DWBI Master
September 21, 2017

DWBI Master

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Jaspersoft

  • Integration of Tibco Jaspersoft ETL with realtime apps using Kafka components
  • Integration of Tibco Jaspersoft Reporting portal using iFrame into our apps for Reports
  • Big data components to integrate with Hadoop ecosystem
  • The first thing to improve is proper step-by- step documentation, instead of each service/agent level. Understanding all the product components available and their use, will give a clear picture to beginners.
  • The installer says that it includes all components, but at the time of installation we realized that there are some SVN/GitHub components that we had to install separately. And If we install individual services separately, the configuration is different.
  • The logging options became worse from Tibco Jaspersoft Big Data ETL 6.0.1 to 6.3.1. The log4 level info was perfect in 6.0.1 but somehow it is messed up in 6.3.1 and it doesn't provide logging detail like in 5.5. It just says started and completed.
We have explored other reporting tools like IBM Cognos, Tableau, SQL Reporting, and Qlik along with TIBCO Spotfire (in-memory). FInally looking at all options, features, degree of flexibility, and then license cost, we decided to go with TIBCO Jaspersoft.

The expressions and formulas used were bit difficult initially, and I had to flag a bug or missing feature with Jaspersoft to adding "case" statements in domain / ad hoc topic expressions.
File loading is good with similar source and target database systems with various options. But for heterogenous database tasks like joining Oracle db tables and loading to Postgres or vice-versa, or to SQL and Oracle etc. performance is worse. It might be for various reasons, but proper documentation is required on best practices. The problem is Tibco also gives limited support.

TIBCO Jaspersoft Community Edition Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
9
Report sharing and collaboration
9
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
Delivery to Remote Servers
9
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
9
REST API
9
Javascript API
9
iFrames
10
Java API
9
Themeable User Interface (UI)
9
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated