Pentaho Business Analytics vs TIBCO Jaspersoft comparison

Hitachi Vantara and TIBCO are both solutions in the Reporting category. Hitachi Vantara is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.7, while TIBCO is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.8. Hitachi Vantara holds a 1.1% mindshare in RT, compared to TIBCO’s 2.6% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Hitachi Vantara users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

Pentaho Business Analytics

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TIBCO Jaspersoft

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83% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

Pentaho Business Analytics and TIBCO Jaspersoft are two prominent platforms in the business analytics industry. TIBCO Jaspersoft has the upper hand with certain feature sets that make it more robust for specific functionalities.

Features: Pentaho Business Analytics offers robust ETL capabilities, a strong plugin architecture, and excellent data integration facilitated by Pentaho Data Integration. It is open-source, allowing extensive customization and community support. TIBCO Jaspersoft provides excellent ad-hoc and pixel-perfect reporting capabilities and is easy to embed within other applications, supporting large-scale deployments with secure data handling.

Room for Improvement: Pentaho Business Analytics needs improvements in user interface design and simplification of scheduling and dashboarding processes. Better support for the Community Edition is also required. TIBCO Jaspersoft could improve its user interface, enhance support structures, and streamline subreport implementation. More competitive pricing and better Community Edition documentation are also recommended.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both offer flexible deployment options, including on-premises and cloud setups. Pentaho relies on its strong community support, while TIBCO charges for technical support, which could be a barrier for smaller businesses. Jaspersoft's customer service has mixed reviews, potentially impacting user satisfaction.

Pricing and ROI: Pentaho Business Analytics is valued for its cost-effectiveness, especially with its free Community Edition, though the Enterprise Edition's cost is justified for certain use cases. TIBCO Jaspersoft's high enterprise pricing can be offset by its advanced features and quicker implementation time, providing good ROI for extensive applications.

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Pentaho Business Analytics

Ranking in Reporting

16th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (20th), Cloud Operations Analytics (4th)

TIBCO Jaspersoft

Ranking in Reporting

10th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Embedded BI (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Pentaho Business Analytics is 1.1%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Jaspersoft is 2.6%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting

Q&A Highlights

it_user107733

System Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jun 02, 2016

Jaspersoft vs. Pentaho. Which should we choose?

It's tough to suggest one or the other without more information on your architecture, who your end users are, and how you will be delivering analytics to your customers. Pentaho is a great solution for complex data integration and data blending (particularly in Big Data and NoSQL scenarios. They have deep native connectivity and job orchestration for Hadoop, NoSQL, and analytic databases). On the BI side, they have the full spectrum on analytics: static, enterprise reporting to interactive reporting and dashboards to data discovery and predictive analytics. Pentaho is a "jack of all trades". However, Pentaho is inferior to Jaspersoft in important elements dealing with the delivery, adoption, and value extracted from BI: Jaspersoft has a more robust JavaScript API for seamless embedding in web applications (a massive difference maker from a development standpoint if you plan on embedding a BI server in your app). Jaspersoft also has out-of-the-box multi tenancy support which is necessary if you plan on intelligently and securely serving analytics in your app to your clients. Pentaho's multi-tenancy requires manual configuration (again, a large investment on your dev team and it will delay your time to market)...

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Sayan König

Senior Manager, Financial Services at KPMG

Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up

The repository should be improved. There should be the possibility to have versioning, to make it combinable with some Git repositories or something like that, to check out the processes and make sure it has a traceable history. The solution could really be improved. There are too many bugs in our version.

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Chan Sambopol

Manager, Core Banking Office at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Easy to use with a nice design and good connectivity

TIBCO Jaspersoft has two versions. Version one is the enterprise version, The other one is the community version, and which allows us to use it for free. In the free version, we have to support ourselves. For the enterprise version, you have technical support if you need it. I wish that we had more support while in the portal, at least for the community version, or if we could talk to someone regarding issues, like how to configure or fine-tune would be helpful. We'd like to have help on how to solve some problems when we use the product and have some error or limitation. They need to, at the very least, improve the community. The Enterprise Edition has support, and we can force some tickets through the portal and then have an engineer support us in some cases. However, in terms of the subscription price, it's a bit high. Therefore, we'd like to see the community version offer a little bit more support and better documentation and we'd like the enterprise edition to have better pricing.

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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

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."

"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."

"Easy to use components to create the job."

"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."

"The interface of Pentaho Business Analytics is easy to use and does not require high-level skills to operate the tool."

"Pentaho Business Analytics' best features include the ease of developing data flows and the wide range of options to connect to databases, including those on the cloud."

"It is robust, offers market intelligence, and utilizes modules effectively."

"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."

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"We find the access restrictions on different user groups valuable."

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

"It's easy to use and maintain."

"We can set any property dynamically."

"It offers high processing power for report generation and is cost-effective."

"The solution is standalone with the flexibility to use visualize.js to embed within the application."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...The deployment process of TIBCO Jaspersoft is easy."

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

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Cons

"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."

"Pentaho, at the general level, should greatly improve the easy construction of its dashboards and easy integration of information from different sources without technical user intervention."

"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."

"The repository should be improved."

"Pentaho Business Analytics is hard to learn and not suited for initial users as it requires knowledge of operating systems, Java, and other technical skills."

"Deployment is not simple. It is not simple because we are dealing with a lot of data; we are dealing with a lot of storage. So, it's not a simple process."

"The tool is very good, and yet it has some problems as it relies heavily on Java."

"Logging capability is needed."

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"Customization is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution that needs improvement."

"The stability of TIBCO Jaspersoft needs improvement."

"The reporting templates have room for improvement."

"We'd like to see the community version offer a little bit more support and better documentation and we'd like the enterprise edition to have better pricing."

"Jaspersoft should focus on user interaction features, and one should not expect it to suit every niche."

"I would like to see some analysis done prior to data extraction. The data extraction itself could also be improved."

"A better focus should be put on self-service reporting."

"The upgrades are not easy."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pentaho is expensive ."

"Free and commercial versions are available."

"We were lucky enough to find a Pentaho OEM partner who offered a data warehouse model and the ETL software for about 60K SGD per year."

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

"The solution is a little bit expensive."

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

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

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Comparison Review

it_user6978

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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Answers from the Community

it_user107733

System Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jun 2, 2016

Jaspersoft vs. Pentaho. Which should we choose?

2 out of 10 answers

it_user7578

Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Apr 24, 2014

Pentaho is better than Jasper, more active community. Full BI suite (reporting, olap, dashboards, an excellent ETL tool, best big data capabilities....)

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it_user8199

BI developer - (Jaspersoft/Pentaho/Pentaho C-Tools/Kettle/Talend/Data warehouse) at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Apr 24, 2014

I can provide you with information regarding your questions. Contact me if you'd like to discuss.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

14%

Educational Organization

Real Estate/Law Firm

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Seeking lightweight open source BI software

There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows: 1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle - look for SAP...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pentaho Business Analytics?

Pentaho Business Analytics is priced similarly to other competitors such as QlikView ( /products/qlikview-reviews ) and Tableau ( /products/tableau-reviews ). I usually use the community edition.

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What needs improvement with Pentaho Business Analytics?

Pentaho Business Analytics ( /categories/bi-business-intelligence-tools ) is hard to learn and not suited for initial users as it requires knowledge of operating systems, Java, and other technical ...

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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 do you like most about TIBCO Jaspersoft?

We can set any property dynamically.

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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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Pentaho, Kettle, Hitachi Pentaho Business Analytics

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Overview

Pentaho is an open source business intelligence company that provides a wide range of tools to help their customers better manage their businesses. These tools include data integration software, mining tools, dashboard applications, online analytical processing options, and more.

Pentaho has two product categories: There is the standard enterprise version. This is the product that comes directly from Pentaho itself with all of the benefits, features, and programs that come along with a paid application such us analysis services, dashboard design, and interactive reporting.

The alternative is an open source version, which the public is permitted to add to and tweak the product. This solution has its advantages, aside from the fact that it is free, in that there are many more people working on the project to improve its quality and breadth of functionality.

Hitachi Vantara

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.

TIBCO

Sample Customers

Cargo 2000 Lufthansa, Marketo, ModCloth, Cardiac Science, Telefonica, ExactTarget, Active Broadband Networks, and Brussels Airport.

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

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