Looker vs TIBCO Jaspersoft comparison

Google and TIBCO are both solutions in the Embedded BI category. Google is ranked #10, while TIBCO is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.7. Google holds a 6.4% mindshare in EBT, compared to TIBCO’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 81% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

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TIBCO Jaspersoft

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81% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 29, 2025

TIBCO Jaspersoft and Looker are prominent tools in the business intelligence sector, competing in advanced analytics and visualization solutions. Looker holds an edge with its extensive feature set valued for sophisticated data analysis, justifying its pricing against TIBCO Jaspersoft's affordability and support strengths.

Features: TIBCO Jaspersoft provides effective tools for embedding analytics, flexible deployment options, and supports multi-tenancy. Its strong reporting capabilities cater to developers and businesses requiring customizable reports. Looker features standout modern architecture and seamless data integration, allowing powerful analytics and visualization enhancements for data exploration and discovery.

Room for Improvement: TIBCO Jaspersoft may enhance its modern analytics capabilities, streamline integration with emerging data technologies, and improve cloud-based deployment solutions. Looker might benefit from making its initial setup simpler and more accessible for businesses with limited technical expertise, increasing cost transparency, and expanding support for diverse database environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: TIBCO Jaspersoft's straightforward setup is ideal for businesses with minimal IT resources, supported by responsive customer service. Looker offers rapid scalability with its hosted model and integration capabilities, backed by a dedicated customer service team, though lacking TIBCO Jaspersoft's traditional deployment approach.

Pricing and ROI: TIBCO Jaspersoft attracts budget-conscious organizations with competitive upfront pricing and rapid ROI due to feature accessibility. Looker, while demanding higher initial investment, promises significant long-term ROI through its extensive functionality and superior data capabilities. Its higher setup cost is balanced by the potential for substantial ROI in data-driven enterprises.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Looker

Ranking in Embedded BI

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

TIBCO Jaspersoft

Ranking in Embedded BI

8th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Reporting (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Embedded BI category, the mindshare of Looker is 6.4%, down from 9.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Jaspersoft is 2.8%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Embedded BI Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
TIBCO Jaspersoft	2.8%
Looker	6.4%
Other	90.8%

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Kishore Jhunjhunwala

Sr Analytics Consultant at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

A cloud solution for operational reporting but is expensive

Some basic feature that is available in other reporting tools is missing. Looker has the ability to show more than 5,000 rows for operational reporting. Some reporting tools allow users to scroll down to see more than 5,000 rows, but in Looker, you have to download the entire dataset. Looker should consider adding a scroll-down option to allow users to view large datasets on screen without downloading them. Looker has some options for granting users access as viewers. However, viewers cannot download the entire dataset. Only superusers can download the whole dataset on the Explore screen. This is a big limitation, as you cannot give any user viewer access. You can give access to superuser access, which is a cost to the company.

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Shaina Munoz

Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Legacy reporting has exposed limitations and now drives a gradual shift to modern analytics

Something that I wish would be improved is that TIBCO Jaspersoft Studio looks like something that was designed in the 1980s. The UI is not user-friendly. Finding things in the solution can be quite tedious, and the exported code does not really follow good programming standards. For example, the use of exceptions were not very descriptive. You would have something called exception one, two, three, post-grass exception one, two, three, nothing very descriptive as to what was going on. The files were very long and you would end up with a bunch of code that was not really being used. Helping the tool create more intuitive naming conventions would be better. Maybe implementing some sort of AI logic to clean up the code after it has been generated would help. It would be nice if there was easier integration with other programming languages such as Python, which is where we were migrating to because of its versatility and big data capabilities. Something like Scala and Hadoop would have made it easier for us to remain in Java. I would say to improve TIBCO Jaspersoft, integrate it with other programming languages and other big data tools and include AI functionality. I cannot even see what I need to see in the display box, so I would fix the AI. Another thing to note is that TIBCO Jaspersoft does not offer much in terms of documentation. There were only some wiki pages for some common errors. Customer support required you to have a license. It is not available to the general public. As for performance, working with Java 8 and 11 instead of the latest Java versions is also something that impacted our performance because we had some packages that were dependent on Java version 21 and up.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Looker offers incredible business visualization and analytical tools: graphs, charts, tables, and single numbers."

"In the past, adding a new dashboard to our product was a multi-week development effort, now our nontechnical product management and client success teams can create, launch, and maintain high quality dashboards with no interruption to the development team."

"We LOVE Looker here at Snagajob."

"It is a pretty stable solution because it is a cloud-based product."

"From a developer's perspective, the way the functionality's being handled is great."

"The stability of Looker has been good since I have been using it. However, it depends on what components are being used."

"With Looker, I have experienced benefits in terms of usability and shareability."

"It's quite effortless to navigate through various applications and review their updated data in real-time."

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"HTML5 charts are rich and dynamics Ad-hoc reporting allows the end user or analyst to easily develop their own reports (based on business language)."

"The reporting and charting features: I have worked with other reporting tools and I find this tool is easier and faster to work with while creating charts."

"The end-user reporting is very handy and the standard reports that can be achieved by using Jaspersoft Studio are quite impressive."

"Jaspersoft is very talented and suitable for creating applications when sharing data with external parties, offering high processing power for report generation and being cost-effective."

"The growth time is the most valuable feature of TIBCO Jaspersoft."

"We were going to the AWS cloud, and Jaspersoft was the only tool which understood the licensing part of the cloud, and the easy handling of the row-level security made me decide to choose it."

"The designer is the most valuable feature."

"You can do quite a lot with it in terms of automated reports and dashboards."

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Cons

"Stability needs improvement."

"Looker doesn't connect to Excel, which is a huge disappointment because a lot of data is presented in Excel. Also, it can't consume data directly from REST APIs, which is necessary. Looker needs to expand its horizons when it comes to data sources. The inability to connect to different data sources is hampering our use cases. Currently, it only has an ODBC connection that connects to a database. It needs to connect to other data sources, such as Excel, APIs, and different platforms."

"Looker depends on the database components. For example, if you have a underperforming database, then you likely will have a poor performance experience."

"There is a lot of customization that we needed/need to build ourselves. Other BI tools have more out of the box."

"The integration with different databases must be improved."

"The visualization capability of the product is limited."

"They need to work more on interactivity in order to help users interact with the tool itself, and it needs to be more user-friendly."

"It needs to be more user-friendly."

More Looker cons

"I would like to see them make it more user friendly for developers and include the latest charting libraries."

"Currently, JSON format is the main format we use, however, in TIBCO Jaspersoft, XML format is the default and JSON did not work because TIBCO did not fix it."

"The user interface of Jaspersoft server is not appealing and should get a sparkling makeover."

"I would like to see better support for big data."

"The migration between versions could be hard."

"TIBCO support is not that great as the guys are not very keen at resolving the issue and making issues which can be resolved also as enhancements."

"The upgrades are not easy."

"The technical support provided was terrible."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is cheap."

"I do not have to make any payments to use the solution."

"Looker is expensive and could be made better by reducing it."

"The price of Looker usually depends on the solution's provider, but it is usually cheaper than the other products in the market. Looker is offered at different prices for different companies."

"It's not cheap, but it's not expensive for big companies."

"The solution is a little bit expensive."

"I give the cost of the solution a five out of ten."

"Since I checked last time, only one annual license costs about $25,000."

"I find the price to be reliable and not overly costly."

"The pricing is cost effective because it is based on servers rather than users."

"I would rate the pricing as four out of five because it's expensive."

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Co-Founder at Helical IT Solution (Jaspersoft, Pentaho, Talend, Kettle, DWBI, ETL, Ctools, iReport, Jasper Report)

Jun 10, 2013

Jaspersoft vs. Pentaho – Which one to use & is there any need to purchase the commercial edition

Any company (be it technology, manfucaturing, human resource, ecommerce, SME etc) always has the need for Business Intelligence to some or the other extent. If cost is one of the consideration factor, then the 2 BI tools which are at the forefront are Pentaho and Jaspersoft. But, often the same…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Retailer

Computer Software Company

Media Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	16

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Seeking lightweight open source BI software

The best and open source (No cost involved) solution for all BI requirements is Jaspersoft Open Studio. Refer to rajeshsirsikar.com for more information.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Jaspersoft?

I am sharing a scenario for pricing: for ten thousand users and a robust server, it may cost in the hundreds of thousands USD. However, TIBCO is more enterprise-focused and might have different pri...

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What needs improvement with TIBCO Jaspersoft?

The integration of TIBCO Jaspersoft with some data sources has limitations that I encountered, and it was not very straightforward. This was one of the concerns with TIBCO Jaspersoft. The limitatio...

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Overview

Looker is a powerful data analytics platform that empowers businesses to explore and analyze their data in real time.

With its intuitive interface and robust features, Looker enables users to easily create and share interactive dashboards, reports, and visualizations.

The product's advanced data modeling capabilities and seamless integration with popular data sources make it a top choice for organizations looking to gain valuable insights from their data.

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TIBCO Jaspersoft is a versatile BI tool used for creating and integrating reports, with added functionality for business intelligence such as ad hoc report writers, online report writers, and dashboard designers. It is used for various purposes such as employee performance, revenue management and billing reports, and IT operational reporting.

The solution can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud, is user-friendly, with drag-and-drop report creation, access restrictions for user groups, and connectivity to multiple data sources. It has helped organizations fulfill their needs related to security and create reports quickly, with easy scheduling and report creation with different parameters.

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Sample Customers

Yahoo!, Etsy, Kohler, Hipcamp, Hubspot, Kickstarter, Venmo, Dollar Shave Club, 600+ customer

Mosaic, Vander University, Telesoft, Entrust, Ericsson, BT, Groupon, John Hopkins, Puma

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