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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Z

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AIBM Z is the company's mainframe enterprise server solution product line.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
    IBM ZJaspersoft
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM ZJaspersoft
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Jaspersoft offers flexible pricing for ISVs and SaaS per customer or by CPU core.
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    Community Pulse
    IBM ZJaspersoft
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    71%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    18 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    18 Answers
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    IBM ZJaspersoft
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of IBM Z and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    IBM Z
    -
    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 IBM Z and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    IBM Z
    -
    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 IBM Z and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    IBM Z
    -
    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 IBM Z and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    IBM Z
    -
    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 IBM Z and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    IBM Z
    -
    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 IBM Z and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    IBM Z
    -
    Ratings
    Jaspersoft
    6.6
    64 Ratings
    16% 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 IBM Z and Jaspersoft
    Feature
    IBM Z
    -
    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
    IBM ZJaspersoft
    Small Businesses
    Dell PowerEdge
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Dell PowerEdge
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Power
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM ZJaspersoft
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.6
    (42 ratings)
    7.3
    (119 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    Usability
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.9
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (26 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.5
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.8
    (15 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 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)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM ZJaspersoft
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    Most of the time, server utilization is reliable and stable during peak times. Truly amazing, this product offers a lot and gets it done in no time without any confusion.It is reliable, too accurate and the performance is top-notch. It seems to be competitive in all virtual energy systems and its connectivity is also good. It's available at a low cost, but it's enough to have as many low-cost, more efficient systems as possible. It's a minor thing, but very rarely, it can cause work interruptions while it can get stuck due to more frequent use such as restless work. These power servers are very efficient and really help when things go wrong. I am using this product to retrieve data much faster.
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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
    IBM
    • Virtualization for Scale-Out and Scale-Up in the same footprint
    • Security for different workloads: Large Confidential Computing and lightweight Secure Execution
    • Performance is a true game changer: extreme throughput powered by amazingly huge caches.
    • The one and only FIPS 140-2 Level 4 HSM on this planet
    • Quantum Safe Encryption NOW!
    • AI infusion to every transaction
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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
    IBM
    • It would be good if IBM could demonstrate more use cases for Z to potential clients
    • A migration strategy from Open Systems to Z would be helpful
    • Any additional marketing to could explain the benefits of Z/Linux, especially now that RedHat is in the mix.
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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
    IBM
    The IBM Z mainframe capabilities are unmatched for cloud readiness and optimization the learning capabilities are matched perfectly with Watson and the expandability of the cloud makes it a perfect choice.
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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
    IBM
    Once you learn how, it easy. It's different than most other systems
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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
    IBM
    The Z in IBM Z is for zero down time. If you configure your system according to IBM's best practices, you can achieve zero downtime
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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
    IBM
    Performance is a major part when you configure your system. IBM has many tools to study your system and suggest the appropriate configuration. With the right contract, you can add processing power dynamically and remove it when no longer needed
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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
    IBM
    Support is usually superb, only occasionally dropping to very good. We participate in some of the CD (Continuous Delivery) aspects of z/OS, IMS, MQ, and DB2.
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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
    IBM
    Over my 33 years on this platform, I attended many in person courses, conferences, and other training opportunities.
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    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
    IBM
    There are many online courses from both IBM and other vendors. Most are great. All of the documentation is available online.
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    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
    IBM
    I do not personally have any key insights regarding implementation of IBM Z Enterprise Servers as that is what our mainframe architects do.
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    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
    IBM
    IBM Z is the best storage solution as it provides the best in class data protection with the cryptographic hardware keys, no loss in data while migration, and a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for develops to understand and has less of a learning curve. This makes it well above the competition.
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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
    IBM
    If you need more processing power, just add more CPU's or memory. The largest system can have close to 200 CPU's and 40 TB of memory. If that is not enough, you can add more physical computers, and connect them using a sysplex
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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
    IBM
    • With IBM Z we really feel a different positive impact on our company. A trustworthy and the most powerful place we have ever.
    • A unique computing platform that helps a lot for the progress of our company.
    • It keeps our data save, encrypted.
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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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    ScreenShots

    IBM Z Screenshots

    Screenshot of IBM z17™ single-frame 

This configuration is optimized for enhanced modularity and is available in a traditional factory-frame setup. It provides advanced capabilities and is ideal for environments requiring a robust and scalable solution within an industry-standard footprint.  

IBM z17™ single-frame 

This configuration is optimized for enhanced modularity and is available in a traditional factory-frame setup. It provides advanced capabilities and is ideal for environments requiring a robust and scalable solution within an industry-standard footprint.Screenshot of IBM z17™ multi-frame 

This configuration is designed for general-purpose use, offering a balance of performance, scalability and security suitable for a wide range of applications.Screenshot of IBM z17™ rack mount 

This rack-mounted configuration allows for installation in existing data center rack infrastructures, providing flexibility and integration with current systems. It combines IBM Z's strengths with the convenience of modern rack-mounted hardware.

    Jaspersoft Screenshots

    Screenshot of Report DesignScreenshot of Ad-hoc ReportingScreenshot of Mobile ReportingScreenshot of Dashboard