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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 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.
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- SSRS
We earlier used SSRS for few years and we used to define a fixed set of domains in the product and build a UI to drag & drop the columns from those domains to create a report. If a customer needs a report on a tables/column that is not part of any of these domains, they had to wait till the next release for us to add that domain in the product.
With the domain designer capabilities of Jaspersoft, this has become fully dynamic for an end user to create the domain that they want & build reports on top of them instead of waiting for next releases.
With the domain designer capabilities of Jaspersoft, this has become fully dynamic for an end user to create the domain that they want & build reports on top of them instead of waiting for next releases.
- Vendor implemented
- Online training
- Self-taught
YES. This is easy to learn.
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- Develop OOB reports
- Admins can create their OOB domains
- Users can create their own reports using existing domains
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Yes
Replaced SSRS with jasper due to ability of users to create report from UI.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
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Yes
We are already paying premium support for better response.
Yes
Sometimes YES and sometimes NO. Especially when it requires a code fix, we'll not get a ETA.
We had multiple support engineers worked on a ticket across different timezones
- Building domains
- Creating adhoc views and reports
- Scheduling reports
- FTP configurations
Yes, but I don't use it
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.
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Jaspersoft was the best value proposition for what we needed.
- Vendor implemented
- Professional services company
DEFTeam. India based and recommended by TIBCO. We had mixed results with them.
- Online training
Not really but it did help understand the underlying concepts. 3 days of all day training wasn't enough even for a technical audience (sql,web,analytics experience).
No
For our use case, standard support was adequate. The turnaround time for a non-critical issue was not very good but once we did manage to connect with the support rep, the resolution was accurate. A web based support portal was the primary mode of interaction with email alerts for changes. Not wowed by the support but is average overall I guess!
No
Not experienced it yet on the technical support side. On the business side though, The Client Success Manager is quite eager to help and reaches out frequently to check in. That can be attributes to good account management strategy as well. Also to be fair, Professional Services supported their work really well even after the engagement was complete. A part of that depends on the relationship you strike up with them as well.
- Building basic reports. However, you need to be at least an intermediate level SQL expert as the bulk of the report creation logic lies in the SQL.
- Basic dashboards.
- User and Role Management
- Connecting to data. We used JDBC.
- Interactions with Reports/Dashboards and Data Export functions
- Setting up row level security in multi-tenant deployments. We had to hire experts.
- Jaspersoft Studio Professional is very clunky to use
- Dated UI and UX concepts lead to the lack of intuitiveness.
- Visualize.js, with its shortcomings.
- iFrame embeds for Analytics is not the best or modern approach for integrations. That is what we had to use.
Yes, but I don't use it
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.
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1.2
We were using Actuate e-reporting. The product suited our needs but the vendor was difficult to work with as far as licensing and contract issues. Also relatively much more expensive. We didn't actually even evaluate BIRT as a replacement due to the poor relationship. So I can only really compare to the e-report designer/iportal/iserver combination. We found the architecture to be very similar. We found Actuate's report server software to be better for monitoring job executions which was quite important to us. We found the designers to be similar in quality. Jasper studio seems to be less mature, but more feature rich. However some of the features don't quite work as expected. We found more things could be accomplished with Jasper without resorting to writing code. We were somewhat surprised by the lack of Jasper's support for printing to printers, but in the end it has not been an issue and was easily worked around. The support and ease of generating PDFs from Jasper is quite good.
We evaluated Pentaho as well on the road to a replacement. We found it to be similar to Jasper but felt Jasper had the edge with exposure and install base.
We evaluated Pentaho as well on the road to a replacement. We found it to be similar to Jasper but felt Jasper had the edge with exposure and install base.
Yes
We support multiple customers of healthcare software frequently operating in a 24X7 environment. We need to be able to provide solutions to problems with a very quick turnaround.
No
- adding simple changes to table based reports through the screen viewer is quite nice. sorting, filtering, hiding and showing columns, etc. Also the ability to save those changes as a new report format.
- the timezone shifting on dates and times printed on the report was surprisingly easy. we were using TIMEZONE WITH LOCAL TIMEZONE database types with Oracle to accomplish the timezone shifting for us, but Jasper accomplishes the same thing with any date/time data type.
- comparing report changes from one version to the next. Since the report is all XML, it's a simple visual diff.
- Determining what reports are currently executing without diving into the API, and creating your own UI to manage them.
Yes, but I don't use it
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.
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3.0
- Online training
- In-person training
- Self-taught
Training allowed us to more quickly learn how to develop good looking and complex reports really fast. Training were good organized, and material used for training was useful. Just I had a lot of questions during and after training but the feedback was bad, since i didn't get to much answers.
Mostly because of better looking reports than Microsoft. Other useful scenario for us was adhoc reports which reduced our development time. We were not satisfied about Microsoft reporting services improvements over the years, and hoped to get more from Jaspersoft. Simply when you look at reporting part it is better and more advanced then Microsoft and Pyramid, gives more features.
10
Jasper is used by developers for development and testing features.
QA team is using it for testing and verification, and bug reproducing. Sometimes tester use it for other things and other bugs, because they can easily get data they need from reports and they don't need to query database.
Business analytics use it to propose some improvements
QA team is using it for testing and verification, and bug reproducing. Sometimes tester use it for other things and other bugs, because they can easily get data they need from reports and they don't need to query database.
Business analytics use it to propose some improvements
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Since the jaspersoft reports uses database as datasource (in our case) then the excellent database skills are needed to resolve and identify problems with reports.
Good knowledge of reports development to be able to modify reports per needs.
Jasper administration to resolve issues with schedule and managing servers.
To be familiar with deployment process
We had also a lot of problems with calculation formulas so that's what is needed too.
Good knowledge of reports development to be able to modify reports per needs.
Jasper administration to resolve issues with schedule and managing servers.
To be familiar with deployment process
We had also a lot of problems with calculation formulas so that's what is needed too.
- adhoc reports
- official on demand reports
- Scheduled reports
- We didn't expect adhoc reporting to be so much useful
- We have clients in different time zones, so we didn't expect that we would easily provide data to different time zones. Jasper helped
- Didn't expect to embed it at first, but since it was simple we did it
- ETL process
- analytics features
- for mobile
Not Sure
- Product Features
- Product Usability
I would focus more one development time, and learning curve. Since reports looks nice, but you need too much time to develop such reports, which you don't have in rapid development projects. I would more insist and focus on our needs and then check if product feet what we are expecting from it.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
- configuring jasper server
- certificates
- database authentication configuration
- automate deployment
Yes
No, we had few bugs submitted. I don't think I got answer at all. We have a bug with Quartz and schedules were scheduled reports just stops working and no errors is logged. And we didn't get any answer, that far away from exceptional support. I also had a training and no answers to my questions after that.
- administration of jasper server
- adhoc reports
- schedules
- deployment from Jasperstudio
- Investigate errors, looking into logs
- automatic deployment
- configuring database authentication
Yes, but I don't use it