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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.
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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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September 27, 2018
Just a brief review of Jaspersoft after using it for 10 years
- 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.
September 06, 2018
Jaspersoft Commander
- 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
- Create a reporting environment extremely quickly.
- Easily create dashboards to display information with a nice look and feel.
- Migrate older versions of reports to the new version with ease.
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July 25, 2018
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- 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.
July 14, 2018
Good BI tool for Web based JAVA applications
- 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
July 12, 2018
Fast and Useful
- Simple to use with excellent performance
- The tool could have a management of report versioning feature
July 05, 2018
Jaspersoft good reporting tool
- Good reporting software
- Server-side reporting
- Publishing reports
- Include PDF files in report
June 01, 2018
Reporting made easy
- Jaspersoft provides flexibility to create new domains dynamically instead of enforcing the need pre-defining them prior to launch of the product.
- Easy to integrate with any application
- Enhanced mobile app will make it handy to use jaspersoft even when we are not at home.
- We have a default RowLimit of 200K set in the application at server level. We do not have an option to make it tenant specific.
- Few customers on a shared machine will want it to increase it to 500K but with this limitation it'll be applied for all other customers sharing the same server and that might affect performance.
- Error screens
- Jaspersoft shows the complete 200+ lines of stack trace in an error screen in the UI. We can have better error handling applied while displaying in UI..
- In the application logs, it is better to include the tenant info as well. Otherwise, it is confusing to debug issue of one tenant while other tenants are being used.
- Tenant level auditing.
- As per jaspersoft, enabling auditing will have performance hit on the server. As we do not have option to enable tenant level auditing, it is enabling auditing on all tenants and causing performance issues.
May 31, 2018
Jaspersoft Going Forward
- 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.
- 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.
- Reports are easy to access/use for end users.
- User rights are easy to see how they break down for each user.
- Jasper Reports Server really needs support for CAC (common access card) authentication or at least allow external authentication to authenticate internal users. My goal is to put a unique identifier, found on each CAC, as an attribute on each internal Jasper Reports Server accounts. I then want to authenticate users by making reference to this attribute then logging the users in as an internal user. I currently have my setup working with externally defined users, but it is a pain and I am trying to move to internally defined users.
May 22, 2018
Top heavy but worth it in the end!
- 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.
May 22, 2018
Presentation is 90% of the BI Battle
- 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.
May 22, 2018
A Visually Great Tool to Produce Great Visuals
- Providing various methods of embedding visual components in our application. For instance, either via iframe, or directly.
- Jaspersoft Reporting tool provides some wonderful visual components.
- Every time I have contacted Jaspersoft customer support to addition assistance, I have been pleased with the level of support I have received.
- My biggest issue is with the TIBCO ETL tool which I have used to transform data into a data warehouse. Specifically project files, which are stored in a SVN repository, save information about that SVN repository. This becomes a problem when backing up / restoring / transferring projects between repositories.
May 21, 2018
JasperReports application support review
- Command line support (import / export) thus easier to automate via scripting
- Provides REST API service thus allowing our front-end application to communicate with it
- Based on Java so it can be run on Linux servers
- Missing health check page that provides overall health ( front-end and back-end) of Japser reports instance
- Some functionalities such as create user or organization are missing in command line interface so automation script has to rely on REST API to automate new installation
- Lacks good logging and documentation ( such as enabling history of job execution in log file)
May 18, 2018
Jasper 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.
May 14, 2018
Jaspersoft for BI comfort
I 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.
May 11, 2018
Jaspersoft - It's OK...
- Once installed, it is easy to configure and get up and running.
- It integrates nicely with our software platform.
- The support from TIBCO is pretty good when you are speaking to them in person.
- The installation process is complicated.
- The update process is complicated.
- It is difficult to download the appropriate installation files from the TIBCO website.
- 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.
May 08, 2018
Review of TIBCO Jaspersoft
- 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.
March 08, 2018
Jaspersoft in a high demand 24/7 operation
- 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 03, 2018
About Jasper
- 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.
- 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.
November 08, 2017
Review of a developer who is mainly learning to build jobs ETLs.
- Large number of controls in the palette to create a Job. Support to Java code.
- Dynamic job call and flexible output (column) in dynamic column query.
- Support development and deployment on Windows, Linux and Mac platforms.
- Support to output or dynamic column input for more controls such as Excel.
- When the war file is deployed in WebLogic, and there is a dynamic job call, when calling or updating, internally it loses the reference of the subjob folder and it is difficult to update a change to the subjobs.
- Use the commands externally to manage a Job ETL, in the web application of the central administration panel.
- Control for PDF document creation, there are some in the marketplace.
- Excellent customer support.
- Fairly easy to customize the product to meet company internal standards.
- Get rid of the banding layout of reports. Reports should be easy to design in a way that you just need to drag-and-drop items and not worry about bands.
- It is extremely difficult to build charts in Jaspersoft when compared with other competitor tools.
- Building a dynamic report is still a big challenge.
- Creating copies of same reports with minor changes between them is very cumbersome.