Adding reporting capabilities with Jasper Server, a success story
July 14, 2017
Adding reporting capabilities with Jasper Server, a success story
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Jaspersoft
- 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.
Having an open source version was critical in our final decision. Another important aspect was the ability to embed Jasper server into our application UI and the rich features provided by Jasper Studio for report design.