Consistency is key!
September 13, 2018
Consistency is key!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Jaspersoft Community Edition
Being used to develop and create reports templates. These reports fetch data from my companies applications. So the client can decide to create their own report by accessing the application's semantic data layer or they can save a lot of time and money to use the created templates.
The report templates can then be used by the clients so they can deploy and set up the templates on their JasperServer or they can use the templates as baseline reports on Jasperstudio and make custom development changes to the reports to fit their business situations or logic.
The report templates can then be used by the clients so they can deploy and set up the templates on their JasperServer or they can use the templates as baseline reports on Jasperstudio and make custom development changes to the reports to fit their business situations or logic.
Pros
- Custom design reports in Jaspersoft Studio. There is a lot of flexibility to customize reports. You can create easy reports in a quick time frame or complex report in a bit more time.
- The company does not need a 100% developer to develop reports. Someone with some level of developer experience could use Jasper Studio
- Jasper also provides a stand-alone web server to deploy your reports. This opens up a lot of Jaspersoft Studio files.
- There is a lot of time and effort put into the software. Years of input that improved all levels of the applications. Jasperstudio, Jasperserver, a manual, the community, etc.
- Flexibility is awesome, you can do almost anything. Having well-rounded REST API or you can use the Java Studio.
- There is a lot out of the box functionality. Scheduler, stand-alone reports, report output formats, logging settings, customization of GUI to a degree, permissions, roles, and user setup Studio, etc.
Cons
- Easier to customize the Jasper Server GUI. More flexibility with the input controls look and feel and maybe more input control types to select from.
- Have browser event functionality in the reporting itself.
- An easier way to iterate through an object. Maybe an option that tells the report Java run-time to stop following the report sequential flow and first integrate through this stated object many times.
- An easier way to create a list and add values to this list.
- Maybe one could stipulate the process flow of what needs to be computed first in a given field.
- The crosstab is a bit buggy on the Jasper studio side, so if that could be improved.
- Better and more examples of custom components
- The jive functionality on the tables needs an update. It looks so old and outdated.
- Constant and reliable, so we save on support requirements based on errors and issues.
- Tough to measure the impact of data that is collected in presentable in a visual day where everyday employees can make business decisions.
- Compliments the business product solutions.
I cannot fairly answer this questions and I have not used other reporting tools. Other reporting tools seem to look like they are great via sales pitches and video previews etc. At end of the day, they struggle with the same issues that Jasper faces. Or they might have solved an issue that Jasper has, but Jasper then has solved other issues they have not yet solved.
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