TIBCO Jaspersoft vs. Tableau Server

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
TIBCO Jaspersoft
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
TIBCO Jaspersoft 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 Server
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Tableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.
$12
Per User Per Month
Pricing
TIBCO JaspersoftTableau Server
Editions & Modules
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Viewer
$12.00
Per User Per Month
Explorer
$35.00
Per User Per Month
Creator
$70.00
Per User Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
TIBCO JaspersoftTableau Server
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
TIBCO JaspersoftTableau Server
Considered Both Products
TIBCO Jaspersoft
Chose TIBCO 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 …
Chose TIBCO 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 …
Chose TIBCO Jaspersoft
More flexible than Qlik, easier to integrate and cheaper to run.
Less polished and ultimately capable than Tableau, but more flexible commercially and technically.
In terms of commercials and support, easier to deal with than either Qlik or Tableau.
Tableau Server
Chose Tableau Server
We find Tableau Server much more flexible and powerful for the developer. The resulting dashboard and interactive charts far surpass those of Business Objects. IBM Cognos is much too restrictive in its ability to present data visualizations in a way that is easily integrated …
Top Pros
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Features
TIBCO JaspersoftTableau Server
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
TIBCO Jaspersoft
7.7
100 Ratings
6% below category average
Tableau Server
9.3
95 Ratings
13% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.787 Ratings9.129 Ratings
Customizable dashboards7.588 Ratings9.494 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.886 Ratings9.381 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
TIBCO Jaspersoft
7.4
98 Ratings
9% below category average
Tableau Server
8.9
95 Ratings
9% above category average
Drill-down analysis7.289 Ratings8.795 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.397 Ratings8.493 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.781 Ratings9.489 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.959 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
TIBCO Jaspersoft
7.7
101 Ratings
8% below category average
Tableau Server
7.9
91 Ratings
6% below category average
Publish to Web7.276 Ratings9.585 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.799 Ratings9.284 Ratings
Report Versioning7.659 Ratings8.070 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.582 Ratings7.477 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.462 Ratings5.19 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
TIBCO Jaspersoft
7.7
72 Ratings
5% below category average
Tableau Server
8.4
90 Ratings
4% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.472 Ratings8.886 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.053 Ratings8.885 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.764 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
TIBCO Jaspersoft
8.1
98 Ratings
6% below category average
Tableau Server
7.3
95 Ratings
16% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.094 Ratings7.393 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.092 Ratings7.390 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.588 Ratings7.392 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)7.773 Ratings7.362 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
TIBCO Jaspersoft
6.6
64 Ratings
19% below category average
Tableau Server
7.6
79 Ratings
5% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access7.959 Ratings7.177 Ratings
Mobile Application5.528 Ratings7.061 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.141 Ratings7.768 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
TIBCO Jaspersoft
7.7
90 Ratings
3% below category average
Tableau Server
7.3
46 Ratings
8% below category average
REST API7.981 Ratings9.040 Ratings
Javascript API8.062 Ratings9.137 Ratings
iFrames7.754 Ratings9.140 Ratings
Java API8.255 Ratings5.57 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)6.458 Ratings6.19 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.860 Ratings4.67 Ratings
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User Ratings
TIBCO JaspersoftTableau Server
Likelihood to Recommend
7.4
(119 ratings)
7.1
(111 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(23 ratings)
10.0
(20 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(16 ratings)
5.4
(17 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(3 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(3 ratings)
8.1
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
7.1
(26 ratings)
3.4
(18 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.0
(4 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
6.5
(7 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.8
(15 ratings)
9.1
(13 ratings)
Configurability
7.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.0
(2 ratings)
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Product Scalability
8.0
(3 ratings)
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Vendor post-sale
8.0
(2 ratings)
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8.0
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User Testimonials
TIBCO JaspersoftTableau Server
Likelihood to Recommend
TIBCO Software Inc.
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 Server is well suited for a data warehouse build and handling big data. Tableau data aggregation, transformation, clustering capability is powerful and easy to implement. The choice of charts and visualisation tools is outstanding. Customisation and dynamic data visualisation capability is superb. The user interface takes some time getting used to.
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Pros
TIBCO Software Inc.
  • 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
  • It's good at doing what it is designed for: accessing visualizations without having to download and open a workbook in Tableau Desktop. The latter would be a very inefficient method for sharing our metrics, so I am glad that we have Tableau Server to serve this function.
  • Publishing to Tableau Server is quick and easy. Just a few clicks from Tableau Desktop and a few seconds of publishing through an average speed network, and the new visualizations are live!
  • Seeing details on who has viewed the visualization and when. This is something particularly useful to me for trying to drive adoption of some new pages, so I really appreciate the granularity provided in Tableau Server
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Cons
TIBCO Software Inc.
  • 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 Server has had some issue handling some of our larger data sets. Our extract refreshes fail intermittently with no obvious error that we can fix
  • Tableau Server has been hard to work with before they launched their new Rest API, which is also a little tricky to work with
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Likelihood to Renew
TIBCO Software Inc.
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 simply is used all the time by more and more people. Migrating to something else would involve lots of work and lots of training. The renewal fee being fair, it simply isn't worth migrating to a different tool for now.
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Usability
TIBCO Software Inc.
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 Server is unbeatable at creating easy to use, interactive dashboards for busy executives. The software also saves time for the busy analyst that is tired of always using Excel. Tableau Server is a head and shoulders improvement over Excel.
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Reliability and Availability
TIBCO Software Inc.
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
Our instance of Tableau Server was hosted on premises (I believe all instances are) so if there were any outages it was normally due to scheduled maintenance on our end. If the Tableau server ever went down, a quick restart solved most issues
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Performance
TIBCO Software Inc.
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
While there are definitely cases where a user can do things that will make a particular worksheet or dashboard run slowly, overall the performance is extremely fast. The user experience of exploratory analysis particularly shines, there's nothing out there with the polish of Tableau.
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Support Rating
TIBCO Software Inc.
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
We have consistently had highly satisfactory results every time we've reached out for help. Our contractor, used for Tableau server maintenance and dashboard development is very technically skilled. When he hits a roadblock on how to do something with Tableau, the support staff have provided timely and useful guidance. He frequently compares it to Cognos and says that while Cognos has capabilities Tableau doesn't, the bottom line value for us is a no-brainer
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In-Person Training
TIBCO Software Inc.
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
In our case, they hired a private third party consultant to train our dept. It was extremely boring and felt like it dragged on. Everything I learned was self taught so I was not really paying attention. But I do think that you can easily spend a week on the tool and go over every nook and cranny. We only had the consultant in for a day or two.
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Online Training
TIBCO Software Inc.
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
The Tableau website is full of videos that you can follow at your own pace. As a very small company with a Tableau install, access to these free resources was incredibly useful to allowing me to implement Tableau to its potential in a reasonable and proportionate manner.
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Implementation Rating
TIBCO Software Inc.
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
Implementation was over the phone with the vendor, and did not go particularly well. Again, think this was our fault as our integration and IT oversight was poor, and we made errors. Would they have happened had a vendor been onsite? Not sure, probably not, but we probably wouldn't have paid for that either
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Alternatives Considered
TIBCO Software Inc.
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
Today, if my shop is largely Microsoft-centric, I would be hard pressed to choose a product other than Power BI. Tableau was the visualization leader for years, but Microsoft has caught up with them in many areas, and surpassed them in some. Its ability to source, transform, and model data is superior to Tableau. Tableau still has the lead in some visualizations, but Power BI's rise is evidenced by its ever-increasing position in the leadership section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
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Scalability
TIBCO Software Inc.
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
TIBCO Software Inc.
  • 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 does take dedicated FTE to create and analyze the data. It's too complex (and powerful) a product not to have someone dedicated to developing with it.
  • There are some significant setup for the server product.
  • Once sever setup is complete, it's largely "fire and forget" until an update is necessary. The server update process is cumbersome.
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TIBCO Jaspersoft Screenshots

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