Cognos / Spotfire reports with JIRA

RamakrishnanH

We want to develop external reports using Cognos / Spotfire with the data from JIRA. What is the best way to integrate BI tools with JIRA?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

"Best" is determined by what technology you want to use, your reporting needs and what you're willing to set up and maintain.

There are several approaches

• Write your reports as addons to JIRA
• Use the REST interface to drag your report data out of JIRA and import it into a reporting front end (or copy it into the tool)
• Use an addon that enables reporting in JIRA (Check the marketplace for Arsenale Dataplane and EasyBI - I think there are others that you should check out as well, but those two are the ones that spring to my mind when someone asks a question like that)
• Replicate the database to a secondary copy and report directly off it - you'll need to build and maintain a data dictionary if you take this route