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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

    OpenText Magellan

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOpenText Magellan Analytics Suite leverages a comprehensive set of data analytics software to identify patterns, relationships and trends through data visualizations and interactive dashboards.N/A
    Pricing
    JaspersoftOpenText Magellan
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JaspersoftOpenText Magellan
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsJaspersoft offers flexible pricing for ISVs and SaaS per customer or by CPU core.
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    Community Pulse
    JaspersoftOpenText Magellan
    Considered Both Products
    Cloud Software Group
    Chose Jaspersoft
    We were using Actuate e-reporting. The product suited our needs but the vendor was difficult to work with as far as licensing and contract issues. Also relatively much more expensive. We didn't actually even evaluate BIRT as a replacement due to the poor relationship. So I …
    Incentivized
    Chose Jaspersoft
    The breadth of features and functionality, Ease of access to a vast community of users for support. The key factor after comparing features and functionality was price. The Jaspersoft suite is hands down the best value bay a large margin..
    OpenText
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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
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    JaspersoftOpenText Magellan
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Jaspersoft and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    100 Ratings
    7% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports7.687 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.588 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.886 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Jaspersoft and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.4
    98 Ratings
    8% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Drill-down analysis7.289 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.397 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.781 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Jaspersoft and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    101 Ratings
    6% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Publish to Web7.176 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.799 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.759 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.582 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.562 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Jaspersoft and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    72 Ratings
    4% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.472 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.153 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Jaspersoft and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    8.1
    98 Ratings
    5% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.194 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.192 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.588 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)7.773 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Jaspersoft and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    6.6
    64 Ratings
    16% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.959 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Mobile Application5.528 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.141 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Jaspersoft and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    90 Ratings
    2% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    6.2
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    REST API7.981 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Javascript API8.062 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    iFrames7.754 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API8.155 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)6.558 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.760 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    JaspersoftOpenText Magellan
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    JaspersoftOpenText Magellan
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (119 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    3.9
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (16 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (26 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 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)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 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
    JaspersoftOpenText Magellan
    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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    OpenText
    If you do not have a large budget and are a large organization, I would steer clear of Actuate. If you are looking to do very complex washboarding, I would not use them. Your developers have to be very skilled to work with this. Plan to bring in consultants if necessary to help your process. Adhoc reporting is weak. If your pricing is user based and you expand, this could be very expensive.
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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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    OpenText
    • The report outputs can vary across different types such as HTML, PDF, and Excel
    • Their open source offering is very sufficient
    • There are great boards and blogs for developers and engineers to expand and use their features.
    • The people from the company that I've worked with are professional and courteous.
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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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    OpenText
    • The documentation on all the available features, but most importantly on the scripting side, can be improved
    • The standard look & feel of some basic options, like parameter selection or sorting and filtering, looks dated and can't be customized
    • The server portal needs to provide better tools
    • More integration is needed with other OpenText products
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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
    Incentivized
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    OpenText
    I am no longer working for the company that was using Actuate but I believe they would continue to use it because the stitching costs would be to high. It would require a complete rewrite of the reports and the never version of Actuate (BIRT) even required an almost complete report rewrite
    Incentivized
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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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    OpenText
    It is quite intuitive to use. It is fit specifically for doing sentiment, emotion, and intention analysis as well as text classification and text summarization. I would have given 10 if it is fit for the purpose of doing image processing and analysis as well. There is a huge market to analyze video and image data.
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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.
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    OpenText
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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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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    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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    OpenText
    Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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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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    OpenText
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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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    OpenText
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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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    OpenText
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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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    OpenText
    It is vastly superior to these in many ways, for complex reporting it is a much more sophisticated solution. Visualizations are very good. Javascript extensibility is very powerful, others don't support this or as well. Pentaho and MS are both OLAP oriented. Pentaho is moving more toward big data, which was not our primary focus. Others are stuck in the Crystal Reports Band metaphor.
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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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    OpenText
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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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    OpenText
    • Actuate can handle 50 to 60 sub reports inside a report very well.
    • Dynamically creating the datasource, chart, graph, reports are the main advantages. We can do any level of drilling, and can create a performance matrix dashboard efficiently.
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    ScreenShots

    Jaspersoft Screenshots

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    OpenText Magellan Screenshots

    Screenshot of A Magellan BI & Reporting dashboard that an individual can interact with and personalize to their needs, such as changing chart types or computations.Screenshot of Magellan Data Discovery provides a Smart User Interface, designed to equip new users and users seeking a more streamlined set of features for insightsScreenshot of Magellan Data Discovery provides an Advanced User Interface that allows data analytics pros to leverage its breadth of sophisticated capabilities for insightsScreenshot of Magellan Text Mining insights can be displayed within easy-to-use dashboards.Screenshot of Data scientists can create visualizations within the Magellan Notebook and see it dynamically update as they write changes to it.