Item: Jaspersoft
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Jaspersoft

Pros and Cons

Pros

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

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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

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

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