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Jaspersoft Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 6 out of 10
Score
6 out of 10

Reviews

119 Reviews

Average Reporting solution

Rating: 6 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our software application uses TIBCO Jaspersoft as reporting partner for our products. This provides reporting capabilities to enterprise customers using our products. Our developers build and develop our products based on TIBCO Jaspersoft's reporting capabilities. The idea is to design and deploy inbuilt reports for our customers and also provide capabilities for end-users to build custom reports. We liked the integration capabilities for added functionality.

Pros

  • Reporting services work very well when they work, a decent tool for reporting software needs
  • Feature rich, quick to setup and get it running
  • Ability to customize
  • Cost effective

Cons

  • It's complex and not easy for everyone, requires a certain level of expertise and understanding
  • Poor service, some of our important issues took months to get to a resolution. Need to do a lot of chasing without success
  • Scheduled report deliveries fail occasionally

Likelihood to Recommend

TIBCO Jaspersoft is a cost-effective solution and it works well for not so complex, large reporting needs. It comes with good deployment and integration capabilities. It requires a higher level of learning and understanding if your report-building requirements are from large and complex datasets. We have our own challenges with getting our issues fixed in a timely manner.

Vetted Review
Jaspersoft
5 years of experience

Highly recommendations for this great BI tool.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were migrating from the legacy point of sale system to the new version and different vendors altogether. There were a lot of challenges we were facing especially when it came to data mapping from enterprise to enterprise between two systems. With the help of this tool, we were able to resolve those issues very effectively and efficiently in a timely manner and meet project deadlines. The scope was included for both digitally online and mobile platforms with the help of this tool.

Pros

  • Breadth of mapping tags.
  • Easy sync across multiple systems.
  • Data migration security.

Cons

  • Performance issues once in a while may hamper the productivity of the project.
  • Introduction or how to do guide can be more better and comprehensive.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Experience of TIBCO Jaspersoft

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We, as a team together, created a product which automates the billing and licensing for a giant automobile conglomerate. So in that product at the end of every month we need to generate reports and bills in stipulated format. So we tried TIBCO Jaspersoft for this purpose. As we needed a tool which can connect with different databases and on the basis of schedulers different reports and bills can be generated in different formats. So we had a request from a client to get reports generated in PDF, Word and Excel formats. And we found all this can be easily processed using TIBCO Jaspersoft. It's just plug and play model irrespective of the technology our product is based on, quite flexible in that term. Just we need to create template and store it as standard and bingo!!!! Things are done ready to served.

Pros

  • Generation of reports in different formats like Word, Excel or pdf.
  • Integration of TIBCO Jaspersoft is quite easy, hence no mess at all.
  • TIBCO Jaspersoft is quite flexible to be integrated and deployed.
  • Quite flexible with all type of databases.
  • Lightweight.
  • Easy to use and can be used for complicated design templates as well.

Cons

  • Need to work on inbuilt utilities provided, as few utilities seems to be tech dependent or platform dependent.
  • Optimize it for high-volume data processing.
  • User interface needs to be improved.
  • Best suitable for people from a java background.
  • People who aren't from such a background need to put a lot of effort to make things go.

Likelihood to Recommend

TIBCO Jaspersoft is suitable for environments where reports need to be generated from a database and related entitiees in the language (e.g. JAVA) in different formats like Word, Excel, pdf etc. And later on can be used for different purposes like analysis or circulations. It is suitable for the average data set which does not have a huge amount of data that needs to be processed. Applicable for miscroservices rest applications as well.

Situations where TIBCO Jasper report is not suitable:

<ol><li>Where data volume is quite dense.</li><li>A complex insightful reports need to be generated which includes charts, graphs and such representations for analysis.</li></ol>

Vetted Review
Jaspersoft
2 years of experience

Best report generating tool with great feature set and reliable

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Jaspersoft enables us to generate reports based on the input data given. It is swift enough to generate reports with small to medium data. We use it on our application back end to automatically generate reports based on filters, date range, and input data. It supports PDF, Excel, and HTML formats. It can also build graphs and charts for more interactive reports. It is easy to use and the learning curve is very minimal. Overall it's a great product with a minimalistic design and several important features.

Pros

  • Minimal design.
  • Reports can be generated swiftly.
  • Supports REST based applications.
  • Easy to use and quick to learn.

Cons

  • Cant handle large data efficiently.
  • No dashboards.
  • UI is outdated needs to be modernized.

Likelihood to Recommend

Jaspersoft is very well suited for generating reports with small and medium data. It can't handle huge data efficiently. UI needs to be optimized and modernized to look more elegant. It generates both static and dynamic reports. It doesn't have dashboard capabilities in reporting edition. Overall it's a great report generating tool with minimal design and a good feature set.

TiVo Jaspersoft review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used for visualisation of data in easy-to-use dashboards. Solves a few different issues including removing the need to visualise in Microsoft excel, real-time sharing of data without the need to email a PowerPoint presentation.

Pros

  • Data visualisation.
  • Easy sharing of dashboards.
  • East to learn interface.

Cons

  • Refresh time of dashboards.
  • Update of GUI. It’s a bit old.
  • More flexibility in data format allowed to use.

Likelihood to Recommend

Used for monthly S&amp;OP process. We are able to display various different metrics on a single dashboard and can toggle seamlessly to different views at yeh request of the meeting attendees. Once set up it is very easy to change views to suit the audience.

Vetted Review
Jaspersoft
3 years of experience

Jaspersoft rocks at all editions

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The product is used to enable self-service reporting capabilities for users of a custom suite of tools developed in Java. Jaspersoft has been used for over five years now so we have not taken advantage of some of the newer capabilities yet the product has been robust enough to last half a decade in a production environment without any significant issues.

Pros

  • Reporting.
  • Visualizations.
  • Analytics.

Cons

  • Community edition capabilities.

Likelihood to Recommend

Embedded reporting, dashboards, and enabling self-service reporting capabilities into existing applications are scenarios where the product is very well suited. In order to connect to a higher variety of data sources, an enterprise license will be required.

Vetted Review
Jaspersoft
8 years of experience

Great for Now But Watch for the Future

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Jaspersoft Enterprise Edition requires the ability for customers to report and view dashboards that are easily created, personally designed, with a broad array of layouts and customizable to display key performance indicators and metrics. Given that this requirement is a core offering of the solution, it’s essential that it is fully embedded and white-labeled (ie. No branding to indicate what product is being used within another application. Jaspersoft Enterprise Edition is capable of that. However, there are some limitations.

Pros

  • Easy to use
  • Renders graphics nicely
  • Embeds well into other applications

Cons

  • Poor at scaling to large volumes of data
  • Pricing model could be better
  • Performance slows dramatically as you reach limits of data handling

Likelihood to Recommend

Startups with fewer clients or smaller data sets would be well served to adopt Jaspersoft Enterprise Edition as their report tool to embed in their solution. Its ability to provide a strong customer experience, flexible report filters and configurations, and easily deployable are strong benefits. However, as your customer base and data demands grow, it is possible that you will need to evaluate and select another vendor in the future as performance can slow to unacceptable levels.

Vetted Review
Jaspersoft
10 years of experience

Why Jaspersoft?

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Pros

  • Easy development and deployment.
  • Low cost compared to other competitive products.
  • All in one kind of program with embedded features.
  • Professional level support.

Cons

  • Improved version for microservices-based architectures.
  • Desktop direct printing solutions.

Likelihood to Recommend

<p>It is suited for transactional reports to run a large number of reports with fewer pages.</p><p>It is not suited for reports with thousands of pages, but they'll still work with more memory and CPU.</p>

Vetted Review
Jaspersoft
5 years of experience

Great Product!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Pros

  • AdHoc views are really useful when you want to implement self service reporting for your customers.
  • Support is absolutely amazing. Generally they will update a case within an hour or less.
  • Our customers love the freedom to create custom reports and being able to export in the format that they want.

Cons

  • I was not impressed with the sales process specially our Account Manager. He was rude and very unwilling to bend or negotiate.
  • There are some features that would be helpful in our setup. For example we have issues not being able to remove duplicates based on the dataset in the view itself. So you cannot do a select distinct in an adhoc view.
  • We stuggle with adding a filter on an aggregate totals. There is no option for the over partition function.

Likelihood to Recommend

<font size="3">We did a lot of research when selecting Jaspersoft because we have unique needs. In our case we needed to replace Oracle Discoverer so we need to give our customers an Adhoc experience. This does it well whereas other similar products are only focused on Analytics. </font>

Vetted Review
Jaspersoft
3 years of experience

5 years of experiance using Jaspersoft

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Pros

  • It's easy to use when creating a report or dashboard using Jasper studio.
  • Adhoc reporting allows for more dynamic reporting.
  • Can use custom themes based on your needs.

Cons

  • Ad-hoc reporting can be improved further. The custom styling features in adhoc report could be included.
  • Need more culture (locale-based) included for Jasper reports. For example, it does not have locale for the Netherlands.

Likelihood to Recommend

Fast development with wide sets of data sources and good support. It is easy to create dashboards and multiple levels of reporting. The only problem is we need to create a report for each drill down separately.

Vetted Review
Jaspersoft
5 years of experience