Review of JasperReports Server
September 08, 2017

Review of JasperReports Server

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

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Jaspersoft

  • Enables users to query databases without the knowledge of SQL
  • Provides the ability for users to customize their data
  • Enables scheduling of reports to run at future times while offline
  • Jaspersoft needs the ability to perform simple date math. (ie Sep 1, 2017 + 180 = Feb 28, 2018)
  • I would like the ability to tab reports/views. Much like you can in Excel. If I need to quickly switch between two reports, it would make it more functional to click a tab at the bottom. I realize that I can create a dashboard, but it's not the same. I can only fit so much on the screen in the dashboard.
  • The main area of concern I've had with Jaspersoft is performance. There's a lot that goes into this, but SQL optimization would be helpful, or if the software could provide recommendations on SQL optimization in the admin area
Cost and simplicity. Jaspersoft meets our requirement for ad hoc reporting, but highly lacks in performance and support. Jaspersoft would be an outstanding product if we could get it to function properly for our user base, and get better support. Someone visiting our location and helping our developers stand up this software would have been a major DoD selling point for TIBCO that I feel they missed the mark on.
Jaspersoft is great for those who do not know SQL, but has not functioned well for our user base due to performance issues. Some of this is our fault, but it would have been better if Jaspersoft provided more support. If we have issues with Oracle, they have DBAs that will come to us to support us as a part of their premium support. Jaspersoft took months to finally get us to a "premium support" representative even with our purchase of said "premium support."

Jaspersoft Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
Not Rated
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
7
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
3
Delivery to Remote Servers
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
Not Rated
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
REST API
Not Rated
Javascript API
Not Rated
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated