSol’s Jasper Conversion Tool (JCT) and how does it work?
JCT is OptiSol’s proprietary automation tool that analyzes Oracle RDF files and converts them into Jasper-compatible formats, preserving layouts, logic, and queries while reducing manual effort and speeding up the overall migration process.
What are the benefits of using Jasper Reports over Oracle Reports?
Jasper Reports is open-source, highly customizable, and cloud-ready. It reduces licensing costs, improves flexibility, supports dynamic visualizations, and integrates well with modern systems—making it a scalable and future-proof alternative to Oracle Reports.
Is this solution applicable to other industries or just municipal services?
Yes, the solution is industry-agnostic. JCT and Jasper Reports can be effectively used across banking, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and public sectors—anywhere legacy Oracle reporting systems need modernization and cost optimization.
Is training or support required after migration to Jasper Reports?
Basic user training is recommended, especially for report developers. However, the system is user-friendly, and OptiSol offers post-migration support to ensure smooth adoption, customization, and long-term operational stability.
Can this migration be done in phases or must it be all at once?
The migration can be executed in phases. Reports can be grouped and prioritized based on complexity or business need, allowing gradual rollout without disrupting operations or affecting ongoing reporting workflows.
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