Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Jaspersoft
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
Jaspersoft 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
Looker
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Looker is a BI application with an analytics-oriented application server that sits on top of relational data stores. It includes an end-user interface for exploring data, a reusable development paradigm for data discovery, and an API for supporting data in other systems.N/A
Pricing
JaspersoftLooker
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
JaspersoftLooker
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional DetailsJaspersoft offers flexible pricing for ISVs and SaaS per customer or by CPU core.Must contact sales team for pricing.
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Community Pulse
JaspersoftLooker
Considered Both Products
Jaspersoft
Chose Jaspersoft
Very cost-effective and was easy to work with. However as I’ve said before, when your data volumes grow significantly over the years it’s important to plan what your needs will be. Twice in my career, we chose Jaspersoft Enterprise Edition and both times outgrew it in under 6 …
Looker
Chose Looker
Looker was easier to use, better integration with non-standard datastores, such as Prestodb, and Snowflake, and BigTable. Ease of manageability. Creation of reports faster and easier compared to QlikView. Tableau has better heat maps, however, Looker has better drill down in …
Chose Looker
Looker was, hands down, better than any other products we looked at. It was far easier to get started and keep moving because of Looker's internal programming language and data definition language, LookML. We were up and going in just a few days and were creating advanced …
Features
JaspersoftLooker
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
7.6
100 Ratings
7% below category average
Looker
7.5
132 Ratings
8% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.687 Ratings6.8108 Ratings
Customizable dashboards7.588 Ratings8.4131 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.886 Ratings7.5113 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
7.4
98 Ratings
8% below category average
Looker
7.1
130 Ratings
12% below category average
Drill-down analysis7.289 Ratings7.0126 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.397 Ratings6.9128 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.781 Ratings8.7129 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.054 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
7.7
101 Ratings
6% below category average
Looker
8.0
126 Ratings
2% below category average
Publish to Web7.176 Ratings7.7104 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.799 Ratings8.3112 Ratings
Report Versioning7.759 Ratings7.782 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.582 Ratings8.5108 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.562 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
7.7
72 Ratings
3% below category average
Looker
6.5
126 Ratings
20% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.472 Ratings7.6122 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.153 Ratings7.3108 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings4.66 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
8.1
98 Ratings
5% below category average
Looker
7.5
126 Ratings
12% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.194 Ratings7.9118 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.192 Ratings7.2103 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.588 Ratings7.3120 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)7.773 Ratings00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.458 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
6.6
64 Ratings
16% below category average
Looker
5.5
94 Ratings
34% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access7.959 Ratings5.890 Ratings
Mobile Application5.528 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.141 Ratings6.184 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
7.6
90 Ratings
1% below category average
Looker
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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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User Ratings
JaspersoftLooker
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
(119 ratings)
8.3
(132 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(23 ratings)
9.3
(8 ratings)
Usability
7.9
(16 ratings)
8.8
(12 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(3 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(3 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(26 ratings)
8.8
(14 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
6.5
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.8
(15 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
7.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(3 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
JaspersoftLooker
Likelihood to Recommend
Jaspersoft
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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Google
When data drives potential for new orders, Looker earns its place in our tech stack. If, on the other hand, we are hoping for pipeline generation, Looker is useful if you are willing to repeatedly go check customer utilizations .... it is not appropriate if you are hoping to automate data analysis for this purpose.
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Pros
Jaspersoft
  • 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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Google
  • Show visited pages - sessions, pageviews - which programs are viewed the most.
  • Displays session source/medium views to see where users are coming from.
  • It shows the video titles, URLs, and event counts so we can monitor the performance of our videos.
  • It gives a graphic face to the numbers, such as using bar charts, pie graphs, and other charts to show user trends or which channels are driving engagement.
  • Our clients like to see the top pages visited for a month.
  • I like the drop-and-drag approach, and building charts is a little easier than it was before.
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Cons
Jaspersoft
  • 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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Google
  • Documentation is scarce, and very difficult to find when you need it.
  • Pricing is unclear, particularly as you look to scale your reports across the business.
  • Data from other sources is not represented in the system as well as first party Google services.
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Likelihood to Renew
Jaspersoft
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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Google
I give it this rating because it deems as effective, I am able to complete majority of my tasks using this app. It is very helpful when analyzing the data provided and shown in the app and it's just overall a great app for Operational use, despite the small hiccups it has (live data).
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Usability
Jaspersoft
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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Google
Looker is relatively easy to use, even as it is set up. The customers for the front-end only have issues with the initial setup for looker ml creations. Other "looks" are relatively easy to set up, depending on the ETL and the data which is coming into Looker on a regular basis.
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Reliability and Availability
Jaspersoft
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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Google
No objections
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Performance
Jaspersoft
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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Google
Somehow resources heavy, both on server and client. I recommned at least 50Mbs data rate and high performance desktop comouter to be abke to run comolex tasks and configure larger amount of data. On the other hand, the client does not need to worry when viewing, the performance is usually ok
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Support Rating
Jaspersoft
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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Google
Never had to work with support for issues. Any questions we had, they would respond promptly and clearly. The one-time setup was easy, by reading documentation. If the feature is not supported, they will add a feature request. In this case, LDAP support was requested over OKTA. They are looking into it.
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In-Person Training
Jaspersoft
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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Google
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Jaspersoft
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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Google
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Implementation Rating
Jaspersoft
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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Google
Very satisfied, easy to implement
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Alternatives Considered
Jaspersoft
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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Google
Looker Studio, you can easily report on data from various sources without programming. Looker Studio is available at no charge for creators and report viewers. Enterprise customers who upgrade to Looker Studio Pro will receive support and expanded administrative features, including team content management. So it's good.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Jaspersoft
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Google
Perfect price to performance
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Scalability
Jaspersoft
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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Google
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Return on Investment
Jaspersoft
  • 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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Google
  • Looker has a poignant impact on our business's ROI objectives. As an advertising exchange we have specific goals for daily requests and fill, and having premade Looks to monitor this is an integral piece of our operational capability
  • To facilitate an efficient monthly billing cycle in our organization, Looker is essential to track estimated revenue and impression delivery by publisher. Without the Looks we have set up, we would spend considerably more time and effort segmenting revenue by vertical.
  • Looker's unique value proposition is making analytical tools more digestible to people without conventional analytical experience. Other competing tools like Tableau require considerably more training and context to successfully use, and the ability to easily plot different visualizations is one of its greatest selling points.
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Looker Screenshots

Screenshot of a Looker dashboard with a geo chart.