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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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June 07, 2022
Quick review on Jasper Server
- 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.
June 04, 2022
Average Reporting solution
Score 6 out of 10
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Verified User
Our software application uses TIBCO Jaspersoft as reporting partner for our products. This provides reporting capabilities to enterprise customers using our products. Our developers build and develop our products based on TIBCO Jaspersoft's reporting capabilities. The idea is to design and deploy inbuilt reports for our customers and also provide capabilities for end-users to build custom reports. We liked the integration capabilities for added functionality.
- Reporting services work very well when they work, a decent tool for reporting software needs
- Feature rich, quick to setup and get it running
- Ability to customize
- Cost effective
- It's complex and not easy for everyone, requires a certain level of expertise and understanding
- Poor service, some of our important issues took months to get to a resolution. Need to do a lot of chasing without success
- Scheduled report deliveries fail occasionally
February 17, 2022
Best report generating tool with great feature set and reliable
Jaspersoft enables us to generate reports based on the input data given. It is swift enough to generate reports with small to medium data. We use it on our application back end to automatically generate reports based on filters, date range, and input data. It supports PDF, Excel, and HTML formats. It can also build graphs and charts for more interactive reports. It is easy to use and the learning curve is very minimal. Overall it's a great product with a minimalistic design and several important features.
- Minimal design.
- Reports can be generated swiftly.
- Supports REST based applications.
- Easy to use and quick to learn.
- Cant handle large data efficiently.
- No dashboards.
- UI is outdated needs to be modernized.
December 05, 2018
Embedded BI for All
- 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.
October 30, 2018
Jaspersoft Reporting Review
- 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.
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
- 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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
November 01, 2017
Data Analytics Made Simple by JasperSoft
- Training guide - Simple to use.
- E-Learning platform - Customer friendly. We used it to train 15 Officers online.
- Good follow up with the customers.
- The system is a bit difficult to configure making it more dependent on ICT staff rather than the business staff who use it more frequently.
September 21, 2017
My TIBCO Jaspersoft Review
- The performance of producing, in some cases, large reports is a win for our Customers. It offloads that activity from the application server and puts in where it belongs - the reporting server.
- The ability to embed, using visualize.js, is a significant win for us. We were able to wrap it and offer it as a standard plug-in for our Customers that lets them choose their own reports to embed and decide who, when and where they see those embedded reports.
- Doing business with TIBCO Jaspersoft is a pleasure. The Support they provide is excellent. They have endless resources available for learning the relevant bits of the product when you need them.
- Formatting of crosstabs is still the weakest point.
- Performance of crosstabs has still room for improvement.
- The ease of designing Domains could be easier with a preview option.
September 21, 2017
Jaspersoft , complicated reporting made simple
- Some reports can be setup to let users to drill down deeper or wider, hence reducing the efforts of creating multiple versions of reports as compared to other similar tools.
- Reports with the need to integrate charting are not as straightforward. Some settings of the charts are rigid.
- Security features require IT personnel to be involved.
August 04, 2017
Good for embedded or distributed reporting, but Jaspersoft Studio learning curve is steep.
- If you need a pixel-perfect report, Jaspersoft Studio makes that available in various formats. I can make a report and be confident that looks exactly as I want it.
- Jaspersoft makes it easy to publish and schedule reports for distribution to users via email.
- Jaspersoft Studio originates from an open source project, and it still has that feeling. The learning curve can be very steep. Making graphs is quite painful and not at all intuitive. I need to know about things like Java data types, casting of those data types. Sometimes the errors I see are just Java stack trace, which I don't expect from a licensed enterprise tool. Sometimes I encounter quirky issues that take hours to resolve.
- The licensing structure does not work well for us. We need a licensing option that acknowledges where we are at in our company development. The starting price is way too high. We need a licensing structure that gives us an entry point for an early-stage company such as us, that is just starting to gain traction with customers. As a consequence, we use the lowest licensing level, that does not give us access to the web-based ad-hoc dashboard designer. I have used that in the past, and it is so much easier to deal with than Studio, but the hike in price is too much for us to swallow.
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.
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.