Software Engineers thoughts on Jaspersoft
Updated May 22, 2018
Software Engineers thoughts on Jaspersoft
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Jaspersoft
- Very easy to use. Drag and drop.
- Very versatile when using data adapter to our HBase and Oracle backend data bases.
- Reports are easy to read and understand.
- Ad Hoc is not as powerful and flexible as report creation using Studio.
- API is not documented as well as I think it could be. I ended up googling for a lot of questions. Community is great through.
- Error reporting could provide more detailed. I caught myself on several occasions trying to figure out the root of the problem when it should be easily stated.
Cost and ease of use. We ultimately decided to use Jaspersoft because we didn't need to do anything complicated. At the time we were looking into Microsoft Business Intelligence. While we saw Microsoft BI having actual better reporting and tools, we choose to use Jaspersoft because of support fees that Microsoft charges. Since we didn't need too much and money was a issue Jaspersoft was our decision.
TIBCO Jaspersoft Community Edition Feature Ratings
Support and Training
Pros | Cons |
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Quick Resolution Knowledgeable team Kept well informed Immediate help available Support cares about my success | Need to explain problems multiple times |
- Implemented in-house
- Self-taught
Most of our training has been with trial and error, and of-course external web searches. Jaspersoft has alot to offer and can be alittle over whelming. On our team we had people to would specialize in certain parts of the reporting. This provided a much easier way to master the product.
As I mentioned earlier. The approach we took was to have a team learn certain parts of the process. We had a section work with the server, another section work on the studio, and the last section on the ETL. We would all know the full scope of the reporting but would only need to learn the specifics for what we were assigned.