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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.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/M1/My/PIVU6BETBT1N.pngTIBCO Software Inc.Jaspersoft Products2019-08-30T17:31:54.378ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our internally used application(s)
We use TIBCO Jaspersoft for print-ready, pixel-perfect reporting
Other,Provides a great API with control over all of its Jasper server functionality allowing automation and external management and maintenance and deployment.
Very easily integrated reporting engine into Java applications. Very easy to integrate with external applications using the API for the server component and libraries for standalone.
The purely XML based report definitions make automation of generating report source very easy.
Handles a huge range of data sources out of the box and is very easy to develop custom data sources. It is fairly easy to find code examples for developers.
The documentation for users, admins, and developers is very good.
Extremely easy to deploy internally or cloud-based.
Provides a wide range of output and visualizations, not just typical "reports".,The JasperSoft Studio (Eclipse + plugins) is not always a joy to use. The choice of using Eclipse as an IDE base is understandable, but it comes with the issues and difficulty of Eclipse. The Eclipse integration lacks any useful debugging features and the error messages are vague and it makes it difficult for non-developers to determine what is actually wrong with the JRXML source in many instances.
The Jasper Server component (CE anyway) is difficult to brand and customize the web GUI.
Sub-report data sources can be quirky and overly complicated to define and get "right". Combing multiple data sources with multiple sub-reports is not easy.
How report variables work, specifically the increment types and reset types combined with where they get used in report bands, is very difficult for the average report writer to grasp.,8,It allows our clients to consolidate what used to be a myriad of methods, applications and services to generate various BI functionality into a single product and architecture.,Jaspersoft Community
Other,This is extremely important, and one of the main reason we recommend it. IT environments are no longer static, they are always in flux, it is not uncommon to be running Windows, Linux, Solaris, and OSX all at one company, internally and in the cloud. If it was a single platform product I would never recommend it or use it.,It is useful. But not a key aspect for my clients.,Brian BaleyA great blend of open source software2019-10-01T19:42:09.911ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers,Single sign-on works seamlessly.
The server is easy to manage.
Visualizer.js is excellent.,Not as glossy as Tableau.
Training materials are spread all over the place.
Not enough video training materials.,10,We originally imagined reporting as being a necessary component of our main application.,Jaspersoft Premium Support (No annual case limit),This is very important. I previously used tableau which only works on Windows. This is problematic for a Linux based infrastructure. Jaspersoft works like a dream on Linux.,This is critical for us as we many clients and some of our clients have strict legal separation requirements.,Tableau Online and GlowTom WalderCustom Reporting2019-09-25T19:12:51.642ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our internally used application(s)
We use TIBCO Jaspersoft for print-ready, pixel-perfect reporting,Custom reporting
Dashboards
Easy to access,User interface isn't the easiest to navigate
Requires developers to pull reports,8,Jaspersoft has allowed us to provide excellent customer service to our clients by providing them with real-time data that can help them make critical decisions.,This is extremely important to us, as we use a variety of software and applications which house data.,Verified UserTIBCO Jaspersoft A Solid Choice2019-08-13T21:56:38.998ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers
We embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our internally used application(s)
We use TIBCO Jaspersoft for print-ready, pixel-perfect reporting,Can easily build reports from predefined tables or derived queries.
Can schedule reports to run and send to an ftp server.
Can easily customize the report server with your own skin.,Too many hotfix releases cause issues with having to reapply your customization over and over.
Hard to diagnose issues that arise without turning on debugging mode which generates way too much information.
Takes about 2 minutes to start up.,8,No need to wait for a development cycle to release new reports. Can create client custom reports quick and easy without overpopulating every client. Can easily integrate external applications through the API to make client integrations fit our needs. Overall gives us more time for the harder things.,Jaspersoft Premium Support (No annual case limit)
Jaspersoft Community,We installed JasperReport Server on our stack with ease through a docker container. This makes releasing newer versions/hotfixes quick and easy and on software/hardware we are familiar with. We also integrated the report server with our SQL server clusters easily and utilized profile attributes for dynamic database connection per client organization.,This is very important to my organization because we are a multi-tenant software company. Having a multi-tenant package to use makes things like keeping tenants reports separate and contained in their own environment easy. With a multi-tenant environment you do not have to have multiple separate report servers running with separate databases.,Verified UserJaspersoft Review2019-10-01T20:06:21.009ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers
We embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our internally used application(s)
We use TIBCO Jaspersoft for print-ready, pixel-perfect reporting,Provides a great REST API with control over all of its Jasper server functionality allowing automation and external management, maintenance, and deployment.
Very easily integrated reporting engine into Java applications. Very easy to integrate with external applications using the API for the server component and libraries for standalone.
Handles a huge range of data sources out of the box and is very easy to develop custom data sources. It is fairly easy to find code examples for developers.
The documentation for users, admins, and developers is very good.
Extremely easy to deploy internally or cloud-based.,UI is not customized as per our wish and need.
Complex reporting or dashboards cant be worked out with the TIBCO.
Memory optimization is not efficient.
Application performance isn't good with larger reports.,5,Many of customers complain that Jaspersoft isn't the most user-friendly when it comes to creating reports.,Jaspersoft Standard Support or Professional Standard Support for AWS (12 annual cases)
Jaspersoft Community
Other,It supports all types of operating systems like Windows, Linux, centOS, and Azure. Moving the deployed applications from one server to another server is quite easy.,Verified UserQuick review on Jasper Server2017-10-16T15:23:17.083ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers,Generating reports over web services enables distributed reporting capabilities with authentication.
Inbuilt features of Jasper Server help in designing reports as required by the customer.
Jasper Server is capable in using with many data adapters like Oracle, PostgreSQL and NoSQL stores.,Jasper Server needs some improvements further on its performances in generating reports.
Customers claim some security violations on numerous plain text passwords appearing inside the source code.
Jasper Server needs automated purging mechanisms on its scheduled reports.,9,Taking less time to develop reports is the ROI.,Jaspersoft Premium Support (No annual case limit)
Jaspersoft Community,Specially, the ability of connecting with various data sources like Oracle, PostgreSQL etc. provides the flexibility on changing data platforms based on customer needs.,Multi-tenancy is a great feature associated with Jasper Server which provides the capability of maintaining a single server across different projects. However,this has no advanced use in our Telco products.,Pentaho,Jasper allows customizations. For example, Jasper Server itself does not support for purging scheduled reports but it allows to use its API for implementing out own purging mechanism.,Jasper Server can handle big data via Spark SQL.
Jasper Visualize.js makes the embedding report really easy.,No,Price
Product Features
Product Usability
Prior Experience with the Product
Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor,7,7,Implemented in-house,7,Online training
no training,8,5,Without training, learning this product might be difficult but materials can be found in the internet for self-learning as well.,None/Don't Know/Other,5,3,We use Jasper ETLs for data summarization processes.
We use Jasper Server for scheduled report generation, handling API based reporting requests.
Both Jasper Server and ETLs are integrated as microservices to fulfil all the reporting requirement in our Telco products.,9,Pentaho,Our Telco products is now being integrated with NoSql stores like Cassandra. So our preference is to reassess Jasper evaluations by aiming big data concepts. Ealier we evaluate Jasper products by targetting it to use with relational DBs like Oracle and PostgreSQL.,Developers need prior knowledge on working Jasper products.,We have automated the configuration process.,No - we have not done any customization to the interface,No - we have not done any custom code,No any custom implementation is added to the sorces since the feature certification will be impacted due to this.,Yes,Yes,No any exceptional support is experienced.,Jasper Server REST APIs are versatile.
Most ETL components provide the functionality as expected.
Jasper Server/Jasper ETLs can handle the loads decently.,We experience some limiations in using Jasper Server report schedulers specially in naming reports, create burst reports based on dynemic parameters etc.,8,8,8,7,We have our own custom systems to connect Jasper Server via REST APIs.,We are planning to inegrage Jasper Server with Cassandra and Spark SQL Thrift Server.,API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
ETL tools,7,Use Jasper Server as a micro-service.,8,8,Price/Licenses,Jaspersoft should consider to provide customized offers as which can fit for the customer's budget.,Yes,Some customers are frequetly worrying about security vulnerabilities. So applying upgrades causes to fixed these issues.,Jasper should focus more on performance improvements.,NoVerified UserEmbedded BI for All2018-09-19T16:45:37.465ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers
We use TIBCO Jaspersoft for print-ready, pixel-perfect reporting,Modern looking reporting - (many other products are still archaic looking in their default selections)
Quick time-to-market turn-around from concept to reality when creating a report
Listens to customer feedback for future features - this, I believe, has greatly shaped some of the upgrade features we have seen of late that have brought the level of usefulness up for Jaspersoft and ease of use for non-developer users
Full customization of reports with scheduling and many different formats available (I mention this because some other products had limited export format options),If you do not have a proper hardware set up, report run-time can be slow and take up a lot of resources in a shared stack. You must fine tune a lot of set up for DB servers in order to get that perfect runtime for end users
Users with very slow connections/not close to runtime locale of reporting server can have very slow experiences with reports
It is a large learning curve to gain that best-practice knowledge of using DB. This is understandable for most products. I wish that Jaspersoft had better documentation for this in the form of more shared examples in order for users to gain better business practice-use of the product. We struggled with many trial and error methods until finding those perfect solutions.,8,It has made some of our applications stand out from competitors as our reporting engine offerings are much more advanced.It has allowed us to use our developers for our main products and not have to share with the BI requests. Now all of our reporting requests have gained in demand and we are making ourselves as a company more sought after with our reporting edge.,Jaspersoft Standard Support or Professional Standard Support for AWS (12 annual cases),As a software company, we have to deal with a lot of changes within the industry tools in terms of upgrades and changes in support for products. Jaspersoft is perfect in that there is not a single way to use/implement which allows us to spend less time working on the integration.,Privacy is of the utmost importance for our clients and so we value the security offerings in the application which allows us to host many clients in a shared environment. This brings down our cost and maintenance support of the clients and their interaction with the application.,7,TIBCO professional services,9,In-person training,8,If a user has no idea on the architecture of their database then use, I think jaspersoft is hard to understand how to use from a business user to admin level user. It involves an understanding of relationships of tables in order to create domains from which to make ad hoc views and reports. The concepts as a business user are not too hard to grasp in terms of being in an ad hoc environment and navigating the palette selections. Selecting which fields to use and so on is fairly simple with the drag and drop. What I did find was that the calculated measures and fields section to not be for beginner users and something that had to be advanced level in that I was not familiar with the syntax needed and had to make my own cheat sheet as the guidance in the ad hoc tool and online training guides was not enough. I really appreciated the jaspersoft community as a source of open questions on the product. I myself opened a few issues to see if the community could answer my question. There is a lot of knowledge in the shared experience of other users on the quirks of jaspersoft and so it remains a good place to "google" questions related to the product. When we were training I used the community page frequently to help with small things like chart formatting to browser related issues.,None/Don't Know/OtherAshley LeeTIBCO Jaspersoft leads to the convergence of information2019-02-07T15:20:27.484ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers,The implementation of the reports with Jasper Studio is very friendly and allows us to be more productive.
It is also an essential aid in the management decisions of our clients with their BI tool.
We can guarantee quality attributes such as scalability, security, and confidentiality in the presentation of information with TIBCO.,The implementation of security with Visualize.js took us a long time due to the lack of documentation on the subject.,10,We have many clients with many reporting requirements. With Jaspersoft, we have been able to deliver them in a much shorter time.,Jaspersoft Premium Support (No annual case limit)
Jaspersoft Community,It allows the convergence of information since in one place we can see information in multiple formats in order to make decisions.,As I say before, in one place we have all the information for each one of our clients, this functionality requires high infrastructure resources and obviously built-in multi-tenancy capability.,Oracle Analytics Cloud Day by Day and Microsoft BIJhonattan Smith Peláez NimisicaTo Jaspersoft or not to Jaspersoft? That is the question!2019-03-15T21:38:45.991ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers
We use TIBCO Jaspersoft for print-ready, pixel-perfect reporting,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.,Ad-hoc views and reports don't allow for the capability to enter or modify SQL being used. Users always have to rely on how the domain is built.
Ad-hoc views and reports don't have the functionality to automatically remove duplicate rows.
If a domain is extremely large and contains several derived tables, slowness is a big issue. Not only is there slowness in the domain designer, but there is slowness when using said domain as the data source of an ad-hoc view.,7,In the reporting world, we moved from Business Objects and Oracle Reports to TIBCO Jaspersoft reports. In doing so we have noticed improvements in styling and functionality, however there are several things that can't be done in Jaspersoft that clients always ask about. Compared to Business Objects and Oracle Reports, Jaspersoft can't remove duplicate rows, hide and unhide input controls on the parameter screen passed on the value of another input control, and have multiple tabs/forms on the parameter screen just to name a few. On the positive side of things, Jaspersoft ad hoc is easy to use for non-technical users.,Jaspersoft Premium Support (No annual case limit)
Jaspersoft Community,Is is very important that TIBCO Jaspersoft supports our needs and works seamlessly within our application. We want our users to feel like they are using a single application, which is why embedded reports using REST API is a must. In using the many areas of TIBCO Jaspersoft, we frequently have questions which TIBCO Support usually knows the answer to.,When integrating TIBCO Jaspersoft to our application is was very important to have built-in multi-tenancy. We have several clients with their own custom databases. We want to have the ability to give our clients the custom functionality they need that may be different from another tenant. Multi-tenancy allows for custom reports and domains to be used by specific clients without worrying another client, who has not paid for this custom work, can access it.,Exago BI and Business Objects SRCVerified UserExcellent Reporting featrues2018-11-26T20:37:03.625ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our internally used application(s)
We use TIBCO Jaspersoft for print-ready, pixel-perfect reporting,Jaspersoft has an excellent self-service module that allows ad hoc report creation and can be easily worked by non-technical users as well.
Using this tool, it doesn't matter if you are viewing the report on a desktop screen or smaller mobile screens, the experience is seamless.,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.,8,Overall we've had an excellent experience with the reporting features of this product.,Jaspersoft Community,We had a wide variety of different data sources being used at the university like Salesforce CRM, Oracle databases, MySQL server etc. We did not have any integration issues with them.Verified UserJaspersoft Reporting Review2018-10-30T17:07:38.885ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers
We use TIBCO Jaspersoft for print-ready, pixel-perfect reporting,The reports are exactly as they are designed in Jaspersoft Studio. It allows for pixel-perfect editing, so we can be sure the reports our customers get look great.
We have a number of different data stores for our different products, and Jaspersoft has connectors for all of them. No matter where our data is, Jaspersoft allows us to access it easily, and transform it into a great looking report.
Once the reports are uploaded to the Jaspersoft Server, it is very easy to generate the reports. Be it passing parameters via the URL, using the REST api, or embedding using Visualize.js, generating the reports is a breeze.,The UI on the report designer, Jaspersoft Studio, looks a little outdated. I think that Studio as a whole could use a facelift. Additionally, Jaspersoft Studio tends to slow down over time, requiring a restart of the program.
There is a bit of a learning curve with all of the intricacies of Jaspersoft Studio, it's kind of overwhelming when trying to learn it from nothing.
One functionality that seems to be missing, that would help our use-case, would be the ability to parameterize a JSON URL as a data source. For example, if there was a call to a set of JSON data, it has to be a static URL. But in many cases, APIs that return JSON take parameters via the URL. Jaspersoft does not support that.,8,Jaspersoft has had a great impact. It allowed us to shut down our locally hosted reporting server, and gave us much more customization of our reports. The report designer lets us create great looking reports, with relative ease. Thanks to this, we can create, and supply to our customers, more reports than ever. Plus, they look much better. Additionally, if a report needs an adjustment, it's easy to make a quick fix.,Jaspersoft Standard Support or Professional Standard Support for AWS (12 annual cases)
Jaspersoft Community,It's very important. At our company we use a great deal of different data sources and architectures. Jasper has been able to work in every single scenario that we have had for it so far. Plus, knowing all the features of Jasper, I'm confident that it will continue to work for everything that the future may hold.,This is very important to us. We have many customers that may be generating reports simultaneously, so multi-tenancy was probably the biggest feature that we were looking for when researching reporting engines. Our customers certainly appreciate the fact that there is nothing holding them back from generating a report at any given time.,Tableau Server and SisenseVerified UserTIBCO Jaspersoft to ease tailored reporting needs for end users2017-06-12T19:28:17.653ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers,TIBCO Jaspersoft is able to integrate perfectly with our custom business application.
TIBCO Jaspersoft has a valuable designer to let the end users design their own tailored reports based on a selection of data provided in application design phase.
TIBCO Jaspersoft is able to manage multi-tenancy for our end users, allowing for the segregation of duties and data isolation.,It requires a lot of resources to provide a good end user experience, especially in terms of memory.
The management of custom domains to define the users and properties is hard to manage, causing a tree-structure with too many leaves.
The integration between TIBCO and SQL Server should be improved since its installation and maintenance is currently not as easy as the integrated database solution.,7,The main advantage in terms of ROI when dealing with TIBCO Jaspersoft is the speed-to-market and cost saving when end users require changes in the definition of the reporting features within the custom business application. Before switching to TIBCO, the reporting features were based on Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, where each report was produced by developers, and it was requiring an update of the application to embed the new reports, based on our current implementation. With TIBCO Jaspersoft, reports can be tailored at speed of light, without any involvement of developers (saving money into the application life cycle) and without any risk to introduce regressions.,TIBCO Jaspersoft is based on JAVA technology, while our custom business landscape is based on Microsoft .NET Framework technology. The two systems can seamlessly work together without any specific complexity, adding a great value to the overall solution provided to end users. Our solution is based on end user data hosted in SQL Server databases, and TIBCO can manage also this kind of data source, although it natively uses different database solutions.,Our business application is based on multi-tenancy. Our implementation is consisting of having one database per each customer. Thus also security is fundamental to allow segregation of duties and data isolation. The built-in multi-tenancy features in TIBCO Jaspersoft allowed us to perfectly integrate it into our landscape, letting each user to authenticate on Jaspersoft and access their data in a transparent and secure way.,Microsoft SQL Server,8,Implemented in-house,6,Online training,7,We have a dedicated Customer Success Manager, and we realized so far with our experience with TIBCO, that this is the highest value TIBCO is providing to our company as a partner. This is because this dedicated resource is available and willing to contribute and participate in our internal organization and internal discussions about our TIBCO Jaspersoft implementation roadmap.Davide MarzuccoTop heavy but worth it in the end!2017-10-06T17:21:14.978ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers,Pixel perfect reports
Multi-tenancy
Jaspersoft Studio - a powerful tool for designing reports and publishing them seamlessly to the server
SSO (Single Sign-On)
Affordable BI stack,Dated UI. Definitely not Web 2.0!
Multi-tenant row level security and data domains are not easily implemented without consultants.
Learning curve. Training and documentation drives success, even for technical folks.
Lack of sample reports/templates for the education vertical.
Server config/license management should be web accessible for the superuser.,7,No ROI realized yet. However, we are rebooting the project and have a better chance at success this time. Utilizing TIBCO resources to attain our goal this time, versus using third party external vendors.,We run on an open source stack and offer Jaspersoft as a SaaS product. So broad platform support is nice to have but not critical to us as long as our stack is supported.,Extremely important, especially for SaaS vendors like us that have a single database for all the clients. Data security and logical segmentation are critical to us and we would not even have considered Jaspersoft if it did not have native support for multi-tenancy.,Microsoft Power BI, Sisense and Tableau Online,5,Vendor implemented
Professional services company,5,Online training,5,We used the UpShift customer success program for installation, training, upgrading, patching,etc. Not the best use perhaps but we needed to ensure a solid production environment for our clients. We burned through the hours with a reasonable outcome but no documentation/hand-off or follow through.,No,No,Not experienced it yet on the technical support side. On the business side though, The Client Success Manager is quite eager to help and reaches out frequently to check in. That can be attributes to good account management strategy as well. Also to be fair, Professional Services supported their work really well even after the engagement was complete. A part of that depends on the relationship you strike up with them as well.,Building basic reports. However, you need to be at least an intermediate level SQL expert as the bulk of the report creation logic lies in the SQL.
Basic dashboards.
User and Role Management
Connecting to data. We used JDBC.
Interactions with Reports/Dashboards and Data Export functions,Setting up row level security in multi-tenant deployments. We had to hire experts.
Jaspersoft Studio Professional is very clunky to use
Dated UI and UX concepts lead to the lack of intuitiveness.
Visualize.js, with its shortcomings.
iFrame embeds for Analytics is not the best or modern approach for integrations. That is what we had to use.,Yes, but I don't use it,6Rahul GoswamiPresentation is 90% of the BI Battle2017-10-10T19:35:00.798ZOther,Adhoc domain structure is flexible and robust. It puts quite a lot of power into the hands of our power users and enough simplicity into our other users' hands to get them most often what they need.
Datasource connectivity. We have easily been able to connect to multiple data sources to produce reports which has been critical for us. The ease of use of this was part of our selection of Jaspersoft as our BA product.
Ease of use and extensibility of visualizations. Having HTML5 charts available with all the available options means we can EASILY make data pretty and usable for pretty picture people.
Dashboards. They are easy to build and flexible. Wonderful feature.,Performance on some of the way adhoc domains work. So for example, we have to set the default aggregation on all fields to NONE otherwise it calculates them ahead of time, causing delays. This is mostly because of the size of data we are dealing with. Having to set that default to NONE means we need more educated users to use the tool. Not a show stopper, but could be better.
We purchased JaspersoftETL. Just don't bother. There is no TIBCO support for that product and after this experience, I wouldn't recommend the underlying product at all.,8,With Jaspersoft we can more easily have people schedule and plan their own report delivery meaning we need fewer BI resources. In addition, they can explore the data on their own which means they are clearer when they come ask for things. Having prepared reports readily available means the people can get at the data they want when they want it. They do not have to wait for us to email them CSVs meaning work gets done faster. In addition, having those consistent reports means people all understand the data better, again making BI not have to be so big to be productive.,We are deployed on Ubuntu. It just had to work there. It does and very nicely. Memory management is easily customizable and works wonders.,We do not use this feature as of yet.,,8,Implemented in-house,9,Self-taught,Documentation is strong making it much more useful to learn on your own than to get training.Eva DonaldsonJaspersoft Commander2018-09-06T17:53:47.911ZOther,TIBCO Jaspersoft Reports are more flexible to use,It should be a more independent reporting tool for users to develop their own reports based on the their requirements,8,Less time to develop reports and happier customers,Jaspersoft Standard Support or Professional Standard Support for AWS (12 annual cases),They supported us when we had to migrate the existing reports to Jasper Reporting,It was very easy to integrate with third party tools.,Suresh RegondaJasper Reports is a great piece of software for reporting.2017-09-15T21:48:26.219ZWe use TIBCO Jaspersoft for print-ready, pixel-perfect reporting
Other,This may not be an obvious one, but the installer is well done. A lot of these products that are somewhat of a combination of other "back-end" components can be a pain to install. The fact that TIBCO/Jaspersoft bundles everything required into ONE installer is a huge blessing to any IT person wanting or needing to do an installation.
Jasper makes upgrades VERY easy. Since the entire reporting repository can be exported in a few clicks of a mouse (or via the shell/command-line) and imported AS-IS into a newer version is a major win.
The configuration files for Jasper's reporting server are all XML. Human readable. That's a big plus for people used to being forced into using proprietary software with closed-format binary configurations.,Documentation. While *using* Jasper Reports server is super simple and probably doesn't need much in the way of documentation, the overall quantity of documentation regarding some of the smaller details is severely lacking.
The reports editor. JasperStudio is OK. We use it, we make loads of reports with it, it's 100 times better than what we used before. But, the documentation for the report editor is terrible, and it seems as if some things just don't make sense. For example, no quick way to signify that you just want columns of data in a delimited file, no formatting, no special spacing, no anything other than straight data. There IS a way to do that in JasperStudio, but it's time-consuming, and it's very "repeatable" in the sense that it COULD be automated fairly easily, but just isn't.
Virtual Data Sources. This is one of the coolest and most useful things Jasper can do, but it's crippled and no explanation is given as to WHY it is that way. Crippled in what way, you may ask? The VDS system works in the Jasper Server, but NOT in the report editor. :/ As such, you can't test a report in the editor which needs data from a VDS then import that report into Jasper and use it. You can kinda fake it with datasets and connection parameters, but it just isn't what it COULD be with a little extra development.,10,It takes slightly MORE time for us to develop reports with Jasper compared to our previous solution, but what we can do with them is SO MUCH better, that the value isn't even comparable.
Users are happier (easy to use interface).
Customers are happier (auto-delivered reports).
Fewer applications needed (Jasper can report on so many different kinds of data).,Other,Very important. While the underlying OSes supported is nice, the number of different types of datasources is where Jasper is awesome. In a larger organization, especially one that has made business acquisitions, you may be tasked with providing reports on data from several different data sources. Using Jasper made that SUPER easy. To us, it is very important.
Having multiple deployment types is useful as well.,We currently do not utilize the multi-tenancy facet of Jaspersoft to integrate to a third-part application. As such, I cannot in good faith write a meaningful statement as the importance of this capability. If we were to expand the utilization of this software throughout our entire organization, we would surely use multi-tenancy.,,10,Implemented in-house,10,Self-taught,Yes. Yes, depending on experience with using other "design" software.,To the best of my knowledge, I have not engaged with the TIBCO Jaspersoft UpShift customer success program.,60,1,Reports for management. Being able to see whether or not we are making progress (via data / charts) is vital to see if our strategies actually work.
Reports for customers. Some of our customers like getting various types of data regarding the services we provide for them. This is very easy for us due to the ability to schedule reports in Jasper.
Using Jasper to out reports for our production and shipping accuracy is vital to one of our programs. Without the ability to quickly see if everything is accurate, our shipping would be greatly delayed.,I'm not sure we use Jasper and any innovative or unexpected ways. The reason we use Jasper is its flexibility as a software.,If other branches of the company used Jasper, we could use the multi-tenancy features. Right now, we just don't have a need for it.,10,Yes,Product Features
Product Usability,I probably wouldn't change it. I downloaded the community version of Jasper, tried it, realized it did everything we wanted, and recommended it to our organization. Simple.,No,Change management was a minor issue with the implementation,None. We ran the installer, it installed. :/ Not sure if that's the answer you wanted, but it was super smooth.,10,Change the default timeout. Sessions timed out VERY quickly be default.,No - we have not done any customization to the interface,No - we have not done any custom code,We changed the default timeout for sessions. It was 20 minutes by default. This was somewhat of a pain for various reasons. Changed it to 4 hours.,Yes,No,I can't. But not because they wouldn't provide exceptional support. I've just never needed it.,Running reports. :) Literally just click on them.
Finding reports. While I personally use the repository most frequently, I find that the majority of users just use the search.,This only applies to JasperStudio, so I don't know if this counts as toward the software that end-users would see... The cumbersome thing in JasperStudio is making a basic report to just output a CSV (or other delimited text file) with NO formatting, no "column width", no truncating of data. While it is doable, and not "hard", it is super time consuming compared to what you'd think...,10,10,10,10,None.,No.,API (e.g. SOAP or REST),10,Read the manual. :),10,10,We didn't negotiate any terms.,Luke 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
If you treat a vendor well, they usually treat you well in return.,Yes,Honestly, for we use Jasper for, the ONLY benefit we got from upgrading was a little bit nicer interface setting up FTP output, and the ability to use the Salesforce driver.,While there may be some things I'd LIKE, I don't expect them. So really I am not expecting anything different from what we have now.,No,NoPeter LarabellGood BI tool for Web based JAVA applications2018-07-14T18:58:46.396ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers,Adhoc Report Builder : It helps creating new reports on the fly without the need of code change
Handling big volume of Data: In the event of multiple pages report output, it show the first page very quickly and keeps on loading the pages in the background
Report Export : All the reports can be exported in Word/Excel/PDF formats
Reports auto schedule: All the reports can be auto scheduled to run at defined intervals and can send the output in a email attachment,Dashbaord: Dashboard need to be made Interactive with drilldown capabilities
Report output should be seamless on any screen size,8,Report Building is a big field and we didn't want to invest time and money in the direction which is not the core value of our product. Though it takes sometime to adapt to new versions of Jaspersoft but it is ok compare to the BI resources we are saving.,Jaspersoft Premium Support (No annual case limit)
Jaspersoft Community,We are platform agnostic application can run on any application server, OS or database. It was a mandatory requirement for us to have BI tool to be platform agnostic,As we are going towards multi tenancy for our future releases, we want jaspersoft to be multi tenant. This is very important feature for our future releases,Yogesh Ailawadi, CISSPJaspersoft Going Forward2017-10-25T18:18:02.317ZWe use TIBCO Jaspersoft for print-ready, pixel-perfect reporting
Other,Jaspersoft implements easily with a number of infrastructure configurations.
Reports are always easy to schedule.
Ad-hoc design is simple and quick.
Custom reports are easily published through Jaspersoft Studio,Management of templates could be easier.
Simplify queries to work more easily for troubleshooting.
Implement report designer into Jaspersoft reporting to enhance report aesthetics.
Remove dashboard and create modular cells.,7,Customers appreciate access to data and being able find reports in their email inbox when they expect it. We have customers who have based their final decision to sign with us based on our ability to deliver data.,Jaspersoft Premium Support (No annual case limit)
Jaspersoft Standard Support or Professional Standard Support for AWS (12 annual cases)
Jaspersoft Community,Our company as well as technology continues to evolve, Jaspersofts' ability to encompass a variety of configurations makes this less problematic. Our goal in the next month is to move from traditional servers to AWS hosting, after speaking to TIBCO engineers I feel completely confident that our switch will be as smooth as possible.,Multi Tenancy provides us with the ability to keep all customers close to their critical information as well as keeping their data away from other customers. Multi Tenancy allows us to provide an equal service to all our customers.,Charles CochranJasper Reporting2017-09-25T18:43:39.827ZWe use TIBCO Jaspersoft for print-ready, pixel-perfect reporting,Jasper allows our customers to quickly develop reports to address the company's reporting needs.,While user-friendly, the error reporting could provide more detailed feedback. Primarily in regards to editing domains.,7,Jasper has allowed us to provide a better option than the standard out of the box reports that we provide with our application.,Yes,Yes,We were upgrading one of our bigger clients and there was an issue updating a domain in the upgraded environment. I was able to upload the domain through the support portal and Vadym was able to identify and resolve the issue in a timely manner.Reza NorouziJaspersoft for BI comfort2016-07-29T16:26:38.964ZI used Jaspersoft for simple and straightforward processed of Analysis of Data, data presentation and Bussiness Inteligence as a whole, at mobile (iOS, Android) and web environment to meet the requirements that my clients request in our Project. Since I am a freelance developer, we could say that we used Jaspersoft across the whole organization.,Analysis of Data
Bussiness Inteligence
Data Presentation,It could use more elaborate reporting.
Would like to see a community version.
If you aren't subscribing to Jaspersoft, it could be a bit hard to learn.,8,Pentaho,Pentaho, Salesforce Analytics Cloud, Tableau Public,Not Sure,Price
Product Features
Product Usability
Product Reputation
Prior Experience with the Product
Vendor Reputation,We are developers, not resellers or end users. Neither dev ops. The evaluation and selection process will be linked to what we know how to do best: create software that meet the needs of our customers.
In this way, when we offer applications, we also offer reports. And when wet offer reports, we offer functionalities that are consistent with them. The more compatible the BI tool is with our software, and the closer and more natural it is to the end user, the tool will be more likely to be chosen.Miguel Angel Merino VegaReview of TIBCO Jaspersoft2017-08-28T16:14:06.602ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers
We embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our internally used application(s)
We use TIBCO Jaspersoft for print-ready, pixel-perfect reporting,Report ready software, pixel perfect is nice.
Dashboards and charts are useful in designing the way you would like.
Open source so everything is able to be customized.,Report generation is highly inefficient with memory usage in generating exports.
Support doesn't assist with AWS setups although they provide the infrastructure and setup for AWS Server setups.
They do not operate very well with clustering / load balancing. Things work however regular errors are unavoidable and hard to determine legit errors on servers and troubleshooting.,5,It has made reporting easy for our customers, much better than our previous system. Integration can be difficult depending on your needs, although I think any integration can be difficult.,This is vastly important. We have our company and sister companies that we work with and each has to be customized in their own way. This works fairly well and is able to be customized through templates and variables associated with different organizations. It's also nice that these flow down to sub organizations and users.Shaun PlumbJaspersoft--Power, Flexibility and Simplicity2017-11-03T14:32:32.682ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers
We embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our internally used application(s)
We use TIBCO Jaspersoft for print-ready, pixel-perfect reporting,Jaspersoft can be seamlessly embedded into web applications.
Jaspersoft is easily customized allowing nearly complete control over the reporting environment.
Jaspersoft is scalable allowing it to grow to meet the needs of our growing user base as our deployment rolls out across the country.
Jaspersoft is easy to learn for the report developer.,Jaspersoft Studio is a little "buggy" having to be closed and re-opened periodically throughout the day.
Multi-select queries return and load the entire query result set rather than allowing "lazy-loading" of records as a user scrolls. This results in slow loading report parameter screens as the lists are loaded.
It would be great to have source control (such as Version One or Git) better integrated into Jaspersoft.
Version 6.4.3.final of Jaspersoft Studio has some bugs where some button on the main toolbar simply do not function (such as "Publish the file on JasperReports Server."),9,Jaspersoft has had a huge positive impact for my company. Our reporting platform has been one of the most reliable parts of our new system having been running in production for more than six months without a single production outage. The users love the ability to run reports themselves, real-time and export them in a number of formats. As a developer, I appreciate the back-end ability to monitor and debug any issues the users have such as report performance and accessibility. Having the ability to use a pre-defined template for new report creation allows for the rapid creation and deployment of new reports in a matter of days rather than weeks or months.,Jaspersoft Premium Support (No annual case limit),Our current implementation of Jaspersoft touches two data sources in a single web interface. Although we do not currently use Jaspersoft across multiple platforms or a large variety of data sources, we realize that may be a future need and appreciate the flexibility provided by Jaspersoft if that need arises. As our company continues to grow and we integrate more of our business units together, this broad platform support may become critically important in the future.,Multi-tenancy is a feature we currently use as we provide reports to internal users for client reports, reports to external clients (specific to an account) and accounting reports to our internal financial team. As all of these reports are accessed through the same web-interface it is critical to segment them by security and profiles.,Business Objects SRC and Microsoft SQL Server,9,Implemented in-house,10,Self-taught,The product was quite easy to learn the basics. Once I got more deeply into the product and began developing more complex solutions, my training became more intricate and I had to learn the product in more detail. However, overall would rate Jaspersoft as one of the more intuitive report development interfaces I have used.,None/Don't Know/Other,,,Real-time reporting
Multiple data sources
Mobile device reporting access
Data visualizations,We have fully integrated Jaspersoft into a custom-developed web site for use by corporate personnel as well as clients
Using our in-house developed web site, we have developed a very robust report scheduling system,We hope to use a future edition of Jaspersoft to query data from multiple, disparate data sources
We plan to use Jaspersoft ad-hoc reporting,10,Microsoft Office 365, Snagit, Skype for Business,No,Product Features
Product Reputation
Vendor Reputation
Existing Relationship with the Vendor
Third-party Reviews,We are satisfied with our evaluation and selection process.,Yes,Yes,I was experiencing an issue where I was unable to use the publish button on my toolbar to publish reports. Jaspersoft support responded quickly with a work-around while they researched the issue. Within a couple of days, they were able to provide a patch correcting the issue.,Easy to insert an externally developed query into a report
Easy to control deployment to multiple environments,It is difficult, if not impossible to incorporate source control with Jaspersoft
It is currently not possible to use data from multiple data sources in a single report
Upon publishing a report, it is frustrating that Jaspersoft does not save my publication preferences from report to report,9Verified UserJust a brief review of Jaspersoft after using it for 10 years2018-09-27T15:06:25.490ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers
We use TIBCO Jaspersoft for print-ready, pixel-perfect reporting,Easy to use ad hoc reporting capability, which can be used by end users without technical/programming knowledge
Very customizable in terms of UI look and feel and report generation through Java/scripting
Responsive customer support and great UpShift program that offers useful implementation/integration help to developers,Can be quite CPU/memory intensive, especially when multiple users are running larger reports at the same time.
Ad hoc report cache tuning can be tricky to balance between better performance and having more current data, especially when different reports have different needs.,7,Positive impacts include:
Less time to develop reportsAd hoc reporting greatly reduces the need of developing/customizing Jaspersoft Studio-based reportsNegatives are:
Jaspersoft uses certain open source libraries that might have known vulnerabilities. Though it might not be a real threat in Jasper's use cases, it could still raise concern from companies that have a strict security policy.,Jaspersoft Premium Support (No annual case limit),Very important to us since we need to support a wide range of customers with different preferences of datasources and deployment types. Supporting more datasources also means it can pull data directly from the sources and hence less need to copy/migrate data.,I believe mutli-tenancy provides the additional layer of security and best fit for supporting multiple organizations with different admin and themes and would definitely be an important feature for bigger companies. We have yet to explore this but are planning to.,Pentaho and SAP CrystalVerified UserTry checking out a 4 year users review2018-07-25T18:33:33.354ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers,Ease and adaptability to rebrand it according to your needs. UI is the most feasible to add new pages.
The help docs on the community site and support are always prompt. The high charts and its features are really great to provide better visualization.
The report studio provides ease to design the reports and implement styles according to the needs.,Implementing out of the box authorization for domain more easily. Now we need additional expertise on groovy to accomplish this.
Upgrades to be much easier and require less manual work to update all configurational changes.,8,The reporting is a piece that f cake in jasper studio and in Jasper servers. We ship jasper server as a stand-alone server to our customers. The negative impact is we see at our customer sites are 1) Our automated Upgrade files when there is a large repository with outputs schedule reports. 2) Most of the customers need a point in time reporting which is not there as of now.,Jaspersoft Premium Support (No annual case limit),Like I said previously we've got a multiple data marts (our core product) which handle ETL through our own code which runs on the stand-alone server shipped by TIBCO Jaspersoft The multiple data sourced is kind of useful to us. We’ve multiple DBs in the server of which one is a cached database for the domains.,We don’t directly use the Multitenancy option of Jasper server. This doesn’t fit with the security options we provide in our core product. We provide our organisations as roles to the user. So we internally map the roles with the assignments internally using the built in parameters and provide row level security. However, now we face the issues in the domain for the security, because the organisation assignments can change and that cannot be done automatically for the domain security.,Pentaho and IBM CognosVerified UserGood solution for those requiring tight integration or near-open source flexibility.2018-07-06T18:18:28.229ZWe embed TIBCO Jaspersoft into our commercial application(s) that we sell to customers,Flexible visualisation
Deep integration with wider software product
Highly customisable,Not as polished as higher end BI solutions
Product development and support responsiveness can be sluggish
Commercial/account management contacts dont add value,6,Jasper was a significant step on from our previous all-in-one BI solution. It allowed us to hit more of our requirements more closely and deliver a tighter integration of BI within our SaaS product.,Jaspersoft Premium Support (No annual case limit),Given we have currently only a single data source, this was not particularly important in our implementation, but the flexibility to access the data from where and as we required was comforting for the future.,Multi tenancy was vital to support our multi tenant SaaS customers. We were able to integrate the Jasper authentication with our own product's auth to provide a seamless experience within the service.,QlikView, Tableau Server and Pentaho,7,Implemented in-house
Third-party professional services
TIBCO professional services,7,Online training,8,None/Don't Know/OtherVerified User
Windows, Linux, Mac
TIBCO Jaspersoft
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