Jaspersoft vs. Yellowfin

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Jaspersoft
Score 6.8 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
Yellowfin
Score 7.9 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Yellowfin is a cloud-based business intelligence and dashboarding platform.
$250
per month
Pricing
JaspersoftYellowfin
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
JaspersoftYellowfin
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsJaspersoft offers flexible pricing for ISVs and SaaS per customer or by CPU core.
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Community Pulse
JaspersoftYellowfin
Considered Both Products
Jaspersoft
Chose Jaspersoft
At the time, we selected Jaspersoft because we did not have a multi-tenant model, and we needed a reporting solution that offered a package with many licenses at a reasonable cost. Now our needs have changed, and the licensing model no longer makes sense. Tableau is much …
Yellowfin
Chose Yellowfin
My selection of Yellowfin based on following criteria for the Indian market:

  • Availability in Linux platform to process high volume of transaction with CAL (concurrent user access license) model to use multiple server with high concurrent users
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
JaspersoftYellowfin
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
7.7
100 Ratings
6% below category average
Yellowfin
6.2
12 Ratings
28% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.687 Ratings5.85 Ratings
Customizable dashboards7.588 Ratings6.212 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.886 Ratings6.511 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
7.4
98 Ratings
9% below category average
Yellowfin
6.6
12 Ratings
21% below category average
Drill-down analysis7.289 Ratings6.711 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.397 Ratings7.112 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.781 Ratings6.511 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.38 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
7.7
101 Ratings
8% below category average
Yellowfin
5.9
11 Ratings
34% below category average
Publish to Web7.276 Ratings6.411 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.799 Ratings6.211 Ratings
Report Versioning7.659 Ratings5.89 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.582 Ratings5.611 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.562 Ratings5.55 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
7.7
72 Ratings
5% below category average
Yellowfin
5.9
12 Ratings
31% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.472 Ratings6.012 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.053 Ratings5.812 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings5.810 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
8.1
98 Ratings
6% below category average
Yellowfin
6.3
11 Ratings
31% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.194 Ratings6.311 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.192 Ratings6.510 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.588 Ratings6.410 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)7.773 Ratings5.94 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
6.6
64 Ratings
19% below category average
Yellowfin
6.7
8 Ratings
17% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access7.959 Ratings6.25 Ratings
Mobile Application5.528 Ratings6.48 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.141 Ratings6.28 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft
7.7
90 Ratings
3% below category average
Yellowfin
6.1
5 Ratings
26% below category average
REST API7.981 Ratings6.15 Ratings
Javascript API8.062 Ratings5.45 Ratings
iFrames7.754 Ratings6.05 Ratings
Java API8.255 Ratings6.35 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)6.558 Ratings6.55 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.860 Ratings6.55 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
JaspersoftYellowfin
Likelihood to Recommend
7.4
(119 ratings)
6.3
(12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(23 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.9
(16 ratings)
6.3
(7 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(3 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(3 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.1
(26 ratings)
5.7
(7 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.0
(4 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
6.5
(7 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.8
(15 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Configurability
7.0
(2 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(3 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
JaspersoftYellowfin
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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Yellowfin
We can recommend this software without hesitation, as it has the ability to generate reports and data analysis, as well as process the data automatically, which saves time. It is ideal for small and medium-sized companies that wish to improve their services in the business world
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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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Yellowfin
  • Yellowfin’s Storyboard, Timeline and Collaborative tools make it easy to share data and insights across an organisation.
  • Strong Operational and Executive Dashboards that reflect the business KPIs and can send out prompts to people within the business based on rules.
  • Yellowfin makes it incredibly easy to create dynamic reports and dashboards which incorporate maps through locational intelligence functionality.
  • Yellowfin is a single license and all access is via a web browser making it perfect for both on-premise and cloud deployment. Mobile apps are also available.
  • User roles and source filtering allows Admin/IT to offer different functions/views by user group/role.
  • Mobile BI applications to support any device ..
  • API connectors ( YF 7.2 on the way in Mar16 ) for a range of third-party Web-based applications, data sources, Enterprises CRM/ERP apps & open data platform apps, including Salesforce, Google Analytics, Twitter, Youtube , Zoho CRM, XE.com & more coming to make endusers to integrate their applications for better benefits
  • Yellowfin Integration with Predictive analytical and Big Data processing tools like R, UDF, Spark to build rich applications for end users
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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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Yellowfin
  • The ability to predefine a colour for a specific graph as a selection option dynamically.
  • The ability to customise the label of a chart, especially with respect to performance related reporting graphs we need an increase in dynamic charting options to meet our more specialised requirements.
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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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Yellowfin
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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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Yellowfin
As mentioned previously, if a newer company is looking for a strong, polished BI tool, Yellowfin would be a great software vendor to consider. Unfortunately, the high cost might be a barrier to these newer companies who dont have any legacy software/agreements such as an EA agreement with Microsoft.
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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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Yellowfin
99.9% availability
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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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Yellowfin
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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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Yellowfin
They have good support in what they provide. But what they provide is not what is promised. I would stay with them if I can. Be very careful before signing up with them. They are not what they seem in the sales pitches. Be very careful and make sure you test and test before you sign up.
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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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Yellowfin
Yellowfin provides 3 levels of training to support consumers, business analytics, developers and Administrations :
  1. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 1 (Exploration)
  2. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 2 (Advanced)
  3. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 3(Expert)
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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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Yellowfin
Web-based training for large audiences for Level 1 and Level 2 I would suggest
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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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Yellowfin
Design the data model and views for each dashboard is very important and it is the success factor Configuration of cluster for large implementation
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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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Yellowfin
Yellow Fin platform is browser agnostic and is accessible from desktops as well as mobile devices. It is very simple and fast, it is integrated with Big Data, clients do not require a great training. It just works. But it’s easier to have things on the cloud, especially if you need to use different computers. Yellow Fin lacks the cloud feature.
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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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Yellowfin
- Tested 500 con-current users in Linux platform with 4 cores systems - Tested with cloud based VM - Tested with 1000 reads per minutes
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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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Yellowfin
  • Yellowfin gives us a BI tool that is incredibly sleek, which leads our data to be clean, concise, and in an "easy-to-digest" format.
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ScreenShots

Jaspersoft Screenshots

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Yellowfin Screenshots

Screenshot of Location IntelligenceScreenshot of Yellowfin DashboardScreenshot of Yellowfin SignalsScreenshot of Yellowfin MobileScreenshot of Yellowfin Sales KPIs