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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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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.
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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
- 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.
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We do not use another product like Jasper Reports. We did use another reporting software in the past, but it was and still is so overwhelmingly inferior to TIBCO Jaspersoft Reports Server that the two cannot be "stacked up against eachother" in any way. There is literally no advantage the other software had.
- Implemented in-house
- Self-taught
None. I didn't need any training. The install was very easy. Using Jasper reports in the browser is so easy you don't need directions. Using JasperStudio took a little longer to figure out, but it wasn't THAT hard that I needed someone to train me. Even getting input controls to work and sub-reports and such... it isn't SUPER easy, but it certainly isn't hard if you've worked with a lot of other software.
Yes. Yes, depending on experience with using other "design" software.
60
Just about every business function.
From production of goods, to shipping good, to IT, to customer service, to sales. Business development, operational management, health and safety...
Just about any function in our company can find good uses for Jasper reports.
From production of goods, to shipping good, to IT, to customer service, to sales. Business development, operational management, health and safety...
Just about any function in our company can find good uses for Jasper reports.
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I am the support person. :)
Really the only "support" I need to do is make a few new reports once in a while. The software itself hasn't really given me any trouble on installation or upgrade.
That being said, I am a programmer with almost 30 years of experience. I've worked with a lot of software that was WAY less reliable that Jasper. So, Jasper seems easy.
Really the only "support" I need to do is make a few new reports once in a while. The software itself hasn't really given me any trouble on installation or upgrade.
That being said, I am a programmer with almost 30 years of experience. I've worked with a lot of software that was WAY less reliable that Jasper. So, Jasper seems easy.
- Reports for management. Being able to see whether or not we are making progress (via data / charts) is vital to see if our strategies actually work.
- Reports for customers. Some of our customers like getting various types of data regarding the services we provide for them. This is very easy for us due to the ability to schedule reports in Jasper.
- Using Jasper to out reports for our production and shipping accuracy is vital to one of our programs. Without the ability to quickly see if everything is accurate, our shipping would be greatly delayed.
- I'm not sure we use Jasper and any innovative or unexpected ways. The reason we use Jasper is its flexibility as a software.
- If other branches of the company used Jasper, we could use the multi-tenancy features. Right now, we just don't have a need for it.
Yes
ReportSmith, because Jasper is AT LEAST 100x better.
I could make a HUGE list of reasons why. Jasper is literally better in every way in which a company would interact with reporting software.
I could make a HUGE list of reasons why. Jasper is literally better in every way in which a company would interact with reporting software.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
Jasper did everything we needed it to do. So, features was a big one for us.
I probably wouldn't change it. I downloaded the community version of Jasper, tried it, realized it did everything we wanted, and recommended it to our organization. Simple.
No
Change management was a minor issue with the implementation
Everyone was super happy about the change. Jasper's superiority over our previous reporting solution cannot be overstated.
- None. We ran the installer, it installed. :/ Not sure if that's the answer you wanted, but it was super smooth.
Change the default timeout. Sessions timed out VERY quickly be default.
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
We changed the default timeout for sessions. It was 20 minutes by default. This was somewhat of a pain for various reasons. Changed it to 4 hours.
Yes
We do pay for support (as opposed to just using the community version), but we've never actually had to use it. :) People feel safer when they pay someone else to support them if they DO need it.
No
I can't. But not because they wouldn't provide exceptional support. I've just never needed it.
- Running reports. :) Literally just click on them.
- Finding reports. While I personally use the repository most frequently, I find that the majority of users just use the search.
- This only applies to JasperStudio, so I don't know if this counts as toward the software that end-users would see... The cumbersome thing in JasperStudio is making a basic report to just output a CSV (or other delimited text file) with NO formatting, no "column width", no truncating of data. While it is doable, and not "hard", it is super time consuming compared to what you'd think...
- None.
None, and not at all. :)
- No.
We don't use Jasper integrated with anything else.
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
Read the manual. :)
We didn't negotiate any terms.
Luke 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
If you treat a vendor well, they usually treat you well in return.
If you treat a vendor well, they usually treat you well in return.
Yes
Yes. No.
- Honestly, for we use Jasper for, the ONLY benefit we got from upgrading was a little bit nicer interface setting up FTP output, and the ability to use the Salesforce driver.
- While there may be some things I'd LIKE, I don't expect them. So really I am not expecting anything different from what we have now.
No
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March 01, 2016
Jaspersoft BI, Powerful GI Suite with Low TCO
- Jaspersoft's suite of report writing, report distribution and ETL have provided my clients with a solution that is both easy to use and powerful, allowing for rapid deployment of basic reports and extensive flexibility for advanced configuration, Data Warehouse development and reports and OLAP analysis.
- The iReport report writer allows both graphical report design and development and direct code writing allowing me to quickly train users on how to graphically design and build reports using the drag and drop user interface and rapidly develop custom components. The breadth of report development features is massive including; Drill down report links, sub-reports, built in extensible graphs and maps of all kinds, a vast array of data sources, easy passing of variables from and to sub-reports, adding custom code to components using Java, custom style development and assignment. iReport is internally integrated with Jasperserver allowing easy report deployment to the enterprise report and analysis portal.
- The Mondrian OLAP Work Bench is a fantastic tool for designing and deploying OLAP cubes for online analysis. The graphical UI is easy to use and allows for advance configuration of Cubes and their components. With a built in MDX designer, Cube design and query result can be tested in one place. Cubes and queries can be directly uploaded to the Jasperserver portal which provides a visually attractive and feature rich Analysis View feature for OLAP analysis. Analysis Views on the report server can be drilled to from reports designed in iReport providing a very powerful view of information
- The JasperETL tool, which is based on the Talend* ETL suite, is so powerful that we use it both for Data Warehouse population but also for Enterprise Application Integration projects as well. From basic JDBC data pulls to transactional data layers, to complex transformation to Data Marts and FACT Tables this tool does it all. We have successfully deployed ETL projects that pull and combine data from MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Flat File, Web Services, LDAP, Spreadsheets,MDM and REGEX files to produce rich and effective reporting Data Marts and Topics. I cannot say enough about this suite and it's power and flexibility.
- Jasperserver is the web-app based reporting portal that acts as the hub of the Jaspersoft reporting suite. The server is easily integrated with your LDAP enabled directory services and can quickly be configured for SSL or be placed behind your Apache HTTP server. Reports and OLAP Analysis developed using iReport or OLAP Workbench can be uploaded directly to the server. The server provides for iReport Reports, Mondrian OLAP analysis Views as well as views on any Cube that is XML/A enabled, Ad-hoc reports, Static Content Deployment (PDF, XLSX, DOCX, HTML and much more). In addition powerful Dashboards that combine multiple reports can easily be created using the GUI provided in the Jasperserver portal. Access can be controlled through users and groups which can be directly integrated into your corporate Directory Services (Active Directory, OpenLDAP, etc) and data can be filtered within reports based on those assignments. The server can be extended into clusters for large enterprise deployments. The portal can be customized extensively from basic styling and branding to full JSP/Spring development of new pages and functionality. This is hands down the best report server I have worked with.
- Jaspersoft has moved to Jaspersoft Studio as it's preferred report writer and will be the only report writer supported fro new features. Bug fixes and technical support for iReport will be supported through 12/31/2015.
- Built on top of the popular Eclipse Integrated Development Environment, Jaspersoft Studio delivers a sophisticated graphical reporting experience with extensible component configuration for advanced report development. Features include:
- Visual drag and drop designer for rapid report development
- Easy access to Report Elements and Tools within report designer
- Large inventory of Report Elements and Tools for rapid development of visually rich reports
- Complete set of charts for dynamic visual presentation of reporting data
- Integrated preview allows viewing report results as you design
- Built-in Expression Editor with Syntax Highlighter
- Easy Access Data Explorer
- Extensible for Custom Report Plug-ins
- Dynamic and Cascading Report Parameters
- Vast array of configurable Data Sources
- Extensible properties for exporting formatting and formulas to Excel
- Extensible properties for exporting PDF formatting
- Develop your own styles for consistent look and feel across all reporting elements
- Version control to GIT,SVN and more
- Export to PDF, HTML, XHTML, XLS, RTF, DOCX, Text, CSV, OpenOffice, XML, PNG
- Full integration with Jasperserver including publishing, server explorer and resource editing
- While many of the advanced report writing features of iReport are available through the GUI, customization requires knowledge of Java. We often need to produce reports that are exportable to Spreadsheets with formulas and formatting intact. As consultants we can produce this quickly for our clients, but the GUI tools are not as friendly as they could be.
- While Jaspersoft does offer the Talend Integration Server which is a web-app and execution server of it's own, the basic ETL tool requires some sophisticated knowledge to deploy scheduled jobs on Linux or Windows servers. Managing the libraries and status of the jobs can become non trivial as they grow in number.
- Finding qualified consultant like RLWilliams Consulting can be difficult.
The breadth of features and functionality, Ease of access to a vast community of users for support. The key factor after comparing features and functionality was price. The Jaspersoft suite is hands down the best value bay a large margin..
100
Simple and ad-hoc reports are designed and deployed by line staff and managers from all parts of the organization. Complex reports are generally developed with a combination of a designer,developer and a subject matter expert.
1
Jasperserver support is usually managed by IT. Basic understanding of J2EE Web Application functionality and features is required and a full understanding of the container used (JBOSS, Tomcat, Glassfish) is required for effective day to day management as well as scaling and growth. Managing Backups is critical and having an experienced consultant to help with the DR and maintenance design is very important.
- Enrich traditional financial reporting with operational performance Graphics for a complete view of organizational performance.
- Combine Purchasing/Maintenance Cost data with IT Infrastructure performance to enhance cost structure analysis and reporting.
- Combine external Demographic information with internal Sales/Marketing/CRM data for relative performance across key sales performance factors.
- Financial and Accounting Reporting and Analysis
- Consolidated Sales/Maketing/CRM
- IT Service Management
- IT Infrastructure Performance.
- Vastly improve delivery of Line of Business Reporting.
- Cross Application Data Consolidation provided analysis views that was believed to be unavailable to the organization.
- Consolidation of MIB,Syslog,Application Log and Ticketing data provided in depth analysis of IT infrastructure performance.
Yes
Most of our clients are replacing expensive commercial products including IBM Cognos TM1, Actuate/Birt and Microsoft SSIS/SSRS/SSAS to bring BI and reporting development in house.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Analyst Reports
While a baseline of features and functionality as well as ease of use are requirements for all the products our clients look at, price/value was the success factor for Jaspersoft BI.
Most of our client know that they want a reporting and BI solution that can be used enterprise wide for both functionality gaps in existing systems but also enterprise wide consolidated data, they do not spend enough time putting together functional requirements. Understanding the critical needs of information consumers allows for a rapid package selection process based on enumerated tactical and strategic reporting, IT Infrastructure and Data Warehouse requirements.
Yes
As a Jaspersoft partner we both provide and use Jaspersoft Support. We recommend clients use both paid support from Jaspersoft which comes with the commercial edition and a consultng partner for more complex and urgent needs, particularly when deploying in a complex enterprise.
No
In a complex non-standard deployment of Jasperserver in a fully Centos environment with a remote MySQL server acting as the Jasperserver Application Database, Jaspersoft was able to rapidly assist with MySQL configuration issues that caused corruption in the database and assist with a complete recovery.
Yes
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.