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TIBCO Jaspersoft pros and cons

Vendor: TIBCO

3.6 out of 5

31 reviews
81% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

TIBCO Jaspersoft is easy to install on Linux and Windows, offering a free Community edition for small to medium businesses. Its browser-based system efficiently manages large-scale data with reasonable memory use. Automating reports and leveraging a REST API boost productivity. However, technical support is lacking, the Ad Hoc Report Writer needs improvement, and stability issues persist. Documentation and community support require enhancement, and better pricing for the enterprise edition is desired.

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PROS

Jaspersoft is straightforward to install on Linux and Windows platforms.

It offers a free Community edition, ideal for small to medium companies.

The browser-based system and reasonable memory consumption are valuable for handling large-scale data.

Automated reports, dashboards, and the REST API functionality enhance productivity and efficiency.

Jaspersoft integrates well with cloud services and features such as ad-hoc reporting, multi-tenant support, and rich visualizations.

CONS

Technical support provided by TIBCO is inadequate, with issues being labeled as enhancements instead of being resolved.

Ad Hoc Report Writer lacks features compared to competitors like Tableau and needs improvement to meet expectations.

Customization and integration of TIBCO with data sources have limitations and are not straightforward.

Stability and performance issues exist, including scalability problems with handling concurrent connections.

Documentation and community support need enhancement, and better pricing for the enterprise edition is desired.

TIBCO Jaspersoft Pros review quotes

DWBI Developer at DST Worldwide Services Pvt Ltd

Jan 4, 2016

It’s very straightforward to Install Jaspersoft in both Linux and Windows.

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

May 31, 2016

For Enterprise level companies, it has rich enterprise features such as ad-hoc reporting on self service BI, rich dashboards, rich embedded BI solutions, mobile BI solutions, multi-tenant features, and rich HTML-5 visualizations.

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CK

Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Jul 30, 2016

Community edition which is free is the best buy for small to medium companies who can't afford any money at all to try a product.

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Sr. Application Developer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 17, 2016

The REST API functionality on the server is valuable because it gave us a really easy way to distribute reports to non-technical end users.

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Director, Operational Risk BI & Big Data Analytics with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 30, 2016

Automation of existing reports and dashboards has helped in increased productivity and huge efficiency savings.

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Business Intelligence | IT Service Management at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 11, 2016

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).

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Software Developer at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees

Oct 13, 2016

The most valuable features are that it is a browser-based system and memory consumption for the client with large-scale data is reasonable.

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Data Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 16, 2016

The most valuable features are the pixel-perfect report, embedded report portal, scheduling reports, open source, etc.

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Managing Executive at System Business, s. r. o.

Oct 26, 2016

Business processes automation provides higher efficiency and minimizes human error.

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Senior Software Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 30, 2016

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.

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DWBI Developer at DST Worldwide Services Pvt Ltd

Jan 4, 2016

Writing custom domains is a difficult task

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

May 31, 2016

Drag and drop desktop tool for analysis such as that in Tableau, QlikView or Spotfire desktop could be a part of Jasper Design Studio.

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CK

Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Jul 30, 2016

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.

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Sr. Application Developer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 17, 2016

Even though it works well enough for our purposes, one thing I think that could be improved is making it easier to configure.

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Director, Operational Risk BI & Big Data Analytics with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 30, 2016

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

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Business Intelligence | IT Service Management at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 11, 2016

The support team needs to be improved.

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Software Developer at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees

Oct 13, 2016

The technical support provided was terrible.

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Data Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 16, 2016

Visualization can be improved further in terms of design, and to align it with other, new reporting tools.

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Managing Executive at System Business, s. r. o.

Oct 26, 2016

The migration between versions could be hard.

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Senior Software Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 30, 2016

Implementing of subreports is such a pain.

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