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Jaspersoft vs. Pentaho

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Jaspersoft

274 Reviews and Ratings

Pentaho

132 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Jaspersoft

    Score6 out of 10
    		N/AJaspersoft commercial edition is an embedded business intelligence suite designed to be built-into SaaS products as an integrated reporting engine. It provides reports and dashboards for customer-facing applications without requiring app developers to build their own reporting engine.N/A

    Pentaho

    Score5.1 out of 10
    		N/APentaho is a suite of open source business intelligence and analytics products, now offered and supported by Hitachi Data Systems since the June 2015 acquisition.N/A
    Pricing
    JaspersoftPentaho
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JaspersoftPentaho
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsJaspersoft offers flexible pricing for ISVs and SaaS per customer or by CPU core.—
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    Community Pulse
    JaspersoftPentaho
    Considered Both Products
    Jaspersoft
    Verified User
    Chose Jaspersoft
    It's been a long time since we have been using Jasper, so I can't really remember the details, but mainly it was about comparing how easy it was to integrate with our Java-based product, reporting capability, and datasources/platform supported.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Jaspersoft
    The support and chances of implementing the own branding, as we ship TIBCO Jaspersoft as a stand-alone server we did our own branding for the Jasper server with the login page and the theme, hiding the unnecessary options to the user. The ease of creating canned reports using …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Jaspersoft
    More flexible than Qlik, easier to integrate and cheaper to run.
    Less polished and ultimately capable than Tableau, but more flexible commercially and technically.
    In terms of commercials and support, easier to deal with than either Qlik or Tableau.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Jaspersoft
    As per the basic evaluations, both provides same features in our context of use.
    Incentivized
    Eva Donaldson
    Business Intelligence Manager in Information Technology at iContact (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Jaspersoft
    Pentaho BA server, SAP, InformationBuilders.
    We chose Jaspersoft because of ease of customization, how well it fit into our environment, feature package, price and performance.
    Incentivized
    John Stevenson
    Enterprise Architect in Information Technology at Sopra Steria (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose Jaspersoft
    Selected Jaspersoft because of it's open source credentials and value for money. Our requirements did not require top of the range MI or analytics, just a basic MI platform
    Incentivized
    Francesco Sandrelli
    Project Manager in Information Technology at ETI3 s.r.l. (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Jaspersoft
    We used Pentaho (community edition) in the past and Spago BI suite. Both require a significant effort of highly skilled resources to implement new reports and features and the self-service reporting capability for a final user is missing. We also evaluated Pentaho Business …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Jaspersoft
    Their after sales support is way better than Jaspersoft.
    Incentivized
    Gerald Meachem
    Senior Software Analyst in Research & Development at BDM IT Solutions Inc. (Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Jaspersoft
    We were using Actuate e-reporting. The product suited our needs but the vendor was difficult to work with as far as licensing and contract issues. Also relatively much more expensive. We didn't actually even evaluate BIRT as a replacement due to the poor relationship. So I …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Jaspersoft
    • Fair pricing with similar features
    • Platform independent
    Incentivized
    Miguel Angel Merino Vega
    Analista de Sistemas in Information Technology at Consultor independiente de software (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Jaspersoft
    These could be more easy to learn and reporting. For example, building a demo page, but we expected guarantee for Business Intelligence work. So my clients and I at the end we decided to try Jaspersoft and the result was as expected.
    Incentivized
    Dave Simon
    IT Director in Information Technology at Sierra Club (Non-Profit Organization Management, 501-1000 employees)
    Chose Jaspersoft
    When we originally selected Jaspersoft four years ago, the other finalists were Cognos (could not scale at an affordable price) and Pentaho (reports and security model - not as functional).
    Hitachi Vantara
    Verified User
    Chose Pentaho
    Of all the open source tools we looked at Pentaho was the only one with a full suite of tools (i.e. ETL, reporting, dashboards, etc). A lot of the open source tools were either ETL (Talend) or reporting (Jaspersoft).
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    JaspersoftPentaho
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Jaspersoft and Pentaho
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    100 Ratings
    Pentaho
    9.0
    20 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports7.687 Ratings8.618 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.588 Ratings9.918 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.886 Ratings8.718 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Jaspersoft and Pentaho
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.4
    98 Ratings
    Pentaho
    8.7
    19 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis7.289 Ratings7.618 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.397 Ratings8.319 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.781 Ratings9.717 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings9.312 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Jaspersoft and Pentaho
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    101 Ratings
    Pentaho
    9.7
    20 Ratings
    Publish to Web7.176 Ratings9.618 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.799 Ratings9.819 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.759 Ratings9.713 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.582 Ratings9.917 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.562 Ratings9.310 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Jaspersoft and Pentaho
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.7
    72 Ratings
    Pentaho
    8.1
    17 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.472 Ratings7.916 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.153 Ratings8.216 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings8.314 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Jaspersoft and Pentaho
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    8.1
    98 Ratings
    Pentaho
    9.1
    20 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.194 Ratings9.320 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.192 Ratings9.619 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.588 Ratings9.918 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)7.773 Ratings7.610 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Jaspersoft and Pentaho
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    6.6
    64 Ratings
    Pentaho
    8.3
    11 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.959 Ratings9.710 Ratings
    Mobile Application5.528 Ratings6.97 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.141 Ratings8.711 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Jaspersoft and Pentaho
    Feature
    Jaspersoft
    7.6
    90 Ratings
    Pentaho
    8.6
    10 Ratings
    REST API7.981 Ratings8.310 Ratings
    Javascript API8.062 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    iFrames7.754 Ratings7.39 Ratings
    Java API8.155 Ratings8.79 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)6.558 Ratings8.910 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.760 Ratings9.610 Ratings
    User Ratings
    JaspersoftPentaho
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (119 ratings)
    9.1
    (31 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    8.8
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (16 ratings)
    9.3
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (26 ratings)
    9.3
    (7 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.5
    (7 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.8
    (15 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (16 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (16 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)