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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Lightning Tools Data Viewer

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    The Data Viewer provides data visualization in the form of reports or charts that can be created and customized to suit a business's needs. Silos of data exist in most organizations and yet contain valuable insights into how well the organization is performing and where action is needed. Those silos often include Microsoft Excel workbooks, Microsoft SQL Azure databases, On-Premises data sources accessible through OData or Business Connectivity Services and even SharePoint Lists. These data…

    $2,200

    per year per installation

    Pricing
    JaspersoftLightning Tools Data Viewer
    Editions & Modules
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    Data Viewer OnPrem
    $1,000
    per year Per installation, 1 x WFE
    Data Viewer Online
    $2,200
    per year per installation
    Data Viewer OnPrem Enterprise Edition
    POA
    per year Per installation, 4+ WFE
    Data Viewer Online Enterprise Edition
    POA
    per year per installation
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JaspersoftLightning Tools Data Viewer
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsJaspersoft offers flexible pricing for ISVs and SaaS per customer or by CPU core.Prices stated are minimum per installation for "stock" products. $2.20 per user / year on top of base price. Enterprise editions can be amended to suit business needs if deemed necessary, additional costs incurred and TBD. All packages include free technical support. Free upgrades available to latest versions of tool as they are released. (online version)
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    Community Pulse
    JaspersoftLightning Tools Data Viewer
    Considered Both Products
    Cloud Software Group
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    71%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
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    Features
    JaspersoftLightning Tools Data Viewer
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Jaspersoft and Lightning Tools Data Viewer
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    100 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Lightning Tools Data Viewer
    9.1
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports7.687 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.588 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.886 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Jaspersoft and Lightning Tools Data Viewer
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.4
    98 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Lightning Tools Data Viewer
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Drill-down analysis7.289 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.397 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.781 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Jaspersoft and Lightning Tools Data Viewer
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    101 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Lightning Tools Data Viewer
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    Ratings
    Publish to Web7.176 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.799 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.759 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.582 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.562 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Jaspersoft and Lightning Tools Data Viewer
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    72 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Lightning Tools Data Viewer
    3.6
    1 Ratings
    73% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.472 Ratings3.61 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.153 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Jaspersoft and Lightning Tools Data Viewer
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    8.1
    98 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Lightning Tools Data Viewer
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.194 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.192 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.588 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)7.773 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Jaspersoft and Lightning Tools Data Viewer
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    6.6
    64 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Lightning Tools Data Viewer
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.959 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application5.528 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.141 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Jaspersoft and Lightning Tools Data Viewer
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    90 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Lightning Tools Data Viewer
    -
    Ratings
    REST API7.981 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API8.062 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames7.754 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API8.155 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)6.558 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.760 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    JaspersoftLightning Tools Data Viewer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (119 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (26 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.5
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.8
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    JaspersoftLightning Tools Data Viewer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Lightning Tools
    Lightning Tools Data Viewer is well suited for re-surfacing data and customizing its look and feel.
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    Pros
    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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    Lightning Tools
    • Shows Lists created on different sites to be seen and controlled on another site in a Tenant
    • Allows selection of layouts and coloring way beyond what other programs do.
    • Easy to learn and very functional.
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    Cons
    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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    Lightning Tools
    • Data Viewer has a graph feature that is old school flat design. We loved the In House real 3D graph Lightning Tools program.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Lightning Tools
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    Usability
    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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    Lightning Tools
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    Reliability and Availability
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Lightning Tools
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    Performance
    Cloud Software Group
    Complex reports on heavy data load may take considerable amount of time. We have experinced some latencies/misfires regarding to this.
    Incentivized
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    Lightning Tools
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    Support Rating
    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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    Lightning Tools
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    In-Person Training
    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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    Lightning Tools
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    Online Training
    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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    Lightning Tools
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Lightning Tools
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Lightning Tools
    Lightning Tools Data Viewer is much easier and more powerful than Infowise similar viewer in their lineup. In this case, we use Data Viewer over the one offered by Infowise.
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    Scalability
    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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    Lightning Tools
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Lightning Tools
    • It allows us to do things that would take a great deal more time to duplicate in SharePoint
    • It cuts down on ugly looking built in SP list layouts
    • Users find it easy to access, thus this product is more productive
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    ScreenShots

    Jaspersoft Screenshots

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

    Lightning Tools Data Viewer Screenshots

    Screenshot of DISPLAYING EXTERNAL DATA WITHIN SHAREPOINT OR MICROSOFT TEAMS
The Data Viewer Client Side Web Part can be configured by Business Users within a few minutes to display Line of Business Data from Data Sources such as Excel,  SQL Azure, Business Connectivity Services, OData and SharePoint Lists.  Connections to an organizations data such as Customer Relationship Management Systems, Accounting Systems, or Custom Databases can be connected, giving business users a live up-to-date view of business information within the context of their SharePoint Team Sites or Microsoft Teams Tabs.Screenshot of HIGHLIGHTING KEY BUSINESS DATA (NO CODE)
Conditional formatting can be used to highlight key business data. Overdue Tasks, Low Stock, Currency Exchange Rates, Sales Revenue are examples of data to highlight visually allowing for a quick reaction time. Key Financial Indicators and Key Performance Indicators can be configured with a simple dialog and no need to write any code. Choose colours, icons or data bars to highlight key data.Screenshot of SELECTING AND STYLING ICONS
Icons can be chosen as part of the conditional formatting to make data stand out. The Office 365 Fabric icons can be selected and styled and applied to cell values. Pepper pots, Smileys, Envelopes and more icons are available. There are hundreds of options to choose from to highlight data that needs to be acted upon.Screenshot of DATA VIEWER CAN BE A GRID OF DATA OR A CHART IN SHAREPOINT OR MICROSOFT TEAMS
The Data Viewer can be used within Microsoft SharePoint Modern Sites or Microsoft Teams Tabs as a Grid of Data with styling or as a Chart which can be configured. The Charting Feature allows for Pie, Donut, Column, Line, Area, and Scatter Charts which can all be configured and displayed in 2D or 3D.Screenshot of TREEMAPS
summary information can be displayed within a TreeMap next to the detail. Users will be able to see trends, and how the business is performing  using the TreeMap view of data.Screenshot of CHARTS AND GAUGES
The Data Viewer is used to represent data in multiple ways using Gauges, TreeMaps, Multiple Series Charts, and Pie Charts.