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Jasper Reports and Product Integration
Updated March 21, 2018

Jasper Reports and Product Integration

Arvind Jagini | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Jaspersoft

  • Grouping and paging
  • Export in various formats
  • Role and user management
  • REST integration with our software
  • Runtime database connections
  • Multiple SQL query injection
  • Caching and font customizations
Crystal reports is very expensive and does not integrate well with java based servers. Jasper also provides community edition, if we every want to downgrade the use, we always have the option of eliminating the server and using the reports as they are. Jasper also give you the opportunity to build BI on case by base basis including Dashboards.
Definitely suitable for ETL, BI, recurring report generation, automatic emailing of generated reports, user dashboards, role-based dashboards, role based database visibility, graphic representation of data.

We have used Jasper for complex financial reporting, media calendar reporting, Invoices, purchase orders, estimates, project management reports in our software

It has issues where there is a need for Runtime SQL connection injection, or where a report has multiple main queries, where you have to depend on custom data sources. Custom data sources have to be written in Java and have a ton of memory leaks and garbage collection issues.

Jaspersoft Community Edition Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.7
Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
7
Report Formatting Templates
8
9.0
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
9
Report sharing and collaboration
9
9.0
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
7.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
9.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
8.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
9.0
REST API
9
Javascript API
9
iFrames
9
Java API
9
Themeable User Interface (UI)
9

Support and Training

We had to hire a consultant to get their full attention, but he was knowledgeable and very thorough
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
Support cares about my success
Difficult to get immediate help
  • Implemented in-house
It has a learning curve when it comes to custom data implementation, otherwise, it is pretty straight forward and they have plenty of documentation
Yes, it was easy. Jaspersoft has a huge opensource community, forums and a ton of documentation and samples online. They also host free webinars from time to time.

Using TIBCO Jaspersoft

6 - Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Project management, Resource management and Services
3 - Java Skills, SQL Skills, Javascript and Java skills are required for Reports support
  • Custom Invoicing
  • Estimating
  • Support for Multiple Databases using Custom Data
  • Custom Runtime Filters
  • Not Applicable
  • We would love to generate interative Gantt charts in Jasper :(
We like the product despite some drawbacks, we always have workarounds

Evaluating TIBCO Jaspersoft and Competitors

  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Third-party Reviews
Ability to have custom datasource, java platform and good backing from the opensource community
No Change at all

TIBCO Jaspersoft Support

Yes - Yes, we had a jaspersoft engineer train and resolve our issues or explain the short comings and their product map to solve our issues.
Training and validation of where we were going with this product. They are very courteous, keep in constant touch to make sure the client does not feel neglected.

Using TIBCO Jaspersoft

We have been using Jaspersoft Extensively for past 10+ years
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • Charting
  • Ease of Report Designing
  • Amount of Scripting you can do at runtime
  • Ease of DB Connections
  • Platform Independent
  • Open source community support
  • Dashboards and BI
  • Everything has a learning curve
  • Custom Datasource Impmentation