Discontinued. End of mainstream maintenance. Sustaining support. Withdrawn from support. Terminal release. Every vendor has its own phrase for the same thing — the reporting platform you depend on is no longer going anywhere.
And when the tool is modern, the problem is usually the opposite: your data has to be copied into someone else’s cloud, on a schedule, so it can be shown back to you — and you pay again for every person who looks. These guides tell you where each platform actually stands, what you keep, and how to move to something that runs next to your own database.
The Community Server was discontinued on 25 January 2024 and the downloads were pulled. DataPallas runs your existing .jrxml templates — any JasperReports version, back to the ones written twenty years ago — and adds the bursting, portals, dashboards, and AI that JasperReports never had.
Crystal Reports 2016 is past its support end date. Crystal Reports 2020 reaches End of Mainstream Maintenance on 31 December 2026. DataPallas does everything Crystal did — pixel-perfect documents — and adds the bursting, automation, dashboards, and embedded analytics Crystal never had.
BI 4.3 reaches End of Mainstream Maintenance on 31 December 2026, after which you get high-severity security fixes for one year and nothing else. SAP has already deleted Desktop Intelligence, Xcelsius, and Explorer from this suite. DataPallas does the whole job, on a modern stack.
Oracle Reports had its terminal release and left Extended Support in October 2023. OBIEE 12c dropped into Sustaining Support in August 2025 — no bug fixes, no security patches. Oracle's forward path costs more and locks you in harder. Here is the other one.
Microsoft has confirmed no new versions of SQL Server Reporting Services will ever ship. The replacement needs a SQL Server 2025 licence or active Software Assurance, and pulls you toward per-user Power BI licensing. DataPallas is the modern, open-source, self-hosted, fairly priced option — licensed for the people who build reports, not per reader.
Microsoft has already given SSRS its final release, and the feature work for SSAS and SSIS has moved to Fabric. DataPallas covers the same ground — semantic models, CDC ingestion, dbt transforms, DuckDB and ClickHouse — open source, self-hosted, fairly priced, and with no per-core licence.
Cognos Analytics 11.2.x was withdrawn from support on 30 April 2026, and Cognos 12 removed Query Studio, Analysis Studio, and Cognos Workspace outright. If you are rebuilding that content anyway, rebuild it somewhere modern.
Pentaho CE was Apache 2.0 through 9.5. From 10.2 it moved to the Business Source License, which restricts commercial use. Enterprise quotes run $43K–$98K a year before connectors. DataPallas is open source, self-hosted, and covers reporting, delivery, portals, and the warehouse.
Power BI is a good product with an architecture that copies your data into Microsoft's cloud and charges per person who looks at it. The on-premises edition exists, and Microsoft documents it as a subset. DataPallas runs where your data already lives — open source, self-hosted, fairly priced, and with no per-viewer licence.
Tableau is excellent at visualisation and priced accordingly — $75 per Creator per month, and Salesforce raised on-premises list prices by up to 33% to match cloud. DataPallas runs next to your database: open source, self-hosted, and licensed for the people who build reports rather than per viewer.
Qlik moved to capacity pricing in March 2025 — you now pay for gigabytes loaded, not people. Self-hosting is still possible but no longer a listed plan. QlikView keeps losing pieces. DataPallas runs on your own hardware: open source, self-hosted, and licensed for the people who build the reports rather than by seat or by gigabyte.
Per-user licences run $600 to $5,000 and the basic cloud tier lands near $62,000 a year — with one of the most complicated licensing schemes in BI on top. DataPallas is open source and self-hosted, with fair commercial pricing built around the people who build reports rather than the size of the audience.