We depend on this edition for business analytics for planning. It helps us to draw working plan and prepare for future to avoid risks that may affect our daily operations. The main challenge that we have solved is enhancement of transparent operation from each department and reliability in data analysis. It is easy to work with TIBCO Jaspersoft Community Edition and integrate with our applications.
Pros
Providing future predictions.
Provision of data analytics.
Cons
I have not experienced any room for improvement.
All the features are effective.
Likelihood to Recommend
TIBCO Jaspersoft Community Edition is very powerful platform that has enhanced smooth running of workflows across our organization. The system operation has greatly created positive development infrastructure in our company due to excellent planning from the data analytics. The cost running this product is low as compared to similar software and easy to learn how it works. It provides comprehensive reports that affect each department and offers solution to most challenges affecting our systems.
My organization currently uses Tibco Jaspersoft at the enterprise level. Although the organization uses the paid, commercial version of Tibco Jaspersoft, I inadvertently found myself using the Community Edition successfully in that commercial environment with no issues. Although I updated my software to the commercial version of Jaspersoft, I was very pleased with the functionality of the community edition.
Pros
Jaspersoft Community Edition allows creation, modification and publication of high-quality pixel-perfect reports.
It is open source/free.
Cons
Ad-hoc reporting is not available with Jaspersoft Community Edition.
Management and performance tuning is not provided in Jaspersoft Community Edition.
Data-level security can only be provided through the commercial edition of Jaspersoft.
Likelihood to Recommend
Jaspersoft Community Edition is well-suited for the user without a budget to purchase a reporting solution. It is robust and produces attractive, full-featured reports. It is NOT, however, suitable for a large corporation looking to take advantage of advanced features such as creation of dashboards, ad-hoc reporting, and use of a metadata layer.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
My company is migrating reports from SSRS to Jasper now. After migration it will be used across the company. It will be used as a reporting tool to demonstrate the sales, bookings, etc. info from underlying datawarehouse.
Pros
It has better performance. The first page of a report will be displayed as soon as the data comes, and users can read the first page while waiting for the other pages to load.
The structure of the reports are in XML format, which makes it easily readable and editable.
It is Java based, experienced Java developer can tailor the report with their own needs.
Cons
Vague error message. Usually something like "Some error happened, please contact your administrator". It's impossible to locate the root cause quickly.
Exporting. When exporting report to xlsx, docs, pptx format, the layouts are not perfect.
Report width cannot be increased automatically.
Likelihood to Recommend
Suited: You have a Java expert in your team.
Less Appropriate: The user asks for an Excel format report and your report is rather complex.
Being used to develop and create reports templates. These reports fetch data from my companies applications. So the client can decide to create their own report by accessing the application's semantic data layer or they can save a lot of time and money to use the created templates.
The report templates can then be used by the clients so they can deploy and set up the templates on their JasperServer or they can use the templates as baseline reports on Jasperstudio and make custom development changes to the reports to fit their business situations or logic.
Pros
Custom design reports in Jaspersoft Studio. There is a lot of flexibility to customize reports. You can create easy reports in a quick time frame or complex report in a bit more time.
The company does not need a 100% developer to develop reports. Someone with some level of developer experience could use Jasper Studio
Jasper also provides a stand-alone web server to deploy your reports. This opens up a lot of Jaspersoft Studio files.
There is a lot of time and effort put into the software. Years of input that improved all levels of the applications. Jasperstudio, Jasperserver, a manual, the community, etc.
Flexibility is awesome, you can do almost anything. Having well-rounded REST API or you can use the Java Studio.
There is a lot out of the box functionality. Scheduler, stand-alone reports, report output formats, logging settings, customization of GUI to a degree, permissions, roles, and user setup Studio, etc.
Cons
Easier to customize the Jasper Server GUI. More flexibility with the input controls look and feel and maybe more input control types to select from.
Have browser event functionality in the reporting itself.
An easier way to iterate through an object. Maybe an option that tells the report Java run-time to stop following the report sequential flow and first integrate through this stated object many times.
An easier way to create a list and add values to this list.
Maybe one could stipulate the process flow of what needs to be computed first in a given field.
The crosstab is a bit buggy on the Jasper studio side, so if that could be improved.
Better and more examples of custom components
The jive functionality on the tables needs an update. It looks so old and outdated.
Likelihood to Recommend
Quite a tough one to answer. Most of the time it is based on the situation. If time is important and need to be taken into account and a lot of reports need to be created, I'd rather use Jaspersoft. Good for generic reporting.
If one needs a handful of reports and the look and feel is important as well as functionality, just develop your own reports using a report library.
Out of the box drivers for most data sources are good to have
Can quickly create semantic layers for basic data models
Cons
Re-seller experience is extremely poor. We were almost not able to get a quote!
Subscription model pricing has very poor visibility and re-seller did not explain this well at all
The world has moved to SAML and multi factor authentication. Information about configuring to those is very poor.
Likelihood to Recommend
Any scenario where you need to reach back into TIBCO support is something I would highly avoid. Most responses at the second round get you pointed to engaging their professional services. The general mentality seems to be "since our product acquisition cost is low, why don't you engage PS to get the value you need" If you are looking at enterprise scenarios, I would highly recommend looking at other more established products.
VU
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Very versatile when using data adapter to our HBase and Oracle backend data bases.
Reports are easy to read and understand.
Cons
Ad Hoc is not as powerful and flexible as report creation using Studio.
API is not documented as well as I think it could be. I ended up googling for a lot of questions. Community is great through.
Error reporting could provide more detailed. I caught myself on several occasions trying to figure out the root of the problem when it should be easily stated.
Likelihood to Recommend
I find it very well suited for basic reporting. A very easy interface, straight forward report, and easy domain access.
I believe there are better options for more complex reporting but for what we need Jaspersoft works well.
Visualize, while being a very nice tool with very dynamic reporting, seems to be lacking in the abilities to share data over multiple accounts.
