Jaspersoft vs. Tableau Public

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
Tableau Public
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Public is a free edition of the Desktop product. With this edition, data can only be published to the Tableau public website and does not allow work to be saved or exported locally.
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Pricing
JaspersoftTableau Public
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
JaspersoftTableau Public
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
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
JaspersoftTableau Public
Considered Both Products
Jaspersoft
Chose Jaspersoft
These could be more easy to learn and reporting. For example, building a demo page, but we expected guarantee for Business Intelligence work. So my clients and I at the end we decided to try Jaspersoft and the result was as expected.
Tableau Public

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Features
JaspersoftTableau Public
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
7.6
100 Ratings
7% below category average
Tableau Public
9.8
12 Ratings
19% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.687 Ratings9.710 Ratings
Customizable dashboards7.588 Ratings10.012 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.886 Ratings9.712 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
Tableau Public
9.7
12 Ratings
22% above category average
Drill-down analysis7.289 Ratings9.812 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.397 Ratings9.712 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.781 Ratings9.811 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings9.59 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
7.7
101 Ratings
7% below category average
Tableau Public
9.5
11 Ratings
15% above category average
Publish to Web7.176 Ratings10.011 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.799 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Report Versioning7.759 Ratings9.89 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.582 Ratings9.69 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.562 Ratings8.17 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
7.7
72 Ratings
4% below category average
Tableau Public
9.8
11 Ratings
23% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.472 Ratings9.811 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.153 Ratings9.811 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings9.79 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
Tableau Public
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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 Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
6.6
64 Ratings
16% below category average
Tableau Public
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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 Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
7.6
90 Ratings
2% below category average
Tableau Public
-
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
JaspersoftTableau Public
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
(119 ratings)
8.5
(14 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(23 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
7.9
(16 ratings)
10.0
(5 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(26 ratings)
9.6
(6 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
6.5
(7 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.8
(15 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Configurability
7.0
(2 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
JaspersoftTableau Public
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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Tableau
Tableau public is the best platform to build dashboards for your personal profile and share with recruiters. It's always good to keep ourselves updated on the latest features, create sample dashboards and save them to a personal profile. Tableau public is free and doesn't need any subscription. anyone can create an account and start building reports.
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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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Tableau
  • Data visualization: lots of different options, including bar, scatter, pie, waterfall charts to explore relationships between variables, and to present findings/trends to different teams
  • Integrates readily with limited, though different data sources: TXT, CSV, TDE, Access
  • Exports reports for review of different dashboards: client-ready/team-ready, with a clean and tidy presentation in PDF format (or hardcopy)
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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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Tableau
  • Tableau Public (both Desktop and Server) like their "for a fee" counterparts offer very easy to learn and use tools to transform data into pictures and gain insights into your data. Most organizations report a reduction in development time of 10x vs. other similar tools, due to the intuitive user interface. That said, with Tableau Public, published workbooks are "disconnected" from the underlying data sources and require periodic updates when the data changes. Users are limited to 1 Gb of storage space per user ID and password as well.
  • I would like to see better options for public sharing of visualizations and data from within the "for a fee" products as more and more organizations are moving in the direction of data sharing with partners and their communities.
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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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Tableau
It's free, right? I'll keep using the free version. So the real question to ask is this? Will I pay $999 for the Personal version or $1,999 for the Professional? Yikes! That is a big stretch. I'm not sure about that. The product comparison chart is at: http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/comparison
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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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Tableau
Tableau public is a great training tool to understand the basics of Tableau before buying it. A great tool to extend Excel's visualization and to publish data for others. Not useful for anything you need secure. No ability to access databases. Static information only.
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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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Tableau
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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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Tableau
No answers on this topic
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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Tableau
I have not yet required to contact support as the documentation and help i found online has always worked so far
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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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Tableau
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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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Tableau
I found it sufficient, and fast. I could easily "kick the tires" with Tableau on my data so I got up and running fast.
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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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Tableau
Start at the end and work backward. Identify the business case / issue and questions the end users have, then identify the data needed, and where to get it.
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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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Tableau
Google Charts/Drive is sufficient for simpler data sets, but it does not integrate with other web platforms and the visualization does not look as professional. I'm not aware of any other competitors that offer the same package as Microsoft.
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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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Tableau
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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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Tableau
  • Tableau Public visualizations have helped drive traffic to our content and sites
  • The lack of cost means it's easy to demonstrate our experience to attract paying clients
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ScreenShots

Jaspersoft Screenshots

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