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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

    SolarWinds SQL Sentry

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds SQL Sentry is designed to help data professionals optimize SQL Server database performance in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. SQL Sentry delivers metrics to help users find and fix database performance problems and provides scalability, boasting demonstrated success monitoring 800+ SQL Server instances with one monitoring database. With SQL Sentry, the user can monitor: SQL Server Azure SQL Database SQL Server Analysis…

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    Pricing
    JaspersoftSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Plan Explorer (SQL Server Query Tuning)
    $0
    Free
    SQL Sentry for Azure SQL Database
    $161
    Per year per database (annual subscription)
    SQL Sentry
    1,450
    Per year per instance (annual subscription)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JaspersoftSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    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.—
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    Community Pulse
    JaspersoftSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Considered Both Products
    Cloud Software Group
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    71%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    JaspersoftSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Jaspersoft and SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    100 Ratings
    7% below category average
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports7.687 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.588 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.886 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Jaspersoft and SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.4
    98 Ratings
    8% below category average
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
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    Drill-down analysis7.289 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.397 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.781 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Jaspersoft and SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    101 Ratings
    6% below category average
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
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    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 SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    72 Ratings
    4% below category average
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
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    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.472 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.153 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Jaspersoft and SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    8.1
    98 Ratings
    5% below category average
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    -
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    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 SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    6.6
    64 Ratings
    16% below category average
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
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    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 SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    90 Ratings
    2% below category average
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    -
    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
    SQL Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Jaspersoft and SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    -
    Ratings
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    8.4
    102 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Performance dashboard00 Ratings9.1102 Ratings
    Intelligent alerting00 Ratings7.996 Ratings
    Top SQL00 Ratings8.6102 Ratings
    Historical trend data00 Ratings8.6100 Ratings
    Virtualization support00 Ratings8.764 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    JaspersoftSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    JaspersoftSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (119 ratings)
    8.6
    (102 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    8.8
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (16 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (26 ratings)
    7.5
    (14 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.5
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.8
    (15 ratings)
    8.8
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 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)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    JaspersoftSolarWinds SQL Sentry
    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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    SolarWinds
    This solution is perfect for a team with a large server count and, at least, moderate experience supporting a SQL Server environment. If the environment is smaller or the team has less experience working with SQL Server performance tuning methodologies, then the tool may be overwhelming for the users.
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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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    SolarWinds
    • The Top SQL functionality has been extremely useful for identifying poorly performing queries by resource consumption.
    • The flexibility of creating your own Advisory Conditions has allowed us to integrate our custom internal alerts into a centralized dashboard and alerting platform.
    • Being able to highlight any chart on the dashboard and then tool-matching that window across all the other charts makes it much easier to correlate the different performance metrics against each other.
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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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    SolarWinds
    • Tuning advice: With all the graphs and data available, it's not always easy to determine the best thing to do. I'd like to see SentryOne provide some best practice analysis based on the historical information collected for the server being looked at.
    • They could add help tips or links to help documents, when you select a graph on the dashboard. Inexperienced users tend to put blinders on and focus on one thing when they see a high counter or something out of the ordinary. It would be very useful to include a link that provides underlying help. The link would provide an explanation of the counter in detail and offer possible explanations as to why the counter is off.
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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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    SolarWinds
    Absolutely. SQL Sentry is an absolute must have for any company with a SQL Server estate. It provides a force multiplier to effectively manage SQL Server, and the feature sets are second to none. The support and expertise at SentryOne is incredible. They are very supportive of both the platform users and helping your business with the product
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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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    SolarWinds
    I accept that the flexibility of the alerting comes at a price. Other than the alerting SQL Sentry's interface is intuitive. Connecting to a new SQL instance, given that all the needed ports are open in your firewalls is straight forward. Reviewing the performance and queries for an instance is available in with a right click. As you dig in new tabs are created to present the detailed data. I find the ability to filter and rollup metrics on a query very helpful in dealing with the "it's running slow". You can easily compare the metrics of run times for the same query to let the user know, it's probably data your doing a billion reads instead of the usual 100 thousand.
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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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    SolarWinds
    The system is working perfectly in capturing data, but we do experience issues with SQL Timeout when viewing results in the remote clients. This may be due to the fact that our monitoring service is consuming most of the CPU, and it is the same server that is hosting the SQL Repository. We could probably fix the issue by separating the SQL instance from the monitoring service.
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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.
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    SolarWinds
    In most cases the pages load very quickly. In our particular case, we need to do some movement of services to separate our monitoring service to separate infrastructure from the repository. When we first started with SQL Sentry on 5 licenses, we did not have any issues. Since we have now grown that to 25, we are experiencing some challenges. We do not believe this to be a tool problem
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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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    SolarWinds
    From their infancy as a smaller company to now as a global player they have always kept focus on prioritising he customer. They know their product and the technology it supports and are easily accessible for both resolving problems with the product all the way to adding value through additional training and assisting with getting return on investment through utilisation of the many features the product provides.
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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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    SolarWinds
    sql sentry expert came onsight to review the performance of installation and gave us a good insight to using the tool
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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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    SolarWinds
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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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    SolarWinds
    Was suggested that we install the process monitors on a dev or qa database server, but we found it more useful to create an IT db server and put it there (along with a few other apps that we use for monitoring).
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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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    SolarWinds
    SQL Sentry offers more features and is customize-able to fit our business needs. It has more centralized management and support. The company's technical support is also top notch. It is also worth mentioning that SentryOne Team Blog is an excellent source. One can find lots of valuable troubleshooting skills on the blog site - very educational and informational.
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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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    SolarWinds
    We are running 25 instances through a single monitoring service and it is able to keep up. We are finding that this many instances in our environment is about as many as can be handled. We will need to deploy additional monitoring services. Luckily, there is no additional licensing costs to deploy additional monitoring services. For us, it's just an additional Azure VM.
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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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    SolarWinds
    • Better customer service as it alerts me automatically to loss of service issues so I can react and either get things fixed before it impacts the customers or to let my management know as soon as possible
    • It helps me find expensive SQL so our customers get better performance and we make better use of our resources
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    ScreenShots

    Jaspersoft Screenshots

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

    SolarWinds SQL Sentry Screenshots

    Screenshot of SQL Sentry DeadlocksScreenshot of SQL Sentry Top SQL