Jaspersoft Community Edition

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Jaspersoft Community Edition
Score 9.7 out of 10
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Jaspersoft Community Edition is a free product that offers embeddable pixel-perfect reports for Java apps and small workgroups.
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
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Community Pulse
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FoxPro is a deprecated product and can no longer be downloaded or purchased. While it was a great report development tool, it is no longer a viable solution. While we do use Business Objects in very specific and limited implementations and for specific users, we find that …
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My company has some cooperation with TIBCO, so they want to push Jaspersoft.
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I cannot fairly answer this questions and I have not used other reporting tools. Other reporting tools seem to look like they are great via sales pitches and video previews etc. At end of the day, they struggle with the same issues that Jasper faces. Or they might have solved …
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I do not have solid knowledge on other products to compare them with Jaspersoft
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Cost and ease of use. We ultimately decided to use Jaspersoft because we didn't need to do anything complicated. At the time we were looking into Microsoft Business Intelligence. While we saw Microsoft BI having actual better reporting and tools, we choose to use Jaspersoft …
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[TIBCO Jaspersoft is] Quicker, clearer and allows for more professional looking reports.
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Crystal reports is very expensive and does not integrate well with java based servers. Jasper also provides community edition, if we every want to downgrade the use, we always have the option of eliminating the server and using the reports as they are. Jasper also give you the …
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TIBCO Jaspersoft was chosen because it fitted our software cloud architecture the best and at a reasonable cost. The rest didn't tick all the boxes at the time or were far too expensive. However, the likes of Power BI seem to be a contender now.
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Of course, there are challenges in the evolution of Jasper and it may take some time to become a stable product. With Jasper 6.4 the stability is improvised a lot compared to previous versions(5.5). But I would recommend Jasper to any team for the following reasons.
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Our initial selection was based on the understanding of this product to be able to match up against other enterprise BI tools. However, the difficulty with the reseller and the technical issues with the RBAC make this an easy choice to eliminate against other products.
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Pentaho and Cognos have been used and evaluated. Jaspersoft is similar to Pentaho, but has better support forums to answer questions. Cognos is slightly more intuitive, but at a higher licensing cost.
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Spotfire - Better support. More intuitive. Works with our databases.
Tableau - great support. Very simple and intuitive. Works with our databases!
Infor ION - Really expensive. Works well with their products. A lot of work with other products.
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At the moment of evaluation, it looked like Jasper would be able to cope with our data model. This was achieved with product customization. Visualizations are largely the same.
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We have explored other reporting tools like IBM Cognos, Tableau, SQL Reporting, and Qlik along with TIBCO Spotfire (in-memory). FInally looking at all options, features, degree of flexibility, and then license cost, we decided to go with TIBCO Jaspersoft.

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Usage of a JRS report is vastly superior to xls usage.
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In the past we have used Cognos. Jaspersoft was a better fit for us at this time.
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Tableau and Qlikview reporting probably have better end-user experiences but can't be easily embedded in a Web app. Microsoft BI suite needs nearly a full stack of the latest versions of SQL Server, Excel and Sharepoint which an ISV can't assume its customers have. Other …
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We are using both of them. Elasticsearch is still in early stage and very expensive.
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Tableau was way, way more expensive and wasn't able to be embedded and white labeled, so we didn't go with them. I think Tableau is stronger on the visualization and predictive side... but overall... if you can't afford them, who cares?
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SSRS: seems to be more performant at this point but we're still trying to figure it out
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They each of them have their own strengths and weaknesses. We selected TIBCO for its pixel perfect reporting.
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Jasper seemed to be a little behind in features and usability, but had better pricing.
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Features
Jaspersoft Community Edition
BI Standard Reporting
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Jaspersoft Community Edition
9.3
28 Ratings
13% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports9.024 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.023 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates10.023 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Jaspersoft Community Edition
9.3
26 Ratings
14% above category average
Drill-down analysis9.025 Ratings
Formatting capabilities10.025 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages9.02 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.023 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
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Jaspersoft Community Edition
9.4
27 Ratings
12% above category average
Publish to Web10.022 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.027 Ratings
Report Versioning9.017 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling10.024 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers9.016 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
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Jaspersoft Community Edition
9.3
21 Ratings
14% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.021 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.018 Ratings
Predictive Analytics9.02 Ratings
Access Control and Security
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Jaspersoft Community Edition
9.3
26 Ratings
8% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)9.024 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model10.025 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.026 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)9.017 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
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Jaspersoft Community Edition
9.3
21 Ratings
16% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access10.019 Ratings
Mobile Application9.010 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.016 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
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Jaspersoft Community Edition
9.5
23 Ratings
18% above category average
REST API10.018 Ratings
Javascript API9.019 Ratings
iFrames10.016 Ratings
Java API9.014 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)10.014 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)9.013 Ratings
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User Ratings
Jaspersoft Community Edition
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(29 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.8
(5 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(8 ratings)
Online Training
4.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.1
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
Jaspersoft Community Edition
Likelihood to Recommend
Jaspersoft
Any scenario where you need to reach back into TIBCO support is something I would highly avoid. Most responses at the second round get you pointed to engaging their professional services. The general mentality seems to be "since our product acquisition cost is low, why don't you engage PS to get the value you need" If you are looking at enterprise scenarios, I would highly recommend looking at other more established products.
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Pros
Jaspersoft
  • Very intuitive tool - An Advanced reporting user can figure out in a day on the end to end operations.
  • Easy customization - Simple changes in UI makes it less headache for the end user who maintains the tool. Being an open source product (offers Jasper web services) makes a lot developer friendly compared to SSRS, Cognos etc.
  • Easy Connectivity - Can connect to any data source (can connect to multiple data sources) for a single report - can be customized.
  • Community - A very strong community available online, videos - on basic how to questions, also provides assistance to use case specific scenarios.
  • Ease of Reporting - Can create a reports with in few clicks with out struggle.
  • Domain Designer - A very powerful tool you can create a dataset using clicks with out writing SQL code.
  • OnDemand Scheduling - A very good scheduling feature and a has got lot more simplistic compared to other popular tools like Cognos.
  • Jasper Studio - Very good programmatic tool (desktop tool) lets you customize the reports more company specific, can embed complex coding with 3rd party languages like Java, Groovy (scripting language).
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Cons
Jaspersoft
  • Easier to customize the Jasper Server GUI. More flexibility with the input controls look and feel and maybe more input control types to select from.
  • Have browser event functionality in the reporting itself.
  • An easier way to iterate through an object. Maybe an option that tells the report Java run-time to stop following the report sequential flow and first integrate through this stated object many times.
  • An easier way to create a list and add values to this list.
  • Maybe one could stipulate the process flow of what needs to be computed first in a given field.
  • The crosstab is a bit buggy on the Jasper studio side, so if that could be improved.
  • Better and more examples of custom components
  • The jive functionality on the tables needs an update. It looks so old and outdated.
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Likelihood to Renew
Jaspersoft
Even though there are challenges with Architecture, sizing and other areas with Jaspersoft provided that Jaspersoft comes up with the right set of innovation, performance, scalability, and documentation in future it will be great expansion (win-win) situation for the clients and as well as Jaspersoft.
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Usability
Jaspersoft
The overall performance of this platform has been excellent. It is easy to work with the user interface. Creation of digital content and publishing on our social media platforms during marketing has been easy. Running our applications and upgrading our system to meet international standards has been successful. The user dashboard displays reports and performance of all departments effectively.
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Support Rating
Jaspersoft
We have only had a couple of tickets to be open while using Jaspersoft. Each time we have a very prompte responses that would meet our expectations. We always felt that our issues were being address in a timely manner
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Online Training
Jaspersoft
While the training was somewhat beneficial, a lot of what was taught to us was what we managed to figure out in the weeks prior. It did provide some useful tips and reference material, but overall something more tailored to our requirements would've been better.
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Implementation Rating
Jaspersoft
New releases can be very buggy, also lacking when it comes to standard time zones and formats that are outside the US. As a company we never feel comfortable implementing a new release for at least 3-6 months due to errors that are found
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Alternatives Considered
Jaspersoft
Crystal reports is very expensive and does not integrate well with java based servers. Jasper also provides community edition, if we every want to downgrade the use, we always have the option of eliminating the server and using the reports as they are. Jasper also give you the opportunity to build BI on case by base basis including Dashboards.
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Return on Investment
Jaspersoft
  • Jaspersoft Community Edition has not had any significant impact on our ROI as we have purchased the commercial edition of the product.
  • The only impact on ROI is that when we bring on new developers, he or she can begin work using the community edition while awaiting the installation of the commercial edition.
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