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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

    Varicent

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AFrom quotas to sales and compensation, Varicent helps revenue leaders in enterprise organizations chart a more effective, connected path to revenue by providing vital data, insights, and sales go-to-market planning tools.N/A
    Pricing
    JaspersoftVaricent
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JaspersoftVaricent
    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
    JaspersoftVaricent
    Considered Both Products
    Cloud Software Group
    No answer on this topic
    Varicent
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    71%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    31 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    36 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    77%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    Features
    JaspersoftVaricent
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Jaspersoft and Varicent
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    100 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Varicent
    -
    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 Varicent
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.4
    98 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Varicent
    -
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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 Varicent
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    101 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Varicent
    -
    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 Varicent
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    72 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Varicent
    -
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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 Varicent
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    8.1
    98 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Varicent
    -
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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 Varicent
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    6.6
    64 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Varicent
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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 Varicent
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    90 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Varicent
    -
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    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
    Sales ICM
    Comparison of Sales ICM features of Jaspersoft and Varicent
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    -
    Ratings
    Varicent
    6.7
    55 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Sales compensation plan creation00 Ratings7.148 Ratings
    Complex sales crediting00 Ratings7.548 Ratings
    Sales compensation process automation00 Ratings7.452 Ratings
    Incentive auditing/regulation compliance00 Ratings6.546 Ratings
    Sales compensation dashboards & forecasting00 Ratings6.447 Ratings
    Incentive modeling00 Ratings6.243 Ratings
    Agile incentive strategy00 Ratings6.538 Ratings
    ICM mobile visibility00 Ratings6.232 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    JaspersoftVaricent
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Everstage
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    CaptivateIQ
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    JaspersoftVaricent
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (119 ratings)
    7.3
    (67 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    4.8
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (16 ratings)
    7.0
    (59 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    5.2
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    5.8
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (26 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.5
    (7 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.8
    (15 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    5.2
    (3 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)
    4.3
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    6.8
    (58 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    5.9
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    5.9
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    JaspersoftVaricent
    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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    Varicent
    For the use cases we have at the bank, ICM is a perfect solution. For any bank or institution that has similar requirements, ICM would be a perfect solution. But I also think for any use case that has any sort of incentives based on Sales done, this would work amazing, as both Calculations and reports are handled by ICM very well; it's an all-in-one solution, I feel like.
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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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    Varicent
    • Flexibility - Varicent is not template based. You can implement the model specifically for your organisation.
    • Scalability - Since it is not stick to templates you are able to expand the model for other domains as well.
    • Reporting - Several ways of reporting are possible and each has their own benefit/purpose.
    • Strong/Powerfull Calculation Engine delivering fast results/speed to insight
    • User Interface is minimized to what you need and is not showing off all the functions it can "also" do
    • Strong audittrail
    • Appears to be almost unlimited in what you are able to create
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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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    Varicent
    • As [the] model gets more and more transactional data, the calculation time increases. This should/can be handled internally with better model optimization.
    • Migrating from one env to other sometimes is challenging. There can be better 'Alerts' or 'Explanation' provided to handle it or at least to give a hint of the error.
    • For managers viewing their rep's report, the access part can be made easier. It should be linked to Payee hierarchy and access can be done automatically.
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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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    Varicent
    Customer support from IBM is impeccable. They are quick to respond and they don't nickel and dime you for every request you make. Their goal is to ensure your success and as a user, I really feel like they listen to my concerns. That's not to say there are no problems. All software has its issues, but I don't feel like those issues fall on deaf ears.
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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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    Varicent
    Any calculations can be implemented as there are hardly any limitations on complexity. However, online real-time usability is lacking - a simple user enters, and the system calculates work in a way that it is in the browser and hence still needs overnight to be properly reflected in the batch calculations and backend tables.
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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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    Varicent
    Never went down in last 3 years that I worked with it (every hour of the day basically). That is a 10 in my book.
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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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    Varicent
    All is fast, but with API's it is sometimes slower due to the application we are pulling data from. Reports are loaded directly or within seconds and our reports are very detailed with many columns and rows.
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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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    Varicent
    Giving a 10 would suggest there is no room for improvement. I don't feel like their support is perfect. However, I have never met another team that was more dedicated to making sure we get what we want and need.
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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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    Varicent
    The training was good in general with a nice trainer as well. But, the training could be better if it is more focussed on our process/data etc.
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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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    Varicent
    There is a learning portal with many videos about navigation, creating reports and managing your model.
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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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    Varicent
    Test test test. Make sure that the product is calculating everyone 100% correctly. DO NOT accept a 70% pass rate as some companies would like to have you believe is acceptable. This means conducting thorough testing by providing 100% of all expected results, but it will be worth it when you know that the compensation plans are working entirely as expected.
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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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    Varicent
    In 2015, we used a scorecard containing 80 attributes in our review of Oracle, Callidus, and Xactly & Varicent. Oracle did not have true self serve capabilities- programming was heavily required, not intuitive, out of the box functionality was limited. Callidus & Xactly could not provide us a demo using our data, statements could not be sent out in bulk form, difficulty in importing/exporting to CRM. Varicent excelled in most areas and was the clear winner.
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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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    Varicent
    It is very scalable and adaptable to changing complexities of calculations and business rules under a variety of different scenarios. It does not get full points because in large data loads the time needed to calculate and import the data increases exponentially and may cause issues related to timing potentially.
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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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    Varicent
    • Compliance - with a central system used for calculation incentive payments and commissions, we are able to provide reports and data showing every detail of how payments are calculated and why they are justified. We can also identify anomalies and outliers.
    • Integration with our payroll system is seamless. Except for regular pay, nothing goes to payroll without going through ICM. The process for paying incentives/bonuses/commissions is now very structured and efficient.
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    ScreenShots

    Jaspersoft Screenshots

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

    Varicent Screenshots

    Screenshot of Varicent providing clarity and transparency to sellers, helping them to find answers faster and have confidence in compensation plans.Screenshot of Tools for sellers that help them align strategic initiatives, and that help them understand which deals will help them win.Screenshot of Varicent ICM model compensation plans that display the financial impact of changes. Its ability to more accurately forecast commission payouts with “what-if” assumptions, users can budget more effectively for sales compensation costs, manage target total compensation for sales representatives and assess plan effectiveness.Screenshot of Shareable information sent to the right people to drive the right results.