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What is Jaspersoft?
Jaspersoft commercial edition is an embedded business intelligence suite designed to be built-into SaaS products as an integrated reporting engine. It provides reports and dashboards for customer-facing applications without requiring app developers to build their own reporting engine.
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- Publish to PDF (99)8.787%
- Multi-User Support (named login) (94)8.181%
- Role-Based Security Model (92)8.181%
- Formatting capabilities (97)7.373%
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What is Jaspersoft?
Jaspersoft commercial edition is an embedded business intelligence suite designed to be built-into SaaS products as an integrated reporting engine. It provides reports and dashboards for customer-facing applications without requiring app developers to build their own reporting engine.
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What is Jaspersoft?
Jaspersoft commercial edition is an embedded business intelligence suite designed to be built-into SaaS products as an integrated reporting engine. It provides reports and dashboards for customer-facing applications without requiring app developers to build their own reporting engine.
Jaspersoft Features
BI Platform Features
- Supported: Administration via Web Interface
- Supported: Live Connection to External Data
- Supported: Snapshot of External Data
- Supported: OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
- Supported: ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)
- Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
- Supported: Data warehouse / dictionary layer
- Supported: ETL Capability
- Supported: ETL Scheduler
Supported Data Sources Features
- Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
- Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
- Supported: Oracle
- Supported: MS SQL Server
- Supported: IBM DB2
- Supported: Postgres
- Supported: MySQL
- Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
- Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
- Supported: EMC Greenplum
- Supported: IBM Netezza
- Supported: HP Vertica
- Supported: ParAccel
- Supported: SAP Hana
- Supported: Teradata
- Supported: Salesforce
- Supported: SAP
- Supported: Google Analytics
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
- Supported: Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
- Supported: Drill-down analysis
- Supported: Formatting capabilities
- Supported: Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to Web
- Supported: Publish to PDF
- Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
- Supported: Report Versioning
- Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling
- Supported: Delivery to Remote Servers
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
- Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Access Control and Security Features
- Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
- Supported: Role-Based Security Model
- Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- Supported: Report-Level Access Control
- Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)
Mobile Capabilities Features
- Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
- Supported: Mobile Application
- Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features
- Supported: REST API
- Supported: Javascript API
- Supported: iFrames
- Supported: Java API
- Supported: Themeable User Interface (UI)
- Supported: Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Additional Features
- Supported: Multi-tenancy
- Supported: Audit Logging
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Jaspersoft Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Jaspersoft Downloadables
- 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.
- Jaspersoft Studio is a Java visual report builder and designer.
- Jaspersoft is a Business Intelligence (BI) suite boasting a flexible light weight architecture. 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 an open source tool for data integration requirements. Designed to support one to many developers while scaling with 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.
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Jaspersoft commercial edition is an embedded business intelligence suite designed to be built-into SaaS products as an integrated reporting engine. It provides reports and dashboards for customer-facing applications without requiring app developers to build their own reporting engine.
Reviewers rate Publish to PDF highest, with a score of 8.7.
The most common users of Jaspersoft are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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June 13, 2017
JasperServer - A good reporting solution.
- Interactive reporting tool. We can create a tabular format, cross tab, and charts. Studio support to create more colorful reports.
- Domain support. End users can create their own reports by using domains.
- User-friendly UI.
- Features like scheduling, dashboards topics and more.
- Scalability issues.
- Performance is comparatively slow in large scale DBs.
- Can do better in domain designer. Even domain designer gets slow if domain becomes large in scale.
- Support cases could be addressed more faster with appropriate solutions.
June 02, 2017
Self-service BI for (nearly) everybody
- Fair pricing for a large feature set in comparison to others
- Support for many data sources
- Run in app server or container for cloud usage
- Configuration and adjustability of behavior
- Installation and update procedure with easier data migration (maybe without)
- Improve issue reporting of failures with more info
June 02, 2017
Jasper Reports, cool BI/reporting tool
- Friendly interface
- High performance
- Support cases could be attended by more experienced people
June 01, 2017
Jasper Reports Server Good Reporting Solution Choice
- Reporting
- Lots of report formats
- Scheduled reporting
- Footprint
- Patching
- High availability
March 01, 2016
Jaspersoft BI, Powerful GI Suite with Low TCO
- Jaspersoft's suite of report writing, report distribution and ETL have provided my clients with a solution that is both easy to use and powerful, allowing for rapid deployment of basic reports and extensive flexibility for advanced configuration, Data Warehouse development and reports and OLAP analysis.
- The iReport report writer allows both graphical report design and development and direct code writing allowing me to quickly train users on how to graphically design and build reports using the drag and drop user interface and rapidly develop custom components. The breadth of report development features is massive including; Drill down report links, sub-reports, built in extensible graphs and maps of all kinds, a vast array of data sources, easy passing of variables from and to sub-reports, adding custom code to components using Java, custom style development and assignment. iReport is internally integrated with Jasperserver allowing easy report deployment to the enterprise report and analysis portal.
- The Mondrian OLAP Work Bench is a fantastic tool for designing and deploying OLAP cubes for online analysis. The graphical UI is easy to use and allows for advance configuration of Cubes and their components. With a built in MDX designer, Cube design and query result can be tested in one place. Cubes and queries can be directly uploaded to the Jasperserver portal which provides a visually attractive and feature rich Analysis View feature for OLAP analysis. Analysis Views on the report server can be drilled to from reports designed in iReport providing a very powerful view of information
- The JasperETL tool, which is based on the Talend* ETL suite, is so powerful that we use it both for Data Warehouse population but also for Enterprise Application Integration projects as well. From basic JDBC data pulls to transactional data layers, to complex transformation to Data Marts and FACT Tables this tool does it all. We have successfully deployed ETL projects that pull and combine data from MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Flat File, Web Services, LDAP, Spreadsheets,MDM and REGEX files to produce rich and effective reporting Data Marts and Topics. I cannot say enough about this suite and it's power and flexibility.
- Jasperserver is the web-app based reporting portal that acts as the hub of the Jaspersoft reporting suite. The server is easily integrated with your LDAP enabled directory services and can quickly be configured for SSL or be placed behind your Apache HTTP server. Reports and OLAP Analysis developed using iReport or OLAP Workbench can be uploaded directly to the server. The server provides for iReport Reports, Mondrian OLAP analysis Views as well as views on any Cube that is XML/A enabled, Ad-hoc reports, Static Content Deployment (PDF, XLSX, DOCX, HTML and much more). In addition powerful Dashboards that combine multiple reports can easily be created using the GUI provided in the Jasperserver portal. Access can be controlled through users and groups which can be directly integrated into your corporate Directory Services (Active Directory, OpenLDAP, etc) and data can be filtered within reports based on those assignments. The server can be extended into clusters for large enterprise deployments. The portal can be customized extensively from basic styling and branding to full JSP/Spring development of new pages and functionality. This is hands down the best report server I have worked with.
- Jaspersoft has moved to Jaspersoft Studio as it's preferred report writer and will be the only report writer supported fro new features. Bug fixes and technical support for iReport will be supported through 12/31/2015.
- Built on top of the popular Eclipse Integrated Development Environment, Jaspersoft Studio delivers a sophisticated graphical reporting experience with extensible component configuration for advanced report development. Features include:
- Visual drag and drop designer for rapid report development
- Easy access to Report Elements and Tools within report designer
- Large inventory of Report Elements and Tools for rapid development of visually rich reports
- Complete set of charts for dynamic visual presentation of reporting data
- Integrated preview allows viewing report results as you design
- Built-in Expression Editor with Syntax Highlighter
- Easy Access Data Explorer
- Extensible for Custom Report Plug-ins
- Dynamic and Cascading Report Parameters
- Vast array of configurable Data Sources
- Extensible properties for exporting formatting and formulas to Excel
- Extensible properties for exporting PDF formatting
- Develop your own styles for consistent look and feel across all reporting elements
- Version control to GIT,SVN and more
- Export to PDF, HTML, XHTML, XLS, RTF, DOCX, Text, CSV, OpenOffice, XML, PNG
- Full integration with Jasperserver including publishing, server explorer and resource editing
- While many of the advanced report writing features of iReport are available through the GUI, customization requires knowledge of Java. We often need to produce reports that are exportable to Spreadsheets with formulas and formatting intact. As consultants we can produce this quickly for our clients, but the GUI tools are not as friendly as they could be.
- While Jaspersoft does offer the Talend Integration Server which is a web-app and execution server of it's own, the basic ETL tool requires some sophisticated knowledge to deploy scheduled jobs on Linux or Windows servers. Managing the libraries and status of the jobs can become non trivial as they grow in number.
- Finding qualified consultant like RLWilliams Consulting can be difficult.
March 01, 2016
Jaspersoft
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- OLAP reporting is very functional, flexible and efficient. Large volumes of data (millions of rows) can be processed quickly. This allows marketing analysts to slice and dice the data to support decisions about marketing campaigns.
- Dashboards are cumbersome to develop.
- Technical support is hit and miss.
March 18, 2015
My Jaspersoft experience
We used Jaspersoft to help customers of our software get their data out of the database. We leaned heavily on the ad hoc / self service tools but also did iReport development to that end. As a small software shop we did not use the product much internally, although I did develop a report to help estimate report development time based on various factors.
- Ad hoc tool. It really helped our customers become self sufficient.
- Using iReport and design studio, I never ran across a requirement I couldn't handle. These tools are very feature rich and there are many different ways to leverage them.
- The community was a very reliable source of information.
- The community pages layout was difficult to navigate.
- The Jaspersoft website as a whole left a lot to be desired. I often found difficult to get what I had assumed would be simple answers.
- The web interface had limitations with parameters in the version we ran. My understanding is that these were resolved in more current versions.
March 13, 2015
JasperReports Server and iReport
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Pixel-perfect Report Building.
- Embeddable report server.
- Connect to multiple datasources.
- Strong community.
- Great technical support.
- Steep learning curve.
- Arcane user interface.
- Only 1 datasource per report.
June 20, 2014
Review from a beginner level user
This is an excellent product for implementing business solutions.
- iReport for designing the reports
- Generate PDF reports
- Create plugin modules in Java that create the data you need for the report
- Dashboards could have more interactive features
- Support for product
- Connections with DBs
February 02, 2014
My quick and fast experience with Jaspersoft
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We used Jaspersoft to create PDF Reports that are required by government regulations. The software that require this is an Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. The reports generated is to show how the physician site has used the software, and what areas were covered by the software.
- It can be used to produce nice looking PDF reports
- It is not too difficult to learn as a start.
- There is a GUI interface to provide starting point of reports creation
- It can be quite easily programmed via java "plugins"
- I think the GUI can be made more intuitive, and it would be helpful to have more tutorials. I did have to spend a few days just to figure it out as I did not find tutorials on it.
January 31, 2014
An etl developer's perpective of Jaspersoft.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Jaspersoft to provide reports to our customers using data from our operational and data warehouse systems. We also use Jasper ETL for small scale extracts.
- Jaspersoft allows for us to present critical business information to our customers in an easy to understand format.
- Jasper ETL allows for us to create quality etl processes in a relatively short amount of time.
- We have had some challenges with the OLAP part of the tool and would like to see improvements there.
- During a current upgrade we have encountered issues with the product based on bugs. With this in mind, a little more QA on the product before it getting released would be appreciated.
January 24, 2014
Used it at a previous company - Loved it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It was used as a dashboard for presenting data about the Warehouse Control System to leads, managers and executives. It would display product in, product out, jams, errors etc.
- Displays relevant knowledge in easy to view form
- Easy to integrate into other software packages
- Runs well on Linux, which was a must.
- Installation and management of the system was slow to understand initially.
November 22, 2013
Happy with my experiences thus far with Jaspersoft!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- A easy and efficient way to allow outside customers to utilize BI Offerings to help them get at their information more easily. We have a series of reports that now live in the hands of our clients that can be easily updated and improved.
- There server product is easily configurable with our company's UI that allows our customer to easily move between the software.
- The overall general maintenance of the system on a day to day basis is a lot easier that previously used tools.
- iReport and the ability to style and maintain correct outputs throughout all of the types. I realize iReport is being replaced and hope that Studio is better at formatting.
- Allowing for customized code within Jasper Server is difficult to be able to upgrade as quickly as Jasper comes out with improvements.
November 20, 2013
Developers view of Jaspersoft
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- It was used as a replacement for Informatica.
- It was a great way to learn Java and javascript.
- It saved our company a great deal of money.
- Better examples for ETL.
- Better documentation.
November 19, 2013
Moderately satisfied with Jasper
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Ease of use.
- Scheduling reports.
- New features.
- They need to resolve bugs - numerous issues, and the answer I get from support is "that's fixed in the next release".
- Ad-hoc reporting is so-so, does not work for us.
November 19, 2013
Jaspersoft, so easy your stakeholders can use it
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- We were using Sql Server Reporting Services. Our users wanted more. We took a look at the competitive marketplace, and found Jaspersoft provided a superior product which allowed us to recreate the same reports in about 10% of the time of the original reports, while providing the users additional capabilities to do ad-hoc reports. Wow!
- One of the things that we would like to see is the capability to run Jaspersoft within a fully capable .NET stack. Currently Jaspersoft integrates seamlessly into Java-based applications, but it's a little clunky to configure for Microsoft based solutions.
November 18, 2013
Jaspersoft provides the tools your clients will love.
- Jaspersoft provides our users with a very robust adhoc reporting engine. It has been the #1 requested feature by our clients. Our users demand control over their data and reporting resources. With Jaspersoft they are able to have the level of control they desire.
- Jaspersoft has a slight learning curve, but the documentation available is very robust. Nearly every question I've had, I was able to answer within minutes by simply reading the documentation. The guides are clear, concise and go into a level of detail that surpasses any other reporting solution I've tested.
- The Jaspersoft support team is amazing. I've had a few issues during the single-sign-on integration within our environment. All of my support questions have been answered, and all done so in a very timely manner. Every case I've opened has been initially addressed within minutes of me creating request and all have been followed through to 100% satisfaction.
- JasperStudio 5.5, with the integration into Eclipse, has received very positive feedback from my team. The report development environments have evolved significantly over the last year and the changes have definitely been for the best.
- We integrate Jaspersoft into our own web portal. I know recent releases have focused on making this task easier, but it's still not a flawless process. The single-sign-on portion, in our circumstance, requires custom Java code to work.
- I've had a few headaches over the last year with upgrading the environments. They release new software versions relatively often. It's quite a hassle to keep all of the servers updated with the latest and greatest due to the somewhat complicated procedure of upgrading. Unless you wipe your server and start over, it isn't a point and click procedure.
November 16, 2013
Easy BI
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Online access to reports.
- Easy integration.
- Open source.
- Pixel perfect reports.
- Pivots in the open source version.
- Tabbing
- Easier customized views.
November 16, 2013
Jaspersoft is "Not the Droid You're Looking For"
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Adhoc reporting is easy to implement and works well.
- Report scheduling is simple and flexible.
- The new Adhoc OLAP option looks promising.
- The updated UI is much improved over previous versions.
- Jaspersoft seriously needs some quality control on their products. An "Enterprise" application should not be so buggy. I often feel like we are their beta-testers rather than paying customers.
- It is extremely embarrassing when my customers attempt to run a report and end up with a Java error stack on their screen instead. While Jaspersoft has made improvements in catching certain errors and providing an "oops" screen, we still see Java error dumps on a regular basis.
- Jaspersoft's technical support has been little help for anything other than the most basic of issues. Most problems are instantly categorized as "Defect/Enhancement submitted" with no solution offered.