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- 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.
November 01, 2019
- Exceptional response
- Resolving issues that are raised by the user with upgrades.
- Not much to say about cons.
October 01, 2019
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
November 15, 2019
- 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.
- 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.
- Custom reporting
- Dashboards
- Easy to access
- User interface isn't the easiest to navigate
- Requires developers to pull reports
August 13, 2019
- 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.
- Easy development and deployment.
- Low cost compared to other competitive products.
- All in one kind of program with embedded features.
- Professional level support.
- Improved version for microservices-based architectures.
- Desktop direct printing solutions.
October 28, 2019
- The XML file created is reliable and portable.
- It's relatively easy to drag the data elements to its corresponding fields in the report
- Counting pixels - extremely manual and time consuming activity. It should be a drag and drop function.
- Aligning fields manually - time consuming.
- The product has some bugs. Have to close the application and open it again to see my updates.
- 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.
September 26, 2019
- 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.
- Online training
- Self-taught
You may need to study this product to getting the things done.
Yes - Security updates on APIs made some issues on the existing reporting features.
February 07, 2019
- 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.
March 15, 2019
- 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.
- 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.
- In-person training
Hands on training really helped stream-line the process as we did not have to stop and wait for feedback or support every time we ran into an issue. Setting up the database and report servers as well as the first ETLs was made easier with the guidance of the training. I think that the UI navigation of the product was still something that we really did not have a handle on until at least a year of using it daily to understand all the capabilities.
March 08, 2018
- Support is excellent - very quick response time and good information.
- Report server seems to run quickly and reliably without much attention.
- Training material readily available.
- Significant ability to customize the product
- I would like to see an administrator dashboard in the report server tool to monitor report generations, report failures, currently running reports with ability to kill long running reports, etc.
- GUI access to the many, many settings that can be added/tweaked on the report server.
- I would like to see easier access to add functions within the report without writing an external jar file. we don't use java on a day to day basis so I found the process of adding a custom library of functions a little awkward. We also allow our users to make copies of our reports to customize on their own. Since they are non-technical, the process of writing a function for themselves is usually over their heads.
- Our customers are very much missing the ability to select specific fields from a print-ready report display and export to Excel. Our previous product had it and we hear it from everyone as we replace it. Current export of a print-formatted report to Excel tries to render it so it looks visibly the same, but it just ends up unusable for any sort of normal spreadsheet usage.
March 02, 2018
- Flexibility. TIBCO Jaspersoft is extremely flexible. We use the embedded report engine to crank out thousands of static reports in PDF and Excel format. We use JasperServer to serve up HTML and javascript based dynamic reports and dashboards through visualize.js. We also use JasperServer directly for working with data in an ad hoc fashion. There are even ETL capabilities (though we haven't really explored those much).
- There is also flexibility when it comes to connecting to different data sources, defining security, etc.
- Within reports you aren't even limited to the libraries that JasperSoft provides! We've done some very rich and complex visualizations through JasperSoft using third party libraries like D3.js. Really, the sky is the limit.
- I haven't run into a data presentation problem yet that I can't solve at least in part by using Jaspersoft.
- Report creation tools. Jaspersoft Studio is extremely powerful. It is also a very familiar environment for folks coming from other report creation tools. This is important to us because we have to train dozens of report writers across our clients every year. For those that come from Crystal Reports, Jaspersoft Studio feels very intuitive very quickly.
- Pixel perfection. We have a lot of standardized reports from the IRS and other government entities. Jaspersoft makes it easy to put a very visually complex form together quickly and accurately.
- Power. I have yet to run into a reporting problem Jaspersoft cannot solve.
- Excel defaults. When designing a report for PDF then exporting to Excel, Jaspersoft, in an effort to maintain pixel perfection, makes the excel version a bit unusable. It is possible to mitigate some of that with some intelligent directives but it would be easier if some things -- getting rid of extraneous rows and columns, for example, would behave a bit more intuitively without intervention.
- More intuitive security on JasperServer. Much of the security features on Domains and Ad Hoc reporting require either direct manipulation of SQL, XML, or repository placement. I'd like to see some intuitive screens for setting up security in a more visual and intuitive manner.
- More flexible security on JasperServer. I'd also like to see security down to the data source layer. Going through Domains is not always viable.
- Better automatic validation up and down the Datasource to Domain to Ad Hoc chain when there is a change to a datasource or domain.
- Online training
- In-person training
- Self-taught
Both the online and In-person training have been excellent. JasperSoft's documentation is second-to-none. There has been constant and continuous care from JasperSoft to train and retrain our own people as well as our clients on using the JasperSoft product.
The in-person training was done in our office and was very hands on. It lasted for two days and they asked plenty of questions to tailor the training to our needs (the original, stock, training is three days but we really didn't need the security bit since we embed JasperSoft into our own product which has its own security).
In short, they have been fantastic.
The in-person training was done in our office and was very hands on. It lasted for two days and they asked plenty of questions to tailor the training to our needs (the original, stock, training is three days but we really didn't need the security bit since we embed JasperSoft into our own product which has its own security).
In short, they have been fantastic.
May 29, 2018
- 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.
- Online training
Training has been done getting access to the extensive knowledge base TIBCO is making available to any partner. This is a valuable resource for learning and implement this very flexible solution, and whenever we need further explanation, we can always get back to TIBCO Support. Our dedicated Customer Success Manager is also offering some on-site workshops, but at a separate cost.
May 22, 2018
- 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.
- Online training
Not really but it did help understand the underlying concepts. 3 days of all day training wasn't enough even for a technical audience (sql,web,analytics experience).
May 22, 2018
- 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.
- Self-taught
Self-taught is only partially true as I had come from an organization that had the on-site training. In general though, the documentation is very strong and training is generally too high-level to be truly useful.
- 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
May 08, 2018
- 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.
- Self-taught
None. I didn't need any training. The install was very easy. Using Jasper reports in the browser is so easy you don't need directions. Using JasperStudio took a little longer to figure out, but it wasn't THAT hard that I needed someone to train me. Even getting input controls to work and sub-reports and such... it isn't SUPER easy, but it certainly isn't hard if you've worked with a lot of other software.
Yes - Yes. No.
July 14, 2018
- 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
- Charts are very good looking. It has dynamic and easy built reports
- For developers it is very easy to learn and develop nice looking reports very fast, even without any Java background.
- Adhoc reports are very useful.
- It is easily embedded into any web application
- Jasper server works very fast, and you can easily organize it and use it for several clients (by splitting organizations)
- Intuitive and easy administration for managing reports and permissions
- Deployment of jasper reports is not good. Especially if you are planning some automatic deployment.
- Jasper studio Integration with TFS
- Most of configuring of Jasper server is mostly done in config files. There should be an option to do it on a server. i.e. email configuration.
- Database authentication is complex, needs to be documented better
- Logging errors needs to be improved.
- Online training
- In-person training
- Self-taught
Training allowed us to more quickly learn how to develop good looking and complex reports really fast. Training were good organized, and material used for training was useful. Just I had a lot of questions during and after training but the feedback was bad, since i didn't get to much answers.
October 13, 2017
- Excellent easy process of embedding Jaspersoft into a website.
- Easy process of working with Jaspersoft elements through Visualize.js
- Helpful Community if you take into consideration the communities of other BI similar products
- Community is quite large but it would be much more helpful if more experts could answer our questions
- Their API is not that well documented
- I would prefer some of the Pro features to exist on community edition as well, like for example HTML5 Charts
- 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.
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What is TIBCO Jaspersoft?
Jaspersoft is a Business Intelligence suite that brings users worldwide more timely, actionable data inside their apps and business processes, through an embeddable reporting and analytics. The vendor says Jaspersoft is a cost-effective platform, and its goal is to help users make better decisions faster.
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- Visualize.js is a JavaScript API framework that provides a language independent method of embedding interactive HTML5 reports, dashboards and visualizations and comes bundled with Jaspersoft BI Enterprise and Professional. The only JavaScript framework that delivers the power of an analytic server with the control and simplicity of a charting library.
- TIBCO Jaspersoft Studio is a powerful, intuitive, 100% Java visual report builder and designer. Featuring the industry's most advanced design environment, it enables you to create the richest, most customized reports and visualizations for JasperReports.
- Jaspersoft is the world’s most widely deployed Business Intelligence (BI) suite due to it’s comprehensive capabilities, flexible light weight architecture, and affordable subscription model. Jaspersoft delivers reporting, dashboards, analysis, and data integration services for both stand-alone and embedded BI requirements. With self-serve web based design and analysis tools, users and businesses of all sizes can improve their competitiveness and decision making with Jaspersoft.
- Jaspersoft ETL (extract, transform, and load) powered by Talend is the most flexible, powerful, and affordable open source tool for data integration requirements. Designed to support one to many developers while scaling to the highest levels of data volumes and process complexity. Developers can graphically design, schedule, and execute data movements and transformations for business intelligence projects, such as loading an Operational Data Store (ODS), Data Mart, or Data Warehouse.
TIBCO Jaspersoft Integrations
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- Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
- Has featureFree or Freemium Version Available?Yes
- Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
- Entry-level set up fee?No
Jaspersoft offers flexible pricing for ISVs and SaaS per customer or by CPU core.
TIBCO Jaspersoft Support Options
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TIBCO Jaspersoft Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | On-premise |
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| Operating Systems: | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application: | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Languages: | English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, plus the ability to add additional languages |