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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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- Multi-User Support (named login) (94)8.181%
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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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October 28, 2019
TIBCO Jaspersoft - room for improvement
- 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.
August 13, 2019
TIBCO Jaspersoft A Solid Choice
- 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.
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 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.
July 05, 2018
Jaspersoft good reporting tool
- Good reporting software
- Server-side reporting
- Publishing reports
- Include PDF files in report
- 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 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 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.
September 15, 2017
Embedded BI
- PIxel Perfect design
- Very robust
- Lots of customization options and allows us to make customized stuff
- Slow and clunky UI. (Both Jasperserver and Studio)
- Has bugs in new releases
- Can be intimidating to newer users
- The tool is very flexible and powerful. You can add different types of charts and reports for any data structure. Especially the jasper studio has lots of possibilities and a good designed XML structure
- Results are easy to use even for inexperienced user without IT Knowledge
- There are lots of export possibilities. Especially important: Excel, PDF and PowerPoint
- Jaspersoft reports are very lightweight: No extra database needed, they work directly with any database server
- It is not possible to add a PowerPoint Master to the PowerPoint export. So it can not used to create fully ready print ready reports.
- Dashboards are very restricted: No easy to add and use, good looking filter mechanisms, restricted in size to the current screen.
August 10, 2017
Jaspersoft, Great product, Poor after sales support
- Great tool for data visualization and report generation once it is setup and configured with your data sources.
- Poor support even after purchasing a commercial license, they try and force you to buy additional deployment and configuration support from their partners.
August 04, 2017
Excellent, easy to use reporting tool - recommended!
- Provides a self service reporting environment
- Reports are seamlessly easy to build and deploy
- Report and user level security allows you to restrict access in various ways
- The dashboard designer is incredibly powerful and easy to use. Non technical users are able to build dashboards to suit their own needs
- The use of multiple data sources proves very helpful when federating data from different databases
- In my opinion, error messages could be more detailed. If I encounter an error, the error message is very generic, and support is required to resolve the issue (which is often small and trivial)
- Conditional formatting could be expanded slightly. Currently you can only logically highlight data based on absolute/ static values. Comparing two columns for example would make much more sense in JasperReports Server - not just Jasper Studio
- Row highlighting is a regular request for us. With the current version, you can highlight an entire column, but not a row. When a report has 20+ columns, highlighting the entire row would make reading information much easier
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.
- Relatively easy to embed into other applications plus the ability to extend with new reports created by end users.
- Jasper Studio is powerful and allows the creation of quite complex reports.
- Support for multiple data sources and the ability to use SQL as well as Java to populate reports at runtime.
- Availability of a large variety of charts for data analysis.
- Upgrade process, especially when going to a major release, it is not straightforward and the process is definitely not tailored for companies that embed Jasper server into their applications.
- Support cases are answered quickly but many times no solution or workaround is provided, we had to create our own workarounds.
- Localization can be improved in the Jasper server UI. For example report names and descriptions are stored as text in the Jasper database, for companies that support different languages it is quite a challenge to release versions to support each language.
June 26, 2017
This is a simple review of TIBCO Jaspersoft
- TIBCO Jaspersoft allows for attention to minute details that make these reports look very professional with the audience requires. Yet it is also a perfect quick and easy tool to make raw data easier to process.
- It is flexible enough to make different charts, graphs, tables to keep your reports from looking bland.
- It is really easy to learn to use.
- Accepting a copied list of values that it can use in an SQL query.
- Sometimes the pixel perfect approach requires a lot of trial and error of little adjustments to make sure you get it just right.
March 13, 2015
JasperReports Server and iReport
Score 9 out of 10
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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 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.