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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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- 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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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.
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As per the basic evaluations, both provides same features in our context of use.
5
When customers require new reports, we allocate our developers to create those reports on behalf of them.
3
To use Jasper products, they need some prior knowledge and experience.
- Jasper Server can handle big data via Spark SQL.
- Jasper Visualize.js makes the embedding report really easy.
- We use Jasper ETLs for data summarization processes.
- We use Jasper Server for scheduled report generation, handling API based reporting requests.
- Both Jasper Server and ETLs are integrated as microservices to fulfil all the reporting requirement in our Telco products.
- Jasper allows customizations. For example, Jasper Server itself does not support for purging scheduled reports but it allows to use its API for implementing out own purging mechanism.
No
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
Even though the price factor is considered important, we look the product features and its usability towards our requirements.
Our Telco products is now being integrated with NoSql stores like Cassandra. So our preference is to reassess Jasper evaluations by aiming big data concepts. Ealier we evaluate Jasper products by targetting it to use with relational DBs like Oracle and PostgreSQL.
- Implemented in-house
- Developers need prior knowledge on working Jasper products.
- Online training
- Self-taught
You may need to study this product to getting the things done.
Without training, learning this product might be difficult but materials can be found in the internet for self-learning as well.
We have automated the configuration process.
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
No any custom implementation is added to the sorces since the feature certification will be impacted due to this.
Yes
Otherwise there are limitations in opening cases.
Yes
Yes, most of the time.
No any exceptional support is experienced.
- Jasper Server REST APIs are versatile.
- Most ETL components provide the functionality as expected.
- Jasper Server/Jasper ETLs can handle the loads decently.
- We experience some limiations in using Jasper Server report schedulers specially in naming reports, create burst reports based on dynemic parameters etc.
- We have our own custom systems to connect Jasper Server via REST APIs.
Since Jasper maintains API documentation nicely, no issues were realized.
- We are planning to inegrage Jasper Server with Cassandra and Spark SQL Thrift Server.
Yes.
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
- ETL tools
Jasper supports for various data sources.
Use Jasper Server as a micro-service.
Price/Licenses
Jaspersoft should consider to provide customized offers as which can fit for the customer's budget.
Yes
Security updates on APIs made some issues on the existing reporting features.
- Some customers are frequetly worrying about security vulnerabilities. So applying upgrades causes to fixed these issues.
- Jasper should focus more on performance improvements.
No
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.
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- TIBCO professional services
- 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.
If a user has no idea on the architecture of their database then use, I think jaspersoft is hard to understand how to use from a business user to admin level user. It involves an understanding of relationships of tables in order to create domains from which to make ad hoc views and reports. The concepts as a business user are not too hard to grasp in terms of being in an ad hoc environment and navigating the palette selections. Selecting which fields to use and so on is fairly simple with the drag and drop. What I did find was that the calculated measures and fields section to not be for beginner users and something that had to be advanced level in that I was not familiar with the syntax needed and had to make my own cheat sheet as the guidance in the ad hoc tool and online training guides was not enough.
I really appreciated the jaspersoft community as a source of open questions on the product. I myself opened a few issues to see if the community could answer my question. There is a lot of knowledge in the shared experience of other users on the quirks of jaspersoft and so it remains a good place to "google" questions related to the product. When we were training I used the community page frequently to help with small things like chart formatting to browser related issues.
- 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.
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Jasper Reports Server was selected because it is a standalone web application that can host reports. I myself haven't evaluated other products. The only other alternative may be to stand up our own web application and handle the user authentication ourselves.
- Implemented in-house
- In-person training
- Self-taught
Learned how to handle CAC authentication and how to create/add reports as well as access controls.
End users don't need training but administrators need some instruction.
40
Management and oversight
2
Need technical savy personnel. If you require non-natively supported authentication, you need a software developer.
- Fast report creation
- Easy user role assignment
- Easy report permissions
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Yes
Oracle Discoverer was replaced since it it's no longer supported.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
The ability to upload a new Jasper Report on the fly without a restart is the main reason for this product.
No changes.
Yes
Support is required for government else I wouldn't get it.
No
I had an issue importing the standard css design template and the Jaspersoft support person was able to supply the zip file I needed to import into Jasper Reports Server.
- Report downloading is very easy and available in major formats like PDF and Excel
- Backend CAC external authentication is difficult but fine other than that
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.
When we originally selected Jaspersoft four years ago, the other finalists were Cognos (could not scale at an affordable price) and Pentaho (reports and security model - not as functional).
- Markets have provided numerous examples of where OLAP analysis led to modifications of marketing campaigns that directly affected the bottom line. Just last week, one marketer reported a change that is now expected to yield a $70-80k improvement over the next 12 months. The largest was a reported $400k improvement several years ago.
- Field managers have reported that they are now more inclined to act on data now that graphical drill-down reports are available.
- There are two primary uses: 1) OLAP analysis of marketing efforts, 2) general reporting in a variety of web applications.
No
N/A. We have been using Jaspersoft for 4 years and are pleased with the product.
- Implemented in-house
- In-person training
No
Yes
The upgrade to the most recent release, 6.1.1, went very smoothly. JasperSoft has greatly improved the upgrade process. Previous upgrades were more challenging.