Jaspersoft Reviews

I explored Jaspersoft as part of my experience while looking into my current work schedules and was eager to explore new technologies and tools to understand what capabilities they could bring into our current initiatives we were taking on in the projects or maybe the new innovations.

Jaspersoft is definitely useful for generating customizable reports on your application itself instead of redirecting the users to some other third-party tool. So for generating the reports, it is definitely a very good platform.

This was basically part of my initial self-analysis and exploration that I was conducting. I generated a couple of reports on how frequently the user traffic was coming, some reports regarding the claim success rate, claim rejection rate, and also the count of the users that were landing on a particular page, how much traffic was coming, and how frequently they were shifting to the other or navigating to the other pages inside the applications. I also generated graphical reports as well. If someone is looking for generating lucrative reports that are pixel perfect along with graphs, it is really helpful.

If someone is looking for it, the kind of perfection Jaspersoft is bringing in is a real example and exploration for the end users. The report structure, the look and feel, the scheduling, the deep embedding, and also the precision that it brings to your report really matter a lot. For example, even if we are trying to generate a heat map or a bubble chart or normally a pivot graph, it helped a lot.

There are definitely lots of features. If you just use it and even if you want a playground for data sciences to explore the trends, you might look elsewhere, but Jaspersoft is definitely bringing a good perspective in terms of making a precision report with pixel-perfect quality. Most of the BI tools have flaws with data dynamically, which breaks a strict layout, but Jaspersoft Studio gave us absolute control over the horizontal and the vertical coordinates, the X and Y axis, ensuring the PDF output looked identically similar every time. The deep embedding feature is also valuable. For example, with the real-world explanation and visualizing the D3.js code that was integrated on Jaspersoft dashboard itself on their SaaS platform, the users never even knew that they were looking at a third-party tool. If you embedded Jaspersoft into your application, it just seems like the reporting is part of your application and you are not navigating to some other external third-party tool. We also use a server to automate the weekly report generation, and in that case, it is really helpful.

Since I explored it as a part of my self-exploration of the different technologies, it brings a lot of positive aspects and bringing the reports on the table with respect to the matrices or the criteria I was looking for, even above the expectations. Though I agree it takes time to get the reports done and needs some hands-on experience on that, but the quality it is bringing and it is not creating any kind of deviation for the user. The end user should not feel that they are navigating to some third-party site or the other platform. It is embedded in your application on its own to have a seamless experience throughout the entire journey.

Every platform has its own way of working and definitely there is always a room for improvement. Jaspersoft is the same. I find that there is a good space on the learning curve, which can be decreased with proper documentation because if someone is a seasoned developer or a seasoned professional, it is easy to have the knowledge and the kind of reports they want to bring with Jaspersoft, but if some new learners or newbies are there, then definitely there is a learning curve on this. Additionally, on the licensing side there is a commercial and the enterprise license. You need to see which one suits you better and should not overpay it unnecessarily if it is not needed. The documentation gap is also there, so I would still recommend that the documentation can be much more emphasized, standardized, and have something specifically about the integration on the coding side, like how you should need to configure the things. That is where the documentation can be enhanced.

I would say maybe on the performance and support size because if you are running it on the server, sometime the UI might or the report may take some time to refresh data or get a delayed response, and that is where things can be improved. If someone is looking for a seamless experience, they can definitely go for Jaspersoft. But if they are looking for a quick building of the report with drag and drop facilities, then there are some other tools for the report generations, quite easily. They can opt for that instead.

For Jaspersoft, scalability is where it definitely shines in. We were working on different multiple reports against a data set over thousands or hundreds of records. By using its JSON data integration, it was easier to get all the data ingestion on the server-side filtering, then the performance remains stable even under the heavy load. It is really good.

As I mentioned, the licensing part is important with the enterprise and the community license. You need to see which one suits you better. Additionally, on the speed side, if you are running it on a server side, you need to see and balance the load accordingly so that the refresh rate should be high and should not have a delayed response. That is another point. One of the more core points would be the documentation gaps. The user interface that can be enhanced because currently Jaspersoft Studio feels like a bit using a tool from an early 2005 or 2010 version. With respect to the newer generation or the current era, the UI needs to be enhanced and the user experience should disrupt the other competitors in the market. That is where the improvement can be done.

I have been in my current field for more than eight plus years.

Scalability is where Jaspersoft definitely shines in. We were working on different multiple reports against a data set over thousands or hundreds of records. By using its JSON data integration, it was easier to get all the data ingestion on the server-side filtering, and then the performance remains stable even under the heavy load.

Customer support is really good on the community side. It just needs the documentation part and then it is good.

I did not switch. It was just a part of additional exploration and we were using Power BI and Tableau as well in multiple projects for the reporting and analysis.

I would not say it is easy to set up because definitely there is a learning curve if someone is going with Jaspersoft because it has the Visual Studio, XML integration. You need to have a good hands-on experience on your Java side and the XML side.

Somewhat, but not significantly. The reason is that it depends on the use case you are working upon. If you have a massive client with a good budget on your side, you can definitely go for Jaspersoft that brings the pixel-perfect in-house application, in-built integration with a seamless experience, that provide a good user experience to the user. Then definitely you can invest and it can increase your ROI. But on the counterpart, if you are looking for something that have much more lucrative UI features on reporting, then you can opt for the other tools as well.

Pricing again depends upon the needs and how you want to go for it. For example, one should definitely check before committing a full enterprise license and leverage Jaspersoft community edition. It shares some of the core engine capabilities as a paid version, allowing someone to test most of your complex report functionalities. If you want to run some kind of JS code or the XML or the SQL queries, you can check it out. Lay out your requirements and your vision or the innovations with upfront cost. Then if you think lesser cost is fine, you can go with the lower version. If you want the enterprise license, then you can definitely look into that.

I would be giving two pieces of advice. For example, if your needs are basically to generate pixel-perfect reporting with the precision on the values and the scaling it is going to bring, you can go for Jaspersoft. If you need deep embedding, if you want to visualize your JS, XML, or Java code with the heavy load of data sets you want to ingest it, you can use the data integration capabilities and the filtering capabilities of Jaspersoft. It will easily get in your data and can generate the reports on different sectors, wide range of reporting as per your needs and requirement. On the counter side, if you are looking for something that basically does not require the investment in time that working with Jaspersoft will definitely going to require, and if you do not have a seasoned developer on that side, you can go with other tools as well, such as Power BI and Tableau that can generate the reports pretty much quickly and give you a flexibility to integrate the third-party tools and then navigate your application over there or design a dashboard separately. My overall rating for this product is 7 out of 10.

I use Jaspersoft for developing reports, and our reports are of different kinds. We have operational reports based on current data for day-to-day operation, where we check various steps in chemical production. For example, we check whether the chemical we are using is flammable or inflammable, and if it is flammable, what precautions a user needs to take in order to handle those chemicals. We automate all of those things and present them in the form of our reports. Our application checks and selects mandatory items, and we present those mandatory things as a report. Safety individuals then check all those reports, and based on that, our day-to-day operation takes place.

We have three kinds of reports in Jaspersoft, one of which is a general work report. In the general work report, we have to follow all the steps involved in chemical production, and general work involves general procedures. Approximately 100 or 10 chemicals would appear in the report, and for all those chemicals, we need to either select true or false. Based on this true and false selection, we have to store the data, and all the compliance and everything depends on these true and false questions. I think that is a tricky aspect. Even the reports that we develop need to be pixel perfect. To develop all those pixel perfect reports, I think Jaspersoft stands out from other BI tools that are in the market.

We have this use case in Jaspersoft, and if we have to see some historical data, then in that case, we use reports as well. That is also one use case. Suppose we have created a permit, and after that permit, some modification has been done in the operations. In that case, we have to store the historical data, and new permits need to operate under the new guidelines given from the business side. That is also one interesting use case.

The best feature that Jaspersoft offers is its ability to generate pixel perfect reports and the kind of control it gives us. We can design elements that are as small as five pixel font sizes, which is a great feature. It also provides us with a lot of conditional functionality that we can control. We have many switch cases or conditional ternary operator capabilities that are very interesting because when we have multiple cases in that scenario, Jaspersoft helps us by writing simple ternary operators, which help us choose from the multiple cases.

The conditional logic in Jaspersoft has helped us a lot, especially in a condition where we have multiple values of chemicals, such as N2, O2, and other chemicals. There is a probability that there might be a case in which only one chemical will be used or multiple chemicals will be used. There is a separate column of true and false values, and the true/false determination needs to be that if we have at least one true value, it should display as true; otherwise, if everything is false, then we have to display false as a valid field, which will become false. In this scenario, the ternary operator helps us a lot to decide the final result out of different cases.

Jaspersoft has positively impacted our organization by helping us and our clients deal with multiple locations. We have our clients' factories at multiple places, and each country has its own language. To communicate in that language, we have to develop reports in different languages. As developers, we are not limited to one language; we develop the report in one language and then use translation for all those aspects. That reduces a lot of effort in developing reports in separate languages, which I feel is very useful.

Currently, I see that Jaspersoft does not have any AI features in the version I am using, 7.01. I think in a coming version, we will get some AI features that will help developers develop reports quickly. That is one improvement I see as necessary.

As a developer using Jaspersoft, I faced challenges initially with controlling text and other elements. However, over time, when I repeatedly used all those features, I became accustomed to it. Taking up this tool and developing with it takes some time to understand how to handle different aspects, and obviously, the documentation we have to go through is quite lengthy. If we can use some modern technology or AI tools to summarize the documentation and other resources, that would be useful for developers.

I have not given Jaspersoft a perfect 10 because, as a tool, it is somewhat complex. There are certain elements of reporting that are somewhat difficult to implement in Jaspersoft compared to other tools such as Power BI or Tableau.

I have been using the solution for about eight years.

In my experience, the reports in Jaspersoft are quite stable. Once developed, they tend to remain stable, but obviously, when using some complex reports, issues can arise here and there. However, it is easy to fix those issues.

Jaspersoft handles larger workloads well. It is not just about Jaspersoft, as it also depends on what we are using in the backend and the data source. The size of the data impacts all those reports. In our case, we are generating reports based on JSON data, which helps filter out data from large data sets. I think we are not facing any scalability issues at this time.

Customer support for Jaspersoft is quite good. They answer questions, but the use case that we are working on does not require us to reach out to them often because we have a fixed set of reports that we have been working on for the last three years. With this experience, we have been able to solve most of our own queries, and their documentation is really good. Whenever we encounter confusion, we go through Jaspersoft documentation, and I think 99% of the time, we find the solution ourselves.

In my current project, I have not used any different solution, but in the last project, I used other tools such as Tableau, Power BI, and SSRS. SSRS is quite similar but different from Jaspersoft. I switched because it was a project requirement; it was not my decision specifically. I switched to whatever tool was required for the project, and that is an honest answer from my side.

Using Jaspersoft, I see a return on investment as it saves money. On the whole site, we are only three or four developers responsible for this reporting, and I see other tools and companies using much bigger teams to do similar work. In that sense, I can say money is saved by using Jaspersoft.

Before choosing Jaspersoft, our team evaluated other options, including SSRS. The team as a whole decided to go ahead with Jaspersoft, and that is what I know about it. There were other senior-level discussions that I was not part of, but we narrowed it down to tools and, out of these, we decided on Jaspersoft for our deployment.

My advice to others looking into using Jaspersoft is to have a good team lead who knows Jaspersoft. The experience in Jaspersoft is always an added bonus. If you do not have a team member who is experienced in Jaspersoft, you can still go ahead with the documentation and try out a few reports before deciding whether you want to try this product or not.

Finally, I conclude that Jaspersoft is a great tool. It also depends on the individual perspective on how they see Jaspersoft. When you start using Jaspersoft as a new tool or if you are a novice developer, you might find it somewhat tricky. It has a lot of workflows and elements. It might take you a month or two to become accustomed to everything that Jaspersoft offers. After that time, you will be in a better position to decide whether it is the right tool for you. Personally, I find it very helpful and am enthusiastic about this tool after two or three months. Initially, I experienced some difficulties, but over time, I found solutions. I gave this product a rating of 9 out of 10.

My main use case for Jaspersoft is to generate Excel and PDF reports for different partners worldwide. In my organization, we use Jaspersoft to generate daily reports for different partners based on their transactions, including debit amounts, credit amounts, and associated fees. Partners prefer these reports in Excel and PDF formats because text files are not very user-friendly.

The best thing about Jaspersoft is that it provides a Designer UI and plugins for Eclipse IDE, which allow for easy creation and design of many types of reports, including Excel, PDF, and TXT. It is highly customizable and offers granular control over report design, enabling us to handle every minor detail while designing a report. Additionally, it supports broad integration, easily connecting to diverse databases.

Initially, my team was not aware of a designer tool like this, but its friendly UI provided better exploration of the features and great support from the community where we posted our queries and received resolutions for different use cases.

Jaspersoft has positively impacted my organization by meeting a significant requirement from partners for visual reports. Previously, we sent text and JSON reports, but now with Excel reports, particularly with AI integration, partners can easily analyze the data we send, which has resulted in good reviews for my organization.

Jaspersoft offers various palettes for representing data in different forms, such as graphs, metrics, tables, and cross-tables, which I find to be a fantastic feature compared to other reporting business intelligence tools.

There are some cons. There is no UI provided for macOS, so macOS users have to rely on Windows machines for designing new reports or modifying existing ones. Additionally, when working with large datasets or complex queries, performance can degrade.

The reliance on Windows machines for using Jaspersoft's designer tools is one issue that needs improvement for macOS users. Another point to note is that handling millions of records and complex queries often degrades performance.

Community support is good, and I have no complaints about it, but I feel the UI is outdated. There should be new features and improvements, particularly with integrating AI-related functionalities.

Governance and security are important, but for users unfamiliar with Jaspersoft, it should be easier to create reports with the help of the existing AI features.

I have been using Jaspersoft for the last 4.5 years.

Jaspersoft is stable for us, and we are currently not experiencing any downtime or performance issues.

Jaspersoft's scalability aligns with our organization's needs, as we have many report generation use cases planned for different partners and can design multiple reports accordingly.

I reached out to customer support when exploring the features of Jaspersoft, and my queries were resolved satisfactorily, indicating good customer support.

I previously used BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) but switched because it stopped providing new versions and community support. With Jaspersoft, we receive continuous updates and community support.

We save money, as I previously mentioned that we evaluated multiple open platforms and found Jaspersoft offers a no-cost version, with excellent results without any licensing fees.

We use the open-source, free version of Jaspersoft, so there are no licensing or setup costs involved.

Before choosing Jaspersoft, I evaluated other options like BIRT and Apache Cells for Excel, and for PDF, Apache POI. However, they did not provide UI interfaces for report design, leading us to choose Jaspersoft for both report types.

Using Jaspersoft can sometimes be very exciting. As a new user, I explore its many features and enjoy adding more granular controls to my report design.

For designing reports, we use Jaspersoft UI, specifically the studio. We also integrated the API to our applications to send data and generate reports.

Customization is broad, and I can easily adjust the reports, layouts, and add custom logic as needed. We obtain different types of data from PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Oracle databases, and sometimes XML files as well. This broad integration from various sources simplifies generating the same report.

Jaspersoft's documentation is very clear and helpful; we refer to it for configuration issues, particularly when we struggle to connect to a database, and most of our queries are resolved through it.

For small and medium datasets, Jaspersoft performs very smoothly. However, with large datasets and complex reports, performance can degrade, taking longer to generate.

To maintain and update existing reports, we use the designer studio tool, which is very useful. Simply opening and modifying a JRXML file is not easy, and there are chances for manual errors. The studio offers a UI to experiment and research changes more effectively.

There are no access restrictions when using Jaspersoft; we directly download open-source installers for Windows machines and install them on our virtual machines or desktops without specific access requirements.

I advise users to first explore their needs and then check whether Jaspersoft matches those needs. They can try the available open versions, do hands-on testing, and determine if Jaspersoft provides the required outputs.

My overall review rating for Jaspersoft is 7.5 out of 10.

I work on Jaspersoft to create invoice generation for pick-pack slips and order slips that are generated once payment is completed in e-commerce applications.

I use bands in Jaspersoft and map JSON to fields using parameters, variables, and expressions. I utilize loops to generate boxes and employ seven bands including headers, body, and footer to generate the slips.

I use Jaspersoft to generate PDF, Excel, and Word documents, which supports salary slips, invoices, and student reports while fetching data from MySQL databases. I designed dynamic reporting using inputs and date range selection to generate reports and create pie charts and bar charts from data. I use Jaspersoft in enterprise applications built with Spring Boot Java, where users can download reports in CSV and PDF formats. I configured these features using Java libraries, which significantly reduced effort in report generation. I also implemented Jaspersoft in microservices within the reporting module. I use common components such as core Java libraries and Jaspersoft Studio to design reports. Jaspersoft Studio provides drag and drop tools for report creation.

Jaspersoft's powerful features include the ability to generate reports in multiple formats such as PDF, Excel, Word, HTML, and CSV. The main advantage is the ability to integrate and connect databases with Jaspersoft, whether using MySQL or NoSQL databases. I can easily integrate databases with Jaspersoft software.

I can generate dynamic reports using parameterized reports, which auto-fetches data. I can design reports using drag and drop functionality on the user interface, where I can drag fields, tables, images, bar charts, and tables. I can generate charts in various formats including bar format, pie chart, line chart, and area chart, which allows for easy data visualization.

The main feature of Jaspersoft that I value is sub-report generation, which separates concerns easily and merges with the main report where I write logic. For example, if the main report is about an employee, I can generate a sub-report of salary details, which is very useful. Jaspersoft provides reusable templates in the form of JRXML files that I can use throughout the application multiple times. It provides high performance for large data, security features, and role-based access control configuration over slip generation.

I can integrate Jaspersoft APIs in Spring Boot Java applications and apply custom styling including fonts, colors, and layouts to create professional-looking report generation. These are the features that I valued using in Jaspersoft report generation.

The UI and UX of Jaspersoft could be improved as it feels outdated or complex, and enhancement is needed to make it easier for users to utilize more features. I would suggest adding AI features to Jaspersoft and implementing suggestions so users can easily leverage all the features in the application. Using expressions in Jaspersoft was somewhat tricky, and reducing unnecessary complexity would help me leverage expressions and write them more easily in reports. For large data, there are performance issues where reports are slow to generate in the final design, and optimization is required.

The UI could be improved with enhanced real-time analytics capabilities as the current UI is not very good. I would recommend adding enhancements so users can leverage all features in Jaspersoft and incorporate advanced integrations with microservices and cloud, which would be more helpful. Jaspersoft is not very useful for mobile and is not particularly responsive. I would suggest designing responsive support to improve Jaspersoft for Android applications.

I would recommend improving the user experience and adding AI features similar to Tableau and PI. Advanced features should be improved to support microservices and cloud features while facilitating easy integration. For large data, performance is slow, and I would recommend improving that particular aspect for large performance data. The band UI is very compact on the screen, and data cannot be seen clearly while designing the report. I would recommend improving that particular part.

I have been working on Jaspersoft for two and a half years.

Jaspersoft is stable.

Jaspersoft's scalability is very good, and I can introduce new features into it.

Customer support is very nice and very helpful.

Jaspersoft is provided by my organization, so I use it. I am not aware of the pricing and setup cost as I leverage it through the company.

Jaspersoft has significantly reduced a lot of time, and the user is very happy. The client is also very happy to see report generation happen very quickly, which has effectively reduced the time of report generation and is very useful. We have been using it for a very long time, approximately thirty years, which demonstrates its value.

For some reports, the creation of template design was taking eight hours, but using Jaspersoft, it can be done within two hours, which is very impactful.

I appreciate sub-report generation in Jaspersoft because I do not need to write entire logic in the same report. I can generate a separate sub-report, which makes it easy to manage tasks and data and easily generate a template design. Once the final design is complete, I can merge it with the main report.

Based on my understanding, I have included all the points I have used regarding Jaspersoft. I particularly appreciate the security features such as role-based access control at the data layer. Another feature I appreciate is the ability to reuse templates that I have created in other reports. I can also visualize data using charts and graphs by simply using drag and drop and configuring the data.

I would advise using and utilizing the features of sub-report generation and main report generation in Jaspersoft. I can also easily integrate it with the Spring Boot application and encrypt and decrypt data in the form of Base64, which is a very good feature that I can leverage.

I would rate this product seven out of ten.

My main use case for Jaspersoft is that we inherited a legacy application that used Jaspersoft. A quick specific example of how I used Jaspersoft within that legacy application is that we would have batch jobs that generated reports for accessories.

Jaspersoft can be improved by having better documentation, better support, upgrading the UI of the tool, and integrating other programming languages, not just Java.

In my experience, the best features Jaspersoft offers were not the best. We ended up migrating this legacy application to a completely new tech stack in Python.

The challenges or issues I faced with Jaspersoft that led to the migration include the fact that the tech stack is deprecated and it was very troublesome to upgrade the Java version. Additionally, there was no integration with Python, so we ended up rewriting the whole thing in Python. We still use the JRXMLs for the reports, but we are not using Jaspersoft system for Jaspersoft Studio or anything else.

The thing that was particularly frustrating with Jaspersoft was that the code being generated was not exactly following coding standards. A lot of the exceptions were very generic, such as exception one, two, three. It does not have great integration with other systems, which was one of the main reasons that led to the migration. We also struggled with learning how the system worked, and there is not much intuitive documentation or support for that matter.

The needed improvements for Jaspersoft include better big data support and integrations with something such as Hadoop or Apache Spark.

I have been using Jaspersoft for roughly about two years.

In my experience, Jaspersoft is not stable, and it does not have good community support.

Jaspersoft's scalability is not very good. I ran into issues scaling up or down.

The customer support for Jaspersoft is basically non-existent. I did reach out and did not really hear back.

I did not previously use a different solution before Jaspersoft. Jaspersoft was the first one, just because that is the one we inherited, and then we migrated to Power BI.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Jaspersoft indicates that installation was a pain, licensing is not worth the money, and there is no AI integration that I have seen. That is another thing that should be implemented or enhanced.

I have not seen a return on investment from using Jaspersoft; not a single one, hence why we are migrating.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Jaspersoft indicates that installation was a pain, licensing is not worth the money, and there is no AI integration that I have seen. That is another thing that should be implemented or enhanced.

Before choosing Jaspersoft, we did not evaluate other options. It was just inherited.

I would rate Jaspersoft overall as a two on a scale of one to ten. I choose that number because of the poor integration with other systems and the performance enhancements that we experienced during the migration. Jaspersoft batch ETL was very slow. My advice to others looking into using Jaspersoft is simple: do not use it. Use anything else instead.

My main use case for Jaspersoft is developing reports, the KPIs for the clients, and different visualizations for their daily metrics, monthly metrics, and yearly metrics.

One of the reports I developed for a client using Jaspersoft is the capacity versus allocation for a particular organization, department, or on a particular project or task. The project storyboard shows how the project is going and what risk issues are associated with that. Similarly, the project detailed report provides much more detailed information that clients want to discuss with team members and follow up with the required stakeholders.

My favorite thing about how Jaspersoft handles data and visuals is that it is easy to connect to other systems. You can use SQL queries, and the visualizations are also good, meaning that table visualizations or weekly reports are straightforward. If you want something advanced like bar graphs or pie charts, all those things are also possible using Jaspersoft. In addition to that, you can build ad-hoc reports on Jaspersoft.

Regarding ad-hoc reporting, my team uses that feature often, and it helps speed up our workflow and decision-making. You do not need to reach out to the developer as you have the required tables available to drag and add your own KPIs, metrics, columns, whatever you need, and see the information right away to take decisions based on that. It speeds up the process.

Features of Jaspersoft that stand out to me include how easy it is to build reports, scale, and maintain them. I have not seen any major issues while building these reports, and I think even complex reports can also be built easily.

Jaspersoft has positively impacted my organization by adding more visualizations, and it has started using the latest technology based on Java versions. The visualizations and updated technology have improved my team's productivity and decision-making tremendously. You can see the storyboards and metrics on a monthly basis, identify where we lack, what is causing the issues, how the revenues or sales can be improved, and how expenses can be reduced. All these things are done through Jaspersoft.

Jaspersoft could be improved by innovating features, especially with the new competition coming up from Power BI and everything, perhaps by enhancing the drag-and-drop feature. It is easy to build with Jaspersoft, but there could be more features.

I suppose that even non-developers can build reports easily with Power BI and Tableau, but with Jaspersoft, while everyone can do ad-hoc reporting, only developers can work on complex reports. That is where I feel improvements can be made, allowing a non-tech person to start building reports as well. The only improvements needed for Jaspersoft are enhancements to the features, allowing more non-developers to start developing.

I have been using Jaspersoft for more than twelve years.

Jaspersoft is stable in my experience as we have been using it for the past twelve years. We have not faced any problems with Jaspersoft. The installation and upgrade steps have been straightforward and everything has been smooth, so I do not think we had any problems with Jaspersoft.

Jaspersoft's scalability is good; we have seen clients developing multiple reports, maybe even fifty or more reports using it.

I have seen a return on investment from Jaspersoft, and relevant metrics include time saved and money saved. For example, some clients looking at the reports save ten percent on expenses, and time spent is also saved as they identify gaps and everything that can be improved.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Jaspersoft indicates that the pricing feels on the higher side when compared to Power BI or Tableau. I think a reduction in pricing would help.

My advice for others looking into using Jaspersoft is that if you are looking for reports, then I think Jaspersoft would be the go-to solution. I really appreciate Jaspersoft, and I have been using it for the past twelve years, so I think anyone who wants to go with this tool should just go for it. I provided this review with a rating of eight out of ten.

My main use case for Jaspersoft is operational reporting. It's a fixed pixel-based, pixel-perfect reporting solution. For any tabular reporting and canned reports, it's a very good tool to implement. It has a strong web application called Jasper Report Server which is quite useful in terms of hosting the reports and distributing the reports across different pathways, such as sending it to specific system drives or through users via emails.

At the same time, the very important feature of enterprise editions of domain designs allows end users to have self-empowerment to create reports on their own. This approach reduces about half of IT implementation effort if there is a logical layer in place, so that any ad hoc analysis can be done by users without any technical knowledge.

I can give you a specific example of how I use Jaspersoft for operational reporting in my bank client. I wanted to understand client positions as of today and what client positions are available for the finance team. What we have done is connect transactional systems data that flows into an operational data store. We connect to that operational data store and have implemented a report requiring all the key attributes which indicates the client portfolio data and the client positions data. We are sharing that with finance, which is used by them for their internal analysis and accordingly, they use that for external submissions in their different formats. This is also one of the key reports that they use for their analysis.

I have something else to add about my main use case for Jaspersoft. We have quite a lot of domains that we have built, which are logical layers, especially on CRM which is customer data. Also on ODS, which is a very important data set that is our core banking transactional data. There is another important logical layer that I have built called CLIP, and it's more related to client pricing data on how we can charge clients and how it is being charged. Any charges that have happened in the upstream applications, if end users or business side of CLIP want to see the charges instantly and do their analysis, whether it is rightly charged or any incorrect charges levied, or if there is any less charge happened to the client where the bank is losing money. They will get to have instant analytics done using these logical layers and build their own ad hoc views with different fields and parameters in place dynamically. This will give them a clear idea of how the pricing strategies are going on and any changes in pricing strategies to be taken up.

One of the best features Jaspersoft offers is the virtual data source-based reports development, as well as virtual data source-based domain implementation. This has been available for almost more than ten years. I don't think any tool would have such a great functionality of writing a query from multiple data sources, bringing data from multiple data sources, and keeping it into one. Many warehousing tools might have it, but you still need to connect to a single data source for your reporting. However, in Jaspersoft, you can create virtual data sources directly in the server and you can have direct SQL queries on multiple databases and then develop reports. This is one of the very nice features that I see and also in terms of interactive dashboarding, with HTML5 charts compared to the heavy licensing costs of the on-demand tools, this licensing-wise is quite cheaper and the features that it offers are quite good compared to other tools.

I can tell you more about how I use the virtual data source feature. CLIP contains the pricing data, whereas the main RM for a portfolio has a relationship manager who handles that particular portfolio and pricing-related charges for the respective client. All the pricing data comes from CLIP application, whereas all the portfolio RM relation will be coming from a different application called CRM, where we have the customer data as well as the RM data, and the pricing data sits in CLIP. What we have done is create this logical layer with the combination of CRM and CLIP, wherein CLIP business can get to see who is the RM, who is the RM in charge of this particular portfolio and how the pricing strategies are being maintained, how the charges are being maintained can be viewed at a single place using this logical layer with the feature of virtual data sources.

Jaspersoft has positively impacted my organization. For the operations team inside the bank, they do a lot of MIS (Management Information System) reporting on all the transactions happening. One of the specific reports is a transactions payment report where they want to find out how the funds are being transferred, what are the charges made by the bank, and if the charges are happening correctly. All the calculations which are used by our internal teams for their analysis, and then they submit to the regulator based on their analysis on all the transactions related information.

I can share more about the impact. Earlier, when we didn't have Jaspersoft, even in the current world, there are teams, especially even in operations, that are implementing a lot of reports in Excel and doing all the calculations and after that doing their analysis using Excel itself. Once Jaspersoft is used, we have automated their manual activities and saved literally almost everything. Previously, they usually took one and a half weeks to prepare a report for their analysis. Now it takes less than two hours because we have automated everything and they get their report into their hands. They just use the data that we provide for further massaging and finish their analysis. This saves literally one week plus it saves additional time.

Jaspersoft can be improved in several areas. I think this is a very interesting question with feedback for the product teams. Recently it was acquired by HCL, an Indian service-based company. I feel disappointed with the way it is being handled by the respective company that acquired TIBCO Jaspersoft. When TIBCO owned Jaspersoft, it was really good, but after TIBCO acquired it, I feel the marketing strategies or the product implementation roadmap is not up to the way that I have expected. I have personally logged a couple of product defects and very important features as an active user and had to get those features implemented myself.

Documentation certainly requires improvement in terms of setting up Tomcat and how specific environment-related instructions are provided, including JVM settings or setting up source profiles. If the basics can be included in the documentation, it would be much better. Additionally, some of the core installations are not happening in Jaspersoft from the last two versions, version eight and ten. Considering the default product issues, when you install, some of the default config files are not getting generated properly and we have to manually change the files and make sure the installation is working fine after that, which is supposed to work fine with the product. The documentation has to be improved in terms of any bottlenecks. If any issue comes, there should be guidance on how to fix it as this is part of the core installation.

One important feature I expect is that though the import and export features are given, they are not working for heavy sizing repositories. My current repository is around close to one terabyte plus and we have a great challenge in getting that entire export into one single export. This is not happening. The kind of storage requirements that we have, even if we have increased the storage requirements, the process runs for eight hours, and if any halt in the system occurs, the entire process gets stuck and everything has to be redone. I have raised a product feature to implement a date-based, a date and time-based import and export facilities. That way you can always take some cut of the data for export and import the same cut of the data for import, which gives greater flexibility and immense balance for production rollouts, especially wherein you cannot have an entire production system down and migrate the entire data into the next system. It will always be like one month or two months prior to export all the prod data into a new system. But that will still be two months delta. As there is no provisioning of two months delta to be taken with date time feature as such, we end up doing manual exports from UI for that particular duration, or we need to redo everything back again. This is a great deal of effort that gets invested in doing these import and export activities.

I have been using Jaspersoft for around fifteen years. Even in the current field it's ten years, and in between, I have used a mix of Tableau and Power BI, but Jaspersoft is always continuously on one side.

I would like to add something else about the features. The licensing cost in terms of what it provides is notable, especially in terms of it does provide web services as a data source, but I wouldn't characterize it as a drawback. They have perceived it as an open-source project. I would feel that if they can take this up as a proprietary project under product development, this would certainly give a huge mileage compared to custom Java implementations or custom Python implementations to use REST or SOAP-based web services. This would give more provisioning for many of the users to have web services as a data source in Jaspersoft. Another important functionality or features for migrating one environment to another environment is seamless import-export facilities and the kind of repository management and security in terms of roles and users that are tightly coupled. This gives you a great balance and flexibility to manage all the repository permissions intact. You can have all auditing enabled. Product implementation-wise, everything is good. You have auditing enabled. If anybody is touching the Jaspersoft server application illegally, or without proper access or without proper approval if somebody is trying to change any of the report aspects, that will be captured under audit as part of the Jaspersoft product feature itself where it will have robust security as well that way. Overall, I would rate this review at seven out of ten.

Jaspersoft's main use case for me is to create customizable reports for the data that we need. As I work in the BFSI sector, specifically banking, whenever a client asks for a particular report based on their requirements, whether it is a statement report or details of accounts that are currently open or closed, we fetch that information in Jaspersoft reports by configuring SQL or PL/SQL queries.

The main use case involves customizable reports, and even in existing reports, we can add fields accordingly based on requirements and configure them by updating the query. We then run Jaspersoft reports to check whether the data is coming properly before deploying it in production for the client.

For example, if I have an existing report that fetches account details of a particular account based on the date of opening, and the client initially needed records fetched at the end of each month, I can customize it to fetch data for every day instead by modifying the date criteria. This is how we perform customization in practice. For deployment, once compilation is successful, we deploy it to a specific path using the DevOps pipeline and move it to UAT. Once UAT testing is successful, we move it to production in the same manner.

Jaspersoft's best feature is that any developed report can be customized with no restriction, and based on permissions, any user can customize a particular report. Reports can be modified at any time by taking the JRXML and making changes, then executing that particular Jaspersoft report. If there is any error, it will be caught while executing or compiling, and based on that, the error can be resolved and deployed to production. Jaspersoft also suggests where the error is and how it can be resolved, as AI is integrated with it.

Beyond this, we can add an unlimited number of fields, and reports can be generated with an unlimited number of pages, which is not restricted to one or two pages. This is one of the best features that stands out when compared to other tools. Jaspersoft provides real-time data analytics and reporting features, which is also one of the best features, and it has impacted the organization very positively.

The only area for improvement is that initial implementation takes considerable time and is somewhat complex, requiring someone with specific knowledge to perform it. Apart from that, everything is satisfactory.

I have been working in this field for five years.

Jaspersoft is highly stable.

Jaspersoft is highly scalable.

Customer support is quite good, and I have received very positive feedback on it.

Negative

We did not use any solution earlier, but we are using alternate solutions alongside Jaspersoft. We are also using Power BI as well as Qlik Sense. We evaluated SAP Crystal Reports before choosing Jaspersoft.

The initial setup cost is high as the implementation is complex, but the pricing is consistent with market standards, and the licensing cost is also consistent with market standards.

We have seen a return on investment as significant time was saved through automation, and it gradually reduced manual intervention during data fetching and publishing to the dashboard.

The initial setup cost is high because the implementation is complex, but the pricing is consistent with market standards, and the licensing cost is also consistent with market standards.

We did not use any solution earlier, but we are using alternate solutions alongside Jaspersoft. We are also using Power BI as well as Qlik Sense. We evaluated SAP Crystal Reports before choosing Jaspersoft.

Jaspersoft is currently one of the market competitors, unlike Microsoft Power BI and Tableau. Power BI can be used over mobile and can be installed and integrated with other platforms, and Jaspersoft also provides the same features. I do not think much improvement is needed in this area.

A lot of time is saved through the automation feature. We integrate Jaspersoft with data APIs from different platforms, including Salesforce and other marketing platforms, and create reports based on timing. Once data enters a particular platform, it gets triggered every hour, the data gets updated, and based on that, the dashboard gets updated. This has reduced manual work and saved considerable time.

We purchased Jaspersoft through the AWS marketplace. I would rate the overall experience in this review as a three out of five.

We use Jaspersoft to create extensive, customized, pixel-perfect reports where our data is primarily for the banking sector. In the banking sector, we generally create KPIs, ROIs, and format the data in table format or charts with differential conditional formatting.

The banking sector requires a reporting engine where they can see the transaction data, how their server's availability is performing, and how their KPIs regarding CPU memory utilization will be utilized on the particular system. We store the data into the database collected from different monitoring tools and have integrated with Jaspersoft to gather the availability reports, CPU and memory utilization reports, as well as SLA reports.

We use Jaspersoft to integrate with our solutions in the monitoring system and monitoring tools, where we collect data from robots that store data into the database. We use the database connector with Jaspersoft, and in Jaspersoft, we use Jasper Studio to create reports in JRXML format and publish them to Jaspersoft server. From there, we render the reports and fetch them according to the need, such as one day or one month of data. We schedule the reports to automate sending them to the infrastructure team, database team, or applications team, so they can view their data performance and investigate issues such as high server utilization to identify and fix the problems, helping them validate quickly.

Jaspersoft has many features for business intelligence, including reporting that can be shared across stakeholders. We create different reports based on SQL parameters and queries, subreports, and we can drill down and navigate to each dashboard to get more information about the data. It also provides tables, charts, conditional formatting, and crosstabs, with different export formats including PDF and Excel. These are the features I would highlight, and one more thing is that it is reliable and can handle complicated subreports, optimizing queries, and maintaining large reports, which sometimes requires significant technical knowledge.

Based on my experience, it helps the stakeholders greatly because in the main reports, we see the high-level picture of what is happening. When we drill down into each KPI or go into detailed data, we can click on the subreport and pass parameters to see what is happening in different locations, such as other states, countries, or districts, allowing us to dive deep into each state or district to see the data.

The only improvement needed is when we fetch data for more than one or two years. Since it is completely reliable on the database side, Jaspersoft would require performance improvements.

When compared to other vendors such as Power BI, the good note is that Jaspersoft has a data warehouse mechanism where we can connect to multiple Hadoop or big data databases to query and fetch data from those different technologies.

When compared to Grafana or ClickHouse, we see that log analysis, application monitoring, and security-related features available in other OEMs could be added to Jaspersoft. This way, it would have a combining of all in a single pane of glass, such as metrics, traces, and logs.

On the UI side, a little improvement is required. It should have classy reports or dashboards available, and out-of-the-box reports should be kept for at least APM and log analysis. Since it has not been developed, if there are any future plans, I would recommend including such reports for these solutions.

Currently I am working in the IT field, where I have a total of 11 plus years of experience, and I have been using Jaspersoft for around seven years.

Based on my experience, Jaspersoft is stable and reliable.

Since my experience shows that I did not use support because everything is available in the documentation and community, I did not reach out to Jaspersoft support. However, if I had reached out, they could have helped a lot.

We have used Prometheus and Grafana; however, based on customer needs, we have deployed Jaspersoft. As I mentioned earlier, we would like to add more features to Jaspersoft to gather application performance data and logs analysis.

We have around 10 members in the team, and we usually work with different customers to develop Jaspersoft reports according to their requirements.

We compared both Jaspersoft and other vendors to see what is best and what features they offer. If Jaspersoft provides more features than others, we choose Jaspersoft.

My main advice for others looking into using Jaspersoft is that it is easy to customize reports with flexibility and sustainability. I would also say it has optimization of performance reports and understanding business reporting capabilities, so once everything is in place, they can choose Jaspersoft.

Based on my experience, Jaspersoft has extensively helped our organization; it is flexible and easily adopts the solution. I rate Jaspersoft nine out of ten.

As I mentioned, it is flexible to create customized reports, which is why I take off that one point.

Regarding AI, I did not explore Jaspersoft, so I cannot comment on this aspect of governance and security.

I did not use this aspect either, since I am completely into the reporting side and have not explored AI capabilities in Jaspersoft.

Learning Jaspersoft does not require much time; it is easy to learn and consumes less time, meaning there is less investment required for Jaspersoft.

My main use case for Jaspersoft is for developing reports. I use Jaspersoft to design the layouts of the reports and use it for automation purposes.

The best features Jaspersoft offers are that it provides a lot of space to design and many tools. The best feature is that I can write a script and directly derive my data from the database, and I can add my database there.

I find the scripting and database integration in my day-to-day work very easy to use. I use it frequently and it is very helpful for me.

Jaspersoft has positively impacted my organization by making our manual work a lot easier, allowing us to automate our tasks and save a lot of time. I estimate that Jaspersoft saves a lot of time, as the manual tasks that ten developers had to do can now be handled by only two developers.

Jaspersoft can be improved if the user interface can be enhanced. There are a lot of options for the text fonts, and all of those are on the right side and they are very small. If that can be improved, then it will be better to use. Apart from the user interface and font options, everything else about Jaspersoft sounds good.

I have been using Jaspersoft for more than three years.

Jaspersoft is stable. I have not faced any stability issues with Jaspersoft. It has worked fine for me always.

Jaspersoft's scalability is very good.

I have not used the customer support, but one of my colleagues did, and they were able to connect with them very clearly and found the solutions very nicely.

I did not use any solution before Jaspersoft, as from the day I had to develop the reports, we have been using Jaspersoft since it is the best in the market.

I did not evaluate other options before choosing Jaspersoft. My solution architect might have done that, but they asked us to use Jaspersoft only.

I think others looking into using Jaspersoft should know the scripting part first, since Jaspersoft is only the designing tool. People often overlook that, but they should know how to use the scripting part to get the best usage out of it. I would rate this review an 8.