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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HCL Sametime

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AHCL Sametime (formerly IBM Lotus Sametime, acquired by HCL Technologies from IBM in 2018) is an enterprise-level unified communications and VoIP platform. It includes features such as instant messaging, web conferencing, voice and video integration, telephony capabilities, and presence information.N/A

    Jaspersoft

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AJaspersoft commercial edition is an embedded business intelligence suite designed to be built-into SaaS products as an integrated reporting engine. It provides reports and dashboards for customer-facing applications without requiring app developers to build their own reporting engine.N/A
    Pricing
    HCL SametimeJaspersoft
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HCL SametimeJaspersoft
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Jaspersoft offers flexible pricing for ISVs and SaaS per customer or by CPU core.
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    Community Pulse
    HCL SametimeJaspersoft
    Considered Both Products
    HCLSoftware
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    Cloud Software Group
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    71%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    HCL SametimeJaspersoft
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of HCL Sametime and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    HCL Sametime
    8.4
    7 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Jaspersoft
    -
    Ratings
    Hosted PBX9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    User templates8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call reports8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Directory of employee names8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of HCL Sametime and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    HCL Sametime
    8.0
    8 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Jaspersoft
    -
    Ratings
    Answering rules8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call recording8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call park8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call screening8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Message alerts8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of HCL Sametime and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    HCL Sametime
    8.0
    6 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Jaspersoft
    -
    Ratings
    Video conferencing8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio conferencing8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video screen sharing8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant messaging8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of HCL Sametime and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    HCL Sametime
    8.0
    8 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Jaspersoft
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile app for iOS8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of HCL Sametime and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    HCL Sametime
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    100 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.687 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings7.588 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.886 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of HCL Sametime and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    HCL Sametime
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    7.4
    98 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.289 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.397 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.781 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of HCL Sametime and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    HCL Sametime
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    101 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings7.176 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.799 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings7.759 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings7.582 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.562 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of HCL Sametime and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    HCL Sametime
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    72 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.472 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.153 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of HCL Sametime and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    HCL Sametime
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    8.1
    98 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.194 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.192 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.588 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings7.773 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of HCL Sametime and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    HCL Sametime
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    6.6
    64 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.959 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings5.528 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.141 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of HCL Sametime and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    HCL Sametime
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    90 Ratings
    2% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings7.981 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings8.062 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings7.754 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings8.155 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.558 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.760 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    HCL SametimeJaspersoft
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    CallFire
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Score4 out of 10
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    Fuze
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HCL SametimeJaspersoft
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    7.3
    (119 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    7.9
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    7.0
    (26 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.5
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (15 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HCL SametimeJaspersoft
    Likelihood to Recommend
    HCLSoftware
    Sametime is well suited for very quick conversations, where you know the person is an active Sametime user. It also serves as an easy way to reach out to someone you may not know when looking for an answer to a quick question, as they are likely to be a Sametime user. Do not, under any circumstances, attempt to use Sametime for Audio or Video chat. The quality and reliability are horrendous.
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    Cloud Software Group
    It is well suited for the fact of scalability itself and the breadth of features this application has in order to make the migration from legacy systems to the newer different versions more seamless and effective. Data integrity and security are the main aspects of this tool which does not lose their value when doing day-to-day operations for data mapping.
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    Pros
    HCLSoftware
    • Sametime's web-based interfaces are "zero load", requiring no plug-ins to be installed to join a meeting, launch a meeting, or use chat in a browser. A plugin is required only if you want to share your screen.
    • Integration with IBM Notes is very tight. Sametime's chat status can change according to your Notes calendar. You can easily see if someone who just emailed you is available to chat. Your chat History is right inside Notes as well.
    • IBM's mobile apps are top notch. We automated the apps for our users thanks to IBM's work with third party MDMs. This made it very simple for us to deploy the Sametime mobile apps -- Chat and Meetings -- and get new capabilities such as Audio & Video mobilized quickly.
    • No down time, ever. The rock solid WebSphere back-end of Sametime means the environment is always up. Period.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • TIBCO Jaspersoft allows you to embed reports into your own application, which gives users the feeling they are using a single product.
    • TIBCO Jaspersoft Studio allows for more advanced report development, such as adding subreports, drilldown to detail reports, images, page headers, page footers, maps, and more.
    • TIBCO's Jaspersoft Domain Designer is very easy to use and navigate.
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    Cons
    HCLSoftware
    • Not convenient for a large group meeting.
    • Very basic tool for internal communication only not available for third party communication
    • Very basic and limited mobile app features.
    • High speed connection is needed to connect to Sametime
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    Cloud Software Group
    • One of the issues we found during our implementation was that the reporting software would work faster for certain data sources and not the others. Extracting CSVs and XML was slower in comparison to JSON in our experience.
    • Jaspersoft Studio was the main IDE we used for development. Built atop the Eclipse IDE, we found that the tool was really resource intensive and generally take long time to initialize.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    HCLSoftware
    Sametime is now an embedded experience for our users. They know it, they like it, they use it, and they expect it to be wherever they are. Because it is pretty easy to use and NEVER goes down, users know they can rely on it and won't be frustrated by it. Sametime is right up with there with Microsoft Office in terms of user adoption and appreciation.
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    Cloud Software Group
    JasperSoft has been amazing. It is well documented, fast, and transparent in how it functions. We have been very confident in JasperSoft in every aspect of our business and offerings where we've used it. On top of that, their improvements to the product have been fantastic. I am really looking forward to seeing where they take their product and how we can leverage that to please our clients
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    Usability
    HCLSoftware
    Just about everything works the way you expect it would and it's relatively easy for users to figure out. Sametime was one of those things that we started with only a few people as a "test" and before the test period was done we discovered a few hundred people had figured out how to log in and most got it working all on their own. Many of our users want to use Sametime and do so regularly; we do not have to create policies enforcing its usage. Users find it practical to use Sametime to do things like chat, transfer files, share their screen, and so forth.
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    Cloud Software Group
    I think it's a tool well suited for a software developer. Others with less coding skills could struggle somewhat with the tool. I find java a little unforgiving as a language for expressions and not very user friendly for the technically dis-inclined. Sometimes the numeric conversions cause issues (who knew that 0 and 0.0 would cause different things to happen). Previous experience with a reporting tool that used visual basic for its' expressions that I found much simpler to use. On the other hand, java is so widespread, you can easily google the syntax to accomplish what you need to do.
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    Reliability and Availability
    HCLSoftware
    Typically if Sametime is not available, it's because Windows Updates were done on the servers and they were not rebooted. However, that's not a problem with Sametime -- in fact, if you have Linux you could probably run Sametime for years without any hiccups whatsoever. We have no internal Linux expertise.
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    Cloud Software Group
    We've never had an outage of the software itself. If it was unavailable, it was due to a network outage, not a problem with Jasper.
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    Performance
    HCLSoftware
    Generally very good. Occasionally AV or screen-sharing will stutter and every now and then I hear of it dropping out altogether, but in all cases it was easy to re-establish
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    Cloud Software Group
    Complex reports on heavy data load may take considerable amount of time. We have experinced some latencies/misfires regarding to this.
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    Support Rating
    HCLSoftware
    I have not needed to use the Sametime support team. Our local support team was able to configure it for me.
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    Cloud Software Group
    They have a great customer support ticketing system in which they always respond same-day. They offer conference calls with srcreensharing as well in order to better understand your issues.
    I wish that the lower level support access came with more than just 12 cases per year though as this makes us less likely to reach out for questions on things that we then instead try to solve ourselves which results in loss of time in trying to acquire new features and or solve a problem.
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    In-Person Training
    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    It did the job of getting us to our deadline we set for ourselves for initial launch. The customer we launched the product for was also there to learn about it at the same in order to better understand the capabilities. This helped greatly so that the customer was on the same page on what was possible when using jaspersoft. I think most people would not want their customers aware the product they are using is third-party but in this case it was a new experience for us both and so as we learned more about jaspersoft, we both had better communication on what the future road map was for their business needs in BI.
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    Online Training
    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    Resources available in the TIBCO Knowledge Base are covering almost everything. They are well organized, and covering almost every possibility. There is always the change to get back to the TIBCO support or to the dedicated Customer Success Manager whenever something very specific or bound to a customization is not covered.
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    Implementation Rating
    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    Having just completed an upgrade to the latest version of Jaspersoft, I am happy to say their support was very good. There were a couple of small challenges which were not easily resolved, but they were primarily related to the fact that we had skipped updates for a couple of versions. The current update procedures assumed we were upgrading from the prior latest version (6.4) to to the new version (7.1).
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    Alternatives Considered
    HCLSoftware
    We use Jabber globally in our company and Symphony (no relevant app in able list) in some of the teams as well. All these are instant messenger tools, but Sametime is the easiest one to be used and its chat history is easy to be searched. Sametime can be used to contact almost all internal staff as it’s included in default computer package. Symphony is used to chat with front end business while Jabber is used for call.
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    Cloud Software Group
    When looking at the different features of these reporting engines, and what we were going to be using it for, the answer seemed clear. Jasper offered exactly what we were looking for, and did so for a price that we were happy with. For a scalable, feature-rich reporting engine that doesn't break the bank, Jaspersoft is the way to go.
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    Scalability
    HCLSoftware
    Sametime is rock solid. It runs on WebSphere, DB2 and other related IBM technologies. This does mean the back-end is highly complex and very difficult to learn and get comfortable with, however.
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    Cloud Software Group
    We haven't really started to explore the scalability of the product as yet, but in terms of existing deployments it has done what we need it to do.
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    Return on Investment
    HCLSoftware
    • Sametime keeps many of our team members in contact throughout the day which leads to increased productivity which makes everyone happy.
    • We use the team chat room feature every day. This allows a team to stay focused on the task without any extra messages that are not on topic.
    • The split between IBM Sametime, Slack and Google Hangouts has caused some issues when team members are not checking for messages on a certain app.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • When we demo our Jaspersoft environment to potential clients, their eyes light up and they sit up in their chairs a bit more. A lot of our meetings have ended with with the client very interested in our product due to Jaspersoft.
    • Our existing clients have been very satisfied with the adhoc features of Jaspersoft. We've been able to provide them better access to their data on their terms instead of ours. Of course this turns into a huge win for us.
    • We've always used SQL Server Reporting Services to deliver our reports to our clients. Converting to Jaspersoft has allowed us to generate the reporting layer that our clients demand. They no longer feel like they are settling for what we offer.
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