Just a brief review of Jaspersoft after using it for 10 years
September 27, 2018

Just a brief review of Jaspersoft after using it for 10 years

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Jaspersoft Professional Edition

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Jaspersoft

  • Easy to use ad hoc reporting capability, which can be used by end users without technical/programming knowledge
  • Very customizable in terms of UI look and feel and report generation through Java/scripting
  • Responsive customer support and great UpShift program that offers useful implementation/integration help to developers
  • Can be quite CPU/memory intensive, especially when multiple users are running larger reports at the same time.
  • Ad hoc report cache tuning can be tricky to balance between better performance and having more current data, especially when different reports have different needs.
It's been a long time since we have been using Jasper, so I can't really remember the details, but mainly it was about comparing how easy it was to integrate with our Java-based product, reporting capability, and datasources/platform supported.
It is well suited for scenarios like:
  • Integrating with other business products to provide pixel perfect reporting/charting
  • A general/stand-alone reporting platform for BI specialists
Less appropriate for:
  • Reporting real-time data
  • As a replacement of a search and display result screen, as it can be less efficient due to rendering overhead

Jaspersoft Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
7
Customizable dashboards
7
Report Formatting Templates
6
Drill-down analysis
7
Formatting capabilities
5
Publish to Web
6
Publish to PDF
7
Report Delivery Scheduling
7
Multi-User Support (named login)
7
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
7
Single Sign-On (SSO)
7
REST API
7
Javascript API
7
iFrames
7
Java API
7
Themeable User Interface (UI)
6