TIBCO Jaspersoft Reviews

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

Jaspersoft is being used as my organization’s report development platform. We use this tool to schedule reports and email users in either Excel or PDF format. We can use the Excel file to support our working processes or use the PDF as an official document.

Visualization can be improved further in terms of design, and to align it with other, new reporting tools.
According to user feedback, by comparing with other BI Data Discovery Tools. E.g. Qlik Sense. TIBCO Jaspersoft’s chart types and colour tone are not modern enough. Therefore, users will be more willing to use Qlik Sense rather than TIBCO Jaspersoft.

I have been using this product for about six months.

We have not encountered any deployment issues.

We have not encountered any stability issues.

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

As I am using the community edition, no customer service is provided. However, it is easy to get support from its community.

Since we are using the community edition, no technical support is provided either.

Previously, we were using SAP Crystal Reports. However, it was already an obsolete version.

I set it up on a Linux server; it is straightforward.

We have implemented it via our in-house team.

I have also evaluated other tools such as Tableau, Pentaho and SpagoBI. The reason we have chosen Jaspersoft is because it is a very popular open-source reporting tool, with the ability to integrate with other web applications and schedule sending of reports.

Jaspersoft is a strong tool for static, pixel-perfect reports. I suggest also including another data discovery / ad-hoc analysis tool in your roadmap.

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

The following areas of the product need improvement: stability; server disk consumption; creating reports is tedious and bug prone; scheduling reports is bug prone.

I have used this product for two years.

We constantly encountered stability issues.

We have encountered scalability issues. At certain points, the data became too large and was not effectively cached.

The technical support provided was terrible.

Previously, we used Microsoft reports and switched due to high licensing costs. Also, the older versions for which we had a license for, were not able to effectively manage memory consumption on the client side.

The setup process was relatively standard and it has a good installer. A person with any level of Tomcat knowledge should be familiar with the system.

The community version is free. It has a pretty good feature set for free software. However, the enterprise version is incredibly overpriced.

We evaluated Pentaho, which was incredibly frustrating and unintuitive to use.

Don't implement this product.

• Profile attributes for implementing multi-tenancy.
• Report locales for implementation of multi-language support in report development.
• Subreports, in many reports, to achieve specific report requirements.

We are using Jaspersoft for report development.

There is scope of improvement in terms of:

• More flexibility for report / dashboards development.
• A report bursting option.
• Caching of query input controls that creates problem.
  (In regards to input controls which are based on SQL queries, they show cached data instead of fetching new data every time reports are executed. Input controls still show old data, even if there is a change in data and consequent query results.)
• Scriptlet execution option before the main data set execution.

I have used this product for about three and a half years.

I have not encountered any stability issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

I would give the technical support an 8/10 rating.

Prior to Jasperserver, we did use a different solution and decided to switch due to higher licensing costs.

The initial setup was straightforward in terms of server installation, implementing multi-tenancy, multi-language, locales etc.

We evaluated another option, namely Cognos, before choosing this product.

It is a good, simple to learn product with some limitations.

• Embedding the reports within other applications
• Export functionality: Reports can be exported to many different formats including MS PowerPoint and PDF.

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

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

In this age of tools such as Tableau, developers are used to intuitive interfaces to develop the reports. It's always relative!!

Jaspersoft is an open-source product and lot of times you have to rely on the community to answer some of your queries. Product documentation also could be improved for the developer to reduce the learning curve.

I have used it for about 3 years.

I have not encountered any stability issues. The product has been pretty stable.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

Technical support has been really great. Usually questions get answered within 24 hrs.

We used a home-grown reporting tool that lacked many of the functionalities we needed. We evaluated multiple vendors before selecting Jaspersoft.

Initial setup was pretty straightforward, except the security piece. Over the years, the tool has improved how security is implemented.

It definitely provides value for the money if you have enterprise-wide usage of standard dashboards and charts.

We were looking for a lightweight solution that is easy to implement and that can scale. We looked at several options including MicroStrategy and WebFOCUS. Those tools unfortunately didn't fit the bill.

If you have a need for standard dashboards that can be exported to various formats, Jaspersoft will be a good solution to try out. Jaspersoft also provides various integration mechanism (JavaScript libraries and APIs) for embedded BI.

Also, with the latest releases, they are making good progress in the self-service business intelligence space.

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. They don't have to remember another login, don't have to learn a new interface; they just click a link and *bam* they have their report.

We tied it into our help ticketing system database to provide on-demand reporting to our QA team.

Even though it works well enough for our purposes, one thing I think that could be improved is making it easier to configure. There are a number of settings that you have to manually edit a text config file (like allowing anonymous access to the REST service). While some of the settings can be manipulated through the GUI, not all of them can be. I think that could definitely be improved.

I have used it for about a year.

I did not encounter any stability issues.

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

Whether initial setup is "straightforward" depends on your basis of comparison. It isn't Microsoft Office. But for a server product, it wasn't bad.

There is a little bit of configuration necessary, and getting permissions right can be a pain. But overall, not bad. Though, to be fair, I did this once over a year ago... so maybe it was a fight and I just don't remember...

We use the community version.

Just try it on a pilot basis and see if it will meet your needs. It's a decent tool to have in your solutions bag.

• 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).

We can implement IT service management (operational and management) report solutions.

The support team needs to be improved. While I did not have a specific problem with it, I think that support should be improved (like, for instance, the SAP support team, as well).

I have been using TIBCO Jaspersoft since 2015.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

Technical support is 6/10.

Previously, I used SAP BusinessObjects. License costs was the reason for the switch.

For a BI engineer, initial setup is simple and very straightforward.

I did not evaluate any other products, because this product is included in the Business Intelligence module of CA Technologies products.

Pros:

1) 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.

2) Table components and cross tab which are interactive in nature

3) Interactive reporting and dashboards using HTML 5 charts

4) Ad-hoc reporting, which enables end users who doesn't want to get into any technical difficulties, to generate reports easily using this feature.

5) Dynamic formatting, sorting, hiding columns on the fly and visualizing the data as we wish.

6) Licensing costs which makes this product available to any size of company

I used this to develop reports to identify how many students are joining a specific college.

Cons:
1) It's not so stable with it's date calculations in domain level reporting.
2) Reports developed in older versions are not supported fully in new versions.

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.

One example issue I felt is that we have a domain based report where if you create a bundle file with domain and generate view and report, you will get the labels in bundle file in view and report.

For an existing domain which does not have a bundle file, I tried the same and could not see the functionality working like for the new domain. They said it's an enhancement but I feel they should be able to fix such issues.

They need to improve their support.

Since 2011.

Yes. Reports with date related calculations are not so stable.

Customers are asking for a report with millions of data to load in seconds and we need some good information about how to improve this.

Average

Average

No

In-house

It's a good tool with affordable licensing cost. Good scope for opportunities.

Very good.

Pentaho and Tableau.

These are my personal views with the little experience I have with Jasper and there might be deeper views that can be presented such as how the in-memory engine works - columnar they say.

Some specific features that I like are -

• Multi-tenancy
• Self Service BI using domains, ad-hoc views, ad-hoc reports.
• High Charts (HTML-5) and D3 (Data Driven Document) charts.
• Big Data support - Hadoop Hive and MongoDB and etc. 
• Report Books feature - Table of Contents.

This product is integrated into a CA product called CA PPM (Project Portfolio Management) for its reporting purpose. Using Jaspersoft's data warehouse capabilities, CA PPM is able to provide faster performance by utilizing this tool when compared to its previous reporting solution SAP Business Objects.

• Full support of new visualizations D3, and C3.
• Drag and drop desktop tool for analysis such as that in Tableau, QlikView or Spotfire desktop. This could be a part of Jasper Design Studio. 
• Send the report to email with its output as an attachment within the studio.
• User defined plug-in development and deployment like Pentaho Analytics i.e. a market place feature for server or studio.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

There have been no performance issues.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

It's open source which means that small to mid-sized businesses can use the community version of Jaspersoft and save lot of money. 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. These help a client take better and more elegant decisions for a lower cost per candidate per year. Also, you can rent the server for quick solutions in the cloud at a rate of $1 per hour.

If a business is small to mid-size you should get the community version. Otherwise, if your business is huge, you should look at the Enterprise, Professional, or Cloud versions of the software for a lower price.